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Fatimid gold dinar of al-Mu'izz, Palestine 969/70

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... that Paris was the first county seat of Linn County, Kansas, but hardly a ruin is left to tell where it once was?
... that Américo Ramos became Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe after his predecessor, Ilza Amado Vaz, resigned following a tenure of three days?
... that a million tulips at the 1939 New York World's Fair were destroyed and replaced the month after the fair began?
... that there are more than 100 rock paintings of Aboriginal pictographs on a cliff face in Missinaibi Lake?
... that the Deval Mosque was formerly a Hindu temple?
... that Andrei Demurenko, the first Russian officer to be a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, served alongside the Wagner Group in Ukraine?
... that the Stride bus network will launch with electric double-deckers that charge wirelessly?
... that a Taiwanese livestreamer accidentally solved a missing persons case?

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