A mule named Boston Curtis was elected Republican committee man from Milton, Washington in 1938. The gate of Traquair Castle in Scotland was slammed shut in 1745 and has never been opened since. Its owner, an ardent believer in the cause of Bonnie Prince Charlie of the Stuarts, ordered the gates closed through the quays into the nearby Tweed River and vowed the gate would only be opened when a Stuart ruled Great Britain. But the Stuarts lost, and the gates remain closed, a symbol of a lost cause. Believe It or Not!
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