Krishna. Krishna had a total of 16,108 wives.

Jane Austen. Jane Austen died of bovine tuberculosis, which is drinking unpasteurized milk.

Widowmaker. Pecos Bill once grabbed a tornado, threw it down on the ground and then rode its back.

Grangerfords And Shepherdsons. In the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons have been feuding for 30 years.

Aphrodite. The Helen of "The Iliad" was the daughter of Zeus and married to King Menelaus of Sparta.

The Bad Beginning. The first book in the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" series was renamed when it went to paperback.