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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's only novel, Hyperion, was partly based on his attempts to woo Frances Appleton (pictured) who later became his wife despite disapproving of her depiction in the book. |
| The glamorous American actress Mary Castle was once dubbed more like Rita Hayworth than Hayworth herself. |
| A priest refused quarter and perished in his burning church during the 1759 St. Francis Raid by Rogers' Rangers. |
| The pump station built to supply Hudson River water to Albany, New York, is now home to a brewpub, planetarium and the city's visitor center. |
| During the early 20th century, the depopulated Palestinian village Sarafand al-Amar was the site of the largest British Army base in the Middle East. |
| Albert Sharpe participated in football, basketball, baseball, gymnastics, rowing, and track and field, and was called "the greatest living all round athlete" in 1915. |
| In 1901, Emir of Kuwait Mubarak Al-Sabah asked the Russian Empire for protection, only two years after his country became a British protectorate. |
| The spread of red palm mite (pictured) is the biggest mite explosion ever observed in the Americas. |
| Harvard All-American Bert Waters was accused of jabbing a finger into a Yale player's eye in the 1893 football game that became known as "The Bloodbath in Hampden Park"?. |
| In 1937, members of a boy's club in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, demolished their own hut to allow St Richard's Church to be built on the site. |
| The wild zebrafish is the first vertebrate to have its entire genome sequenced in India, a task carried out by the scientists at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. |
| Lee Child took inspiration for his novel Echo Burning from the grave of "the gentlemen gunfighter" Clay Allison. |
| Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping. |
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