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| A new porch at St Matthew's Church, Buckley (pictured) in Flintshire, Wales, was paid for by the vicar's wife with money made from publishing letters to her from John Ruskin. |
| grunting in tennis has been labelled as cheating by former player Martina Navratilova. |
| After withstanding three years of siege by the Crusaders on the Acrocorinth, Leo Sgouros committed suicide by jumping off a cliff on horseback. |
| The interrogation of Saddam Hussein revealed that as a fugitive, he took refuge in the same place in 1959 and 2003. |
| Per Jacobsen, a Norwegian resistance member who died in Natzweiler, was twice national champion in figure skating in the interwar period. |
| country music singer Colt Ford is a former professional golfer. |
| In 2005 Georgian ambassador to Israel Lasha Zhvania asked Hebrew speakers to stop calling his country Gruziya. |
| The artillery of France in the Middle Ages (pictured) had a key role in the French victory in the Hundred Years War. |
| Parke H. Davis, who retroactively named the American college football national champions between 1869 and 1933, was the only historian to select college champions based on research. |
| The 2002 Redditch Council election saw no party win a majority for the first time in over 50 years. |
| Johnny Sylvester received a promise from baseball player Babe Ruth while suffering from a life-threatening illness that he would hit a home run for him during the 1926 World Series. |
| McCaw Cellular began business by buying, selling and trading licenses for cellular frequency allocations after an AT&T article that suggested they were being sold at a discount. |
| The French pre-dreadnought battleship Henri IV was the first ship to mount a superfiring gun turret. |
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