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unusual facts about Postel


Charles de Broqueville

Charles Marie Pierre Albert, Count de Broqueville (Postel near Mol, 4 December 1860 - Brussels 5 September 1940) was the 20th Prime Minister of Belgium, serving during World War I.


Christian Heinrich Postel

Christian Heinrich Postel (11 October 1658, Freiburg/Elbe - 22 March 1705, Hamburg) was a German jurist, epic poet and opera librettist.

Guillaume Postel

Born in the village of Barenton in Basse-Normandie, Postel made his way to Paris to further his education.

In 1536, when Francis I sought a Franco-Ottoman alliance with the Ottoman Turks, he sent Postel as the official interpreter of the French embassy of Jean de La ForĂȘt to the Turkish sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in Constantinople.

Norman Raeben

His students include Bob Dylan, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Carolyn Schlam, Andrew Gottlieb, Janet Cohn, John Smith, Diana Postel, Lori Lerner and Rosalyn (Roz) Jacobs and the photographer, Larry Herman.

Who Controls the Internet?

Hours after Postel asked eight regional operators for root control over the Internet, he received threats of legal and economic repercussions from federal agent Ira Magaziner.


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