This makes the rounds now and then and there's always something in it that's kind of surprising. Voltaire might have met Blackbeard. There was a window there where Kierkegaard could have shaken some sense into Edgar Allan Poe. Catherine The Great and Ivan The Terrible could have had kids who were only OK.

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