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Heart Valley is a 2022 short documentary film about Welsh shepherd Wilf Davies. Directed and produced by filmmaker Christian Cargill, the film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 9, 2022 where it won the award for Best Documentary Short. It first broadcast in the UK on BBC Two Wales and BBC iPlayer on July 26, 2022 and released online with The New Yorker on December 2, 2022. The documentary won the BAFTA Cymru Award 2023 for Short Film and was nominated for The Grierson Award 2023 for Best Documentary Short. The Hollywood Reporter named Heart Valley as one of their Top 23 Short Documentaries of 2022 and it was one of 98 films to qualify for the 95th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short.
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Michel Rolle was a French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem (1691). He is also the co-inventor in Europe of Gaussian elimination (1690).
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Baron Darcy de Darcy, also known as Baron Darcy of Temple Hurst, was a title which was created twice in the Peerage of England. On 17 October 1509 Thomas Darcy was summoned to parliament, and the same year Lord Darcy was invested as a Knight of the Garter, but in 1538, he was attainted and his barony forfeited. In 1548, a fresh creation of the peerage was made for his son George. On the death of the third baron of the second creation in 1635, the barony became extinct.
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{"fact":"Cats are extremely sensitive to vibrations. Cats are said to detect earthquake tremors 10 or 15 minutes before humans can.","length":122}