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• ... that the timothy plant bug (pictured) causes "sticky dough"?
• ... that Clinton L. Riggs got along so poorly with most of his comrades in the Spanish–American War that he resigned upon returning stateside, only to later take command of the same unit?
• ... that St Mary's Church, Hardmead, Buckinghamshire, contains a memorial to Robert Shedden, who died in 1849 after an unsuccessful expedition to find Sir John Franklin?
• ... that the Byzantine megas doux John Doukas was taken hostage as a child, took captive a Serbian king, led a fleet against Chaka Bey and recovered much of western Anatolia from the Seljuks?
• ... that the Suludnon are an indigenous people who reside in the Capiz-Lambunao mountainous area of the island of Panay in the Visayas?
• ... that Radmilla Cody sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Navajo at the Kennedy Space Center in 2002?
• ... that Sauganash Hotel, located at Wolf Point, was Chicago's first hotel, first theater and the site where the newly formed town elected its first town trustees?
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• The wreckage of the 19th-century Royal Navy vessel HMS Investigator (painting pictured) is discovered in Mercy Bay, Canada.
• Airblue Flight 202 crashes near Islamabad, killing all 152 people on board in the deadliest air disaster in Pakistani history.
• Kang Kek Iew is sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for his role in the Khmer Rouge regime in Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979.
• Thousands of classified documents related to the War in Afghanistan are published by Wikileaks, with details simultaneously released in three major newspapers.
• In cycling, Alberto Contador of Spain wins the Tour de France.
• At least 20 people are killed and 100 others injured in a stampede at the Love Parade music festival in Duisburg, Germany.
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July 29: Ólavsøka in the Faroe Islands; National Anthem Day in Romania

• 1014 – Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Forces of the Byzantine Empire defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the Belasica Mountains near present-day Klyuch, Bulgaria.
• 1858 – Japan reluctantly signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, an Unequal Treaty giving the United States various commercial and diplomatic privileges.
• 1947 – ENIAC (pictured), the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, was turned on in its new home at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, remaining in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
• 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal non-military space agency known as NASA.
• 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watched the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

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"Sir Kenneth before the King", the frontispiece from an 1887 edition of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusades. The novel takes place at the end of the Third Crusade, mostly in the camp of the Crusaders in Palestine. Scheming and partisan politics, as well as the illness of King Richard the Lionheart, are placing the Crusade in danger. In this scene, Sir Kenneth (far right) confesses to losing the Banner of England on his watch to King Richard (far left), and refuses to offer any defence of himself. By the end of the chapter, he faces his imminent execution. Kenneth is a fictional version of David Earl of Huntingdon, who did in fact return from the Third Crusade in 1190.

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