You asked for fun facts in the tags, so here I am to prove my existence.
When Henry the Young King (son of Henry II of England) first held court in Normandy, in the 12th century, some of his courtiers named William snagged a room in which only Williams were allowed to eat.
WWI-era parachute technology was refined by KƤthchen Paulus, a working-class woman who started life as a seamstress (more info here.)
Schiller (as in, the radical Romantic playwright; seriously, read his stuff, itās so great) escaped mandatory military college, allegedly by jumping out a window.Ā
Beethoven once poked fun at the cult of sentimentality by composing an art song entitledĀ āElegy for a poodle.ā
Adam Smith, of Wealth of Nations fame, defended smuggling (The smuggler, he asserted,Ā āwould have been in every respect an excellent citizen had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so.ā)
Contrary to the claims of every bad medieval/pseudo-medieval movie ever, women practiced medicine in medieval Europe all the time without getting accused of witchcraft. Pay me money to be a consultant, er, get it together, producers!
In the early years of the USSR, there were propaganda trains. Literally trains filled with troupes of actors to perform theatre, etc. TRAINS OF PROPAGANDA. Iām sorry, I canāt get over this.
Shelley once wrote a super-angry political poem (The Masque of Anarchy) that was banned for 30 years. (The Romantics were all giant dorks and I love them, okay?)
Berlin was the first city to have electric streetlights
One of those responsible for shooting the Romanian dictator Ceausescu recorded the celebrations as follows:Ā āWe took out our hidden alcohol, a very bad brandy, and drank.ā
Christine de Pizan argued for equal opportunity education for men and women in early 15th-century France
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