DeadPoet SG Do you know ... Leonardo da Vinci painted only 17 paintings and some of them were unfinished. The Roman emperor Nero played the bagpipe. Alexander the Great was buried in a vat of honey. Galileo went blind studying the sun through telescope. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns. Albert Einstein slept 10 hours a night. Bentio Mussolini was a schoolteacher before he went into politics. Henry Ford was Americas first billionire. To avoid being trapped in a burning building, Hans Christian Anderson always carried a rope. Julius Caesar was epileptic. General Douglas MacArthurs mother dressed him in skirts until he was eight years old. William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, also invented the polygraph. Most experts believe Jack the Ripper was left-handed. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. There are no photographs of Abe Lincoln smiling. Napoleon designed Italys national flag. Florence Nightingale carried a pet owl in her pocket wherever she traveled. George Washington loved to play marbles. Michelangelo drew his illiterate cook a shopping list. Today its a priceless work of art. Vincent Van Gogh was able to sell only one painting (The Red Vineyard) during his lifetime. Please continue ...
Gordonator SG Did you know that Albert Einstein was in Singapore twice in the 1920s? It was one one trip here, in 1922 to raise funds for the Hebrew Universtiy of Jerusalem, that Einstein received a letter telling him he had won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics.
105090 SG the facts above are very interesting! maybe some one can shed light on who invented the telephone? ( wasnt alexander graham bell i believed, but was an italian) who invented the longest lasting light bulb? (was known an italian whose bulb lasted 40 hours, compared to einstein's 35 mins)
The man who was death SG Abraham lincoln kept his beard for a girl Napoleon wasn't french but italian i think Cleopatra wasn't egyptian I learn all this fact from a dong fong(ch49 starhub) programme. It used to show at 10pm every tuesday but don't have now
ne0matrix SG All I know is that this Italian was late in submitting his invention. Forgot his name though.
Gordonator SG well, i myself will make sure that all the info that i have posted are authentic when i post them. glad to hear that u are learning, do come often.
Gordonator SG yes u are correct. Sir Stamford Raffles was born on 5th July 1781 and died on 5th July 1826. he found Singapore on 29th January 1819, and died 7 years later at the age of 45 years old.
BeEtHoVeN SG he is one of the few who can distinguish the musical note just by listening to that particular musical note alone.
