Caligula, the Roman Emperor, bestowed the rank of consul and co-regent upon Incitatus. He was accorded every honor of the office, and was provided with a golden drinking goblet and an ivory manger. For Incitatus was a horse On September 22, 1860, the whaling schooner Hope was operating in the Southern Ocean, south of the Drake Straits, when the walls of an ice barrier parted and revealed one of the strangest crafts ever seen on the seas. It was the schooner Jenny caught in an ice jam on January 17, 1823. She had just been released from the death grip of ice, her frozen passengers still aboard after 37 years. Believe It or Not!
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