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- the single-grain experiment conducted between 1907 and 1911 would lead to the development of modern human nutrition?
- the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, who led the Russian Buddhists from 1911 until his death in 1927, is said to exhibit no signs of physical decay?
- the world's first geothermal power station was built in Larderello, Italy in 1911?
- the British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton in England in October 1911?
- in 1911, Charles Rosher, working for David Horsley's production company, became Hollywood's first full-time cameraman?
- Isaac Newton Van Nuys of New York founded Van Nuys, California, United States in 1911?
- James A. Bland (1854-1911) an African American musician and song writer wrote over 700 songs, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" in 1878, which was later the official State Song of Virginia from 1940 to 1997?
- in 1911 baseball player Ed Konetchy and the St. Louis Cardinals were involved in a train wreck that killed 12 and injured 47, and Konetchy and manager Roger Bresnahan led the rescue effort?
- 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, site of the 1963 church bombing, was designed in 1911 by noted African American architect Wallace Rayfield?
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