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| The Greek Slave (pictured), a statue by Hiram Powers, became a symbol for abolitionists in the United States in the years prior to the American Civil War. |
| Australian Test cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from an Indian bookmaker known only as "John" in return for pitch and weather reports. |
| social dancers exchange partners several times during a mixer dance, to increase their chance of dancing with new people. |
| Penley, a small village near Wrexham in north east Wales, was home to a hospital founded on the orders of Sir Winston Churchill after World War II to care for Polish ex-servicemen. |
| Colonel Denning State Park, which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel. |
| Motilal Sheel, a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835. |
| 17th-century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (pictured) is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark. |
| Battle of the Border refers to the series of battles in the opening stage of the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland in September 1939. |
| The Northern Red-legged Frog is a near-threatened species, whose male defends breeding pond territory with nocturnal displays. |
| The Tagore family, with over three hundred years of history, has exercised great influence on reawakened Bengali spirit. |
| film composer Richard Harvey has a collection of more than 600 different musical instruments. |
| The USS Hunchback was a steam-powered ferry converted into a gunboat during the American Civil War. |
| walking fish can actually skip, crawl, slither, and even climb trees. |
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