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From: "gram3" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Excerpt Of History
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:54:32 -0400
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You sure do find some doozies......


> ========Original Message========
> Subj: [Q-R] Excerpt Of History
> Date: 9/21/2004 3:31:40 PM Pacific Standard Time
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> Royal Pains...............
>
> "The Christmas carol about Good King Wenceslas wasn't to accurate.
> The real Wenceslas was King of Bohemia and the Holy Roman Emperor in the
> latter part of the 14th century. He was a tyrant who prowled the street
with
> his
> cronies at night, breaking into houses, molesting his female subjects, and
> generally venting his feelings in a riot of cruelty.
> He did love his hunting dogs, though, he even slept with them, over the
> objections of his wife, Johanna. Even after one of the dogs attacked and
> killed her
> while she slept."
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> "There really was a Scottish King named MacBeth, he ruled from 1040-1057.
> But, although little is known about him, there is no evidence that he was
the
>
> henpecked social climber portrayed by Shakespeare. In fact, he was a good
and
>
> strong enough ruler to survive on the throne for 17 years, which is more
than
> 25
> other occupants of that precarious hot spot can claim. Lady MacBeth,
> granddaughter of King Kenneth III, was known in her time as a patron of
the
> church, not
> as the Shakespearean royal bitch."
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> "Richard the Lionhearted is remembered as a righteous hero. But, he was in
> reality an absentee monarch who spent no more than ten months of a ten
year
> reign in England, left the country to the vagaries of his brother John and
> failed
> to produce an heir or even, it is said, consummate his marriage."
>
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all
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