In 1252 the king of England was given a polar bear from Haakon IV of Norway. The polar bear lived in the Tower of London but didn’t like to be kept in such a confined area so he would have a rope tied to him and be allowed to swim and catch fish in the Thames.
Cyrano
Charles de Gaulle’s coffin cost $9 extra because of his unusually height. Also do to his stature, he was nicknamed “the Great Asparagus” by fellow soldiers.
Anonymous asked: when were mummies first ground into powder for medical purposes
ok 1 this is so obviously Mark and 2 the earliest I know of is the 16th Century
Notre Dames
During the construction of Notre Dame, the city prostitutes attempted to commission a stained glass window, like any other business guild in the city had the right to do. They were denied ;(
Victor Hugo ;)
22 May 1885 - Victor Hugo, the colossus of modern writing, dies. 2 million people came out for his funeral, with apartments along the Champs-Elysee selling tickets for onlookers. His casket was placed underneath the Arc de Triomphe for a few nights before being permanently moved to the Pantheon and in those nights it was reported that couples would ‘copulate’ in the bushes around the Arc in the hopes that as Hugo’s spirit rose to heaven it would enter the soul of the newly conceived child, making them the next prodigy. In the year following Hugo’s death, the two most popular names in France were Victorine (for girls) and Victor (for boys).
Also, the Vietnamese religion Cao Dai reveres Hugo as one of 3 saints.
