Struensee

I have laryngitis (sp?) and am stuck to laying around and watching TV. Watched an old movie about Minister Struensee in Denmark. I was so enamored by the story, that I went to the web to find out if this guy was fact or fiction. He was real. It depressed me (probably due to my not feeling well anyway...) to have to discover (again) that there are so many interesting personalities in history that I don't have a clue about. And then there will be so many more I will never discover for myself either. TV does have a way of educating us - if only the movies made these days were so enchanting. I mean, the final scene leaves you wondering if they really did behead him, or if he got off the hook somehow. The producers of this type of movie today would do some kind of technical magic and make sure the viewer sees how his darn head falls off his shoulders. But it is much, much, much more disturbing to be left wondering what happened. I mean - I went and looked it up on the web, didn't I?