Welcome to Air and Mankies, Captain of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

To earn a title like The Conqueror, one must, well, conquer, and not just a little, either,

maybe even when it's not appropriate.

That's what William I did, after all, enough to stave off his alternative title, William

the Bastard, although there are many who would argue that he deserved that one much more.

After a 20-year reign of conquering and not being much loved by his people, William the

conqueror was keeping himself entertained by partaking in a little recreational rating

against his French adversary, King Philip.

However, if you put yourself in enough deadly situations, it's likely that death will

soon win the day, and eventually it did.

While the exact nature of William's ultimate demise isn't agreed upon, the general consensus

is that he fell hard onto the wooden pommel of his saddle, which ruptured an internal

organ so severely that he couldn't be saved, which admittedly sounds pretty painful, immediately

after he was taken from the battlefield to a medical facility in Ruan.

Q the Deathbed scene, where he is seen to his last will and testament, among many equibbling

relative and or attendant, eager for his crown, his sword, his armor, his everything.

William did not leave anything up to chance in securing his legacy, though, a mirror image

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