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American film director Keith Gordon decided to adapt the novel of obsessive passion, Waking the Dead, into a movie before he finished reading it. 
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| The shooting of followers of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Tri Quang by the Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem lead to months of protests which culminated in a coup in November 1963. |
| The medieval Greek mystic Gregory Palamas successfully defended his doctrine of Tabor Light through three synods of the Orthodox Church. |
| Alfred Winslow Jones, father of the hedge fund industry, was a sociologist. |
| The government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after "shiftas", the local word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda initiative. |
| The sack of Constantinople by Latin crusaders in 1204 destroyed the Byzantine economy, with the Latin emperors melting down statues for coin, and the Venetians exporting architecture spoils to decorate their churches. |
| The fictional Tyranids Hive Fleets of the Warhammer 40,000 game contain special ships for an alien invasion. |
| aged 38 in November 1984, Bob Holland was the oldest Australian cricketer to make his Test debut in more than half a century. |
| The words said by the Virgin Mary in Jan van Eyck's Washington Annunciation (pictured) are painted upside down so God can read them. |
| Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from the Red Mountain AVA were used to create the first US wine outside of California to receive consecutive perfect scores from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. |
| The beach volleyball events at the 2007 Games of the Small States of Europe will take place on the Larvotto, Monaco's most famous beach. |
| William Penn Patrick, founder of companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics, ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California. |
| After capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America and became one of the first noblemen in New France. |
| Yuri Izrael, Russian vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, believes the Kyoto Protocol is scientifically unsupported, and damaging to the Russian economy. |
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