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Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the first woman Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
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Robert O’Hara Bourke and William John Wills led the ill-fated attempt to cross Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1860-61.
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Aethelbert married Bertha, the daughter of the King of Paris, and was converted to Christianity by St Augustine of Canterbury, thus becoming the first Christian king of Anglo-Saxon England.
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In 1969, John Lennon took Ono as his middle name.
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The nom de plume of the author of the Fifty Shades of Grey is E. L. James.
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Com amore is a musical direction that means with love, tenderly.
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The 1969 book The French Lieutenant’s Woman was written by John Fowles.
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The national anthem of Canada is called O Canada.
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Stardust was the horse of the title character, played by Gene Barry, in the television series Bat Masterton.
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The desert valley of Death Valley features the lowest, the driest and the hottest locations in North America.
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