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2001-05-01

Annie Oakley and the Kaiser

In the late 'teens Annie Oakley maintained that she could have prevented World War I. Years earlier she'd been touring in Germany and at one of her shows the not-yet-Kaiser Wilhelm insisted she shoot a cigarette he was smoking. She felt that if she'd missed, just that once, the War might not have happened. Who knows? Perhaps she was right.

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What was her contribution to man kind

2004-03-28 19:42 | Molly

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