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| The author of The Strange Death of Tory England advises UK Conservatives to learn from the conservatism of the socialist George Orwell. |
| Bishop George Algernon West, the Lord Bishop of Rangoon 1935–1954, became for two months the Bishop of Atlanta, Georgia while the Japanese occupied Burma. |
| Vietnamese-born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs. |
| Canterbury Music Hall, which opened on 17 May 1852, was the first purpose-built tavern music hall. |
| American late model dirt track racer Scott Bloomquist races at selected high money events instead of in national touring series. |
| The Channel-billed Cuckoo of Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia is the world's largest brood parasite. |
| Despite his complete lack of mountaineering experience, the English adventurer Maurice Wilson reached an elevation of 22,700 feet (7,450 m) on his doomed solo attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1934. |
| 16 people died when the top two floors of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on Reseda Boulevard collapsed in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. |
| David Beckham and Victoria Adams were given a replica of Cheshire's Rookery Hall as a cake at their engagement party. |
| Nalknad Palace in the Indian state of Karnataka was the final refuge of Chikka Veerarajendra, the last king of Kodagu. |
| The Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis' Military Park can never be sold. |
| Union's Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church was the first church in New Jersey to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
| Soviet scholars coined the term ‘democratic satire’ to describe the three-century old Russian tale of Frol Skobeev. |
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