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Films
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"?
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Historic buildings
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?
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- ...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
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
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
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
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
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?
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- ...that the
Tiverton fire of 1731 resulted in an increased incidence of
smallpox?
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- ... 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?
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