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Hooks

Francis L. Sampson

• ... that German soldiers did not believe that Francis L. Sampson (pictured) was a non-combatant after his capture during the D-Day landings, because they had never seen a paratrooper chaplain before?
• ... that the hips of some 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty?
• ... that the myth of Shunten, the legendary first king of Chūzan, was used to justify the 1872 annexation of Okinawa?
• ... that two best-seller lists initially classified The Children's Book of Virtues as non-fiction, but later moved it to their fiction charts?
• ... that Bahamian basketball player Waltiea Rolle moved to the United States at the age of 13 after being noticed while walking home from school?
• ... that the U.S. Air Force considered a bomber version of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22?
• ... that a new soccer team in Boise, Idaho, plans to play at a converted horse racing track?
• ... that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as "Quintus"?
• ... that a medieval town in Poland disappeared?