• Indian nobleman Anup Rai was known as "Singh Dalan" (Lion Crusher) because he stopped a lion from attacking Mughal emperor Jahangir during a royal hunt?

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• Frederik Due in 1841 became the first non-noble prime minister of Norway?
• Vaidila, depicted in the Lithuanian Chronicles as a kitchen assistant who entered nobility only through marriage, was the only Lithuanian duke known to marry a daughter of a Gediminid ruler?
• in the 19th century the Wörthersee became an exclusive summer retreat for Vienna's nobility?
• the medieval Horne Church (pictured) in Denmark has box seating for the nobility that was used by the family of astronomer Tycho Brahe?
• the noble house of Ibelin was the primary beneficiary of the War of the Lombards, a civil war in the Kingdom of Jerusalem?