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... that when Bulgarian politician Rayko Daskalov (pictured) was released from prison in 1918 with the task of stopping a soldiers' uprising, he went on to take charge of the rebellion instead?
... that Swiss -born U.S. soldier Rudolph Stauffer was one of 22 Medal of Honor winners from Lieutenant Colonel George Crook 's 1872–73 "winter campaign" against renegade Apaches in the Arizona Territory ?
... that Pulitzer Prize -winning photographer William M. Gallagher once commandeered a police helicopter to cover a story?
... that N. D. Cocea ' s republican activism in the Kingdom of Romania involved fabricating rumors about a peasant revolt , supporting Soviet Russia , and being tried for lèse majesté ?
... that the state of Maryland labeled Dominican nun Carol Gilbert as a terrorist?
... that Niqmepa was installed as King of Ugarit , an ancient city-state in northwest Syria , by Hittite king Mursili II , who had forced his brother, Arhalba, to abdicate?
... that with over 40,000 citations in scientific literature, Polish-American polymer chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is one of the most cited chemists in the world?