In the Olemba tribe in Africa, the prospective bridegroom must pay for his wife in an odd way. There, the standard price of a wife is four native dogs. "If I died this hour, I should die happy". Thus spoke John Liston, the celebrated English comedian, on Sunday, March 22nd in 1807 at 10.30 a.m. At the time he said it, he was being married in the church of St. Martin's in the Field. By a striking coincidence, 39 years later, as the clock struck 10.30 a.m. on Sunday, March 22nd, 1846, Liston died in his wife's arms. Believe It or Not!
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