It is generally agreed that his disappearance was a simple case of an accidental drowning. [..] Holt's death has entered Australian folklore, and was commemorated by, among other things, the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre.
Jaco wrote:Designed by 17th-century German scholar Athanasius Kircher, it was basically of a row of caged cats with different voice pitches. You "played" it using a keyboard that drove nails into their tails, thus causing them to meow in pain. Seriously Germany, what the actual hell?
davyK wrote:Rod Stewart isn't Scottish (born in London)
Shane MacGowan isn't Irish (born in Kent)
acemuzzy wrote:MacGowan briefly went to my school. But he wasn't posh enough. So we kicked him out.
Julie d'Aubigny was a seventeenth-century traveling swordswoman. Among her other exploits, when her (female) lover was sent to a convent, she also entered the convent, stole the body of a dead nun, placed it in her lover's bed, escaped with her lover - and burnt the convent down.
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