President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stands erect and unsmiling, sports a helmet of implausibly jet-black hair and wears a long dress-coat, studded with medals.
High-rankers in this clan love to don military trappings, such as medals, eagle-wing or axe cap-badges, binoculars, monocles, and bandoliers festooned with grenades.
Ted's pipe and tobacco, his cigarettes, including Army-issued red Hussars, a locket with pictures of himself and his sweetheart, and the service medals he never lived to receive.
You might remember in the 2018 Olympics how a number of people competed as Olympic Athletes from Russia when they won medals the Olympic flag was raised and the Olympic anthem was played.
Known as the Angel of the Crimea, Nightingale returned to England and received a hero's welcome, a medal from Queen Victoria and a gift of 250,000 dollars.