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* ... that the Saybrook Colony was sold to Connecticut for an annual payment of 180 pounds of equal quantities of wheat, peas, and either rye or barley?
* ... that the '''[[Saybrook Colony]]''' was sold to Connecticut for an annual payment of 180 pounds of equal quantities of wheat, peas, and either rye or barley?
* ... that in 2023, [[Ralph Nader]] founded the newspaper '''''[[Winsted Citizen]]''''' in his hometown of [[Winsted, Connecticut]], where he delivered papers as a boy?
* ... that a Connecticut radio station left the FM band for good after it was out of service for a week and only one person wrote a letter to complain?
* ... that '''[[WTHT (Connecticut)|a Connecticut radio station]]''' left the FM band for good after it was out of service for a week and only one person wrote a letter to complain?
* ... that the directors of the '''[[Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad|Dutchess and Columbia Railroad]]''' stole back the railroad from a bankrupt lessee?
* ... that a variety of the Connecticut field pumpkin is known as "the original commercial jack-o'-lantern pumpkin"?
* ... that a variety of the '''[[Connecticut field pumpkin]]''' is known as "the original commercial jack-o'-lantern pumpkin"?
* ... that '''[[WTIC-TV|a Connecticut TV station]]''' was dedicated to the state's first female governor, [[Ella Grasso]], whose son was a minority owner?
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This museum just opened. It is very high profile and should be part of the current news, and linked from somewhere in the port. I just created Connecticut Science Center. Anybody who wants to help complete that article is welcome to join in. JehochmanTalk21:01, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Overhauled portal with modernized wiki markup using transclusion from articles to display content, which provides readers with current, up-to-date information.
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The following articles are presently being displayed in the portal using transclusion from articles. Consensus at VPP has approved using transclusion templates in portals, which provides users with up-to-date content that is verbatim to that in articles. North America100018:05, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]