Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Bell, Gertrude

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Merrick began to develop swellings on his lips at the age of 21 months followed by a bony lump on his forehead and a loosening and roughening of the skin. The Merrick family explained his symptoms as the result of his mother Mary Jane Potterton being knocked over and frightened by a fairground elephant while she was pregnant with Joseph.
(5 August 1860)

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		Writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell aka The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq 14 July 1868 (+) is born in Washington, United Kingdom. 12 July 1926 (-) commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping pills in Baġdād, Iraq.
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