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René Vallon

... that René Vallon (pictured) achieved the first aeroplane flight, and was the first aeroplane-related death, in China?
... that the creator of The Americans drew inspiration for the show from his time as a CIA officer and a 2010 Russian spy scandal?
... that Tjeerd van Andel was surprised to find heaps of giant clam shells around hot springs on his first dive to the Pacific ocean floor?
... that art historians believe that Ellen Thesleff's self-portrait may have been drawn in a trance-like state?
... that Charles Herman Allen, university administrator and American Civil War captain, opened the University of Wisconsin to female enrollment in 1863?
... that during World War I the organ of evacuated Polish railway workers in Moscow denounced the trade unions of the Warsaw–Vienna railway as "separatists"?
... that the Mingxing Film Company released more than 150 films in 16 years, but most are now lost?
... that St. Gregory the Great Seminary was founded in a former juvenile mental hospital?
... that Ritsuko Taho once had her students at Harvard University slaughter a chicken and turn its bones into a sculpture?