This book includes a collection of anecdotes about events that actually occurred with exciting titles: A postage stamp sparks a war - A minister eats his son - He is hanged after his death - The King of England does not know English - An emperor stands barefoot at the Pope's door for three days - An army of boys - An Egyptian woman gives birth to an elephant - A war plan in the Torah that is repeated in the First Great War - Malik rules for one minute - The broom is the emblem of the Dutch Navy and the kerbage is the emblem of the English Navy - A king is crowned with his mother's bracelet - A city is established to commemorate a dog.
What is meant by anecdotes in this book is old events of artistic or historical value