Ten For Today: Lady Godiva

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Lady Godiva was a freedom rider. Well, that’s what the song says. As the legend goes, on this day in 1040 (Get it? Everyone likes a good tax joke.) she rode naked through town on her horse. She was an 11^th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who tried to convince her husband, an Earl (ALWAYS EARL), that he was being unfair in the amount of tax he was levying…