...that 18th century actress Anne Bracegirdle most frequently played vivacious, breeches-wearing, guardian-tricking young women of great initiative? ...that Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that orbit Earth at the distance of the Moon? ...that Warton in Lancashire is an historic village famous for its contribution to the UK aerospace industry? ...that the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism was famous for developing the shakuhachi flute as a means of meditation? 

It's hard for me to understand this passage, Simon.