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From: "Augie August" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Today In History Sept 23
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:07:53 -0500
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THANK YOU...GOSH IT'S NO WONDER I HAVE A HEADACHE TODAY! LOVE, MOI


> Sept 23, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICE "SWAMP QUEEN" CHAUVIN
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"Count Henri de Chalais was in a French prison in 1626 for plotting a royal
assassination. His relatives kidnapped the regular headsman, thereby earning
their cousin a stay of execution. Unfortunately for the Count, a fellow
prisoner
volunteered to wield the ax. The prisoner was so clumsy that thirty-four
blows were required to lop off poor Henri's head."
(thirty three I can understand, but thirty four is just uncalled
for..........LOL)
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"After the Duke of Monmouth was rather sloppily beheaded ( five swings of
the
ax) in 1685, it came to light that no portrait of this illegitimate son of
King Charles II existed. No problem. The Duke and his head were disinterred,
and
the head was sewn back onto the body, and an unidentified artist completed
the postmortem portrait posthaste."
( with the head back in place, he probably ruled again for a few years and
no
one knew the difference )
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