Lake Geneva is a large and beautiful lake nesteled in the corner of Switzerland and France. Many Romantics sought respite or Inspriration on the lake and many tourists still visit it to this day. 

Mary Shelley was one of the Romantics that took a trip to Lake Geneva. She, with her husband Percy, her sister Clarie and Lord Byron travlled to Switseland and stayed in a Lake house. While there they decided to have a writing contest, particularly dark stories. Mary immediately began writing "Frankenstein", and while it wasn't completed there, its framework was written.

Lake Geneva is a large and beautiful lake nesteled in the corner of Switzerland and France. Many Romantics sought respite or Inspriration on the lake and many tourists still visit it to this day. 

Mary Shelley was one of the Romantics that took a trip to Lake Geneva. She, with her husband Percy, her sister Clarie and Lord Byron travlled to Switseland and stayed in a Lake house. While there they decided to have a writing contest, particularly dark stories. Mary immediately began writing "Frankenstein", and while it wasn't completed there, its framework was written.

The city from which Jean-Jaques Dessalines declared Haiti's independance from France on January 1st, 1804. Although Dessalines would go on to massacre the remaining Europeans in the country and establish a system of forced servitude for the freed slaves, the announcement of independance was the first indication of sovereignty by any Latin American state. It was the only successful slave rebellion in history, and it inspired much discussion relating to the abolition of slavery in the rest of the world.