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July 03, 2005

Steel Coasters, Votians and Rapid Succession

The world's first steel pipe track roller coaster was Disneyland's Matterhorn.

With no writings and no children who speak it, the last speaker of the Votian language will die in Russia sometime in next 30 years or less, and so, too, shall the language die.

There were three presidents who served in 1881 -- Hayes, Garfield and Arthur.

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