But Singapore isn't sinking so apparently Lions are structurally better than logs, who knew.
Actually a theory I heard was that Singapore was a corruption of Singapora, which is the geographical term for where Singapore was founded, although there is some evidence that it was named Singapora after the founding of the city.
Today: 7 February 1497
Event: The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities starts much earlier with the renaissance in and around the 14th Century. The renaissance was a cultural movement that encourage the resurgence of classical literature, learning as well as a promotion of Latin and vernacular literature powered by the development of cheap paper and the printing press. It also promoted Secular art and music (previously artworks and music were for the depiction of religious scenes and the veneration of God respectively( Also Middle Ages art was
oddly out of proportion and not anatomically accurate)) Also the Renaissance has an interesting influence on Social mobility (because for the first time ever there was some) All the Renaissance artwork, literature and architecture was wildly popular in Europe and meant a massive influx of money into the Italian city states that created them, this gave a huge amount of power to the Italian Banking families, which in Florence was the Medici Family. They belonged to the Middle classes not the Nobility but they wielded more authority than any in the City. Fast forwards till just before the Bonfire and Lorenzo de' Medici is ruler of Florence in everything but name.
Anyway the Bonfire most famously involved Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican Priest, who with a group of followers gathered up any work they found that would inspire sin in people (books of philosophy, literature, non religious art and song sheets) and burned them whilst publicly denouncing the evils of man.
Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli reportedly took to the streets and burned several of his own works although this is disputed.
It ended after pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) decided that Savonarola was a bit of a prat, excommunicating him and demanding that Florence give him up, when they did he was tortured for proclaiming he could perform miracles and had visions from god before being hung and burned to death at the same time (a bit of overkill if you ask me)
Of course some people say Etzio Auditore did it...