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• In 1971 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran wanted to mark the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire with a party that people would remember for the next 2,500 years. The Shah recreated a city reminiscent of the ancient Persian Empire by erecting a city of tents in the desert. He imported 165 French chefs, wine stewards, and waiters.

Over 500 guests were seated in throne-like chairs along a mahogany dining table 235 feet long. The cost of the 6-hour banquet was $11 million— or $22,000 per guest. When the poverty-stricken populace found out about this extravagance, the discontent it caused contributed greatly to his unpopularity and eventual downfall.

• Agostino Chigi was a wealthy banker in Rome in the 1500s. He held extravagant dinner parties at his villa overlooking the Tiber River.

After each course, he instructed his guests to hurl their dirty dishes and silverware into the river. What the guests didn't know was that prior to each party, the banker had his servants string a net just below the surface of the water so that none of the tableware was lost.

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The problem was how to present both fish at a feast without having one belittle the other. Cambaceres solved the problem like this: he had the smaller fish cooked, decked out, and paraded on a huge platter around the table. The waiter then tripped, the fish landed on the floor, and wails of despair arose. Cambaceres then rose and called out, “Serve the other!” and the larger fish was brought out, to the astonishment of the diners.

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• According to legend, Victorian Sardou was a French playwright. One evening he knocked over his wine glass at a dinner party. The lady seated next to him sprinkled salt on the spill to prevent a stain. Superstitious, Sardou then tossed some salt over his left shoulder to ward off bad luck. Unfortunately, the waiter who was standing behind him was hit in the eye by the salt, and dropped the roast chicken he was carrying. The family dog grabbed the chicken and began eating it so fast that he began to choke on a bone.

The son of the house tried to wrestle the bone out of the dog’s throat. The dog bit the boy so hard that his finger had to be amputated.

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• French novelist Tristan Bernard was once invited to an exclusive dinner party. An hour after dinner was to be served, he still had not shown up, so the hostess phoned his house. “I’m sorry,” Bernard said, “but I’m not coming.” “Not coming? Are you ill?” asked the hostess anxiously.

“No,” he replied. “I’m not hungry.”

• Poet Samuel Rogers invited scholar Richard Porson to dinner. “No thank you,” said Porson.

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• Writer Jacqueline Susann was invited to a dinner party at the home of Maurice Chevalier. The food was good, but the portions were small. After the skimpy meal, everyone retired to the library for drinks. "What would you like to drink, Jacqueline?" asked the host. "Maurice," she replied, "I never drink on an empty stomach!"

• Brahms attended a dinner given in his honor when the host proposed a toast: "Here's to the most famous composer!" and Brahms lifted his glass and replied, "Quite right! Here's to Mozart!" and clinked glasses all around.

• A wine connoisseur invited Brahms over for dinner and afterwards brought out his best bottle, saying "This is the Brahms of my wine cellar," and poured a glass. After Brahms had tasted the wine, the connoisseur asked what he thought of it. "Better bring out your Beethoven," he replied.

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• Pianist Ignace Paderewski was asked to provide after-dinner entertainment for a dinner party held by an English duchess. The fee he asked for was high, so the duchess sent him a note saying that rather than attend the dinner with the other guests, she was sure he'd be more comfortable resting in a private room while they ate. He replied with a note, "As you so kindly inform me that I am not obliged to be present at your dinner, I shall be satisfied with half of my fee."

• Supposedly, Stephen Foster was a flutist. He was invited to a dinner party where he suspected it was his flute playing and not his company that was desired. He sent his flute to the dinner and stayed home.

• Pablo Sarasate was frequently invited to dinner in the hopes that he would give a free violin recital. Once the hostess asked if he had brought his violin. "No, madame, my violin does not dine," he answered.

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• A lady sitting next to President 'Silent Cal' Coolidge at a dinner party had totally failed in her attempts to get him to converse with her. Finally she said, "You go to so many dinners, they must bore you a great deal." He replied, "Well, a man has to eat somewhere."

• A society woman sat next to Pres. Coolidge at a dinner party and said, "You must speak with me, Mr. Coolidge. I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you." "You lose," replied the President.

• Alfred, Count of Orsay, was a French dandy in the 1800s. At a dinner party he was seated next to Lady Holland, who monopolized his attention. Every time he tried to talk to someone else at the table, she would regain his attention by dropping something, which he was then obligated to pick up for her. First it was her napkin.

Next it was her spoon. Then it was her fan. At this point Orsay told the footman behind him to place his plates and silverware on the floor, saying "I shall finish my dinner there— it will be so much more convenient for my Lady Holland."

• Frank Harris, editor of the “Saturday Review,” gave a dinner party and invited many famous people, including Oscar Wilde. Harris monopolized the conversation, going on and on about all the famous people who had invited him to dinner in the past. Oscar Wilde finally broke in, saying, “Frank, we believe you; you have dined in every house in London— once.”

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• Composer Johannes Brahms became ill and went to see his doctor, who prescribed a very strict diet. "But this evening I am dining with Strauss and we shall have chicken paprika!" he exclaimed. The doctor said the meal was out of the question. "Very well, then— please consider that I did not come to consult you until tomorrow," replied Brahms.

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• A single deathcap is enough to kill an adult. Freezing, drying, or cooking will not neutralize the poison. It’s • The deathcap is not native to the U.S. but was acparticularly dangerous because it’s a big, meaty mushcidentally introduced to California from Europe room that grows abundantly, often next to edible spein the 1930s on the roots of an imported plant. It’s cies, which it resembles. now found on every continent except Antarctica.

