Putting all humor aside for the moment, here is a toilet that has its place in history, as documented by a brilliant young writer. In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Anne Frank, her father, mother, sister, and several other Jews hiding from the Nazis, lived in a small dwelling located in the floors above a spice company's offices. This dwelling became known as the Secret Annexe. The toilet you see here is the toilet that was shared by the residents of the Secret Annexe. There were several burglaries in the offices below during their two-year stay there, and when they happened, the people living upstairs had to keep silent, or run the risk of being caught. This meant, among other things, that no one was allowed to flush the toilet, sometimes for hours. After one such break-in, a thirteen year-old Anne Frank made the following entry in her world-renowned diary: "We agreed not to run any water or flush the toilet; but since everyone's stomach was churning from all the tension, you can imagine the stench after we'd each had a turn in the lavatory." (photo by Burt Stark)