On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:57:24 GMT, 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.
>
>Mercury.
If you say so....
after all you were an eye witness.
lol,
darkshadows
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