eternal source of fascination that appear continually through literature and urban legends.One, which looks like “a Florentine barn on a canal boat” was used as a fitting setting for American humorist John Kendrick Bangs’ fantasy novel A Houseboat on the Styx.
It is a gathering place for a series of dead celebrities who are spending their afterlife travelling on the Styx, the river that circles the underworld in Greek mythology.
Nero, apparently, is a dab hand at pool. It quickly becomes clear that Shakespeare did not pen any of his plays but instead employed a series of ghost writers including Sir Francis Bacon.
Sir Walter Raleigh took an unfortunate tumble into the water but was rescued by Queen Elizbaeth I, who threw him her ruff, in.
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