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| In the Capture of Ré island in 1625, English and Dutch warships were used controversially to quell a revolt of French Huguenot coreligionaries. |
| in NASCAR, 1952 was the first year that companies started to pay award monies for publicity. |
| No specialist ceramics museum has as large a collection as the 340,000 pieces in The Palace Museum, Beijing. |
| Radio evangelist "Fighting Bob" Shuler, known for his attacks on politicians and support of the Ku Klux Klan, received 25% of the votes in a 1932 US Senate election in California. |
| The Worthington–Simpson triple expansion steam engine at Brede Waterworks (pictured) can pump 3,500,000 imperial gallons (15,900,000 l) of water per day to a height of 515 feet (157 m). |
| local councils in the United Kingdom can make byelaws regulating the design of bathing costumes worn on the beach?. |
| Golden Raspberry Awards founder John Wilson's marketing work has included publicity for the Academy Awards. |
| The bacterium Streptococcus iniae has been called "one the most serious aquatic pathogens in the last decade". |
| 19th century wrestler John McMahon's career began with a 17-year undefeated streak. |
| In the capture of Ormuz in 1622, an Anglo-Persian force combined to expel the Portuguese. |
| Although Vic Gold co-wrote the first President Bush's autobiography and wrote a novel with Dick Cheney's wife, in 2007 he wrote a book attacking the second President Bush and Cheney. |
| The Greeves motorcycle company funded production from a contract with the Ministry of Pensions for their Invacar for disabled drivers. |
| Holland Road Baptist Church (pictured) in Hove, England, was paid for by George Congreve, who made his fortune selling tuberculosis elixir. |
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