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Osama Vinladen (born 2002): professional Peruvian footballer. His name is inspired by the founder of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden (the "v" is pronounced "b" in Spanish). His brother is Sadam Huseín. Their father considered naming his third son George Bush, but this child turned out to be a girl.
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There was an in-game pandemic in World of Warcraft titled Corrupted Blood incident in the fall of 2005. This event gained an interest among actual real-world disease researchers because it provided valuable information about individual human responses to disease outbreaks.
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Donald J. Harris (b. 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. He is the father of Kamala Harris, vice president of the United States, and Maya Harris, lawyer and political commentator.
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A knife attack targeting a Japanese mother and child occurred in Suzhou, China on June 24, 2024, resulting in injury and the death of a bus driver who intervened. Netease and Tencent had to announce new guidelines due to extreme nationalism amongst Chinese netizens in support of the attacker.
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Tim Walz: former Army NCO, retired educator, 41st MN governor, & presumptive Dem VP nominee. He grew up working on his family's farm & joined the Nat'l Guard & worked in manufacturing after HS. He was a HS teacher & football coach & was elected to the US House, reelected 5x before becoming governor.
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During the lead-up to the Iraq War, the United States had alleged that Iraq owned bioreactors, and other processing equipment to manufacture and process biological weapons. Subsequent investigations failed to find any evidence of Iraq having access to a mobile weapons lab.
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After the Cannes premiere, a war of words erupted between Vincent Gallo and film critic Roger Ebert, with Ebert writing that The Brown Bunny was the worst film in the history of Cannes. Gallo retorted by calling Ebert a "fat pig with the physique of a slave trader."
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When Smuts Goes is a 1947 novel set in a dystopian future South Africa where Jan Smuts and the United Party are defeated by Afrikaner nationalists, who declare a new independent Boer Republic and embark on an increasingly destructive quest for apartheid. The book's concept became true a year later.
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