In 1784, after the finalization of of the Colonial Council of Self-Rule in the British Colonies of North America (formerly the Continental Congress), R.H. Lee presented himself as Virginia's representative to compete against Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and seven other candidates from the Congress.My name is Richard Henry Lee, Virginia is my home. And I am here to run for Lord President of the Colonial Council of British North America!
He lost. Contrary to common claims (circa Year of our LORD 2020), the infamous rebel general Robert Lee is unrelated; he is the son of Henry Lee III, and is only distantly related to the esteemed Councilor.
"Miss Ponsonby claims to have visited numerous locations, met many interesting and historically significant people, and to have encountered a host of curious objects and creatures over the course of her travels. She was in China during the Boxer Uprising, and fought off two Boxers with her parasol. In Africa, she was adopted as the favored daughter of a cannibal king. In South America, Miss Ponsonby was within a hair's breadth of discovering a secret Incan city until her steamboat sprung a leak. She campaigned actively for the cause of Women's Suffrage, and was arrested for chaining herself to the fence in front of Number 10 Downing Street. She dined with Lord Kitchener in Sudan, danced with Tsar Nicholas II, discussed railroads with Cecil Rhodes.
People may find this difficult to believe at first, because Miss Ponsonby is hermaphroditic gastropod approximately five inches in length, a nudibranch to be precise. She mostly lives in an aquarium on the top floor of Ponsonby's, though she sometimes comes out, usually on the shoulder of a thrall, with a few hobs dancing in attendance. How she speaks is... uncertain."