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Films[edit]

Did you know...

...that a publicity campaign for The Boogie Man Will Get You had to be abandoned because film critics preferred the antagonists in Disney films?
...that during the production of Women Are Better Diplomats, the film's director and lead actress married each other?
...that They Met in Argentina was described in one review as "an American musical at its worst"?
...that Dr. O'Dowd is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films?
...that Blue Scar was the first feature film to be scored by a British woman?
...that the 1941 film Christmas Under Fire features people celebrating Christmas underground?
...that Westward Ho! premiered in cinemas just two weeks after the start of filming?
...that Alberto Cavalcanti asked David MacDonald to re-shoot scenes from the 1940 British propaganda film Men of the Lightship because the performance of the actors was "totally unconvincing"?[1]

Historic buildings[edit]

Did you know...

...that several historical items have been found in the basement of Gotham House in Tiverton, Devon, including documents signed by Oliver Cromwell?[2]
...that the inventory of Emery Walker's former home at 7 Hammersmith Terrace includes a lock of William Morris's hair and Dante Rossetti's teapot?
... that Room 12 at The Crown in Amersham, England, has a mural dating back to the 16th century?

Museums[edit]

Did you know...

...that the Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, one of the largest museums in the West Country, originally occupied two rooms in a former pub?
... that Yelverton Paperweight Centre, which has over 1000 paperweights, has its origins in the private collection of a Cornish postmaster?
...that the Jewish Military Museum was founded partly to counter the idea that British Jews have avoided serving in the armed forces?
...that a Bruges building dating to 1399 now houses a museum dedicated to fries?

Novels[edit]

Did you know...

...that an Athenaeum review of his first published novel led George Gissing to describe critics as "unprincipled vagabonds"?
...that George Gissing considered his novella The Paying Guest to be "a frothy trifle"?
...that the original publication of Eve's Ransom by George Gissing was delayed by Fred Barnard's drunkenness?

Politicians[edit]

Did you know...

...that all of Edward William Price's immediate family died in a shipwreck the year before he became Government Resident of the Northern Territory?
...that Australian politician John Hart described William Bloomfield Douglas as a "fool" for wanting the job of Government Resident of the Northern Territory?
...that in 1896, one newspaper described Charles Dashwood as 'the personification of kindness in his dealing with aborigines'?

Woodlands[edit]

Did you know...

...that Bryant and May matches were responsible for a thinning of Bottom Wood during the Second World War?
...that more than 8000 trees were planted in Backmuir Wood to celebrate the 2000 millennium?
...that the eastern edge of Philipshill Wood is believed to mark the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia?
...that there used to be a metal fish tree in Cowleaze Wood?

Inevitable miscellany[edit]

Did you know...

... that Noureddine Aba wrote a series of love poems inspired by a young couple dying at the time of Algeria becoming independent from France?
... that Gabriel Ruhumbika wrote his first novel in English, but all of his subsequent novels in Swahili?
... that despite covering the works of a Christian theologian, the Thomas Aquinas Dictionary does not contain entries for "Redemption", "Incarnation" or "Trinity"?
... that Barrie Edgar produced the first television broadcast from a submarine?
...that The Sesame Street Dictionary contains around 1,300 illustrations of Muppets?
...that when he was 42, Fred Ridgeway gave up his career in finance to become a professional actor?
...that in 1962, television director John Hefin graffitied a rock in support of a local politician?[3]
...that the Tiverton fire of 1731 resulted in an increased incidence of smallpox?[2]
... that the death of four students from Southway Comprehensive School during a school trip in 1993 led to the establishment of the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority?
...that when he was 18, pianist Percival Mackey toured with a band consisting of a 72-year-old trumpeter and a fiddler who was often drunk?

Most and least popular[edit]

Top 10
  1. The Boogie Man Will Get You (6270 views)
  2. Jewish Military Museum (5001 views)
  3. Bottom Wood (4165 views)
  4. Gotham House (3076 views)
  5. Cowleaze Wood (2926 views)
  6. Women Are Better Diplomats (2891 views)
  7. Frietmuseum (2887 views)
  8. Tiverton fire of 1731 (2765 views)
  9. Westward Ho! (1940 film) (2611 views)
  10. They Met in Argentina (2344 views)
Bottom 10
  1. The Paying Guest (505 views)
  2. William Bloomfield Douglas (514 views)
  3. Gabriel Ruhumbika (680 views)
  4. Thomas Aquinas Dictionary (680 views)
  5. Barrie Edgar (775 views)
  6. 7 Hammersmith Terrace (1125 views)
  7. Workers in the Dawn (1127 views)
  8. Eve's Ransom (1143 views)
  9. Noureddine Aba (1174 views)
  10. John Hefin (1212 views)

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ with Bzuk.
  2. ^ a b with Dr. Blofeld.
  3. ^ with Ghmyrtle.
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