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... that a 1966 test flight (pictured) of a Gemini B spacecraft for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory was the first time an American space capsule intended for human spaceflight had flown in space twice? ... that the Ryūkyū Disposition saw the former Ryūkyū Kingdom incorporated into the nascent Empire of Japan? ... that though Calvin Royal III did not start formal dance training until he was 14, he went on to become a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre? ... that Kabul City Center is the only building in Afghanistan that is equipped with working escalators? ... that Leonhard Lechner, who trained as a chorister in Bavaria under Orlande de Lassus, composed a Passion for choir in 1593 that strongly influenced the genre? ... that the 1938 film Shadows Over Shanghai incorporates footage of the bombing of the city during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which was then underway? ... that Marie "Blanche" Wittman, formerly a hysteria patient of Jean-Martin Charcot, contracted radiation-induced cancer while working for Albert Londe? ... that the name "United States" was originally plural, but gradually transitioned after the Civil War to a singular noun?