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- ... that the 2019 book Pacifying the Homeland was compared to an ice-cold shower for individuals acclimatized to mass surveillance in the US due to its pervasiveness in daily life?
- ... that Vito Trause, who dropped out of high school during his junior year to join the United States Army in 1943, received his high school diploma at the age of 92?
- ... that in a copyright infringement case over a coffee-table history of the Grateful Dead, the Second Circuit held that a reuser can still claim fair use despite negotiating with the rights holder?
- ... that, according to its owner, KLEF in Anchorage, Alaska, was one of just three remaining commercially operated classical-music radio stations in the United States, as of 2013?
- ... that the 1928 Book of Common Prayer was adopted by the Episcopal Church in the United States, but the Church of England's 1928 Book of Common Prayer was rejected by Parliament?
- ... that despite contesting the 1924 presidential election as a third-party candidate, Robert M. La Follette received approximately 16.6 percent of the popular vote?
- ... that Ron Brown, the United States secretary of commerce, leased equipment to a TV station in Washington, D.C., whose owner turned out to be his lover?
- ... that in 1848, the Hartford and New Haven Railroad was "regularly run with greater speed than any other railroad in the United States"?
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Butler continued his speaking engagements in an extended tour but in June 1940 checked himself into a naval hospital, dying a few weeks later from what was believed to be cancer. He was buried at Oaklands Cemetery in West Chester, Pennsylvania; his home has been maintained as a memorial and contains memorabilia collected during his various careers.
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Zappa was married to Kathryn J. "Kay" Sherman from 1960 to 1964. In 1967, he married Adelaide Gail Sloatman, with whom he remained until his death from prostate cancer in 1993. They had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. Gail Zappa manages the businesses of her late husband under the name the Zappa Family Trust.
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Anniversaries for July 25
- 1722 – Dummer's War, a series of battles between British colonists and the Wabanaki Confederacy, begins.
- 1866 – Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Ulysses S. Grant (pictured) becomes the first officer to hold the rank, and one of two to become President of the United States after holding the rank (the other being Dwight D. Eisenhower.)
- 1898 – The land invasion of Puerto Rico by the United States begins with U.S. troops landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico. Sea-based shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been taking place since May in preparation for the landing.
- 1946 – An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads.
- 1969 – In response to a lack of combat success in the Vietnam War and public pressure at home, President Richard Nixon outlines the Nixon Doctrine, which states that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take charge of their own military defenses.
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- ... that Elakala Falls (pictured) may derive its name from the legend of Elakala, the story of a Native American princess who threw herself over the edge of the first waterfall when her lover scorned her?
- ... that Latavious Williams rejected a US$100,000 contract offer from a Chinese team but opted to play minor league basketball in the United States for only US$19,000?
- ... that "Peligroso Amor" was Chilean singer Myriam Hernández' first number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in the United States?
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