• In the human body, the toxin binds to an enzyme, pre- • On the west coast of the U.S. the deathcap prefers venting its cells from dividing. This prevents essential to live under oak trees; on the east coast it prefers proteins from being formed. Because the liver and kidpines, but can also be found under other trees inneys filter poisons from the blood, the poison is concencluding chestnut, birch, and beech. trated in those organs, and then is passed into the bladder • Mushroom poisoning is more common in Europe and gall bladder. than in America perhaps because the deathcap is • Because the onset of symptoms is delayed for up to found more widely there. Until around 1950, the 24 hours, many people don’t even make the connecmortality rate was as high as 70%. With advances tion between the mushroom and the sickness. If treated in medical care, the rate has consistently dropped promptly, the victim stands a decent chance of surviving. and now averages about 15%, though children unDoctors flush the gastric system, administer charcoal to der the age of ten are more likely to die. absorb the poison, super-hydrate the body to flush the • In 1740, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI died kidneys, and use kidney dialysis. The longer treatment is after eating a plate of sautéed deathcaps. His delayed, the more likely it will result in liver and kidney death led to the War of the Austrian Succession, failure, at which point the only hope is organ transplant. leading Voltaire to remark, “This dish of mush• A new method of treating victims involves a drug derooms changed the destiny of Europe.” rived from the milk thistle plant. This drug sits on top • The Roman emperor Claudius was very fond of of the receptors that bring poison into the liver, preventmushrooms, and may have been deliberately poiing it from being absorbed. Instead, toxins remain in the soned, dying in the year 54 A.D. Some researchblood stream where the kidneys expel them more quickers speculate that he was given a dose of deadly ly. If started on this drug within 96 hours, survival is nightshade while he was ill in order to hasten his likely. If the kidneys are already failing when the drug is death. administered, death is likely. Death usually occurs one or two weeks after consuming the mushroom.

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• On May 31, 1859, the famous tower clock Big Ben rings out over London for the first time.

Two months later the bell cracked. It was three years before the clock went into service again.

The bell was rotated so that the hammer would strike another surface, but the crack was never repaired.

• On June 2, 1865, in an event marking the end of the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signs surrender terms offered by Union negotiators. With Smith's surrender, the last Confederate army ceased to exist.

• On June 4, 1896, in the shed behind his home in Detroit, Henry Ford unveils the Quadricycle, his first automobile. The Quadricycle was too wide to fit through the shed door, so Ford took an axe to the brick so the vehicle could be rolled out.

• On May 29, 1914, two boats collide in heavy fog on the St. Lawrence River in Canada, killing 1,073 people. The Empress of Ireland, following standard procedure, came to a complete stop in the fog. The Norwegian coal freighter Storstad not only failed to stop, but didn't reverse engines, flipping the Empress on her side.

• On May 30, 1922, William Howard Taft, chief justice of the Supreme Court, dedicates the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall.

Taft is the only former U.S. president ever to hold a seat on the Supreme Court.

• On June 3, 1965, astronaut Major Edward H. White II opens the hatch of the Gemini 4 and steps out of the orbiting capsule, becoming the first American to walk in space.

• On June 1, 1980, CNN, the world's first 24hour television news network, makes its debut in Atlanta. Initially available in less than 2 million U.S. homes, today CNN can be seen in almost 100 million households.

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The Baddest Man on the Planet "That's my successor."

And with those three words from Mike Tyson -- and three knockdowns in his title fight -Anthony Joshua became the new face of boxing. Do we finally have the next great heavyweight champion of the world in our midst?

While the disrespect to the Klitschkos -- guys like Michael Moorer, Riddick Bowe, Lenox Lewis and Evander Holyfield -is apparent, it's easy enough to understand what Tyson is saying here. There are boxers who wear belts, and then there are men whom people just universally identify as the champ. In fact, until around 1960, that's how champions were crowned ... popular choice. One guy was considered the baddest man on the planet, another guy came up and beat him, won a few more times until some guy beat him. It worked out well and formed a lineage that any fight fan can rattle off in a moment's notice: Tyson, Holmes, Ali, Liston, Patterson, Marciano, Louis, Dempsey, Johnson ... sprinkle in a few other names here and there, but you get the point. Nobody ever says that Michael Spinks or Frank Bruno was the champ.

What makes a heavyweight champion? A champ has to be equal parts skill and spectacle.

He has to dazzle you when you're watching him in the ring, but also make half the world want to climb in the ring to try and knock him out of it while making the other half cower in abject fear at the thought. They should be regal ... a champ doesn't have to be flashy, but he should be able to represent on the red carpet, draw crowds and know how to handle them. Be an ambassador to the sport.

And, yeah, be the baddest man on the planet. Joshua has a lot going for him in that department. He's British-Nigerian and took up boxing when he was 18, amassing a 40-3 win record and garnering all of the appropriate attention that a 6-foot-6 super-heavyweight bodybuilding sprinter would. He's an Olympic gold medal winner.

Now he's the champ, sporting a 19-0 record with 19 knockouts and a multi-fight deal with Showtime. It's Joshua's time to reign.

In interviews, Tyson has been more matter-of-fact than effusive.

"Whenever there's a new heavyweight champion and he's explosive like [Joshua] and wins the title like that it changes the whole game," Tyson told ESPN. He seemed almost grateful to finally dismiss talk of the rumored MayweatherMacGregor fight, a potential contest he called "garbage."

"All the little guys who were making a lot of money are not going to make their money any more," Tyson said. "It's all going to be about Joshua and the heavyweights now. That one fight [with Klitschko] changed boxing."

Joshua appears ready to take it all in stride -- because he's willing to fight everyone, and that's what champions do.

Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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