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Albert Tangora
Albert Tangora
  • ... that Albert Tangora (pictured), one of the most successful competitive typewriter speed typists, once had his hands insured for US$100,000?
  • ... that the managing editor of Aujourd'hui was executed by firing squad in 1944?
  • ... that football player Michael Jurgens never lost in 42 high school varsity games?
  • ... that the success of the British band Shiva was cut short by the death of its lead vocalist?
  • ... that the 1972 Finnish film The Sheep Eaters gathered more than a million viewers opposite the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championships match between Finland and the Soviet Union?
  • ... that according to second-century AD Greek rhetorician Athenaeus, the Phoenicians played a flute-like instrument called the gingras in their mourning rituals?
  • ... that 55 Broad Street, a skyscraper in the Financial District of Manhattan, was called "an unlovable building in an unlivable neighborhood"?
  • ... that when Sithu Pauk Hla was appointed the governor of Yamethin, he was also given command of a 50-strong company of war elephants?


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