Giraffes have long necks.
It has often been written that pirates commonly killed their prisoners, usually by the picturesque method of making them ‘walk the plank.’ This is untrue. I have ransacked official records, reports of trials, and much other documentary evidence without being able to discover a single case of walking the plank. I do not mean merely that I have not found an authenticated case. In all the contemporary literature on pirates I could not find even an accusation or suggestion that the practice was ever used. The very expression seems to have been invented many years after the Age of Piracy.
1582, Robert Persons, S.J., The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution; quoted in:
The play, which began with the dead soldier ghost King appearance of which Horatio told Hamlet, comes full circle when Fortinbras, announces dead soldier honors and burial for ghost King's dead son Prince Hamlet, and prepares to listen to Horatio tell Hamlet's story, …
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