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 * U.S. Route 16 (nominated by Imzadi1979), also called Grand River Avenue was one of the principal pre-Interstate roads in Michigan. The modern route of Grand River Avenue cuts across the Lower Peninsula in a northwest–southeast fashion from near Grand Rapids to Detroit. In the years immediately preceding the creation of the Interstate Highway System, US 16 was shifted from older roads to newer freeways. When the gap in the freeway was filled in around Lansing, the US 16 designation was decommissioned in the state. The freeway was then solely designated Interstate 96 east of Grand Rapids and Interstate 196 west of that city.
 * Boise National Forest (nominated by Fredlyfish4) is a federally protected area covering 2203703 acre of Idaho as part of the national forest system. Created in 1908 from part of Sawtooth National Forest, it is managed by the United States Forest Service as four units.
 * During the last weeks of World War II, warships of the United States Navy, the British Royal Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Navy bombarded industrial and military facilities in Japan (nominated by Nick-D) . Most of these bombardments involved battleships and caused heavy damage to several of the factories targeted, as well as nearby civilian areas. A major goal of the attacks was to provoke the Japanese military into committing some of its reserve force of aircraft into battle. However, the Japanese did not attempt to attack the Allied bombardment forces, and none of the involved warships suffered any damage.
 * From Russia, with Love (nominated by SchroCat) is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, and published in the United Kingdom one year later. The story centres on a plot by SMERSH to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit both him and his organisation. As bait, the Russians use a beautiful cipher clerk and the Spektor, a Soviet decoding machine. Much of the action takes place in Istanbul and on the Orient Express. The novel deals with the East–West tensions of the Cold War, and the decline of British power and influence in the post-Second World War era.
 * S. O. Davies (nominated by Brianboulton) (died 1972) was a Welsh miner, trade union official and Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil from 1934 to 1972. Most official records show Davies's birth date as November 1886, but he is widely thought to have been born at least four years earlier.
 * The teleost (nominated by LittleJerry, Chiswick Chap and Cwmhiraeth) is the largest infraclass in the class Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes, and make up 96 percent of all fish. This diverse group arose in the Triassic period and members are arranged in about 40 orders and 448 families. Teleosts dominate the seas from pole to pole and inhabit the ocean depths, estuaries, rivers, lakes and even swamps.
 * The springbok (nominated by Sainsf) is a medium-sized antelope found mainly in southern and southwestern Africa. The sole member of the genus Antidorcas, this bovid was first described by Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann in 1780. It reaches 71 to 86 cm at the shoulder and weighs between 27 and 42 kg. Both sexes have a pair of black, 35 to 50 cm long horns that curve backward.
 * The Lesser Antillean macaw (nominated by FunkMonk) is a hypothetical extinct species of macaw that is thought to have been endemic to the Lesser Antillean island region of Guadeloupe. In spite of the absence of conserved specimens, many details about the species are known from several contemporary accounts, and the bird is the subject of some illustrations. According to contemporary descriptions, the body of the Lesser Antillean macaw was red and the wings were red, blue and yellow. The tail feathers were between 38 and 51 cm long. Apart from the smaller size and the all-red coloration of the tail feathers, it resembled the scarlet macaw and may therefore have been a close relative of that species.
 * Ficus rubiginosa (nominated by Casliber) is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia in the genus Ficus. Beginning as a seedling that grows on other plants or rocks, it matures into a tree 30 m high and nearly as wide with a yellow-brown buttressed trunk. The leaves are oval and glossy green and measure from 4 to 19.3 cm long and 1.25 to 13.2 cm wide. The fruits are small, round and yellow, and can ripen and turn red at any time of year, peaking in spring and summer.

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 * Elmore James (1918–1963) was an American blues slide guitarist and singer. Most of his discography (nominated by Ojorojo) consists of two-song record singles. In 1960, James released a compilation, Blues After Hours, which was the only album released during his career. (Although over 100 James compilation albums have been released since his death.)
 * Emma Stone (born 1988) is an American actress. She has won 28 awards from 84 nominations (nominated by FrB.TG) for her film work. She has been nominated for an AACTA International Award, an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. She has also won an MTV Movie Award, a People's Choice Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Teen Choice Awards.
 * Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 1969) is a Welsh actress. As of 2016, she has appeared in 27 films, 7 television productions and 8 theatre productions, and is the recipient of 16 awards from 33 nominations (nominated by Krimuk90).
 * Mahanoy Creek is a 51 mi long tributary of the Susquehanna River in Schuylkill County and Northumberland County in Pennsylvania. It has eleven officially named tributaries (nominated by Jakec), of which six are direct tributaries and five are sub-tributaries. These include seven creeks and four runs.
 * Sussex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 member clubs of the English County Championship, representing the historic county of Sussex. Although Sussex representative sides had been playing cricket since the mid-eighteenth century and had also played first-class cricket matches since 1815, the County Cricket Club was established in 1839. Unlike most professional sports county cricket clubs have traditionally used different grounds in various towns and cities within the county for home matches, although the use of minor "out grounds" away from the club's main headquarters has diminished since the 1980s. In total, Sussex have played first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket at 17 different grounds (nominated by Joseph2302) across the county.
 * Inna (born 1986) is a Romanian singer, dancer and philanthropist. Her discography (nominated by Cartoon network freak) consists of four studio albums, thirty-three singles and fifteen promotional singles. Twelve of her songs reached the top ten in Romania, with "Amazing" and "Diggy Down", topping the chart in 2009 and 2015, respectively.
 * Guitar Hero Live is a 2015 music video game developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision. It was the first title in the Guitar Hero series since its hiatus after 2011, and the first game in the series available for 8th generation video game consoles. The game includes 42 songs (nominated by Masem) on the game's disc, presented in sets using full motion video taken from the first-person perspective of the lead guitarist as the background visuals to create an immersive experience. The game includes the online Guitar Hero TV mode, which contains 425 more songs. Game reviewers found the on-disc soundtrack to be weak as it focused too much on more recent musical acts, while praising the wider variety across a larger time period that GHTV offered.
 * The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award of India. Instituted in 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service of a high order", without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The recipients receive a certificate signed by the President of India and a circular-shaped medallion with no monetary association. The recipients are announced every year on Republic Day and registered in The Gazette of India. A total of two hundred awards were presented in the 1960s (nominated by Dharmadhyaksha), including five foreign recipients.

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