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Annie soon became known throughout the region as a shotgun sharpshooter. (...)Traveling show marksman and former dog trainer Francis "Frank" E. Butler, an Irish immigrant (1850-1926), placed a $100 bet per side ($2,000 per side, adjusted for inflation) with Cincinnati hotel owner Jack Frost, that Frank, age 31, could beat any local fancy shooter. The hotelier arranged a shooting match with Annie, age 21, to be held in ten days in a small town near Greenville, Ohio. (...). After missing his 25th shot, Frank lost the match and the bet — a serendipitous irony that led him to become a well-known winner in backstage life. Frank began courting Annie, and they married on June 20, 1882.
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In Europe, she performed before Queen Victoria and other crowned heads of state. Oakley had such good aim that, at his request, she knocked the ashes off a cigarette held by the Prince of Prussia, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II. (...) "Some uncharitable people later ventured that if Annie would have shot Wilhelm and not his cigarette, she could have prevented World War I."
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[ Bericht 3% gewijzigd door Gellius op 08-05-2008 16:01:02 ]