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  2. Killing of Charlie Howard - Wikipedia

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    Charles O. Howard (January 31, 1961 – July 7, 1984) was an American murder victim in Bangor, Maine in 1984. As Howard and his boyfriend, Roy Ogden, were walking down the street, three teenagers, Shawn I. Mabry, age 16, James (Jim) Francis Baines, age 15, and Daniel Ness, age 17, harassed, assaulted, and murdered Howard for being gay.

  3. Sapphire, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Sapphire is an unincorporated community in Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States. Sapphire is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) east of Cashiers . Sapphire has a post office with ZIP code 28774.

  4. Bangor University - Wikipedia

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    SVB (Student Volunteering Bangor) is the volunteering branch of the students' union, which has supported community projects in and around the Bangor area since 1952. SVB volunteers provide a total of around 600 hours of work per week on 58 community-based projects, including projects on mental health, children, the environment, the elderly and ...

  5. Pygmy marmoset - Wikipedia

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    Debate has arisen among primatologists concerning the proper genus in which to place the pygmy marmoset. An examination of the interstitial retinol binding protein nuclear gene (IRBP) in three marmoset species showed that Callithrix as constructed in the 1990s also needed to include C. pygmaea to be monophyletic, and that the times of separation of pygmaea and the argentata and jacchus species ...

  6. Bayesian (yacht) - Wikipedia

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    Bayesian was a 56-metre (184 ft) sailing superyacht, built as Salute by Perini Navi at Viareggio, Italy, and delivered in 2008. [9] It had a 72-metre (237 ft) mast, one of the tallest in the world.

  7. List of Facebook features - Wikipedia

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    Facebook Live was used by the perpetrators of an incident in which four black young adults kidnapped and tortured a mentally disabled white male. [121] All four were charged and convicted of hate crimes. [122] Facebook Live was also used by Brenton Tarrant, perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings to broadcast the attack on Al Noor Mosque.

  8. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By 1830, Bangor, Maine had become the world's largest lumber shipping port and would move over 8.7 billion board feet of timber over the following sixty two years. [ 3 ] Colonial era

  9. Zern's Farmer's Market - Wikipedia

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    The market sold a variety of items, including toys, collectibles, pets, clothing, electronics, produce, and prepared food -- much of which includes noticeable Pennsylvania Dutch influences. The facility also housed two full-service butcher shops, a delicatessen, a barber shop, two bakeries, a specialty spice shop, a Hershey's Ice Cream hand ...