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2 unusual facts about Don Pacifico affair and case


Don Pacifico affair and case

John Arthur Roebuck led the House of Commons to reverse this condemnation, which it did on June 29 by a majority of 46.

Mayer de Rothschild was visiting Athens, during the Greek Orthodox Easter, to discuss a possible loan, and the government, in order to coax him, decided to ban the tradition of burning the effigy of Judas, thinking that Rothschild would be offended.



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