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 * ... that Shō Tai (pictured) was the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom who abdicated when the Ryukyu Islands were annexed by Japan in 1879?
 * ... that the ferry Nobska of Nantucket Sound was America's last coastal steamer?
 * ... that George Hammond Whalley, a British Member of Parliament, once claimed that the Pope had taken control of the Royal Artillery?
 * ... that some cypress trees in Louisiana's Lake Bruin State Park predate Hernando de Soto's explorations of the area?

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