May 11, 2006 05:24
Joshua Norton was buried on Sunday, the 10th of January 1880. 10,000 people filed past the body, as it lay in state; and his funeral cortege was over two miles long.
His burial was marked by a total eclipse of the sun.
He was the First and Last Emperor of the United States of America.
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