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From Wikipedia's newest content: ... that Greek writer Dido Sotiriou (pictured) deals in her novels with the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the civil war and the postwar period in Greece? ... that the cover for Andrew Miller's 2011 Costa prize winning novel Pure was inspired by Francisco Goya's etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters? ... that the British Houses of Parliament in London, rebuilt after a destructive fire in 1834, include ventilation systems by Scottish physician David Boswell Reid? ... that Hurricane Celeste in 1972 triggered evacuations due to a threat of nerve gas dispersal? ... that Elias Abraham Rosenberg, a peddler from San Francisco, became an adviser to King Kalākaua of Hawaii due to his purported ability to predict the future? ... that in "Odorono", The Who sang about the consequences of body odour?

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