Portal:Indianapolis/Did you know.../3
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- ...that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial (pictured), which deteriorated during its building?
- ...that the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis's Military Park can never be sold?
- ...that Jacob Piatt Dunn in 1886 wrote the first scholarly history concerning the Indian Wars?
- ...that Indianapolis's Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory in the United States?
- ...that Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
- ...that despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?

