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Wrong Abbey Road: Drab London railway station is unlikely magnet for befuddled Beatles fans
• LONDON (AP) -- It's a mystery tour, but it's hardly magical.
• More than nine miles (14 kilometers) from the striped crosswalk made famous by the Beatles album "Abbey Road," this drab transit station in east London keeps drawing confused fans of the Fab Four into unwanted jaunts through a gritty, industrial area just south of London's Olympic Stadium.
• Abbey Road Station has no relation to the Beatles' Abbey Road Studios, the birthplace of the eponymous album and a London tourist landmark. The glass-and-metal station is wedged among a train depot, warehouses, and gloomy public housing projects, a world away from the leafy, suburban street pictured on the album's cover.
• It didn't take long for American visitor Christie Johnson, 22, to figure out she was in the wrong place.
• "It didn't look right," the Denver resident said. She and her embarrassed host -- English student Melody Vettraino -- wanted to see the iconic crosswalk on a whim.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Friday, Nov. 16, the 321st day of 2012. There are 45 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Nov. 16, 1946, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded at the conclusion of a conference in London.
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• On this date:
• In 1776, British troops captured Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.
• In 1885, Canadian rebel leader Louis Riel was executed for high treason.
• In 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state of the union.
• In 1917, Georges Clemenceau again became prime minister of France.
• In 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
• In 1959, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" opened (Continued on page 36)
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