No book was available to option and adapt, so Mr. Boal had to dig for real-life details that would dramatize one of the most important events of the decade.

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Earlier this year, he described South Africa's hosting of the football World Cup finals as one of the most important events for the country since the end of apartheid.

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Mr Hague, who has described events in North Africa and Middle East as one of the most important events of the 21st Century, told MPs that former diplomats had a "tremendous amount of knowledge and expertise" that could be utilised in such exceptional situations.

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"The drowning of the village of Capel Celyn in the Tryweryn valley was one of the most important political events in Wales in the twentieth century, " said BBC Wales Welsh affairs editor Vaughan Roderick.

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The International Book Fair is one of the most important cultural events held in Cuba and attracts millions of Cuban and foreign visitors every year.

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