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J. J. Walser Jr. House

... that Chicago's deteriorating J. J. Walser Jr. House (pictured) has not been repaired because it is unclear who owns the house?
... that the lifeboat Sir William Hillary was sent to Dover in case of aircraft crashes, but did not save anyone from an aircraft in ten years' service with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution?
... that Martha Burgess's 1993 sculpture of two female World War II personnel kissing was inspired by the photograph V-J Day in Times Square?
... that on the first day of the 1995 São Tomé and Príncipe coup d'état, President Miguel Trovoada emerged from hiding in his pajamas and nightgown?
... that Marcia Coyle, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for PBS News Hour, got her start in journalism by writing obituaries?
... that Dutch East India Company officials considered the inhabitants of the Bungku Kingdom to be "the fiercest of all Malukan peoples"?
... that Ardo Hansson was appointed to the committee overseeing the transition from the Soviet ruble to the Estonian kroon as a replacement for someone who fell ill?
... that Keurbos's placement within arthropods is uncertain, as its two surviving fossils lack limbs?
... that Green Thumb Industries produces cannabis on lands of a former prison?