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Show How Great People Celebrated Great Occasions In ancient history, legend has it that Cleopatra dissolved a pearl worth $375,000 in her big moment of meeting Mark Anthony. Emperor Em-peror Vitellius celebrated his victory vic-tory over one Otho by just eating mostly flamingo tongues. Messer Marco Polo, his father, and his uncle, after years of-absence in far Cathay, appeared in their ragged garments, slit the seams and released re-leased streams of diamonds, rubies I and sapphires, proving to all that they were genuine Polos and relatives rela-tives worth having. And going back about two centuries it is found that Benjamin Franklin in 1750 decided to kill the Christmas turkey bv means of the latest thing, electricity. electric-ity. In the excitement, he forgot to let go of something and the current cur-rent missed the bird and gave Franklin one of the shocks of his |