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| Madhavan Nair & Anor. v. Public Prosecutor held that the Constitution of Malaysia allows the Royal Malaysian Police to impose prior restraint when granting licences to speak in public. |
| Money No Enough, which earned over S$5.8 million, is Singapore's highest-grossing film to date. |
| Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny enrolled his entire Cossack army as students to prevent a Kievan school's conversion to a Jesuit Collegium. |
| The 1952 attack on the Sui-ho Dam knocked out electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War. |
| Owing to its early dominance as a building style, Canadian Gothic Revival (example pictured) has been promoted as part of Canadian nationalism. |
| New Zealand historian John Dunmore published a cookbook composed from 18th-century ship's logs, including recipes for stewed rat and albatross. |
| Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is often cited as the longest place name in the United States. |
| Tantiusques, a graphite mine which John Winthrop the Younger purchased from the Nipmuck tribes in 1644, became the basis for today's Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company. |
| C. C. Too, a leading exponent of psychological warfare in Malaysia, crafted a campaign to turn public opinion against the communists during the Malayan Emergency. |
| When John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened the first secular girls' school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages. |
| The canoe livery business is an important segment of the recreational goods rental industry. |
| Italy mafioso Antonino Calderone (pictured) was the first pentito to provide details on Mafia operations in Catania. |
| Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was regarded as the "leading Hindu reformer of western India". |
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