Curious and interesting facts from life. Funny facts from people's lives. Good psychologist with excellent memory
1. Napoleon was 26 years old when he captured Italy.
2. Baghdad University awarded Uday, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein, a doctorate in political sciences. Although he did not even have a secondary education. His dissertation was titled “The Decline of American Power by 2016.”
3. In 1938, Time magazine named Hitler "Person of the Year."
4. During his service in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname "Moth".
5. Hitler was a vegetarian.
6. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra tested the effectiveness of her poisons by forcing her slaves to take them.
7. Cleopatra married her own brother - Ptolemy.
8. Cleopatra was not an Egyptian. She had Macedonian, Iranian and Greek roots.
9. Lafayette became a general in the US Army at 19. His full name is: Mary Joseph Paul Yves Rocher Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
10. The Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in the 50s, Alexei Popov, was a well-known swindler.
11. The Mongol conqueror Timur (1336-1405) played something like polo with the skulls of the people he killed. He created a pyramid of their severed heads 9 meters high.
12. At the time of Lenin's death, his brain was only a quarter of its normal size.
13. Napoleon was not born in France, but on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were Italian and they had eight children.
14. The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon.
15. One of Napoleon's drinking bowls was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
16. The founder of the theory of communism Karl Marx has never been to Russia.
17. The first American Chief Justice, John Jay, bought slaves to free them.
18. The first person in history to be hit by a train was British MP William Huskinson.
19. The ancestors of Winston Churchill on the maternal side were ... Indians.
20. US President Andrew Jackson believed the Earth was flat.
21. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on men's beards. However, Peter the Great did not favor bearded men either.
22. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar ordered the execution of her subjects if they appeared to her in dreams without her permission.
23. Queen Victoria was presented with a piece of cheese with a diameter of 3 meters and a weight of 500 kilograms at the wedding.
24. King Henry VIII of England executed two of his six wives.
25. President of Uganda and one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, Idi Amin, served in the British Army before coming to power.
26. British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston died in 1865 on a pool table where he was making love to his servants.
27. At the court of the King of Spain, Alfonso, there was a special position - a hymnal. The fact is that the king had no musical ear at all, and he himself could not distinguish the anthem from other music. The hymnal had to warn the king when the national anthem was played.
28. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Skorus.
29. The Roman emperor Nero forced his teacher philosopher Seneca to commit suicide.
30. The height of Peter the Great was approximately 213 cm. Despite the fact that in those days the average height of men was significantly lower than today.
31. Sir Winston Churchill smoked no more than 15 cigars a day.
32. Tom Cruise at the age of 14 went to study at the seminary to become a priest, but left it after a year.
33. The French king Louis XIV had 413 beds.
34. The Israeli king Solomon had about 700 wives and several thousand mistresses.
35. King Louis XIV of France, known as the "Sun King", had over 400 beds.
36. Napoleon had ailurophobia - fear of cats.
37. Winston Churchill was born in the women's room of the Blenheim family castle. During the ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth.
38. Physicist and Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr and his brother, renowned mathematician Harald Bohr, were football players. At the same time, Harald was a member of the Danish national team and even took second place at the 1905 Olympics.
39. The phrase “The king is dead, long live the king” was uttered by Catherine de Medici when she learned about the death of her son Charles IX.
40. The Swedish King Charles VII, who was killed in 1167, was the first king of the state with the name Charles! Charles I, II, III, IV, V and VI never existed, and it is not clear where the prefix "seventh" came from. A couple of centuries later, King Charles VIII (1448-1457) appeared in Sweden.
41. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession.
42. Attila the Barbarian died in 453 on his wedding night immediately after the wedding.
43. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 grains.
44. The British Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who ruled Britain for 64 years, spoke English with an accent. She had German roots.
