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Bacon's Castle—a stronghold in Surry County during Bacon's Rebellion in the Virginia Colony in 1676—was never occupied by rebellion leader Nathaniel Bacon. 
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| Actor Spencer Williams played a female fortune teller in his 1946 film Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.. |
| Former Norwegian government minister Johan Henrik Rye Holmboe was subject to an impeachment case in 1926–27, but found not guilty. |
| Purity of the Sasthamkotta Lake water for drinking use is attributed to presence of a large number of larvae called cavaborus, which consume much of the lake's bacteria. |
| William Headline, who spent 12 years as the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for CNN, was described by Wolf Blitzer as having "the best name in news". |
| The call made by Limnodynastes dorsalis, a frog species in Western Australia, is similar to the sound of a plucked banjo string. |
| The Apega of Nabis was an ancient torture device similar to the iron maiden, invented by King Nabis of Sparta (pictured on coin). |
| Abram S. Piatt was an American Zouave colonel and Civil War general who later built a castle in Logan County, Ohio. |
| An enterolith is a calculus found in the intestine of an animal, usually a horse or human. |
| Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America. |
| gemstones and heroin are traded from Burma to China for motorcycles and household goods across the Shweli River, which forms part of the boundary between the two countries. |
| The Henry DeLand House has served as a private house, an inn, a speakeasy, a bar, a restaurant and most recently, a catering hall. |
| four questions about how to assess the patentability of software-related inventions have been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office. |
| The 1996 Opening Day game for the Oakland A's at Cashman Field in Las Vegas marked the first time in 39 years that a regular season major league game was played in a minor league stadium. |
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