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unusual facts about Rame


Sheryll Murray

Murray previously represented Rame as a Cornwall County Councillor and served as Leader of the Conservative Group on Caradon District Council, when a Councillor for Millbrook, prior to her election to Parliament.


ARF tumor suppressor

The ARF tumor suppressor is a protein that is transcribed from an alternate reading frame of the INK4a/ARF locus (CDKN2A).

Canzonissima

The 1962 edition, hosted by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, generated large political controversities due to use of censorship to cut some satirical sketches of Fo; the couple Fo-Rame was eventually fired, and the scandal lead to a long interruption of five years.

Durance

In the Middle Ages, the county of Forcalquier stretched all along the Durance, from Cavaillon to La Roche-de-Rame, close to Embrun.

Freissinières

Freissinières lies in a valley which is the watershed of the Biaisse, which flows into the Durance between La Roche-de-Rame and Saint-Crépin.

Wingan Inlet

Wingan Inlet is of historical significance, as it is almost certainly the lagoon, 'one mile north of Rame Head,' where Dr George Bass reputedly became the first European to set foot on the Victorian shoreline on 20 January 1798, during his first expedition south of Sydney to establish the relationship of Tasmania to the Australian mainland, with the encouragement of John Hunter, the Governor of New South Wales.


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