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Edmund Kalau

... that after Edmund Kalau (pictured) spent his childhood in the Hitler Youth and flew in the Luftwaffe during World War II, he converted to Christianity and served in Palau and Yap in the Liebenzell Mission?
... that the philosophy journal Between the Species took its name from a fictional periodical mentioned in a George Abbe novel?
... that the science fiction video game Tharsis, inspired by the sinking of the whaling ship Essex, allows the crew of the player's spacecraft to use cannibalism to survive?
... that both the 5-8 Club and Matt's Bar, two Minneapolis eateries on the same street, claim to have invented the Juicy Lucy cheeseburger?
... that the band The Mutants developed from the idea of an album set out to retrace the roots of punk, new wave, and ska, featuring an all-star cast of punk musicians?
... that Anne Ramberg was awarded the H. M. The King's Medal of 12th size to wear on a blue ribbon for her work in the Swedish justice system?
... that Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer Lillian Hayman played Sadie Gray on the American soap opera One Life to Live for 17 years?
... that if you bend indium it might cry?

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Juan Manuel Santos in 2010

Juan Manuel Santos

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (pictured) is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Colombian conflict.
Hurricane Matthew kills more than 1,000 people, mainly in Haiti.
Bernard L. Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, and Sir J. Fraser Stoddart are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of molecular machines.
David Thouless, F. Duncan Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz share the Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries using topology to understand superconductors, superfluids, and other exotic states of condensed matter.

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