The Flagman and the Skeleton: A Vision in the Sun From the time of the War of 1812 comes a story of an unusually vivid three-day vision of a man with a flag and a skeleton, observed by many onboard HMS Majestic, then lying off Boston.
A Lost Heart: Napoleon and the Rats There have been numerous stories—some true, some not–about Napoleon’s death. Today we look look at a Napoleonic body-part rumor: the story that Bonaparte’s heart was eaten by a rat and the heart of a sheep substituted.
