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| The Ulster cherry is named after Ulster County, New York, a region where sweet cherries are produced commercially. |
| The Israeli government is considering recognizing Indian nanny Sandra Samuel as a Righteous among the Nations. |
| Although only 170 cars were carried between Lympne and Le Touquet airfields in 1948, by 1951 the air ferry service was so successful that over 13,000 vehicles were carried that year. |
| Confederate General John W. Frazer surrendered the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War without a fight. |
| The 19th Golden Melody Awards ceremony in Taiwan featured Canadian recording artist Daniel Powter as a guest presenter. |
| When reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics, she threw him out of her office. |
| Emerson Rodwell, a former captain of the Tasmanian cricket team, scored 11,542 runs and took 331 wickets in his club career, as well as earning the Military Medal in Borneo during World War II. |
| The three-story tall Torah Ark (pictured) of the Great Synagogue in Włodawa, Poland, is decorated with carvings of 18th-century musical instruments to illustrate one of the Psalms. |
| During the Dead Rabbits Riot of 1857, residents of Mulberry Street in New York City were forced to barricade themselves in their homes. |
| So many people became custom harvesters in China in the late 20th century that it was no longer possible for them to generate a profit. |
| radio station WHAL in Phenix City, Alabama, used to broadcast from a defunct airport terminal. |
| Aleksandr Pushkin's 1827 poem The Gypsies inspired some eighteen operas and six ballets, including Rachmaninoff's Aleko. |
| Ian Chapman was the first former pupil of The Football Association's School of Excellence to play in The Football League. |
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