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(how did I miss this before?)
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Originally posted by Steph
1985 - Supreme Court of Canada upholds firing of public servant Neil Fraser for criticizing the government's metric conversion policies.
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What happened? Did they deport him to some backward southern nation? 
Margaret Mead- Born 1901
She was twenty-three years old when she first traveled to the South Pacific, to conduct research for her doctoral dissertation. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa, was - and remains - a best-seller.
Alexander Ross Clarke- Born 1828;
English geodesist whose calculations of the size and shape of the Earth (the Clarke ellipsoid) were the first to approximate accepted modern values with respect to both polar flattening and equatorial radius.
In 1884, the first U.S. patent was issued for an automatic liquid vending machine to William H. Fruen of Minneapolis, Minn. (No. 309,219).
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