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Gavrinis, an island in the Gulf of Morbihan off the coast of Brittany, France, has a rich abundance of megalithic art from the New Stone Age. 
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| Following the revelation of the Secret Intelligence Service radio station Skylark B in Trondheim in September 1941, eleven of the group members were sent to German death camps. |
| Theater impresarios Shelly Gross and Lee Guber, creators of the Valley Forge Music Fair and Westbury Music Fair, met after being seated in alphabetical order next to each other in high school. |
| In 1944, the Greek Socialist Party leader Professor Alexandros Svolos became President in the Greek resistance government. |
| U.S. President John Quincy Adams said U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Condy Raguet's "rashness and intemperance" nearly "brought this country and Brazil to the very verge of war". |
| 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. |
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