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Roland L. Bragg

... that the new eponym (pictured) of Fort Bragg stole a German ambulance and drove 20 miles (32 km) under fire to save a wounded soldier during the Battle of the Bulge?
... that a series of agreements at the Upstalsboom in 1323 prohibited bride kidnapping, provided the right to a speedy trial, and created a judicial veto in all Seven Sealands?
... that Time paid Alfred Wertheimer $3,000 to use a picture of Elvis Presley singing to a dog?
... that the political and media storm around so-called African gangs in Australia has been described by academics as a moral panic?
... that Palestinian singer Zeinab Shaath assumed a short film featuring her had been destroyed until a researcher discovered a copy in the archives of the Israel Defense Forces?
... that Our Friends from Frolix 8 could be Philip K. Dick's "most sterile" novel?
... that Jerome Xavier learned Persian to work on the Mir'at al-quds, a biography of Jesus?
... that before playing in the NFL, Rip Owens worked at a steel mill?
... that researchers confirmed that they had discovered toilets at the Archaeological Site in Wanggung-ri by finding a high concentration of parasite eggs there?