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 * ...that the totem pole (pictured) which welcomes visitors to the British Museum was documented for the museum by Rev. John Henry Keen years before it was purchased?
 * ...that Missouri French is a nearly extinct dialect of French that developed in what is now the midwestern United States during the colonial period?
 * ...that Hindi, Bengali, and Portuguese were all proposed as official languages of the United Nations?
 * ...that the Vedda language is a Creole based on Sinhalese of Sri Lanka  instead of a dialect?

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 * 1) Recent additions/2010/November, Dated archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent additions/2010/September, Dated archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent additions/2010/February, Dated archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 4) Recent additions/2010/March, Dated archive of Main Page appearance.