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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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