From Foreskins As Dowry and Grand Mausoleums To Thousand Mile Walks Here Are Seven Amazing Or Crazy Acts Of Romantic Love (Photos)

Love has inspired a lot from the greatest of literary works to wars and works of architecture. If you think you are the only one who truly loves, then you are not well informed. Here I present to you some of the seven great as well as crazy acts of love. I take you from ancient times to biblical era into modern time.  Here they are, and no, Jacobs 14 year labor is not included

King David’s Dowry For Saul’s Daughter

Tired of having a young anointed and popular solder upstaging him every time and with his legacy as king in question, King Saul devised the ultimate plan. He had already promised David his daughter’s hand in marriage and for dowry he demanded 100 Philistines foreskins! Yes, he did and like a script from a psycho horror flick David decides why not double the dowry and comes back from a raid having killed and circumcised 200 Philistines.

Taj Mahal

Over to India, the Emperor Shah Jahan’s third wife Mumtaz Mahal had died giving birth. She was his most beloved he called her the ‘Jewel of the Palace’. The Emperor was deep in grief and over a decade later at the cost of the empire’s economy he constructed the Taj Mahal the biggest mausoleum covering 42 acres and rising 250 feet high. Here his wife rested and the magnificent structure expressed his lover for her

Grogan’s March For Love

Kenya does have a representative on this list, the maverick white settler Lt. Col Ewart Grogan. Before coming to Kenya and becoming embedded in this country’s history, he at one point had to prove he was no mere fortune hunter over exaggerating his exploits. This was to earn the respect of his future father in law and secure the hand of his love, Australian lady Getrude Watt. At about 26 years of age he walked for two and a half years from the Cape to Cairo earning his lady and fame after the whole journey. He later built Getrude’s Garden Children hospital in memory of her

Nebuchadnezzar II Famed Gardens

Another ancient act of love which became part of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built by King Nebuchadnezzar II as a gift to his wife Amytis to help her feel at home by reminding her of the gardens , mountains and forests from her native home. Nebuchadnezzar II ordered the construction of a series of terraced gardens within the walls of the city, hundreds of meters wide and filled with a variety of exotic plants, herbs and flowers

Seif El Din Mustafa

You may not remember the name but you will sure remember his stunt. What do you do when you want your wife back? Well hijack a plane. In one of the most dramatic love tales of modern times, Seif El Din Mustafa hijacked an EgyptAir flight with 81 passengers just because he wanted to get back to his ex wife. The man with a long criminal record had world fearing another fatal terrorist attack only for it to emerge that he was love stricken. He was later arrested with no one harmed in the whole ordeal

Joe Di Maggio and Maryln Monroe

Maryln Monroe was an icon and widely regarded as the ultimate sex symbol for men. Famous baseball star Joe Di Maggio was sure he had her for life but their marriage was a wild 274 days in 1954 but the player remained in love with her for a life time. Despite her marriage and divorce later he still cared for her and wanted to propose again in 1962 but she died shortly before he could do it. Joe DiMaggio never remarried and for the next 20 years, he would send fresh flowers to her grave three times a week. Damn! Such devotion

Plastic Sugery couple

Many times people speak of being the same one person one in love. In the spirit of what’s yours is mine, a couple went the full measure and did plastic surgery so that they share the same identity and looks as well as mannerisms. They even shared one name Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Neil Megson and Jacqueline Breyer would receive a series of identical plastic surgery parts and procedures that would later total to more than $200,000. In 2007 Jacquline died and Neil began surgeries to look like his dead wife and continues to refer to himself as ‘we’ up to date.