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... that during the Antinomian Controversy, Anne Hutchinson (pictured) withstood two separate trials without counsel before being banished from Massachusetts?- Featured 9 July 2012
... that St Denys' Church, Sleaford (pictured) has one of the oldest stone broach spires in England and an altar rail designed by Sir Christopher Wren? - Featured 5 June 2011
... that up to 200 people played a game of football on land near Brothertoft, Lincolnshire, in the 1760s as a protest against enclosure? - Featured 23 April 2011
... that the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript, compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies of Sir Degrevant and the Alliterative Morte Arthure? - Featured 16 April 2011
... that Ruck machine gun posts were built from prefabricated sections, paving slabs, sandbags and rammed earth? - Featured 5 October 2010
... that the Outer Trial Bank, a nature reserve in East Anglia, UK, was originally built as part of a failed government scheme to barrage the Wash and create a reservoir? - Featured 16 March 2010.
... that the medieval chronicler Matthew Paris accused the medieval bishop Hugh of Wells (d. 1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"? - Featured 17 January 2010.
... that although little is known of the episcopate of William de Blois, Bishop of Lincoln from 1203 to 1206, he was still remembered as a learned man in the 14th century? - Featured 11 January 2010.
... that the body of Saint Eadnoth was stolen by the monks of Ely Abbey while the guards taking it to Ramsey Abbey were drunk? - Featured 6 January 2010.
... that Haldanes is the first mid-sized supermarket chain to open in the UK for more than 20 years? - Featured 5 January 2010.
... that Archbishop of Rouen Walter de Coutances (d. 1207) had to pay the final 10,000 marks of King Richard I of England's ransom, as the archbishop was a hostage until it was paid? - Featured 6 December 2009.
... that the medieval English bishop Robert de Chesney was an early patron of Thomas Becket, later famous for his quarrel with King Henry II of England? - Featured 1 December 2009.
... that St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber (pictured) was the first example of Anglo-Saxon architecture identified using evidence contained in the building? - Featured 30 November 2009
... that the engine house of the Pinchbeck Engine, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument? - Featured 9 October 2009.
... that medieval English bishop Alexander of Lincoln was patron of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, who dedicated his Prophecies of Merlin to the bishop? - Featured 7 October 2009.
... that Horkstow Bridge in North Lincolnshire, completed in 1836, is the only suspension bridge designed by Sir John Rennie, builder of London Bridge? - Featured 6 October 2009.
... that Robert Bloet, a medieval Bishop of Lincoln, appointed his own son Simon as Dean of Lincoln? - Featured 28 September 2009.
... that the names of the several "Blue" public houses and inns in Grantham have their origins in a time when the parliamentary constituency of Grantham was a pocket borough? - Featured 2 August 2009.
... that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure? - Featured 17 July 2009.
... that despite winning the Football League Trophy in 2009, Luton Town are not presently eligible to defend their title? - Featured 19 May 2009.
... that the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the UK for over twenty years? - Featured 2 March 2008.
... that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War? - Featured 6 June 2008.
... that the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash? - Featured 20 April 2008.
... that Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans-Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges? - Featured 19 April 2007.
... that Tom Hickathrift is the East Anglian equivalent of Jack the Giant Killer? - Featured 4 November 2006.
... that James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait, and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was? - Featured 4 March 2007.
... that the Witches of Belvoir supposedly believed a cat named Rutterkin helped them cast spells? - Featured 22 January 2007.
... that the dried remains of cattle slaughtered under anti-BSE measures in the UK are burned for electricity? - Featured 18 August 2006.
... that the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight contains the world's oldest airworthy survivor of the Battle of Britain, alongside ten other historic aircraft - two of which fought over Normandy on D-Day? - Featured 7 July 2005.
... that Dunston Pillar, a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, England, was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous eastern heathlands? - Featured 20 October 2004.

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