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More useless information:
1. Edward II was put to death on the orders of his wife, Isabella Capet, who ordered a red-hot poker inserted up his back passage. He'd allegedly had an affair with his adviser, Hugh Despenser.
2. Pope Clement V, more well-known for offing the Templars, assasinated the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI by feeding hin a poisoned host.
3. The only two Queens executed by Henry VIII, Anne Bolleyn and Catherine Howard, were first cousins. They were both convicted of adultery.
4. It costs approximately $57 a day- on a fully allocated basis to maintain- an inmate on Florida'a Death Row. Last meal expenditures are limited to $20; and are limited to local goods. Immates on Death Row are provided with black and white television; and are not provided with air.
conditioning.
5. Inmates in Argentina, upon reaching age 70, must- by their Constitution- be released to house arrest.
6. It took the Executioner nine (9) blows of the ax to execute Charles II's son, the Duke of Monmouth.
7. The French crown paid 26 livres a day (about 2 l. 6 s. or $11) to maintain 'prisoners of rank" (such as Sade) in the Bastille before the Revolution. As to other prisoners, the rates were: a Royal, 50 livres; a Marshal of France, 32 livres; a judge, 15 livres; a lawyer, 10 livres; and a villain, 3 livres.
8. When England finally adopted the Gregorian calendar in the 18th-century, people rioted in the streets of London because thet felt that they had been "robbed" of two weeks of their lives.
9. George Washington's plantation at Mount Vernon produced 11,000 gallons of rum a year.
10. Grover Cleveland, only the second bachleor to be elected U.S. president married while in office his 23 year-old former ward, Fanny Cleveland (he was her trustee; and had been her father's executor).
11. It costs $2.76 a day to feed a Florida inmate. |
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