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The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for some 3800 years, until the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, England was rebuilt between 1307 and 1311.

Cass Elliott of the Mamas and the Papas died in the same London flat that Keith Moon of the Who died in four years later.

At the Confederate prisoner of war camp at Andersonville, Georgia was the deadline: anyone crossing it was shot dead. The OED’s earliest citation for the modern usage of deadline is 1920: “Corinne Griffith..is working on ‘Deadline at Eleven’, the newspaper play.” It seems that newspapers adopted the term because the deadline was the (temporal) point which, if crossed, would get your story killed.