A playing card decorated with an original miniature painted by the artist Hans Holbein was sold at a London auction for more than $13,000. Sir Walter Parratt, the organ virtuoso, made his debut at the age of seven and was the organist of St. George's Chapel in Windsor, England for 42 years. He was a musician of tremendous concentration. In 1862, for example, when he was just 21 years old, he gave a concert of the masters blindfolded and at the same time played two games of chess behind his back and won both games. Believe It or Not!
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