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| * ... that ''']''' lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801? | * ... that ''']''' lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801? | ||
| * ... that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax "''']'''" to prosper outside of the EU? | * ... that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax "''']'''" to prosper outside of the EU? | ||
| * ... that ] captain ''']'''{{`s}} |
* ... that ] captain ''']'''{{`s}} great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago? | ||
| * ... that ] references ], a former basketball player with the ], in the lyrics for "''']'''"? | * ... that ] references ], a former basketball player with the ], in the lyrics for "''']'''"? | ||
| * ... that despite the ''']''', a shortage of vaccines caused several member states to obtain their own supplies ] and China? | * ... that despite the ''']''', a shortage of vaccines caused several member states to obtain their own supplies ] and China? | ||
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David Abner Jr.
- ... that Guadalupe College president David Abner Jr. (pictured) declined lucrative positions at northern U.S. colleges so that he could continue "conducting a school for the colored youths of the south"?
- ... that Robert Fancourt lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801?
- ... that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax "Singapore-on-Thames" to prosper outside of the EU?
- ... that Port Vale F.C. captain Tom Conlon's great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago?
- ... that Pop Smoke references Manu Ginóbili, a former basketball player with the San Antonio Spurs, in the lyrics for "Hello"?
- ... that despite the European Commission organising COVID-19 vaccine supplies for the whole bloc, a shortage of vaccines caused several member states to obtain their own supplies from Russia and China?
- ... that Joseph Taylor Goodsir accused Rudolph Virchow, "the father of modern pathology", of plagiarism?
- ... that Robert Webb planned his first book to be about Top Gear and other topics of lad culture before it became How Not to Be a Boy, a memoir about masculinity?