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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 * Apothecaries' system
 * Pigeon photography