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| ballerina Virginia Zucchi once performed an entire solo en pointe. |
| The poet R. S. Thomas was rector of St Michael's Church, Manafon, (pictured) in Powys, Wales, between 1942 and 1954. |
| Gay Bowel Syndrome, currently considered obsolete, is neither gay-specific, confined to the bowel, nor a syndrome. |
| Jesse Lee Kercheval got the idea of Underground Women after seeing a woman collapse in a launderette in Paris. |
| The Mercedes-Benz W25 was withdrawn from the 1934 Belgian GP as the Belgian customs asked the German teams to pay 180,000 francs duty for their alcohol-based special fuel. |
| conversation poems of Samuel Coleridge were inspired by many events: adulterous love, marriage sex, a French invasion, a bad childhood, depressed birds, a fever, burning his foot, and a better poet. |
| The first person to die in Australia from the 2009 flu was a Pintupi man whose people gave up hunting to settle the remote community of Kiwirrkura at the time of his birth. |
| Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships. |
| The concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting. |
| Bob Dylan has stated that the Queen Jane, the subject of his 1965 song "Queen Jane Approximately", is a man. |
| The book The Post-American World was criticized for not delivering on what the title promised: an examination of a world not dominated by America. |
| The Late Classic Maya archaeological site of La Muerta, in northern Guatemala, is distinguished by its unusual subterranean labyrinth. |
| Former Gloucestershire cricket captain Sir Derrick Bailey founded an airline and based the colour of its planes on the racing colours of his South African father. |
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