Her servants were executed, their bodies burnt and their ashes
scattered. Being royalty, she was merely confined to her bedroom until
she died in 1614.
She was married to a descendant of Vlad Dracula of Bram Stoker fame.
She was notorious as an inhuman sadist long before her hygienic
fixation. She once ordered the mouth of a talkative servant sewn. It
is rumoured that in her childhood she witnessed a gypsy being sewn
into a horse's stomach and left to die.
For a hundred years after her death, by royal decree, mentioning her
name in Hungary was a crime.
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Berliner
When President John F. Kennedy sought to impress the Germans in 1961 -
then besieged by the Russians - he visited Germany and famously said,
in a public speech: "Ich bin ein Berliner". Alas, "Berliner" in German
is also a kind of yummy doughnut with jam filling and vanilla icing.
This gave rise to the fallacy - adopted even by "The Economist" - that
"Berliner" is wrong usage or gaffe.
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