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"textContent": "A Green Party councillor in Cork wants the Irish city to honor the mosquito blamed for killing Oliver Cromwell, the English Lord Protector whose conquest of Ireland made him a reviled figure there. Oliver Moran tabled the motion at a Cork City Council meeting on May 12, proposing what he describes as the world's smallest public statue, to be mounted on an empty plinth outside City Hall. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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