In article <Xns9A3697EBBB260BoyFlyingHighcom@140.99.99.130>,
WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com> wrote:
> The Peersian Empire reached its greatest extent under Darius I, who
> seized the throne in 522 BC. It stretched about 4000km (2500 miles) from
> the River Indus in resent-day Pakistan to what is now Benghazi in Libya
> in the west, and from the Arabian Sea in the south to the Caucasus and
> Macedonia in the north. This, the first of the so-called "World Empires"
> covered about 5,000,000 square Km (almost 2,000,000 square miles) and had
> a population of 10,000,000.
>
> The Persian Kings had many wives, and even more concubines, kept in a
> harem guarded by eunuchs. After Cyrus subdued Babylonia in 539 bc the
> province had to supply already castrated boys each year to learn their
> trade as eunuchs.
> Probably none of the kings had more wives and concubines than Xerxes I,
> who reigned from 486 to 465 BC and who appears as the amorous King
> Ahasuerus (The Hebrew version of his name) in the Old Testament book of
> Esther. It was said that his harem had as many women in it as there were
> days in the year.
>
> The wearing of bikinis goes back at least to Roman times. Girls wearing
> similar two-piece costumes are portrayed on a Roman mosaic which was
> found in the ruins of a villa near Piazza Armerina in Sicily. The fashion
> spread as far north as Britain. A leather bikini, made by the Romans in
> the late 1st century AD was found in a well in London.
>
> Amazonian Indians invented rubber boots many centuries before the Duke of
> Wellington was born. They dipped their feet and legs in latex, the raw
> liquid of the rubber tree. The latex formed a tough extra skin, or boot,
> that prote4cted them from insect bites and thorns.
>
> Augustus the Strong, the Elecator of Sacony who was elected King of
> Poland in 1697, is believed to have fathered more than 300 children.
> Nevertheless when he died, there was no difficulty about choosing his
> successor, as only one of his sons was legitimate.
>
> King Mithridates VI of Pontus in Asia Minor made himself so immune to
> poison that he was unable to poison himself when he wanted to.
> The King spent his life taking small doses of poison in order to build up
> a resistance to it because he was frightened of being assassinated.
> He was so successful that, when he tried to commit suicide in 63 BC in
> order to avoid his imminent capture by the Romans, the poison he took had
> no effect. In the end he gave up and ordered a slave to kill him with a
> sword.
>
> There now, are you not glad you read that lot LOL.
>
Nope.
> Mercury.
>
Donut ;-)
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"Donut make your brown eyes blue..."
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