Shizuya Hayashi

Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

01'Kubla Khan' was written in a single opium-induced session in 1797; Coleridge claimed an interruption by 'a person from Porlock' broke the trance.
02By 1816 Coleridge was consuming up to two quarts of laudanum per week, documented in letters to his physician James Gillman.
03Wordsworth formally ended their friendship partly over Coleridge's unreliability — lectures cancelled, manuscripts undelivered, debts accumulated.

Shizuya Hayashi killed 19 enemy soldiers in a single engagement in Italy, 1945, armed with a rifle and grenades. The Army awarded him a Distinguished Service Cross. The Medal of Honor took 55 more years and a congressional mandate.