Some people may live in glass houses, but Raymond Isidore of Chartres, France, made his home and all of its furnishings out of one million broken dishes. On the island of St. Kilda in the Hebrides, Scotland, a young man wishing to marry had to climb to the top of Lover's Rock, 850 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. There on the jutting edge, he had to balance on one leg. It took acrobatic skill and courage. Loss of balance meant certain death below, the most grueling premarital test known. Rather than face it again, Swain's once wed stayed wed. Believe It or Not!
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