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Fire at the UMG warehouse in 2008
- ... that the 2008 Universal fire (pictured) may have destroyed the audio master tapes of up to half a million songs?
- ... that Kent Angus, a Canadian businessman and Paul Loicq Award winner, incorporated "discovery pieces" into hockey jerseys for Team Canada and other countries at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
- ... that Puke Ariki, the name for the combined library and museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand, is Māori for "hill of chiefs"?
- ... that on June 29, Major General Laura Yeager became the first woman to command an infantry division in the United States Army?
- ... that John Rutter wrote the text and music of A Clare Benediction for choir and orchestra to honour Clare College, Cambridge, where he had studied?
- ... that falguera, a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
- ... that thirty million copies of the university textbook compiled by Xu Zhongyu have been printed?
- ... that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the Bombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of the Big Bull after the market crashed?