45. In 1357, a dead woman was crowned Queen of Portugal. She became Princess Inés de Castro, the second wife of Pedro I. 2 years before, her father-in-law, Alfonso "Proud", who hated her for being a commoner, secretly ordered his people to kill her and her children. When Pedro became king, he ordered the removal of Inés' body from the grave and forced the nobility to recognize her as Queen of Portugal.
46. In 1849, Senator David Atchison became President of the United States for only 1 day, and most of that day he ... overslept.
47. The Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassim Ismail (who lived in the 10th century) never parted with his library. If he went somewhere, the library “followed” him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by 400 camels. Moreover, the books (together with the camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.
48. The great Genghis Khan died while having sex.
49. Hannibal died in 183 BC. e. taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
50. Hans-Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word without errors.
51. Henry IV often flogged his son, the future Louis XIII.
52. The Danish king Frederick IV was a bigamist. He married twice while his wife Queen Louise was alive. His first lover died in childbirth, his second lover was only queen for 19 days after the death of Queen Louise. All the children from both of his mistresses either died at birth or in infancy, as he believed for his sinful life. He later became extremely religious.
53. Jack the Ripper, the most famous killer of the 19th century, always committed his crimes on weekends.
54. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book "Healthy Eating" and many books about proper nutrition died of malnutrition.
55. Once the merchant Krasnobryukhov turned to Alexander I with a request to change his surname, and he allowed him to be called ... Sinebryukhov. After that, the merchant went to Finland with grief and founded the famous Koff brewing company there.
56. When the Russian Queen Elizabeth I died in 1762, more than 15,000 dresses were found in her wardrobe.
57. Mozart started composing music at the age of 3.
58. There is not a single living descendant of William Shakespeare left on Earth.
59. Before composing music, Beethoven poured a bucket of cold water on his head, believing that it stimulated the brain.
60. Thomas Edison wrote 40,000 pages while designing the light bulb.
61. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Felix Mendelssohn wrote at the age of 17. It became his most famous work.
62. Beria suffered from syphilis.
63. More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach became organists.
64. In the ZZ Top group, only one member does not have a beard. And his name is Beard, which in English means ... "beard".
65. Since 1932, only Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have not been elected to the United States for a second term as president.
66. Ilf and Petrov discarded ideas that came to both minds at once - in order to avoid clichés.
67. When Beethoven wrote the famous Ninth Symphony, he was completely deaf.
68. Composer Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of the German composer Richard Wagner.
69. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.
70. Writer Rudyard Kipling couldn't write in ink unless it was black.
71. Writer Charles Dickens wrote with his face to the north. He also always slept with his head to the north.
72. The Roman emperor Commodus gathered dwarfs, cripples and freaks from all over the Roman Empire to arrange fights between them in the Colosseum.
73. The Roman emperor Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his growing baldness.
74. Russian composer Alexander Borodin was also a well-known chemist in St. Petersburg.
75. The smallest of the American presidents is James Madison (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln is the tallest (1.93 m).
76. The shortest British monarch is Charles I. His height was 4 feet 9 inches (about 140 cm). After his head was cut off, his height became even smaller.
77. The body of Voltaire, who died in 1778, was stolen from the grave and was never found. The loss was discovered in 1864.
78. Balzac has a whole book dedicated to ... a tie.
79. The British Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) had about 3,000 outfits.
80. American Pete Ruff knocks an apple off his own head with a boomerang.
81. American industrial tycoon and billionaire John Rockefeller donated over $550 million. to various foundations and institutions.
82. American President Benjamin Franklin advocated that the national bird of America was the turkey.
83. In 1856, the English chemist William Perkin, while trying to obtain quinine from aniline, invented the first artificial dye, mauveine.
84. In the village of Lobovskoye, Saratov Region. there lives a beekeeper who is able to withstand 40 hours in a hive with bees completely naked.
85. In the period from 1952 - 1966, 5 children were born in the family of Ralph and Carolyn Cummins and all of them have a birthday on February 20th.
