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Marjon Lambriks (right) with Paula Lindberg

... that Marjon Lambriks, who studied voice in the Netherlands with Paula Lindberg (both pictured) and made a career in Vienna, recorded La traviata alongside Pavarotti?
... that Hamro Lok Sanskriti (Our Folk Culture) was one of three books to win the first issuance of Madan Puraskar, Nepal's highest literary honour?
... that Thomas Paxton helped establish a saw mill, flour mill, foundry, and railway as a founding father of Port Perry?
... that 18.33 inches (46.6 cm) of rain fell within 24 hours in Guam during Typhoon Alice, a record for the territory that was not surpassed for another 23 years?
... that professional footballer Shaun Brisley scored for Peterborough United in the 2014 Football League Trophy Final after initially turning down a move to the club due to homesickness?
... that a two-year Native American housing protest group called the Chicago Indian Village started next to the Chicago Cubs home stadium, Wrigley Field?
... that medieval murals were discovered in Brönnestad Church in 1935, but not restored until 1980?
... that American historian Sarah Wilkerson Freeman curated a photo exhibit depicting the fluidity of race, gender, and sexuality in New Orleans during the McCarthy era?