During the 19th century, bedrooms that were papered with poisonous, arsenical-green wallpaper tended not to have bedbugs.
Source: Bill Bryson, At Home, page 315… Read More
Renaissance painter Baccio della Porta ( d. 1517) changed his name to Fra Bartolommeo (Brother Bartholomew) when he became a friar. When the fiery sermons of Savonarola demanded burning of “vanities,” Bartolommeo tossed all his paintings of nudes into the flames.