Is this cool or what?

Jul 22, 2012 20:18

"On 27 January 1556, Humayun, with his arms full of books, was descending the staircase from his library when the muezzin announced the Adhan (the call to prayer). It was his habit, wherever he heard the summons, to bow his knee in holy reverence. Kneeling, he caught his foot in his robe, tumbled down several steps and hit his temple on a rugged stone edge. He died three days later."

Now, a little bit of my brain is muttering irreverent stuff about a stupid accident, but a much larger part keeps insisting that there is something kind of cool in this manner of death. :)))

geeky, random

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