Royalty's Strangest Characters: Extraordinary but True Tales from 2,000 Years of Mad Monarchs and Raving Rulers (Strangest) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Royalty's Strangest Characters: Extraordinary but True Tales from 2,000 Years of Mad Monarchs and Raving Rulers (Strangest) Monday, August 10 2009.

• Endlessly entertaining, these albums of mad miscellany abound with true tales of history's strangest characters and events—from potty potentates to dotty inventions. A mind-boggling excursion through the byways of the bizarre.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Royalty's Strangest Characters: Extraordinary but True Tales from 2,000 Years of Mad Monarchs and Raving Rulers (Strangest) Friday, July 17 2009.

• The first emperor of China, Shi Huangdi has gone down in history as a mighty ruler who united the country, standardised written characters and currency, and oversaw the construction of road and canal networks as well as the linking of various border walls into one Great Wall.