I’ve been researching the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and I got curious about writing desks. They’ve evolved quite a bit over the past two hundred years, from this:To this:Yeah, that’s my treadmill desk. Not that my desk represents… Read More
Charlemagne died in 814 AD and was entombed sitting on his throne. Two hundred years later the Pope demanded his crown back. When the vault was opened the body was discovered nearly intact. (It remained so for 200 more years, when the body was then put into a sarcophagus.)