European history would have been dramatically different if only for a higher fiber diet.
One of the most decisive battles in the history of Europe was fought in Belgium on June 18, 1815, as a resurgent Napoleon Bonaparte launched his last military offensive against the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian Marshal Blücher. Nearly 50,000 men were killed in the battle. Napoleon lost in part due to a case of inflamed hemorrhoids.
The battle was commemorated by Swedish sensation Abba in their 1970s hit, Waterloo.
Abba’s interpretation of Waterloo’s significance has been controversial from the start, as it tended to focus less on the military and political implications of the battle than on the feelings of euphoria typically incited by hormonal rushes of erotic excitement.
On June 18, 1817, Waterloo Bridge was opened over the River Thames in London,
And if that wasn’t enough, to commemorate the high fiber diet of the Duke of Wellington, on June 18, 1822, the British government erected the first nude public statue since antiquity — an 18ft bronze Achilles — in London’s Hyde Park in his honor. It caused such an offense, women and small children were forbidden to amble through the park and a fig leaf was added.
This was all in anticipation of ABBA performing Dancing Queen at a televised all-star gala on this date in 1976, held at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, Sweden, on the eve of the wedding between Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia Sommerlath.
This will all be on the test.
And so it goes
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