Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 25

... that Lord Byron (pictured) fought for Greek independence, and that he died at Messolonghi (Μεσολόγγι) in 1824?

... that Otto von Freising, son of Leopold III, Margrave of Austria and brother of Henry II Jasomirgott, Duke of Austria, was an important mediaeval chronicler?

... that an aside is a technique used in dramatic performances in which a character says something to himself or herself which is assumed to be unheard by the other characters on stage?

... that in Chuck Palahniuk's 2001 novel Choke, the protagonist regularly deceives people by pretending to be choking on food?

... that one of the events at the Wartburgfest of 1817 was a book burning?

... that Clara is a wheelchair-bound girl in Johanna Spyri's children's story, Heidi (1880)?

... that the chapter entitled "What is an American?" is the most famous, and most anthologized, part of Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?