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| Fine Gael politician George Lee used The Week in Politics – broadcast by his former employer – to criticise a round of golf played by several Irish senators. |
| Sabal causiarum (pictured), the Puerto Rican hat palm, was once the base of an industry that produced large quantities of palm-leaf hats. |
| One-time Nickelodeon star Jason Zimbler (Clarissa Explains It All) founded the Portland, Oregon theatre company 'The Re-Theatre Instrument' in late 2007. |
| The fine of £175,000 handed to Arsenal F.C. in 2003 after the Battle of Old Trafford was a record for English football. |
| Venture capitalist Frank Legacki set American records in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly while attending the University of Michigan in 1961. |
| The Goa Liberation Movement, which sought freedom from Portuguese colonial rule, achieved its aim only when the India Army invaded Goa in 1961. |
| Actress and television announcer Barbara Matera is a candidate for the centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) party in the 2009 European Parliament elections. |
| 94% of Dartmoor kistvaens (pictured) have the longer axis of the tomb oriented NW/SE, apparently so that the deceased face the sun. |
| The Heartbreak Express' first and second FIP Tag Team Championship reigns hold the record for most, and fewest title defences respectively. |
| Scottish actor J. Grant Anderson served in both World Wars, founded a theatre in India, and played a clown in a Burmese circus. |
| Alysa Stanton is the first African American female rabbi. |
| jolly boats were carried on practically all types of warships of the Royal Navy during the age of sail, from ships of the line down to brigs. |
| The antebellum Stoney Creek Presbyterian Chapel in McPhersonville, South Carolina, was built by lowcountry rice planters as a summer chapel. |
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