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| The remote Aboriginal community of Jigalong in Western Australia was the venue for the world premiere of the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. |
| The Ashtabula Harbor Light in Lake Erie was encased in ice by a storm in 1928, trapping its keepers inside for two days. |
| Louis-Adolphe Paquet was one of the most vocal opponents of both mandatory public education and women's suffrage in early 20th-century Quebec. |
| Dowlish Wake was the home of John Hanning Speke who explored Africa in the mid–19th century in search of the source of the Nile. |
| Salvador Toscano Barragán was Mexico's first filmmaker. |
| The Lamentation of Christ (pictured) is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. |
| Arnaud de Pellegrue, a cardinal-nephew of Pope Clement V, led the papal army in a 1309 war against Venice. |
| While working on Lipstick and Dynamite, a 2005 documentary about women's professional wrestling, Neko Case found out Ella Waldek in the film was her great-aunt. |
| Archaeological evidence suggest that the history of French wine began with the Celts, long before the Greeks and Romans settled the area. |
| Josiah and William Forster, early members of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, visited U.S. President Franklin Pierce to promote their cause. |
| The Irish Greyhound racing regulator Bord na gCon includes Viagra on its list of banned substances. |
| Han Chinese Emperor Jing had Imperial Secretary Chao Cuo executed to appease various subordinate kingdoms. |
| Neafie & Levy built the U.S. Navy's first submarine (pictured) in 1862 and its first destroyer in 1902. |
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