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Christmas is rapidly approaching and you are in a panic about what to get for that special someone. Rest assured that you are not alone.
General William Sherman found himself there in 1864 when he had not had time to go shopping for his commander-in-chief. His solution was to wire President Abraham Lincoln with the following: “I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the City of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.” The president apparently appreciated his gift.
When Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, felt stymied about a gift for his favorite wife, he started thinking creatively. The result was the Taj Mahal. There was the trifling drawback that he also intended it to serve as her tomb, but hey, there is nothing wrong with a dual-purpose gift.