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Constitution Defense Monument

... that the Constitution Defense Monument in Bangkok (pictured c. 1939) disappeared overnight in 2018 without any official explanation?
... that Thomas Kerr protested the Iraq War with his SNP-supporting aunt, later campaigned for Labour, joined the Conservatives, and defected to Reform UK?
... that James Joyce's "untranslatable" novel Ulysses was translated into at least 43 languages?
... that in 2023, Chinese Coast Guardsman Wang Xiaolong was officially declared a Martyr?
... that a 2022 issue of Civilization was designed to be horrible, unlikable and partly AI-generated?
... that the memoir of Saudi poet Huda al-Daghfaq has been described as an expression of her "existential battle"?
... that technical geography, which studies the application of computer cartography and remote sensing, has origins in Greco-Roman and medieval Islamic cartography?
... that Jakarta deputy governor Eddie Marzuki Nalapraya used to babysit future member of parliament Rhoma Irama?
... that the TV show Ancient Aliens speculated that the CIA caused Hillary Clinton to lose the 2016 U.S. presidential election in order to foil UFO disclosure?