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 * ... that the Spanish–American War-era Fort Terry on Plum Island (pictured) was used as a U.S. biological weapons research facility from 1952 to 1969?
 * ...that Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896, & later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation?
 * ... that from 1962 to 1973, the Deseret Test Center in Fort Douglas, Utah, oversaw 46 tests using simulants and live biological and chemical agents?

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