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Today I thought we’d look at some things you’ve always know, which aren’t true at all (or maybe just a little bit that way)
According to
History Extra News letter she was a real woman and the name was close: Lady Godifu (or Godgyfu which should actually be pronounced Gud-geef-uh) was a real woman and she was married to one of the wealthiest men in Anglo-Saxon England, Earl Leofric of Mercia. They both died around 1066, but the story of her naked ride through Coventry was first recorded by Roger of Wendover in the 1200s which kind of rules out actual eye witness testimony. In fact the original account only stated that Leofric offered to lower taxes on the poor if his wife mounted her horse in the nude, it doesn’t even confirm that if she did even that. But Urban Legend was alive and well even hundreds of years ago as by 1600s, there was not only a naked ride but a man (Peeping Tom)– who leered at her body while the townspeople respectfully shut their eyes.
http://www.historyextra.com/article/sex-and-love/did-lady-godiva-ride-naked-coventryFINGER PRINTS are all different and flawless in identifying people.
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Further no one has really established that no two person’s fingerprints were alike, no studies have been done and there has been found a similarity of traits in fingerprints of family members
SHAKESPEARE WAS GREAT ACTOR AND PLAYWRITE WROTE MANY FAMOUS PLAYS WHICH WE ALL HAD TO DEAL WITH in school.
Depend on who you speak with. First we know there was an actor involved in the theater in London. There is one (yep just) letter addressed to him and a history of him owning property in the city….but after that it get a bit foggy. Our own
Mark Twain (which wasn’t his real name, but that’s another story) said: “So far as anybody actually knows and can prove, Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon never wrote a play in his life.”
Charles Dickens and Orson Welles, also lent their posthumous support in a list of people who expressed their own doubts about the Bard when they were alive. (
http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1661619,00.html)Born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon (the house has been questioned as his actual birthplace even, though there are records that his father John was there (left muck in the street outside for. which he fined) prior to his birth. He got married at 18 to Anne Hathaway (she was 26 and apparently pregnant at this time–there is even postulation that he had another love and only married her because of her being in the family way.) After the birth of a set of twins a while later he left for London leaving the family behind. His record in London is sketchy at best with his name listed twice among actors who had preformed for the queen. He is also shown as a shareholder in the Globe Theatre. He eventually returned to his wife and family about 20 years later, bought a house and dealt in real estate and grain. He died in 1616 but did not mention any literary possessions (like plays or poems he had authored) in his will. There remains six of his signatures surviving and they’re all spelled differently. Interestingly enough his death was not noted which seems very unusual for a playwright of is fame.
So everything you know about Shakespeare may or may not be right.
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
Attributed to Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
One if those murky, urban legend quotes which cannot be sourced
DAVEY CROCKET PROBABLY DIDN’T DIE DURING THE FIGHT FOR THE ALAMO. Recent scholarship, has suggested another possibility: that Crockett was executed by Santa Anna along with several others after the battle was over. (The Death of Davey Crocket by Michael Lind ~ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE WILSON QUARTERLY )~ also you might not know that the bodies were burned and left to the elements. “The bodies, with the exception of Gregorio Esparza‘s, were cremated on pyres… Esparza’s brother Francisco was a soldier in the Mexican army and received permission from Santa Anna for a Christian burial. The ashes that were left to the elements, were recovered almost a year later (1837) and a funeral was held but the final resting place was never reported to the public. In 1936 remains were found at the Cathedral of San Fernando , and re-interred in a marble sarcophagus. Purported to hold the ashes of Travis, Bowie and Crockett, some have doubted it can be proven whose remains are entombed there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alamo_defenders
I don’t think anybody should write his autobiography until after he’s dead. –Samuel Goldwyn,an American film producer
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“You piece together a jigsaw and the final picture is you finishing that same puzzle, a mad green-eyed killer standing behind you. An urban legend come true.” – Max Payne
T vvJuan Seguín oversaw the 1837 recovery of the abandoned ashes and officiated at the February 25 funeral.
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