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... that the closure of five University of Wisconsin branch campuses (one pictured) has called into question the future of the Wisconsin Idea?
... that Apurbalal Majumdar was elected from two different constituencies in the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election?
... that the soundtrack to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz was not commercially available until 1956?
... that tea-garden labour leader Prem Oraon lost his right leg in 1970 during a protest against a factory closure?
... that when the Brighton Town Commissioners wanted to build Queen's Road through a slum district, they invited all the residents to a festival and demolished their houses while they were away?
... that Green Bay Packer Wally Ladrow worked as a packer?
... that the outbreak of the Java War, which lasted five years and killed more than 200,000 people, was triggered by a government road project?
... that Herzog Wine Cellars produces approximately 250,000 cases of kosher wine annually?
... that a car accident may have wrecked Richard Petty's chances of being elected North Carolina's secretary of state?