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Shorty Gallagher

... that there was a decades-long search for a photograph of Shorty Gallagher (pictured)?
... that, by establishing diplomatic missions like an embassy in Fiji, the Philippine government hopes to play a bigger role in international politics?
... that the head of one piano department called Lucie Stern "the rarest talent of any child I ever heard"?
... that a carnival group in Brazil plays songs by the Beatles in carnival march rhythms?
... that Francisco Batista, the brother of ousted president Fulgencio Batista, fled to the Palm Beach Biltmore immediately after the Cuban Revolution and stated "We'll be back after the trouble is over"?
... that a review of Chronicles from the Siege called it "a meditation on the endurance and fragmentation of Palestinian life under siege"?
... that the Shaker leader Rebecca Landon said in 1842 that she experienced a vision that warned that the United States would face divine judgment for practicing slavery?
... that a 2018 data breach at British Airways was traced to just 22 lines of injected JavaScript on its payment pages?
... that in 1988 a young nun was kidnapped from her convent by her own family?