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...that the U.S. Army managed Yellowstone National Park for 30 years from Fort Yellowstone?
...that Iowa's Black Hawk Purchase is named for the Sac chief Black Hawk, despite the fact that he was a prisoner of war when the land-transfer treaty was signed?
...that the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 was seen as formally demonstrating Australia's independence to the world?
...that the Panjdeh Incident in 1886 almost led to full-scale war between the British Empire and Imperial Russia over their competing interests in Afghanistan?
...that Roman embassies to China are reported in Chinese historical accounts from as early as 166?
...that in the history of neurology, Ancient Egyptians described the effect of high transection of the spinal cord in humans?
...that being sacrificed was an honor, not a punishment in some societies?