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In The Abbey in the Oakwood (pictured) German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich symbolically depicted "the burial of Germany's hopes for resurrection". 
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| Actress Patsy Kensit has married and divorced three different musicians. |
| The British Royal Family announced the deaths of Katherine Bowes-Lyon and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother's nieces, when they were, in fact, merely under psychiatric care. |
| Michael Faraday did the first modern research into the nature of colloidal gold. |
| Brownie Wise invented the Tupperware party. |
| The golden age of arcade games began with the release of Space Invaders in 1978. |
| The Turkish military coup of 1971 is known as the Coup by Memorandum. |
| 43 nations currently participate in the Kimberley Process for keeping conflict diamonds from reaching market. |
| Seeds of the Hawaiian baby woodrose contain chemicals with effects similar to LSD. |
| Pickles is George W. Bush's nickname for his wife. |
| blackwater fever causes red blood cells to burst, leaking hemoglobin into the plasma. |
| The ear's hair cells encode the information from the fluid waves of the cochlea for use by the auditory nerve. |
| An amateur airplane pilot's spatial disorientation during flight can lead to an irreversible graveyard spiral. |
| The Alpine Ibex of Gran Paradiso were first protected in 1816. |
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