GLVWG member, Steve Sora, has graciously provided some prompts, to help people get started on their stories/essays for our self-publishing project.

Here are some accurate, but not widely known, historical facts.

1) Blue eyes were unknown until 10,000 years ago. A single mutation then occurred in the Baltic sea area. Today 500 million people have them.

 2) The Etruscans started the custom of breaking the chicken's wishbone.

3) The painter Vermeer went from healthy to dead in two days. At age 43 he died broke having gone three years without a sale. His wife sold "Lady Writing a letter with her maid" and "The Guitar Player" to pay a 600 florin baker's bill ($80)

4) A dead man’s hand is 2 aces, 2 eights and the queen of hearts. James Butler aka "Wild Bill" Hitchcock held these cards when he was gunned down in Deadwood SD.

5) Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and CS Lewis (Narnia) died the same day JFK was killed.