A fact from John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 December 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that at the funeral of his uncle, from whom he inherited the earldom, John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, received an axe brought into the church by a mounted horseman?
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