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 * ...that Signor Brocolini (pictured), the original Pirate King in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, took his stage name in honor of Brooklyn, where he grew up?
 * ... that the Royal Opera House in Mumbai is India's only surviving opera house?
 * ... that in the John Gay version of Achilles, the hero is introduced as a cross-dresser?

Source

 * 1) 25 March 2008
 * 2) 14 July 2009
 * 3) 22 July 2017