French philosopher Georges Bataille founded a secret society and wanted to carry out a human sacrifice
Personal diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the primary historical sources of the Great Fire of London in 1666
James Joyce was writing “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” in Pula, Croatia while teaching English to naval officers
Charles Babbage, “the father of the computer” was accused of blasphemy and denied graduation with honors
In the summer of 1913, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, Freud, Franz Ferdinand and Lenin were all regulars in Vienna’s Café Central