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	* ... that ''']''', university administrator and ] captain, opened the ] to female enrollment in 1863?
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	* ... that during World War I the ''']''' denounced the trade unions of the ] as "separatists"?
			* ... that after ''']''', ] likened ], to a nuclear bomb site?
	* ... that the Mingxing Film Company ''']''' in 16 years, but most are now lost?
			* ... that the producers of '']'' only wrote a queer romance into ''']''' after viewers began ] two characters?
	* ... that ''']''' was founded in a former juvenile mental hospital?
			* ... that the return ceremony of the skull of ''']'''{{`s}} grandfather was "probably the biggest gathering ever to take place in Tanganyika"?
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Clay M. Greene

... that playwright Clay M. Greene (pictured) claimed he was "the first American white child born in San Francisco"?
... that a PhD student discovered a lost manuscript of Galen's Peri Alypias in 2005, in "one of the most spectacular finds ever of ancient literature"?
... that Kim Kitsuragi was praised as one of the best video game characters of 2019?
... that the Chinese Lingnan School faced condemnation during the Second Sino-Japanese War, even as it spread anti-Japanese messages?
... that in the wake of a hazing scandal, Western Kentucky University placed their swimming and diving programs on a five-year suspension?
... that some years after unknowingly working for the Manhattan Project, Charles Fisk quit physics and became an organ builder?
... that after a 2008 tornado, Michael Chertoff likened Picher, Oklahoma, to a nuclear bomb site?
... that the producers of Doctor Who only wrote a queer romance into the programme's 2022 special episodes after viewers began shipping two characters?
... that the return ceremony of the skull of Adam Sapi Mkwawa's grandfather was "probably the biggest gathering ever to take place in Tanganyika"?