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Due to the reputation of its founder, Jan Groenveld, the Cult Awareness and Information Centre of Australia became used as a resource in publications on cults soon after its founding. 
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| heavy metal band Destroy Destroy Destroy played their first show in a pizzeria as the opening band for Mastodon. |
| Actress Kate Terry, grandmother of John Gielgud, had a very successful acting career until she left the stage at age 23. |
| After 60 years of service to Greenville, Alabama, the FCC is allowing radio station WGYV to move to Aurora, Indiana, a suburb of Cincinnati. |
| Canadian politician Louis Deniset only served a term of nine months and 21 days before losing his seat. |
| The former St Stephen's Church (pictured) in Brighton, England, was built as a tavern ballroom a mile away from its present site. |
| Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, released in 1933 and directed by Kenzō Masaoka, was the first "talkie" animated film in Japan?. |
| During World War II, Brigadier General Alberto A. Nido (USAF), a native of Puerto Rico, fought for three different countries. |
| The Frisian kingdom came to an end after their king was killed in the Battle of the Boarn where they were defeated by the Frankish Empire. |
| On Floodplain, San Francisco-based string quartet the Kronos Quartet plays instruments built by Walter Kitundu, including the beguèna maridhia, which is based on an Ethiopian 10-string lyre. |
| Gillingham Football Club's supporters donated £2,500 in an attempt to fund a month's extension to loanee defender Mick Bodley's contract. |
| During his 1950 U.S. Senate race, Richard Nixon was so angered by his opponent, Helen Gahagan Douglas, that he threatened to castrate her. |
| The first vampire story written by a woman was The Skeleton Count, by Elizabeth Caroline Grey, in 1828. |
| The site of the Zagreb synagogue (model pictured), demolished in World War II, has been used as a volleyball court and a parking lot. |
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