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History In 1970, George Harrison bought a crumbling Victorian mansion from a group of nuns for £140,000. He spent the rest of his life restoring its caves, grottoes and topiary gardens, and more than 55 years later Friar Park is still owned by his family
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HistoryJapan’s first gift of 2,000 cherry trees to Washington arrived diseased in 1910 and had to be destroyed. Tokyo sent 3,020 more in 1912, and after World War II, cuttings from those Washington trees were sent back to help replant Tokyo’s own bombed collection
HistoryIn 1965, Walt Disney used shell companies with names like M.T. Lott to secretly buy 27,000 acres of Florida swampland for about $182 an acre. Once a local reporter exposed who was buying, a single nearby acre sold for $80,000
HistoryNeil Armstrong walked on the Moon and then coughed his way through Buckingham PalaceThe first man on the Moon faced Buckingham Palace in 1969 with a streaming head cold, and the handshake went badly wrong.
HistoryWinston Churchill gives his famous speech “The Few” in the House of Commons"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
HistoryRosslyn Chapel was begun 580 years ago and the carvers never finished the jobFive centuries of folklore have gathered around a small unfinished church seven miles south of Edinburgh, and Dan Brown only added to the pile.
HistoryFlowers still arrive at the spot where England’s last Saxon king fell in 1066Wednesday marks 960 years since the Battle of Hastings, the single October day that swept away Anglo
-Saxon rule and remade England in Norman stone.