User:Hans Adler/DYK

Did you know ...

... that "the boy Jones" repeatedly broke into Buckingham Palace in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign?
... that in 1908, accountant William Abner Eddy took a kite aerial photograph of two men who had stolen his ice cream?
... that in 1988, a West German court appointed an ex-notary to represent the interests of the German Reich concerning the Upper Mundat Forest against the Federal Republic of Germany?
... that in 1908, German apothecary Julius Neubronner (pictured) received a patent for his pigeon photographer method of aerial photography?
... that German literary scholar Hans Ernst Schneider had himself declared dead so that he could marry his wife again?
... that the pyramid in the centre of Karlsruhe, Germany, was erected over the vault of the city's founder?
... that in the Finnish card game Ristikontra, a player wins a trick by playing another card of the same rank as the first card in the trick?

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