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• ...that in January 1859, over 30,000 people gathered on Dealul Mitropoliei in Bucharest in support of Alexander John Cuza (pictured) in his election to become the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia?
• ...that Singapore’s Fort Tanjong Katong, one of the oldest military forts built by the British colonial government, never saw combat action and was nicknamed the "Wash-out Fort"?
• ..that Heuneburg, an early Celtic settlement by the upper Danube, was already fortified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle Bronze Age (15th to 12th century BC)?

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1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/October, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/October, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/October, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.