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Loie Fuller: The wizardess that combined modern dance techniques with dramatic lights effects and invented the “Serpentine Dance”
Mark Twain, the writer of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was a prominent abolitionist and a women’s suffrage activist
Charlie Chaplin was nearly assassinated in Japan in 1932
George Orwell was an avid tea drinker and even wrote an essay on how to make the perfect cup of tea
Vinegar Valentines were insult cards that helped to promote literacy among the lower classes in 19th century Britain
American writer Kurt Vonnegut wrote his seminal novel Slaughterhouse-Five after surviving the bombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war
King Ludwig II of Bavaria or “The Swan King” commissioned the Neuschwanstein Castle and paid for it with his own means
English writer Graham Greene suffered from depression since his early childhood and attempted suicide by playing Russian roulette
John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola, died penniless and addicted to morphine
Ealing Jazz Club: The cradle of British R&B music and the place where The Rolling Stones were formed
