When the day that was predicted to be his day to die came around and the prediction did not seem to materialize, Calchas the Greek died from laughter, thus making his last laugh his last laugh. Unrequited love causes some people to do odd things. For example, the Reverend Joseph Moody of York, Maine, suffered a grievous disappointment at the age of 20. The girl he loved, his cousin Mary Hurst, refused to marry him. He became a victim of melancholia, and although he followed the vocation of a preacher for the next 32 years, out of a curious reluctance to expose his face in public, he always wore a black silk handkerchief over his face. Believe It or Not!
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