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The Piazza Della Signoria, a square in Florence, Italy, was condemned never to grow grass because it was once the home of a traitor. The sentence is still observed 600 years later.
Valentine Tapley (1829-1910)
He refused to shave if Lincoln was elected.
Eko and Iko (The Muse brothers)
In the old days kids would run away from home to join the circus, these two didn't have to, they were kidnapped and put in one.
Sam Hildebrand (1836-1872)
There was Bloody Bill Anderson, there was Bushwhacker Bill Wilson (the Josey Wales character) and then there was Sam Hildebrand, who created more corpses than the other two combined. He was a legend in southeast Missouri. The cave that he would hide in is a tourist attraction.
The only time the guillotine was ever used in North America was on August 24, 1889, in Saint-Pierre (an island near Newfoundland) when Joseph Neel had his head chopped off for killing a Mr. Coupard on December 30, 1888.
The Overland Trail was the most frequently used path to the west in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. It began in Leavenworth Kansas and terminated in San Francisco. The first large resting place for travelers was Fort Kearney in Nebraska and 35 miles west of that post was a stream called Plum Creek. At the point where the road passed alongside the creek, there was a very large flat stone with writing carved into it.
It read:
"Daniel Boone
1816
Turn stone over for valuable information."
There are at least a half dozen different sources which provide accounts of the pioneers being unable to resist finding that valuable information. They describe how first a dozen men tried to turn it over, then a dozen men plus a mule, and finally unhooking their wagon teams, arranging a complicated series of straps, and pulling the stone over that way.
The bottom of the stone read:
"Daniel Boone
1816
Turn stone over for valuable information."
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