86. Galileo Galilei was the first person to propose using a pendulum to measure time.
87. Hannibal died in 183 BC after taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
88. Grover Cleveland was the only US president to marry in the White House.
89. James Madison was the smallest of the American presidents (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln was the tallest (1.93 m).
90. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book Healthy Eating and many books on proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
91. For 35 years, Mozart created over 600 works. But after his death, the widow did not have money for a separate place in the cemetery
92. Famous 19th century bullfighter Lagarijo (born Rafael Molina) killed 4867 bulls.
93. When the German physicist A. Einstein died, his last words went with him. Nurse, former nearby did not understand German.
94. The maximum number of crossword puzzles was Andrian Bell. From January 1930 to 1980 he sent 4,520 crossword puzzles to The Times.
95. Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was rescued from a car accident by one Edwin Booth. As it turns out, Edwin is the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The father tried to kill the father, and their children saved each other
96. The first American president to use the telephone was James Garfield.
97. The concept of a negative number was first introduced by the Italian merchant Pisano in 1202, denoting his debts and losses.
98. The world's largest private collection of meteorites belongs to the American Robert Haag - from the age of 12 he collected 2 tons of heavenly stones.
99. Thomas Edison had a collection of birds in 5000 copies.
100. Frenchmen Jeanne Louise and Guy Bruty made a crossword puzzle on a sheet of paper 5 m long and 3 m wide, from 18 thousand words and 50 thousand cells.
101. Shakespeare mentioned roses more than 50 times in his poems.
102. Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, was the only president to make his own clothes.
103. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day - February 12, 1809. The scientist lived almost 20 years longer than the politician.
104. Bill Clinton sent two emails during his entire presidency, one of which was a test to check that everything was working properly. I wonder who the second letter was to? Maybe Monica?
105. In 1759, Arthur Guinness leased St. Gate's brewery for 9,000 years at a rent of £45 a year. The famous Guinness beer was brewed there.
106. In 1981, Deborah Ann Fontan, Miss New York, was disqualified for excessive use of cotton stuffing in a swimsuit competition.
107. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting - he preferred to bow
108. The only president of the United States, concurrently being the chairman of any union - Ronald Reagan, who heads the Screen Actors Guild
109. If you remember a little school physics course, then you know that there is a Richter temperature scale. So this same Charles Richter was a malicious nudist, because of which his wife left him
110. If you read the works of the writer Stephen King, you should notice that most of the actions of his stories take place in Maine. Paradoxically, this state has the lowest crime rate in the United States.
111. The founder of psychoanalysis has a lot of oddities. Freud was terrified of the number 62. He refused to book a hotel room with more than 62 rooms for fear of accidentally getting a room with the number 62. He used cocaine, like many of his contemporaries.
112. The famous entrepreneur Henry Ford preferred to hire people with physical disabilities - among the workers of his factories in 1919, there was one disabled person for four healthy people.
113. Research Louis Pasteur sponsored a beer factory. They also paid him a ticket to an international congress. When Pasteur was given the floor at the congress, the first thing he did was to hang advertising posters with beer on the stage. And he began his speech with the words that this beer is the best. And then he got down to business.
114. Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins of Prince Charles's wife, Camilla
115. The father of the famous comedian Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun, etc.) served as a policeman in Canada, and his brother worked in the Canadian Parliament
116. The father of tennis player Andre Agassi represented Iran at Olympic Games 1948 and 1952. He was... a boxer
Then open the wheel to share your experiences, stories and your projects. Once the activity is complete, form a wheel and have them talk about the workshop. What did he do with each? Generated anxiety, restlessness, or was it quiet? How was the contact with the past? To whom would you like to dedicate your written history?
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Also, explore with them if it was possible to express your ideas and feelings through written texts: was it harder than expressing them in spoken language? Encourage them to save this material with care and review it if possible. Over time, this text may surprise everyone. You can even say that it is not finished yet, that is, it can always be revised and supplemented.
