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• ...that the Tjängvide image stone (pictured) is held to show a man, or Odin himself, arriving at Valhalla on Sleipnir where he is welcomed by a valkyrie?
• ...that the palm Actinorhytis calapparia is widely cultivated in Southeast Asia and Malesia, where local villagers attribute it magical or medicinal powers?
• ...that Paul Simon's ballad "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" portrays Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte as a secret admirer of doo-wop music?
• ...that Naulakha pavilion, situated in Lahore Fort, was the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling's novel The Naulakha and his house Naulakha?
• ...that the 2003 Insight Bowl, won by California 52–49 on a last-second field goal, was the second-highest-scoring regulation-length college football bowl game in history?
• ...that Polish novelist Bolesław Prus's tomb at Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery was designed by his nephew, the sculptor Stanisław Jackowski?
• ...that the RMS Sylvania was built for the transatlantic trade but spent only the first 10 years of her 46-year career in that role?
• ...that the Sydenham Hill Wood and the adjacent Dulwich Wood in South London form the largest remaining tract of The King's Wood?
  

• Eliot Spitzer (pictured) announces his resignation as Governor of New York amidst reports he was a client of a prostitution ring.
• Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on an assembly mission to the International Space Station carrying the first Japanese component and Canada's Dextre.
• The Nationalist Party of Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi narrowly wins the general election in Malta.
• Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of the Socialist Workers' Party is re-elected.
• NASA announces evidence of rings around the Saturnian moon Rhea, which would be the first known rings around a moon.
• Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica resigns following disagreements with his cabinet over the EU and Kosovo.