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Cullen House is the former seat of the Earls of Seafield near the coastal town of Cullen in Moray, Scotland. Initially built in 1600, it has been extended and remodelled several times by prominent architects such as James Adam, John Adam, and David Bryce, and has been described by the architectural historian Charles McKean as "one of the grandest houses in Scotland". The house was taken by the Marquess of Montrose in 1645 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and it was sacked by Jacobite forces during the rising of 1745, shortly before their defeat at the Battle of Culloden. The village of Cullen was mostly demolished in the 1820s to make way for expansion of the gardens by the 5th Earl of Seafield. The building deteriorated during the twentieth century, and in 1982 Ian Ogilvie-Grant sold it to Kit Martin, who worked to save the structure while dividing it into fourteen individual dwellings, still in use today. Further restoration was needed after a serious fire broke out in 1987. (Full article...)

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1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos.
1849 – American writer Edgar Allan Poe (pictured) died under mysterious circumstances at Washington Medical College four days after being found on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a delirious and incoherent state.
1944 – The Holocaust: Sonderkommando work-unit members in Auschwitz concentration camp revolted upon learning that they were due to be killed; although a few managed to escape, most were massacred on the same day.
1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski dvori, the official residence of the president of Croatia in Zagreb.

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Niels Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory. He advanced the theory of electrons travelling in orbits around the atom's nucleus, with the chemical properties of each element being largely determined by the number of electrons in the outer orbits of its atoms. He introduced the idea that an electron could drop from a higher-energy orbit to a lower one, in the process emitting a quantum of discrete energy. For his work, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.Photograph credit: Bain News Service; restored by Bammesk

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