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Violet Wong

... that ten-year-old Violet Wong (pictured) received a gold watch after performing for General Chiang Kai-shek?
... that Alabama and Clemson played each other in the championship game of the second and third College Football Playoffs?
... that an irreverent photograph of Czechoslovak president Klement Gottwald brought a ten-year sentence for the photojournalist Jindřich Marco, who had to serve seven years in uranium mines?
... that despite having built a cathedral, Bishop Joseph Crétin said that his diocese did not have one?
... that Jerónimo Muñoz's mastery of Hebrew purportedly caused Jews to assert that Muñoz was himself a Jew?
... that an Oregon radio station stayed on the air through a major windstorm even though a tree fell into its studios?
... that Lee Kuan Yew stated that "there would have been no clean and green Singapore without Lee Ek Tieng"?
... that the 1827 novel A Voyage to the Moon contains the first use of anti-gravity for space travel in science fiction?
... that a wardrobe malfunction at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was staged because the host wanted the audience "to wake up a little"?