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The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1947 and receiving the Critics' Prize the same year. It belongs to the cycle of revolt bringing together three works by Camus, The Plague, The Revolted Man and The Righteous, which in part enabled its author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

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It was Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, who officially declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917, during the World War I.

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The carob tree is a member of the Fabaceae family. It is grown mainly for its edible pods, called carobs.

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The first successful kidney transplant was performed in 1954 by American surgeon Joseph Murray, who later received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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Monrovia is the capital of Liberia. It is located on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, at the mouth of the St. Paul River on Cape Mesurado.

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Operation Barbarossa, launched on June 22, 1941, was the code for the Third Reich's invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.

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In the original version, Buzz Lightyear is dubbed by Tim Allen, while in the French version he is dubbed by Richard Darbois.

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The episode of the Soissons vase takes place in 486, after Clovis' victory over Syagrius, marking a key event in Merovingian history.

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Fritz Lang's favourite actor, Rudolf Klein-Rogge became famous by playing the roles of Machiavellian manipulators such as the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse or the mad scientist Rotwang in Metropolis.

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Spring is an allegorical painting by Sandro Botticelli, executed in tempera on wooden panels between 1478 and 1482, during the First Renaissance. This work was found in the Medici villa in Castello of its patron Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici.

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