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- the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency supported the Chushi Gangdruk guerilla fighters in their attempts to overthrow the Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s?
- the Cryolophosaurus is informally known as the Elvisaurus because the bizarre crest running across its head resembles Elvis Presley's 1950s pompadour haircut?
- the Lagonda Straight-6 engine that vaulted Aston Martin to fame in the 1950s was designed by Walter Owen Bentley, who also created the Bentley automobile?
- the original site of the Heide Museum of Modern Art was an "idyllic refuge of inspiration" for many Australian artists during the 1930s through 1950s?
- the historian William Y. Thompson during the 1950s researched the origins of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the American Red Cross?
- the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films, as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical, Where's Charley?
- Romany Marie's café was a bohemian hangout in Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists, visionaries, and other intellectuals from the 1910s through the 1950s?
- The New 7th Storey Hotel, a budget hotel catering to backpackers in Singapore, is actually nine storeys high and was the tallest building in the Beach Road area in the 1950s?
- in the 1950s and 1960s, some residents of mid-rise apartment buildings would sleep outside on their fire escapes during hot summers?
- in the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine?
- Oscar M. Laurel, a south Texas Mexican-American Democratic state representative known for his flamboyant oratory, opposed a late 1950s bill that would have declared cactus peyote an "unlawful dangerous substance"?
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