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To survive during Prohibition, some winemaking families in what is now California's Russian River Valley AVA converted to bootlegging operations that sold a water-based wine known as "jackass brandy". 
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| Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of Connecticut—for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the Everglades. |
| Gustave Courbet's erotic painting Femme nue couchée (pictured), recovered in 2005 after disappearing during World War II, had been given to a Slovak doctor in return for medical treatment. |
| The Upper Brook Street Chapel in Manchester, designed by Sir Charles Barry shortly before he designed the Palace of Westminster, is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel. |
| Cymric Oil Field has the fastest-growing production of any oil field in California. |
| Van Nuys Boulevard, running through the heart of LA's San Fernando Valley, was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s. |
| Actor Daniel Dae Kim was arrested for driving under the influence just days before shooting Ji Yeon, an episode of Lost's fourth season. |
| The Virginian Railway Passenger Station in Roanoke was named to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places after it was extensively damaged in a fire. |
| After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, former President Ronald Reagan established the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute to work toward a cure for Alzheimer's. |
| Despite its name, the Togian White-eye, a species of bird endemic to the Togian Islands of Indonesia, lacks the white eye rings typical of its genus. |
| traditional Easter games such as egg rolling, egg tapping, egg tossing, egg hunting and egg dancing date back hundreds of years to a time when the egg was considered a symbol of rebirth. |
| The British Expeditionary Force in 1914 included 90% of the British Army units normally based in the United Kingdom, leaving less than a division of regular soldiers for home defence. |
| In the days immediately following the revelation of her role in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, the MySpace page of Ashley Alexandra Dupré was viewed over 9 million times. |
| In the 1944 Battle of Murowana Oszmianka, the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa dealt a significant defeat to the Nazi-Lithuanian Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force. |
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