Trying something new/

I enjoy learning, but I often feel like I don't take in alot of what I 'learn' everyday while doing school work. So..Every Thursday I will be posting something new that I learned for that day.

In the late 18th century, France suffered from a severe financial crisis. Etienne de Silhouette, the French finance minister, introduced a drastic economic policy, ordering that all luxuries be eliminated and that even pictures be reduced to a simple black outline. So that is where the word silhouette came from.

I thought that was pretty cool. I am doing vocabulary at the moment and the word is silhouette, so that's where I got it. Tell me if you enjoy this. Thanks! :-)