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• ...that the gates (pictured) of Warrington Town Hall, Cheshire, erected in 1895, had been shown at the 1862 International Exhibition in London?

• ...that Reuben Gaylord, the recognized leader of missionary pioneers in Omaha City, Nebraska Territory, has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska"?

• ...that many gift books, decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as Dickens, Wordsworth, Hawthorne and Poe?

• ...that Poughkeepsie's Market Street Row includes one of the oldest houses in the city?

• ...that the southern terminus of the first suburb to suburb commuter rail in the United States is Wilsonville Station in Oregon?

• ...that Richard Devlin, the majority leader of the Oregon State Senate, has faced Republican Bob Tiernan three times, in races for two offices?

• ...that despite being dominated by the military elite, the Guatemalan Institutional Democratic Party was ousted from power in 1978 by a military opposition?

• ...that film director Brett Simon taught film history, film theory and video production at the University of California, Berkeley while completing two degrees there?

• ...that the Nez Perce thought they themselves gave nice gifts, but that the Lewis and Clark Expedition gave "cheap" gifts, upon meeting in the Weippe Prairie in 1805?