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The statue of the Virgin and Child in the porch of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford was cited as evidence in Archbishop Laud's execution trial, and has bullet holes made by Oliver Cromwell's troops. 
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| The Sumter-class attack transports USS Warren (APA-53), and USS Wayne (APA-54) collectively earned 11 battle stars for WWII service and were both converted postwar into container ships. |
| Director Li Yu's Fish and Elephant is often considered the first lesbian-themed film to come out of mainland China. |
| When Canterbury Presbyterian Church (pictured) closed in 2004, its congregants were absorbed by a nearby church that had split from Canterbury twice in its 178-year history. |
| American Judge Herbert Jay Stern, who served on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, presided over a jury trial in the U.S. court for Berlin, Germany, which was the subject of the book and movie Judgment in Berlin. |
| The tilted trees in Canada's Taiga Shield, caused by repeated freezing and thawing of the shallow soil's permafrost, have been likened to a "drunken forest". |
| An engineer for the Michigan United Railways devised a special shoe which allowed the motorman to cut ice build-up on the third rail, in response to Michigan's harsh winters. |
| sparkling wine was produced in the Languedoc wine region of Limoux long before it was produced in Champagne. |
| Award-winning financial analyst Dana Telsey was first hired at a mutual fund company after her mother met a former neighbor on the street and asked him "Can you give Dana a job?. |
| Boletus pulcherrimus, a large red and brown pored mushroom from California and New Mexico, stains dark blue when cut or bruised. |
| Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (pictured) was the first British princess to marry a commoner in over five hundred years. |
| Russian critics considered Armenian actor and poet Petros Adamian one of the best tragedians of the world for his interpretations of Hamlet and Othello. |
| The Santa Cruz sheep breed numbers less than 200 individual animals. |
| The only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens. |
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