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Told you there'd be random facts: Alexander the Great founded a city in honour of his horse Bucephalus when it died of old age after he had ridden it throughout his campaigns.

Date: 2004-05-15 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coppertone.livejournal.com
One of the more ridiculous scandals in Canadian politics was in the early fities, when it was discovered that the administration under Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent had somehow gotten a horse on the government payroll.
It did make me think of Caligula. :)

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