Vermin Supreme

The Apicius manuscript (ca. 900 AD) of the monastery of Fulda in Germany, which was acquired in 1929 by the New York Academy of Medicine

01Ban Zhao completed the Han Shu (Book of Han) after her brother Ban Gu was executed in 92 CE — becoming China's first known female historian.
02Her Nüjie (Lessons for Women) prescribed that wives must address their husbands as 'lord' and never contradict them publicly.
03Ban Zhao was also a court astronomer who calculated calendrical corrections — her mathematical work circulated separately from her domestic ethics texts.

Vermin Supreme has campaigned in every U.S. presidential race since 1992 wearing a rubber boot as a hat, promising mandatory tooth-brushing laws and one free government pony for every American citizen.