Rigoberta Menchú — gnostek

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.

Predjama Castle

A map of Belgic Gaul in the first century BC, showing the relative position of the Nervii

01The Nervii reportedly forbade wine and merchants among themselves to keep their warriors undiluted by Roman goods or influence.
02Caesar describes grabbing a shield from an anonymous soldier and entering the front rank personally — he did not know the man's name.
03The Nervii, once 60,000 warriors strong by Caesar's count, were reduced to 500 fighting men and three chieftains after the battle at the Sabis.

01In the 1978 Aix-en-Provence rape trial, Halimi argued publicly that French law's leniency for rapists amounted to state endorsement of sexual violence.
02She co-founded 'Choisir' with Simone de Beauvoir in 1971 to defend women prosecuted for illegal abortions.
03The Aix verdict — guilty with significant sentences — directly preceded France's 1980 rape law reform, the first to define rape as a crime against the person, not public morals.