"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
Overworked!
George Edmund Street, famed English architect, won a contest to design the Royal Courts of Justice in London in 1868, but died of exhaustion after drawing 3,000 successive plans for the structures.