1. The candy wrapper was invented by Thomas Edison, the one who created the typewriter, the phonograph, the electric meter and the movie camera.
2. Total length of the circulatory system human body(arteries, veins, capillaries) can reach 100,000 kilometers, which is more than twice the length of the earth's equator.
3. The multiplication table for nine can always be checked on ... fingers. If you want to multiply nine, for example, by four, then bend the fourth finger from the left. It turns out that on the left side of the bent finger, straightened - three, and to the right of it - six, thirty-six. Want to multiply by eight? Please, to the left of the eighth bent finger - seven straightened ones, and to the right - two, seventy-two. And why is such a useful way not taught in school?
The genre of text that tells the story of one's life is called a biography. It is a mixture of journalism, literature and history that records and records the history of a person's life, highlighting the basic facts. Facts can be counted in chronological order - that is, from birth to death, or by topic. They don't have to be written. These are films, plays, etc.
Text and language features. Read the following biographical text which chronicles the life of one of the greatest Brazilian poets, Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Descendant of a family of farmers in decadence, the poet studied in the city of Belo Horizonte and with the Jesuits at the Anhetea College of Nova Friburgo, from where he was expelled by "mental insubordination".
4. A 12-year-old girl named Donna Griffiths (England) suffered from an attack of sneezing for 977 days (from January 1981 to September 1983). At first, she sneezed every minute, but after about a year and a half she began to do it much less often - every five minutes.
5. Inna and Rimma - old Russian MALE names.
6. The word "robot" was coined by the Czech writer Josef Capek and presented by him to his brother, the writer Karel Capek, who used it in one of his plays. Initially, robots were not mechanical, but biological beings that lacked the ability to fall in love. Dead people take note.
Later he started working in National Service historical and artistic heritage and retired. These excerpts already give an opinion on the biography, especially for use. These substitutions represent a kind of text cohesion. To avoid repeating the term mentioned, other words take over what has already been said and help build the text by formulating it.
What is the intention of this usage? Considering the literary recognition that has taken place in the life of the poet, we can think that this is a way of ironically celebrating the innovative way of thinking of the poet, right? Characteristics of the biography We can state that in the biography.
7. Doctors of the Middle Ages, if they doubted the diagnosis of the patient, they diagnosed him with syphilis.
8. Nature has rewarded us with osteochondrosis because we are upright creatures. In the position in which we move, the earth's gravity acts more strongly on our musculoskeletal system, which gradually leads to back pain. It can be seen that the first people who descended from monkeys did not want to be like them, proudly straightened their backs, straightened their shoulders and ... earned us this disease.
Biography and social criticism But are there only biographies? famous people? Well we know history changes depending on who is account. When the story is told by the winner, they often have a strong positive attitude towards it. From another perspective, history is also understood as the action of all people, in relation to different social classes.
Black Cinderella - The Saga of Caroline Maria de Jesus. Carolina Maria de Jesus was a strange figure. She lived alone with three children - one from each father - in a favela in the city of São Paulo, as she worked in the countryside with her mother from an early age. Then both were domestic servants.
9. Stockings were originally part of the men's wardrobe. They were worn exclusively by representatives of the strong half of humanity back in Ancient Greece. AT medieval Europe men's stockings were not hidden under clothes, but were put on public display - reaching the length of the hips, they were fastened to a short jacket. Beautiful, is not it?
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Already in São Paulo, in the Caninde favela, as a paper collector and mother of three, she wrote sheets and sheets of real and imaginary stories. His book has been published in 13 languages in over 40 countries. However, his trajectory, up until his death in the 70s, was unusual and unsettling. In a short time, she was forced to return to a state of poverty, with difficulty in surviving.
