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 * ... that the architecture of the Singapore Power Building (pictured) was influenced by Gerhad M. Kallmann's Boston City Hall and Le Corbusier's Sainte Marie de La Tourette?


 * ... that Liang Wern Fook, a pioneer of Singapore's xinyao movement, has composed over 200 songs?


 * ... that Singaporean citizenship was first granted in 1957 when Singapore was a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom?


 * ... that the first Director of Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department, Glenn Knight, was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for corruption?


 * ... that Dragon's Teeth Gate, an ancient navigational landmark, was documented in one of the earliest historic records of Singapore?

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