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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?
Peggy Stewart
...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?