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Chong Wa Benevolent Association Building

... that Wing Sam Chinn combined Chinese and Beaux-Arts architecture in his design for a building in Seattle (pictured)?
... that the Labour Party of Turkey was banned by the Constitutional Court in 1980 due to its support for the use of the Kurdish language in schools?
... that Michael Sugrue became an "internet phenomenon" during the COVID-19 pandemic for his lectures on YouTube, recorded in 1992, that covered "the last 3,000 years of Western intellectual history"?
... that Ready Set Learn! was TLC's answer to the PBS children's lineup?
... that Shawn Mendes's song "Nobody Knows" was recorded in one take on a "tough night"?
... that in 2018 thieves stole 40 percent of the cocoa produced by the São Toméan Organic Cocoa Production and Export Cooperative?
... that Matthew Webb died attempting to swim down the Niagara Rapids?
... that Mobtown Ballroom and Café enlisted volunteers to build its sprung wood floor by hand – twice?
... that an attempt to portray Abbess Hathumoda as a Christian saint after her death failed because everyone knew that she could be quite petulant?