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| neoclassical Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi portrayed George Washington with a Roman haircut and a toga. |
| Two of the oldest buildings in Manchester's Shambles Square (pictured) were physically moved twice – once in 1974 and again in 1999. |
| More than half of the United Kingdom's specialist victim recovery dogs were used during the search for nine-year-old Shannon Matthews. |
| excavations at Chandravalli in the Indian state of Karnataka have unearthed coins of Roman emperor Augustus and Chinese Han emperor Wu Ti. |
| Garry Lake and the Christian cross are both translated as Hanningajuq in the local Inuktitut language. |
| The ethics guidelines for Israeli broadcasting have been revised four times since their introduction in 1972, and are now four times their original length. |
| Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, who founded Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky, appeared on the TV show This is Your Life in 1955 to raise money for the college. |
| jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's song "Ogunde" is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods". |
| Listed buildings in Peckforton, Cheshire, include a carved stone elephant bearing a replica of a medieval castle (pictured). |
| Oakmere Hall in Cheshire was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant. |
| 2007 documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience was based on a collection of writings by U.S. soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
| chorus girls in shows produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre were so popular that the restaurant where they dined became the centre of nightlife in London during the Victorian era. |
| Maharam's Synagogue in Lublin, Poland was burnt down during the Cossack-Muscovite invasion in 1655. |
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