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The Warm and Witty Part of Attila the Hun is a assortment of historical anecdotes; peculiar, humourous facts; and things you will never forget, knowing them. They will be the product of your life devoted to history. In the words of the writer: "I once got a student ask me point blank and in every seriousness, 'Do you really know all this products, or are you merely so that it is up?' Delightful question, and unwittingly flattering. There is no need for any serious instructor of History to make up any unbelievable tales, because so a lot of it is unbelievable to begin with. After all, really, think about it: if the story of Henry VIII and his six wives hadn't actually occurred, for example, would anyone believe that it? Will there be any drama more powerful than the story of Cleopatra, Caesar, Antony, and Octavian? (Heck, the complete storyline of the Julio-Claudian dynasty reads like one long cleaning soap opera!) In case Shakespeare got known the facts of the life span of his two-thousand-mile-away contemporary Ivan the Terrible, my God, just what a tragic drama he might well have written! (Speaking of which, why don't we remember that Macbeth is dependant on a true storyline.)"There is absolutely no particular order to these anecdotes (except that I tried to adhere to chronology with the presidents), no claim is made to comprehensiveness or, for example, importance. This is simply a assortment of things I've come across over the years, things i appreciated, things with that i amused, horrified, and intrigued my students, nothing more, nothing less. Think of it as the mental junkyard of the aging History instructor." "If the reader is constrained by the chains of political correctness, please be forewarned that the article writer is not. There may be material here that some people will find offensive. I don't worry. Other viewers may recognize a few of these stories and could object to inaccuracies or distortions. I don't care about that either. This is something of the eclectic and eccentric reminiscence, no academic work. In the web pages that follow the reader will find tales about kings and queens, presidents and dictators, personalities light and dark, occasions amusing and awful. A couple of no funny tales about Attila the Hun, by the way. But there are a few real rib-ticklers about Hitler."
