1. According to Greek myth, Antiope, a daughter of Nycteus, fled from Thebes to Sicyon after she was raped by Zeus. Her sons by Zeus, Amphion and Zethus, later returned to Thebes and led a coup d'etat.
2. On November 19, 2006, Ammar al-Saffar, deputy health minister in the new Iraqi government, was kidnapped.
3. A car called La Marquise, created in 1884 in France, is thought to be called the oldest working vehicle.
4. Pulverized vinsol resin, extracted from pinewood stumps, is used as ink, in concrete and asphalt, and as an adhesive.
5. A paleothermometer is a method used by paleontologists to determine the approximate temperature of a past era. This is usually estimated by the ratio of oxygen 16 to oxygen 18 atoms in a sample of sediment.
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