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 * ...that pioneering aeroplane pilot and racing driver Henri Rougier won the inaugural Monte Carlo Rally in his Turcat-Méry car (pictured)?
 * ...that Farewell, My Queen, a 2012 film adapted from the Chantal Thomas novel, opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival?
 * ...that after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois, surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?

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 * 1) Recent_additions/2010/January, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 2) Recent_additions/2012/July, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
 * 3) Recent_additions/2007/May, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.