Friday, January 12, 2018

From the Archives

 

                                        From the Archives


  •     In 1796, a cow was elected MP ( British member of parliament ) to the house of commons in protest against the king.
  • Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
  • Charles Dickens kept the head of his bed aligned with the North pole, believing the earth's magnetic field would pass longitudinal through his body and ensure him a good sleep.
  • Mark Twain did not graduate from elementary school
  • Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
  • Florence Nightingale's 1860 Notes on Nursing was the first text book for nurses.
  • Benjamin Franklin never patented any of his inventions, feeling that they should be shared freely for the public good.
  • King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.
  • Choclate was once used as Currency.
  • Rene Descartes came up with the theory of co-ordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tilted ceiling.

1 comment:

Jaya said...

Amazing what can invoke ideas. I like chocolate being a currency :)