The 1904 play The Cherry Orchard was written by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov (pictured)who also was a physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history.
English baron Charles August Selby around 1810 redesigned the manor house of Orupgaard on the Danish island of Falster and developed farming there.
Australian TV police procedural broadcast from 1996 to 2001 Water Rats was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales and premiered on 12 February 1996 with Colin Friels as Det Snr Constable Frank Holloway and Catherine McClements as Det Snr Constable Rachel Goldstein the original stars.
At the funeral of his uncle, from whom he inherited the earldom, John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, 'A mounted knight, armed with an axe, was led into the choir by two knights and delivered the axe to the bishop, who gave it to the heir'.
The traditional gift for the 25th Wedding Anniversary is something made of silver.
The assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria on 28 June 1914 led to World War I.
The 1957 novel The Guns of Navarone was written by Alistair McLean and was made into a movie in 1961 starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn.
Toronto, Ontario was once known as Methodist Rome as during the 19th century Toronto had one of the largest (if not the largest) population of Methodists in the world.
The 2013 book The Secret of Life Wellness was written by Inna Segal.
Cattle are brought to the uninhabited island of Kalvø for summer grazing in a small barge, three or four at a time. Kalvø is a small uninhabited island in the southern part of Guldborgsund, the strait between the Danish islands of Lolland and Falster.
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