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John Grant's moated manor near Stratford-on-Avon was chosen for storing weapons for the rebellion that was to follow the Gunpowder plot. 
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| Harvard historian Ernest May's 1997 book The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis was the primary source for the 2000 film Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner. |
| Charles Cameron, fired and deprived of his house by Paul I of Russia during the battle of the palaces, later lived in retirement in Paul's favorite palace. |
| The district office at the Bly Ranger Station (pictured) in south central Oregon was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937 at a cost of $1,700. |
| Milwaukee Brewers baseball player Dan Thomas was called the "Sundown Kid" because he refused to play on the Sabbath?. |
| Sacajawea Peak is the highest point in the Wallowa Mountains and the sixth highest peak in Oregon. |
| In the 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament's semi-finals Wayamba beat Ruhuna in the bowl-out to reach the finals. |
| Mexican group Los Bukis won the Lo Nuestro Award for Best Regional Mexican Song in 1989 with their number-one single "Y Ahora Te Vas". |
| Liam Jurrah, a Warlpiri from Yuendumu, is the first Indigenous Australian from a remote community in Central Australia to play in the Australian Football League. |
| There are more than 250 different crystalline forms of silicon carbide, and that some of them have a 301.5 nm lattice constant, about 1,000 times longer than usual lattice spacings. |
| dominant white, a collection of related genetic conditions, causes horses to be born with no skin pigmentation and completely or partly white coats (example pictured). |
| Former long jump record holder Carol Lewis tried out for the 2002 Winter Olympics bobsleigh team. |
| In September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$1 billion with which to finance film production. |
| choreographer Sergey Vikulov selected three lead couples where Jennifer Olayvar was one of the dancers chosen to perform in La Fille Mal Gardée. |
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