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Valencia Theatre

... that New York City's Valencia Theatre (pictured) was sold to a church in 1977 for $1?
... that the murder of skier Corinne Rey-Bellet led to a change in Swiss gun-control regulations?
... that Home and Beauty has been described as both a "little masterpiece of polite merriment" and a "misogynist comedy dipped in vitriol"?
... that Bea Hines, the first African-American woman to become a reporter at the Miami Herald, was sent to report on a riot on her first day at work?
... that terracotta cones found at al-Moghraqa in Palestine are unique in the region, but resemble artefacts from ancient Egypt?
... that Yvonne Francis-Gibson, before improving women's rights as a legislator in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, led a Women's Desk that was "unable to take a firm stand on behalf of women's issues"?
... that Aquilegia moorcroftiana is named after a mountaineer and is found at the highest elevation of any species of columbine?
... that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was just one center until 1980?
... that Yuki Waga created the "earworm" for "Shikairo Days" by walking around his house repeating "shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan"?