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Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, was the target of a kidnap attempt in 1974 near Buckingham Palace during which 4 people were shot.
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Wealthy philanthropist David Walsh opened the popular MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in 2011. MONA is located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (1872 –1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson. Other works include More (1899), Yet Again (1909) and And Even Now (1920).
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In Greek mythology, river god, Inachus is the father of Io and the first king of Argos.
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The publicity art of the movie Midnight in Paris is from Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night.
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The Italian city of Milan is recognised as the world’s fashion and design capital.
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The mutual aid program Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill Wilson and Dr Bob Smith in 1935 in Akron, Ohio.
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Astraea, the Greek goddess of innocence and purity, left earth to become the constellation of Virgo.
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Expressionism is a 20th Century cultural movement which originated in Germany and includes the painters Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann and Albert Tucker.
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In the plural, a polyhedron with 12 faces is a dodecahedron.
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