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 * ...that a group of angry American colonists inspired by the Boston Tea Party gave the owner of a tea ship, Peggy Stewart  (pictured) the option to burn his ship or be hanged on October 19, 1774?  [[Image:PeggyStewart.jpg|Peggy Stewart|right|100px]]
 * ...that after Egyptian land reform individual land ownership in Egypt was limited to a maximum of 200 feddans?
 * ...that Creigh Deeds lost the 2005 race for Attorney General of Virginia by only 323 votes out of almost two million cast?
 * ... that Yehoshua Cohen, the assassin of diplomat Folke Bernadotte, later became a close friend of David Ben-Gurion?
 * ... that economist Charles Hall claimed that the poor retained less than one-eighth of what they produced due to capitalist exploitation?
 * ... that Humphrey Toy financed the publication of the first Welsh translation of the Book of Common Prayer?
 * ...that Holden Bowler, the namesake of J.D. Salinger's character Holden Caulfield, was also the godfather of singer Judy Collins?
 * ...that Hugh Stockwell rose from the rank of Major to that of Major General in fewer than five years?
 * ... that folk singer Travis Edmonson was an honorary member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and helped create a dictionary for their language?
 * ... that Merle Fainsod based his book Smolensk under Soviet Rule on Soviet documents captured by the Wehrmacht during World War II?
 * ... that Arthur MacMahon was one of the first political scientists to use empirical methods to study government?