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Named after French naval architect Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lôme (15 October 1816 – 1 February 1885). Not sure if it's this one or a later airship named in honor of Dupuy de Lôme: "The Dupuy de Lôme airship was 36 meters in length, 14.84 meters in diameter, 29 meters wide, and had a total volume of 3,454 cubic meters. It was powered by a 2 horsepower (1.5 kW) engine, providing a speed of between 9 to 11 km/h. The basket under the balloon could carry eight, several operating the balloon and others observing. She was the first operational airship, and was employed during the last days of the Franco-Prussian war."

Russian Grand Duke. He visited NY in 1913. Killed in battle in 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E0DF153BE233A...

No way! It was a rumor! He died in 1933. He fled Russia in 1920 before Bolsheviks entered Crimea. "He and his family, together with his mother-in-law, the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), were rescued from the Crimea by British battleship HMS Marlborough in the quagmire of the 1917 Revolution, and thus they survived" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Alexander_Mikhailovich_o...

"GRAND DUKE NOT DEAD.; Russian Headquarters Also Deny Turkish Official Reports of Victories" -- New York Times, January 13, 1915. The New York Times reported the above four days after they initially reported the article, dated January 9, 1915, linked by Cynthia Wenslow. This photograph appears to be dated April, 1913, and accordingly may have been "in the news" as a result of Michaelovitch's announced 1913 visit to New York.

Correct spelling Molineux. And a bit of a character too, to put it mildly... The New York Times, 7 Sept 1914: ROLAND B. MOLINEUX TERRORIZES VILLAGE; Races Through Babylon, Half Clad, Assaulting Men and Women He Meets. INQUIRY INTO HIS SANITY Patient at Mac Levy's Farm ;- Second Nervous Breakdown Since His Play Was Put On. Roland B. Molineux, who was tried twice for the murder of Mrs. Katherine L. Adams in 1899, and who spent twenty months in the death house at Sing Sing before he was acquitted in 1902, caused a stir in Babylon, L.I., early yesterday morning by escaping from a sanitarium, where he was undergoing treatment for a nervous breakdown, and running through the streets of the village, knocking down every one who crossed his path. No biography on Wikipedia, but this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Molineux

Molineux died in 1917, at age 51, as a patient at the New York State Hospital for the Insane in Kings Park, Long Island.

is he the one who gave churchill a piece of his skin