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abolitionist George Bradburn was with Frederick Douglass on an 1843 anti-slavery lecture tour in Indiana, when they were attacked. 
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| The football stadium Nya Gamla Ullevi which is under construction in Gothenburg, Sweden, is only the second Swedish top league stadium built since 1966. |
| Ray Davies of The Kinks began having an identity crisis when people walked up to him singing "Oh yes he is" after "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" became a hit. |
| The original version of the Gettysburg Cyclorama (detail pictured), a cylindrical painting of almost 300 feet (91 m) in length, recently sold for an undisclosed amount. |
| 2007 International Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee Bruton Smith went to bankruptcy court before he became one of the 400 richest Americans. |
| Sir Brian Smedley was named a High Court judge only a few years after overruling Government attempts to keep key evidence secret in the 1992 Matrix Churchill trial. |
| José María Morelos, a mule driver and priest from Michoacán, won 22 straight battles against the Spanish in the Mexican War of Independence. |
| The world's third largest statue under cover, The Statue of the Republic, is housed in El Capitolio, in Havana. |
| President Bush has indicated he may use the third veto of his Presidency on the Matthew Shepard Act. |
| Sailors and shipowners would refuse to sail when Moll Pitcher (pictured), an eighteenth-century fortune-teller famous throughout New England, predicted disaster. |
| The valleys of the Minnesota and Upper Mississippi Rivers were carved by Glacial River Warren, an enormous river which drained Glacial Lake Agassiz in central North America. |
| The regional newspaper of Wagga Wagga, The Daily Advertiser was first published in 1868, making it one of the oldest in Australia. |
| The non-fiction book Gifts of Deceit described Koreagate, and the United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church. |
| Brazilian indie singer-songwriter CéU was the first international artist chosen for promotion through the Starbucks Hear Music Debut CD series. |
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