Thursday, June 26, 2008

Historical Trivia

I've been reading a book about FDR recently (Franklin and Lucy by Joseph E. Persico). It's a very interesting book as a whole, but my eye was caught by a tiny piece of trivia that was mentioned in passing and not particularly important, but it was something that I had never known before. Apparently FDR had a miniature pig collection. That just blows my mind. Sometimes it's easy to forget that these larger than life historical figures, like Roosevelt, were people and had the usual human compliment of quirks, like collecting pig miniatures.

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