The authors of the biography of Caroline de Jesus already anticipated the reader, by title, of what they would be considering. Did you know that the first work of the world famous writer Honore de Balzac, the tragedy of Cromwell, was extremely negatively received by his own family. The same goes for his subsequent literary experiments under various pseudonyms. In the early 1920s he was in the publishing business, which failed completely. By the end of his life, Balzac had not paid his mother, who financed her publishing company.
10. Radishchev, in his essay "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow", described a village beauty during the reign of Catherine II. Moreover, he paradoxically compared her teeth with ... coal. It turns out that sweets at that time were a luxury and the black, spoiled teeth of the young woman testified to the prosperity in her family, and therefore were a source of pride.
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Later, when there are some brilliant novels, the French writer goes into business again, devising a plan to grow pineapples in his house. And this activity is doomed to failure, and he is forced to hide from creditors, hiding his identity. Do you know that in one of his novels, the famous English writer tirelessly criticizes the so-called "Schools of the Poor", not saving even angry reproaches against the entire education system at that time. Contemplators tell him that these are the shocking images of torture and suicide for children described in Nikolai Nicholib, which cause the closure of many such schools and the improvement of the regime in others.
11. In Ancient Egypt plowmen began to attach an elevation under the heel to their shoes, so that it would be more convenient to move on loose earth. This is how heels came about.
12. Full name the famous artist Pablo Picasso sounds like this - Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuseno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Martir Patricio Ruiz and Picasso.
Did you know that the famous writer had a habit of leaving the house with his pockets full of books so that he could devote himself to his favorite reading in every spare moment. Hemingway inherited this unusual habit from his mother. Did you know that the most popular Latin American writer starts his own novel on January 8th. In the 1990s, each of her books was the top ten best-selling in the world. Her most famous work, House of Spirits, comes from letters she wrote to her 99-year-old grandfather, who was then on his deathbed.
13 In psychiatry, a syndrome accompanied by depersonalization, a violation of the perception of time and space, one's own body and the environment, is OFFICIALLY called "Alice in Wonderland".
14. Somehow, in 1850, the first batch of sparrows was brought from Europe to America. The Americans were so overjoyed that they fed them all to death.
The book actually reflects the seventy-year history of her own family. Did you know that in addition to the writer and playwright, he is a veterinarian, professor of anatomy, embryology and histology of vertebrates, author of more than 20 scientific works. His dream remains to write a book about his relative, Jan Sandanski, although he has been collecting materials for it all his life.
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Did you know that he is also known as an expert chef. The book is an encyclopedia and a cookbook. Did you know that the world famous writer writes six novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. They are Anger, Long Walk, Runner Man, Road Network, Curse, and Regulators. When the alias is revealed, the king creates an entombed burial for Richard Buckman.
15. The first geisha in Japan were men. They performed the functions of toastmaster, entertained visitors to the tea house with songs and playing musical instruments. "Geisha" (master) became "Geisei" (master) in the second half of the 18th century, after a woman took on the role of toastmaster. Soon geisha women became so popular that they completely replaced men. Still would! After all, the regulars of tea houses were much more to the taste of tea and sake, brought by an elegant white handle, and dances performed by delicate beauties in luxurious kimonos.
The last novel, The Regulators, was released after Buckman's false death, and Stephen King released a statement that the manuscript was found among the late writer's belongings. Do you know that great writer receives a noble title against 500 marks. The amount is paid to the poor Baron Hugo von Buchwald, who formally assumes the title in order to pass on the title in question. The newly minted aristocrat immediately orders crowns, starts wearing a monocle, dresses elegantly and uses an incredible amount of calvados.
Hard road to glory
With new self-esteem, he relies on social life, visits famous restaurants and attends any possible theater or concert events. Twins! - this SS shouted on the ramp in Auschwitz for Miriam and Eva to postpone the death sentence. Their parents and two sisters entered the gas chambers straight from the siding, and the girls were placed under the "care" of Dr. Mengele, a Nazi criminal and pseudoscience who loved to perform medical experiments on children. One-on-one twins were especially important to him.
