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Ibrahim Adil Shah II Hawking

... that an inscription on the painting Ibrahim Adil Shah II Hawking (pictured) identifies its subject as an emperor, even though he was not?
... that Japanese singer Cindy was once said to have an "angel voice"?
... that Ronald Reagan's friends thought that his official White House portrait did not look like him?
... that Kwek Leng Joo co-created an exhibition combining modern photography and traditional Chinese painting?
... that the library of the Institut Français d'Archéologie de Beyrouth contained about 24,000 volumes by 1970?
... that one scholar regards an Old Irish oath as a scholarly Christian invention, but another sees it as the descendant of a proto-Indo-European oath?
... that Evan Honer was told by American Idol judge Luke Bryan to "stick to diving"?
... that by the First Treaty of London England was to gain a quarter of France?
... that Wayne Davenport, in a six-year span, went from playing college football to coaching football, returning to college, playing in the NFL, returning to coaching and then back to college football?