::Emperor Norton::
Today is the 145th anniversary of the day that Joshua Norton declared himself the emperor of America. So this LJ post is a salute to him.
"At the pre-emperor request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the last nine years and ten months past of San Francisco, California, declare and proclaim myself the Emperor of These United States"
For all you folks who don't know who Emperor Norton is, he's a guy that declared himself the emperor of the united states of America after going a little cooky when his real estate business fucked up and he lost all his money. He disappeared for a while and returned to his home town of San Francisco and declared that he was the emperor of the USA. Instead of throwing him in the loony bin the good folks of San Francisco went along with it. Throughout his reign he had earned such privileges such as a table's at restaurants reserved for him at all times, 3 seats in the theater (one of him and 2 for his dogs) and once a rookie police officer arrested him...This rookie got in a wee bit of strife from his sergeant who explained to the rookie that he had arrested the Emperor of the united states.
Anyways if you want to know more about one of the more interesting people that have existed on Mother Earth there's plenty more info here.
"At the pre-emperor request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the last nine years and ten months past of San Francisco, California, declare and proclaim myself the Emperor of These United States"
For all you folks who don't know who Emperor Norton is, he's a guy that declared himself the emperor of the united states of America after going a little cooky when his real estate business fucked up and he lost all his money. He disappeared for a while and returned to his home town of San Francisco and declared that he was the emperor of the USA. Instead of throwing him in the loony bin the good folks of San Francisco went along with it. Throughout his reign he had earned such privileges such as a table's at restaurants reserved for him at all times, 3 seats in the theater (one of him and 2 for his dogs) and once a rookie police officer arrested him...This rookie got in a wee bit of strife from his sergeant who explained to the rookie that he had arrested the Emperor of the united states.
Anyways if you want to know more about one of the more interesting people that have existed on Mother Earth there's plenty more info here.