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British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat. 
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| The 1972 Rose Bowl was the last football game that Stanford University played using "Indians" as their nickname. |
| The geology of the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland includes many Devonian era Old Red Sandstone rock formations, such as the Old Man of Hoy (pictured). |
| Annie M. G. Schmidt, the "queen of Dutch children's literature," euthanized herself a day after her 84th birthday. |
| Tropical Storm Dottie in 1976 was compared to a mere thunderstorm by local officials. |
| Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, who died in 2009 during Operation Panther's Claw in Afghanistan, is the highest-ranking British officer to be killed in action since Lt Col 'H'. Jones in the Falklands War. |
| roll-off is an electronic filter parameter of significance for removing muscle activity noise in electrocardiograph machines. |
| Threats of war between England and France and English antagonism to French dancers led to riots in 1755 with the first London production of Noverre's Les Fêtes Chinoises completely destroyed. |
| Anthony Haswell, Postmaster General of the Vermont Republic, was later convicted of seditious libel under the Alien and Sedition Acts. |
| While perinatal mortality of twins that share the same placenta is fairly low, the survival rate of twins that share the same amniotic sac (example pictured) within their mother's uterus is less than 60%. |
| Charles Boit's enamel group portrait of the family of Emperor Leopold I cracked after one of the Imperial princes accidentally sat down on it. |
| Toys in the Attic, a semi-autobiographical play by American playwright Lillian Hellman, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1960. |
| The 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall, grammar school, museum and armoury before becoming a masonic hall. |
| Composer David Braham began playing the violin because he could not fit his harp on a stagecoach. |
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