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An admitting nurse at the emergency room reprimanded Lea Carmichael Richardson for cleaning her oven before moving, stating, "You don’t clean the oven because you’re moving. You move because your oven’s dirty!"

Lea Carmichael Richardson got a painful drop of oven cleaner in her eye in April 1982 while cleaning the oven in her Park Slope brownstone apartment.

Christina Daigneault found an injured mourning dove on the sidewalk on Bedford Avenue on a Monday afternoon.

David Handschuh was on a jammed, rush-hour 5 train as it pulled into the City Hall station.

The woman helping the injured bird identified herself as Hope.

The Wild Bird Fund recently posted instructions on Instagram about what to do if you find an injured bird.

Two men on a rush-hour 5 train, standing backpack to backpack, turned to let people off at City Hall station, recognized each other, and hugged.

Julie Blackburn squeezed her car into a tight parking spot near her Upper West Side apartment.

A young man approached Julie Blackburn, asked if the car was hers, and pointed out damage to his bumper.

Photographs taken in 1975 show Mentmore Towers' grand hall dripping in tapestries, with lavish furnishings and a cabinet brimming with trophies.

Over nine days in 1977, nearly 3,000 items of Baroque art, gilded furniture, and other treasures from Mentmore Towers were sold, fetching more than $10 million.

Mentmore Towers is the only major surviving work in Britain by Victorian innovator Joseph Paxton.

Mentmore Towers was a filming location for Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy "Ali G Indahouse" (2002), and the Spice Girls' "Goodbye" music video.

Mentmore Towers served for over a century as a country palace of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

Joseph Paxton is best known for designing London's Crystal Palace, an iron-and-glass symbol of the Industrial Age that burned down in 1936.

Buckinghamshire Council said that the proposed security fence and storage facility on the grounds of Mentmore Towers breached planning rules.

Bats are protected species in Britain, and property owners are legally obligated to take precautions to avoid disturbing them.

Conservationists describe the 250-room Mentmore Towers manor as one of Britain's finest examples of Jacobethan Revival architecture, which is an amalgam of Elizabethan and Jacobean styles.

Mentmore Towers has been owned by the family trust of British Syrian property tycoon Simon Halabi since 1998.

Peter Strachan, the deputy leader of the local council, said in September 2026 that their focus is protecting and preserving Mentmore Towers, a Grade I-listed building.