Captain Henry Stout, wounded by Comanche Indians near the Trinity River in Texas, rode with an iron-tipped arrow in his thigh to Fort Towson, a distance of 180 miles. The peoples of the earth have found many ways to pay a last tribute to their honored heroes when they die. But probably the most elaborate funeral in all history was when the body of Alexander the Great was carried from Babylon to Alexandria in a jewel-studded hearse, drawn by 64 horses over a road hacked through a wilderness for a distance of 1,000 miles. The funeral cost a total of $600 million. Believe It or Not!
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