"Truth is stranger than fiction" goes the old saying - and this blog seeks to make available to all as many stories and anectdotes as possible that highlight the strange, interesting and, sometimes, funny lives of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people down the ages, as well as share some difficult-to believe tidbits of information. Enjoy!!!
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Double standards
Sir Walter Raleigh was executed by King James-I of England for annoying Spain - yet for doing the same thing, Sir Francis Drake was knighted by Queen Elizabeth-I of England.