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  • ... that Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a constitutional amendment granting voting rights only to men?
  • ... that when Henry McCardie was a barrister, he often worked so late that his chambers were nicknamed "the lighthouse", as there was light coming from the windows?
  • ... that the diaries of James Humphreys, the "Emperor of Porn", were used to convict 13 policemen of accepting his bribes?

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  1. Template:Did you know nominations/Aletta Jacobs (September 2019)
  2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/July
  3. Template:Did you know nominations/Elsa Kelly (August 2016)
  4. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/January
  5. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/February
  6. Template:Did you know nominations/James Humphreys (pornographer) (November 2019)
  7. Template:Did you know nominations/Organ donation in India, June, 2020