Then there's Genghis Khan whose DNA shows up all over China and East Asia from his pillage of vast lands and capture of young women.
Quite a Remarkable Story of Longevity & Dare I say it....Balls?
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Thanks for putting the time into this! By all means, do keep it up. This sort of thing is a real treat!
Last October I posted this story....which surely is a yarn....about a French lady giving birth to 285 children...
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One of my current reads is 'A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities' by Richard Verstegan 1655 (though first published in 1634) which is a history of Britain from the earliest times.
Now oftentimes when reading such books one has to be aware that the author might have an agenda or be otherwise skewed in his opinions and so I have a huge bucket of salt at hand but hey ho, these tomes make great reading.
However, last night I came upon a real screamer and I shall transcribe it as it appears in the book.
"There dyed in the city of Paris, in the year of our Lord 1514, a woman named Toland Baillie, at the age of 88 years, and in the eighth year of her widowhood, who there lieth in the Church-yard of St. Innocents, by whose epitaph it appeareth, that there were two hundred fourscore and fifteen children issued from herself, while herself yet lived".
And in the margin we have...
"Three hundred Children lacking five, issued from one Woman, and all lived in her life time".
Of all the tall stories I have ever read, this one really takes the biscuit and this is only page 3 of a total of 264 so I wonder what other pearls of wisdom I might stumble upon before I reach the end.
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....so it would seem I have a knack of turning up strange stories of unbelievable numbers of offspring, or maybe it was a subject of great interest back in the day and was widely reported?
Regards,
Jay.
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One of my current reads is 'A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities' by Richard Verstegan 1655 (though first published in 1634) which is a history of Britain from the earliest times.
Now oftentimes when reading such books one has to be aware that the author might have an agenda or be otherwise skewed in his opinions and so I have a huge bucket of salt at hand but hey ho, these tomes make great reading.
However, last night I came upon a real screamer and I shall transcribe it as it appears in the book.
"There dyed in the city of Paris, in the year of our Lord 1514, a woman named Toland Baillie, at the age of 88 years, and in the eighth year of her widowhood, who there lieth in the Church-yard of St. Innocents, by whose epitaph it appeareth, that there were two hundred fourscore and fifteen children issued from herself, while herself yet lived".
And in the margin we have...
"Three hundred Children lacking five, issued from one Woman, and all lived in her life time".
Of all the tall stories I have ever read, this one really takes the biscuit and this is only page 3 of a total of 264 so I wonder what other pearls of wisdom I might stumble upon before I reach the end.
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....so it would seem I have a knack of turning up strange stories of unbelievable numbers of offspring, or maybe it was a subject of great interest back in the day and was widely reported?
Regards,
Jay.
Great story, sounds like they needed to do some vasectomies back then.