I glossed over it in her backstory, but here are some fun facts about Velvet's world travels:
1) She knows a [i]lot[/i] of languages. Most current (and quite a number of extinct, like Norn and Fingallian) Eurasian languages to [i]some[/i] level and more than two dozen to fluency, as well as several from the New World like Apache and Navajo. That's right [@Xaltwind], she can talk smack to Miyuki in her mother tongue! そうでしょ、バカ狐?
2) She knew several historical figures, a couple friendly, most unfriendly. She was particularly fond of Lord Byron, for example, and she has a permanent and irresolvable vendetta against Count Dracula of Wallachia for being a [i]terrible[/i] host when she was in the neighborhood. Not only that, but also letting everyone know quite a few weaknesses of her kind because he just HAD to go to England, HER TURF (when she was asleep, no less!), and try to abduct some women in the [i]dumbest[/i] way possible.
3) In that vein, she's also responsible for several historical events. For example, she might've gone a little too hard on some early settlements that vanished off the map, she was [i]definitely[/i] the one who killed Edgar Allen Poe, and she's responsible for at LEAST one war (the War of the Roses, for those curious).