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... that, when
Ghenadie Petrescu
(pictured)
was ousted from his post of
Metropolitan-Primate
,
Romania
experienced protests and riots?
... that the British
destroyer
HMS
Highlander
escorted
Convoy SC 122
through the largest convoy battle of
World War II
in
March 1943
and was unsuccessfully attacked by
U-441
and
U-608
?
... that in 1911, John Gaunt's
second biplane
nearly crashed because a bystander bent the aircraft's
elevator
before a flight?
... that
Themistokli Gërmenji
, an
Albanian nationalist
, received the French
Croix de Guerre
in
November 1917
, but was executed shortly thereafter by a French military court?
... that fish-knives inscribed with Elokeshi's name were sold after
her husband decapitated her with a fish-knife
following her adulterous affair with a Hindu
head-priest
?
... that the
ancient Roman
dancer
Galeria Copiola
reached the age of 104?
... that to escape burning at the 1393
Bal des Ardents
Charles VI of France
huddled under the
gown
of the
Duchesse de Berry
, while a lord leaped into a wine vat?
... that a junior officer on the
USS
Ancon
refused
King George VI
entry to the ship's intelligence centre because no one told him the King "was a
Bigot
"?
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