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... that, six years after shocking the public with his primitivist paintings in 1910, Ion Theodorescu-Sion (self portrait pictured) was employed to depict the Romanian Armed Forces in action?
... that Yan Gomes is the first Brazilian-born player to appear in Major League Baseball?
... that German anarchist Johannes Holzmann edited twenty-five issues of the journal Der Kampf, but eleven of them were banned?
... that Duke Zhuang II of Qi ascended the throne with the help of minister Cui Zhu, but was later killed by Cui for having an affair with his wife?
... that Yaakov Yosef Herman manufactured and sold kosher wine out of his home throughout the Prohibition era with the approval of a New York City judge?
... that Shirley Reilly, winner of the women's wheelchair race at the 2012 Boston Marathon, has Inupiat heritage?
... that Herbert Olivecrona brought neurosurgery to Sweden and later became the namesake of the so-called "Nobel Prize of Neurosurgery"?

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