Portal:Biography/Did you know/16


 * ... that Jean Thurel (pictured) was a soldier in the French Régiment de Touraine for more than 90 years?
 * ... that military historian Lars Borgersrud research includes taboo subjects like the fate of war children and Norwegian military officers with Nazi sympathies prior to and during World War II?
 * ... that the farming of celery was first introduced to the United States by George Taylor in 1856?
 * ... that Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?
 * ... that Thado Dhamma Yaza II, Viceroy of Prome in the 1500s, fought in nearly every military campaign of his brother King Bayinnaung, and helped to expand and defend the Toungoo Empire?
 * ... that Donald S. Nesti clashed with the Tamburitzans as president of Duquesne University?
 * ... that Geoffrey Prime worked for eleven years at GCHQ, and was only discovered to be a Soviet spy after his arrest in 1982 for the indecent assault of young girls?