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GNE98AP3 . that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes?

that Sir John Hussey, Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII, was executed for treason? 220
 * 1) ... that Britain's King George IV specifically requested George Haden (pictured) to design and install the new heating system for Windsor Castle in 1826?
 * 2) ... that the Anif declaration, issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on November 12, 1918, ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria?
 * 3) ... that Pope Benedict XVI received George W. Bush in a medieval tower where Pope John Paul II resided temporarily while his papal apartments were being remodeled? 219
 * 4) ... that before Jean Miélot (pictured) created an illuminated manuscript for Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, he produced a "dummy" version, complete with pictures, decorations and text? 219
 * 5) ... that Andreas Frederik Krieger (pictured) was one of the most vocal critics of the morganatic marriage between Frederick VII of Denmark and Louise Rasmussen? 219
 * 6) ... that the Moika Palace, a museum about the murder of Grigori Rasputin (pictured) by Prince [Felix Yusupov]], was also the scene of the homicide?
 * 7) ... that the 5th-century Sassanian Emperor of Iran Yazdegerd I (pictured on coin) was given the epithets of Ramashtras ("the most quiet") as well as Al Khasha ("the harsh")?
 * 8) ... that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations"?
 * 9) ... that Petubastis III led a revolt in Egypt against Persian rule in circa 522 BCE?
 * 10) ... that Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I commissioned the Triumphal Arch (pictured), a monumental woodcut print over 3½ m (11½ ft) tall and nearly 3 m (10 ft) wide printed from 192 separate wood blocks?
 * 11) ... that makers of Chantilly lace were guillotined during the French Revolution because they were seen as protégés of the royals?
 * 12) ... that the military prowess of the Tulunid dynasty of Arab Egypt was due to its multi-ethnic army composed of Turkish, Sudanese, and Greek soldiers?
 * 13) ... that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung], a [[Jesuit convert from Nanking, arrived at the court of King James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain?
 * 14) ... that Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely (pictured) was one of Queen Victoria's closest ladies-in-waiting for nearly forty years?
 * 15) ... that [Frederick II of Prussia]] was elated by the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth'?
 * 16) ... that Kiev Governorate was one of the first eight governorates of the Russian Empire?
 * 17) ...that Sheesh Mahal (Palace of Mirrors) in Lahore Fort was originally decorated with frescoes that were later replaced with pietra dura and convex glass and mirror mosaic?
 * 18) ...that modern historians still debate on whether or not the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) of China had sovereignty over Tibet?

Para on new evidence re. PT
Papers released in 2004 indicate that, had she married Townsend, Margaret could not have been legally deprived of her title or her Civil List allowance. Had she decided to marry Townsend, the only conditions would have been that she be removed from the line of succession and that any wedding would have to be civil rather than religious.

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