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Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
- ... that after Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Dietrich von Bothmer convinced his employers to buy the Euphronios Krater (pictured) for $1 million, the Italian government claimed the krater had been looted?
- ... that Alexander Valentine, Chairman of London Transport from 1959 to 1965, published a book Tramping round London?
- ... that when Richard Fort won a seat in the 1950 general election, he became the third person with the same name to represent Clitheroe in the British House of Commons?
- ... that Sir Richard Garth was a barrister, MP, Privy Counsellor and Chief Justice of Bengal as well as Lord of the Manor of Morden?
- ... that the law professor Boudewijn Sirks has written on papyrology, food distribution in ancient Rome, and Sailing in the Off-Season with Reduced Financial Risk?