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About 60 acres of old-growth beechmaple forest with trees up to 450 years old are preserved on the Hayes Arboretum grounds in Richmond, Indiana.

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Golfer Ted Kemp sunk two-holes-in-one on the same round of golf in April at the Muscatine, Iowa Municipal Golf Course. The odds of such a feat are 67 million to one, according to Golf Digest.

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Ed and Dianna Peden converted a former missile silo, built near Topeka, Kansas in the early 1960s to house an Atlas E. Missile, into their home. The silo dwellers since have become the world's foremost sellers of the cold war misssle sites.

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Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

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On Sept. 12, 1913, Jesse Owens, the American black man who caused a sensation at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin by winning four gold medals, was born. Following his death on March 31, 1980, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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The world's biggest tire-80 feet tall and 12 tons-advertises Uniroyal Tires in Allen Park, Michigan. The tire originally was built as a Ferris wheel for the 1964 New York World's fair, then in 1966 was moved to Allen Park.

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Immigrants from Luxembourg founded Rollingstone,Minnesota and the town's former city hall, built in 1900, now the Rollingstone Luxembourg Heritage Museum

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The nose of former Gov. David R. Francis' statue at the University in Columbia, Missouri has been replaced a few times. legend holds that a student will get an A on his next exam after rubbing Francis' nose.

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Identical twins Brian and Ross Devol, 18, are a perfect match gentically and academically. The seniors at Bellevue East High School in Bellevue,Nebraska earned perfect ACT scores of 36. About one of every 4,000 students makes a perfect score on the college entrance exam.

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The first full-blooded Sioux Indian to be awarded the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor, was Woodrow Wilson Keeble of Wahpeton, North Dakota.In March the honor was bestowed posthumously to Keeble for saving the lives of fellow soldiers during a 1951 Koren War battle in which he killed 16 enemy soldiers.

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The Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and Museum University in Urbana, Ohio has the largest collection of memorabilia and artifacts about the popular pioneer and folk hero, who planted apple trees across several states.

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Hobo Day is a beloved homecoming tradition begun in 1912 at South Daokata State University in Brookings to boost school spirts. Students and faculty dress in dingy clothing, men are unshaved and women wear their hair in braids.

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In September 1962, the Soviets' Sputnik IV satellite plummeted to earth, and a 20-pound fragment landed in Manitowac, Wisconsin. A brass ring marks the spot where the metal chuck was found embedded in the street.

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The nation's first white-cane ordinance was passed in 1930 in Peoria,Illinois and Granted blind pedestrians protections and the right-of-way while carrying a white cane. The Peoria lions Club painted white canes with distinctive red bands and distributed them to blind residents.

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Lunar footprints made by a moon boot led to the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafavette. Armstrong, who graduated from Purdue in 1955, became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969.

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A 19th-century baseball superstar, Adrain Constantine "Cap" Anson was the first player to make 3,000 hits in his professional career. Born in 1852 in Marshalltown, Iowa, Anson was a player-manager for the Chicago White Stocking from 1876 to 1897.

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