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@JoeyandJD Well, actually, it means more directly that he is officially listed as a saint by the Greek Orthodox Church (and most other Easter churches).

The funniest love song, or the most romantic comic song, ever.

This German version is the original. The Hungarian is a translation.

Nice to see it isn't only Hollywood that renders stage classics unrecognizable.

...to get her. And then there actually were some plots to take the Crown from her and give it to Mary, until Elizabeth decided that Mary had to go.

But Elizabeth freaked out when she heard that Mary was actually dead.

When she died, she gave the Crown to Mary's son, James VI of Scotland (a Pr...

I remember doing this in the NYC première with Jodi Laski-Mihova, back in 1997. Gloriously deranged little number.

Completely different NRA—an anti-Depression Federal agency.

There's a bit more to it. The song "Begin the beguine" is from the Cole Porter 1935 show "Jubilee", and one of the characters in that show is an obvious parody of Coward.

There was some confusion over his height because French feet and inches were bigger than their British equivalents. He was shortish, but not the shrimp he us often portrayed as being.

Cleopatra was in Rome, with Caesarion, when Caesar was assassinated. She got out and back to Egypt as fast as she could.

“Agincourt” is the regular spelling in English.

@evildevilgirl02 Shakespeare wasn’t from Italy, but he came really late, when the Renaissance had grown out of Italy and spread all over Western Europe. And a lot of his plays are based on Italian stories.

But Dante was certainly Italian. Heck, he personally nailed down the brand-new Italian la...

@GundamNovae If you have secret knowledge, by all means, enlighten us.

@historyteachers Horses for courses. Mr H. may have a better voice than you for some purposes, but you have a wonderfully flexible and expressive instrument for pop parodies, and I say that as a singer.

Coming in from the gallop, I vault on language, halt / often but speed sometimes, and always heed / the blessed beauty of the shaped syllables. I would let go / a heresy or so for love of a lordly style / with charging challenge, or one that softens a mile / to a furlong with dulcet harmony enlar...

@Angel48rules A lot of Homer’s details seem to be pure myth, but it’s clear now that there was a Troy and that there was a great war against it. Part of the problem is that, not long after, Greece itself fell apart, and there was a Dark Age before it re-emerged; Homer lived during that dark age. ...

@mittfh We don’t know for sure that Shakespeare was born on April 23rd, but a three-day baptism rule was relatively common at the time. (Also, for what it’s worth, a disproportionately large portion of men—but not women—die on their birthdays and other emotionally important dates.)

@dzesd Aegyptopithicus is indeed possibly ancestral to man, but so is some fish or other; Aegyptopithicus is so ancient as to antedate the split between apes and old-world monkeys. Australopithicus is about where humans divide from chimps.

What you are denying about Neanderthals I cannot imagin...

Although Charles Martel was never technically a king, he actually ruled. For the last four years of his life there wasn’t even a phony king for him to rule in the name of.

@wrestlingfanman22 The story goes that the official painting of Anne of Cleves was a lot better looking than Anne’s natural person. The king said, “I wuz ripped off,” and heads rolled at the Ministry of Finding Henry New Queens.