Interesting facts about kings

Interesting facts about kings

1. Abdul Kassim Ismail – the Grand vizier of Persia (X century) has always been close with my library. If he went, the library followed him. 117 thousand book volumes transported on camels. And books (i.e. the camel) are in alphabetical order.

2. The ruler of Babylon there was an interesting ceremony of the annual "re-election". For this he came to the temple of Marduk, the main Babylonian deity, and gave a speech, in which he argued that not done in his reign nothing wrong. He was on his knees, and the chief priest tore his regalia, slapped his cheeks and pulled his ears. After some other ceremonies the ruler was considered to have passed the test and continued to reign.

3. Following the old tradition of French monarchs, the "King-Sun" Louis XIV every year on Maundy Thursday washed the feet of 12 poor, they would wipe them and kissed. However, poor pre-was carefully selected by court doctors.

4. When the king of France felt himself dying, his mistress (or mistresses) sent from the court of the monarch was to stand before God clean of sin. If the king had recovered, mistress came back.

5. Interesting prescriptions of Attila obtained in case of his death. His grave was to remain unknown. His tomb consisted of three nested into each metal, gold and silver boxes. The burial occurred in a remote area, unmarked, and then slew all participating...

6. The great Hannibal died by taking poison, when he learned that the Romans came to kill him. This behavior did not surprise anyone, since over time the suicide was the first resort from public shame.

7. However, the poison was a means of execution. Voluntarily take the poison made the famous philosopher Socrates, who was unjustly accused of treason.

8. Pliny the Elder believed that if you extract the two small worms from the body of a spider of a certain type, put them in a piece of deerskin and touch of a woman's body before sunrise, she's not going to happen conception. Other writers believed that if a woman spit three times in the frog's mouth she would not conceive within a year.

9. This tool is very useful to Cleopatra, who married her own brother – Ptolemy.

10. But from anxiety on this occasion was spared the Roman Emperor Nero. He married man – one of his slaves named Skorus.