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Chorley Old Hall, the oldest inhabited country house in Cheshire, consists of two ranges, one medieval (c.1300) (pictured), the other Elizabethan (mid-16th century). 
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| professional wrestler Pirata Morgan lost his right eye in a mid-match accident?. |
| In World War II, the British Indian Army was driven out of Burma at the Battle of Sittang Bridge. |
| The O'Kane Building in Bend, Oregon, was built for Hugh O’Kane who, as a boy, came to the United States illegally from Ireland by stowing away on a New York bound ship. |
| Statutes of Casimir the Great from the 14th century were the first codification and the basis of modern Polish law. |
| The White-bellied Sea Eagle and the Grey-headed Fish Eagle are the notable raptors of Gal Oya National Park. |
| Horace Barker was awarded the National Medal of Science for discovering the coenzyme of vitamin B12, which Barker had isolated from mud taken from San Francisco Bay. |
| As of 2008, there is no treaty covering the border between Botswana and Namibia, which remains as defined in a treaty signed between the British and German Empires in 1890. |
| St Julian's Church in Kingston Buci, West Sussex, has the well-preserved remains of an anchorite's cell (hagioscope pictured), in which a hermit would have been walled up for life. |
| Arnon Grunberg's award-winning 2003 novel The Asylum Seeker features a ménage à trois involving a former john, a terminally ill former prostitute, and an Algerian asylum seeker. |
| The Dunns Pond Mound in Ohio may have been used for Native American burials for nine centuries. |
| In one of his Posen speeches, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler said that the decision had to be made to make the Jews "disappear from the Earth". |
| Nói Síríus is Iceland's largest candy manufacturer and now owns English chocolate company Elizabeth Shaw. |
| when Murray Chotiner produced the infamous "pink sheet" against opponent Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon's Northern California campaign manager Harvey Hancock refused to run it. |
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