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- ... that Jacqueline Kennedy did not want to make her clothes the focus of her 1962 goodwill tour of India and Pakistan, but still wore 22 different outfits in the first nine days?
- ... that Indian violin player Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao, a recipient of India's highest award for the performing arts, was once an apprentice to a painter?
- ... that Chicago Radio public address systems were used extensively by the pro-independence Indian National Congress during the British Raj?
- ... that a woman hitchhiked from Indiana to Washington, D.C., to protest the sale of the radio station where she worked?
- ... that Gurdev Singh Gill was the first Canadian physician of Indian descent?
- ... that before becoming a commissioner of Indian affairs, William P. Dole was only known to have encountered Native Americans once in his life?
- ... that the Circle Tower, an Art Deco building in Indianapolis, features ziggurat-like upper floors?
- ... that Anglo-Indian sprinter Kenneth Powell was the first sportsperson from Karnataka to win the Arjuna Award?
- ... that Akbar Bhawan, which houses the South Asian University and offices of India's Ministry of External Affairs, was originally a hotel?
- ... that the name of the Indian city Bangalore could be derived from a Kannada word meaning 'town of boiled beans'?