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Did Adolf Hitler offer to make Dhyan Chand a Field Marshal in the German army?
It is a tenet of Indian sporting folklore that Hitler personally met Dhyan Chand and offered him an officer’s commission in the Wehrmacht if he would play for Germany. This story is almost certainly ...
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Were postal pneumatic tubes in Berlin (Rohrpost) cleared with wine?
Landrath, "Die Rohrpost-Anlage in Berlin und Charlottenburg." Archiv für Post und Telegraphie , Vol. 16, No. 12, Jun. 1888, pp. 354-369 describes, among other items, the initial version of ...
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Were postal pneumatic tubes in Berlin (Rohrpost) cleared with wine?
Annual report of the Postmaster General, 1891 is as close to a primary source as I could find:
In working the line of Berlin tubes a number of defects became apparent in course of time, caused partly ...
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