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.