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Detail of Genesis by Rico Lebrun

... that Rico Lebrun refused to submit sketches of Genesis (detail pictured), a mural commissioned by Pomona College, for approval by its board of trustees?
... that college football player Ricot Joseph declined a full scholarship so that he could be a walk-on?
... that the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Prison Service were breached by protestors in 2003?
... that Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna's car was once fired on by Russian tanks?
... that the owner of the De Vinne Press Building finalized his purchase of the building while in an elevator?
... that Grizel Niven created "The Bessie", the Women's Prize for Fiction statuette, which a past winner called "ugly"?
... that two of the victims and much of the aircraft involved in the crash of Western Air Lines Flight 636 were never removed from San Francisco Bay?
... that a superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department posed as a corrupt officer during covert operations?
... that The Lock-Up, an art gallery housed in a former police station, retains the graffiti drawn by prisoners in the holding cells and has incorporated it into a performative exhibition?

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November 8: Intersex Day of Remembrance

Shunzhi Emperor

1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor (portrait shown), the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
1965 – Vietnam War: In the Battle of Gang Toi, one of the earliest battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian attack.
1966 – Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
1974 – British peer Lord Lucan disappeared without a trace, a day after allegedly murdering Sandra Rivett, his children's nanny.
2006 – Israeli artillery shelled a row of houses in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, killing at least 19 Palestinians and wounding more than 40 others.

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