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Not a coal mine but a slate mine. Based on a popular horror novel by F. Paul Wilson, The Keep is about a group of Nazi soldiers who occupy an ancient fortress in Romania.
The Kurgan (pictured) from the movie Highlander wasn't based on a specific person but on a real-life people: the Kurgans, an ancient nomadic people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe.
Stoker was clearly influenced by Gerard's writings, and her description of Nosferatu is familiar to those who have read Dracula.
This was two-time prime minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81). It courted him favour with Queen Victoria, who he drew out of her long mourning period following her husband Albert's death.
Football goal nets were invented in 1890 by John Brodie. Brodie was a civil engineer known for his contribution to town planning in Liverpool.
In part. Margaret Henley was the daughter of J. M. Barrie's friend, the poet William Ernest Henley, and his wife Anna. Barrie always had an affinity for children, and Margaret called him her 'fwendy'.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Bowie described The Jean Genie - the lead single from his 1973 album Aladdin Sane - as 'a smorgasbord of imagined Americana'.

12 months ago

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: The most notable example of a classic that was kept from No. 1 by a novelty song must surely be Vienna by Ultravox.
Martial arts pioneer and former judo Olympian Syd Hoare was a major driving force behind the development of amateur sumo in the UK, an interest that he picked up while studying in Japan.
The European badger (Meles meles) spends more than half its life underground and builds the largest setts of any badger species.

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