Exceptional Epithets
Over the course of history, some of those who have ruled across the world have had some unlikely and indeed …
Category Archives: Short Yet Curious Tales and Facts
So he had to vaseline his skull like crazy
The List of Famous Hats – James Tate (1943 – 2015) Napoleon’s hat is an obvious choice I guess to …
Get Shorty.
Napoleon Bonepart was once defeated, and then retreated, from the field, after being overwhelmed by rabbits. He had gone-a-hunting them …
Toot sweet titillation of tingling tootsies.
In the Muscovite palaces and courts for centuries the tickling of feet was a tradition long used to arouse a …
More Basil? No, no thank you.
In 1014 the Byzantine emperor Basil was ready to launch a campaign aimed at destroying Bulgarian resistance. On 29 July …
Tickled Then Pickled
Peter the Great executed his wife’s lover, and forced her to keep her lover’s head in a jar of alcohol …
The Tortoise of Tragedy
Legend has it that the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed by a falling tortoise.* *courtesy of – http://interestingliterature.com
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