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- ...that John Pasco (pictured) advised Nelson to change the wording of "England expects that every man will do his duty", his famous signal at the Battle of Trafalgar?
- ...that the 17th century Puritan physician Alexander Leighton incurred the wrath of King Charles I for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by his Star Chamber to public whipping, branding, and having his ears cut off?
- ...that the 1927 American silent film The Cat and the Canary was directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni?
- ...that Bob Dylan didn't want to appear in The Last Waltz with The Band because he feared the movie would detract from his own film, Renaldo and Clara?
- ...that the world's only memorial to war correspondents is located in Maryland's Gathland State Park?
- ...that Kenny Leon directed the Broadway premiere of the August Wilson play Gem of the Ocean?