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o The name Tehran, the capital of Iran, is derived from an old Persian word for “warm place.” o Carnival Cruise Lines launched its first ship, the Mardi Gras, in 1972. o The composition of Wagner’s German Ring cycle took over 20 years. o The Beatles The While Album is officially titled The Beatles. o The only marsupial native to North America is the opossum. o Raising goats to produce cashmere is one of the main occupations in Mongolia. o The ruins of Carthage are located in Tunisia. o Galileo discovered that the surface of the moon was pitted, not smooth, in 1609. o Maud Gonne, Yeats’s lover, was a founder of the Irish party Sinn Fein (We Ourselves). o Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin’s first airship took flight in Germany on July 2, 1900.
