There is a statue in the form of a lioness without a tongue, which was erected to Leona, the Athenian courtesan. To prevent herself from revealing a conspiracy, she bit off her own tongue. During World War I, Lieutenant Makepeace, a Canadian flying officer, and Captain Headley, an observer, were in their plane when they were attacked over German lines. In the running fight that ensued, the plane made a sudden vertical dive. Headley was dislodged from the plane. He fell several hundred feet in a direct line with the plane, but luck certainly was with him, for he alighted on the tail of the same plane, and clinging there, he was brought down to safety. Believe It or Not!
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