Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader nearly forgot that today is the 876th birthday of Henry Plantagenet (aka: Henry II of England). Henry is one of those seminal figures in world civilization that we don’t think of much today because of his distance from us in history. We in the West, and particularly in the Anglo-American West owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Henry for his devotion to and building up of our legal traditions. It is the most lasting influence, of many, of Henry on us today.

Happy day Henry. Your Maxmium Leader raises his glass and toasts you today.

Carry on.