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West gate of the Vizianagaram fort
- ... that the 18th-century Vizianagaram fort's Rajasthani style western gate (pictured) was traditionally used for removing dead bodies from the fort?
- ... that Mārtiņš Nukša, an architect and a diplomat, was sentenced to death and killed during the Soviet occupation of Latvia?
- ... that the fossil ant Camelomecia has distinct cup shaped mandibles?
- ... that Richard Strauss composed Die Tageszeiten, setting poems about four times of the day, for the men's chorus that serenaded him for his 60th birthday?
- ... that the success of Elizabeth Aston's first published novel, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, encouraged the publisher to release more stories adapted from the works of Jane Austen?
- ... that when it was built in 1846, Llandinam Bridge became the first cast-iron bridge in the historic Welsh county of Montgomeryshire?
- ... that Ieremia Cecan, a regional leader of the Romanian Nazi Party, campaigned for the unification of the Orthodox and Catholic churches?
- ... that in "Twenty Years a Dream", Pu Songling refers to a woman's breasts as "lotus kernels"?
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