Amusing stories from history

[discovery1]

I was wondering if any one knew of any amusing stories from history. If so, please be kind enough to post them.

I'll start. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was being held in secret. Now after it met each day Ben Franklin would go down to the pub and have a couple.....bottles of wine. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/barrel.gif He would then proceed to tell all about what happened that day. Well, there wasn't much the others could do except tell him that's a secret and he shouldn't tell everyone and then buy him another bottle so that he would pass out. So, any one else what to share amusing history lessons?

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[spmetla]

Well I've always love the career of Emperor Fredrich II. Especially when he was excommunicated and the decided to go crusading to redeem himself and be excommunicated a second time for crusading while excommunicated then going to Palestine and without fighting a single battle negotiating the handover of Jerusalem from the Saracens and then organizing a 10 year cease fire/alliance as well so as to secure Jerusalem. And even further he let the Muslims keep their Mosques in Jerusalem and to continue to worship while he made jokes about Christians.

His other exploits, tales, and experiments along with this one make him my favorite monarch of the mediveal era.

[Accounting Troll]

I rather like what Suetoneus had to say about the Emperor Caligula, especially how he was so sensitive about his bald patch that he executed anybody who mentioned goats in any context whatsoever.

His military campaigns are even better. Instead of actually fighting the German tribes, he got a load of people of Germanic appearance to learn the lanuages and customs of the German tribes, and he then told everybody back in Rome that these actors ewere in fact POWs. He also decided to invade Britain, but instead of crossing the Channel, he got his men to gather shells from the sea shore which he claimed symbolised his victory over Neptune.