Leonardo da Vinci

 ★ Short Biography :

     ┗▶ Leonardo da Vinci born on April 15, 1452 and died on May 2, 1519 was an Italian polymath, having been a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.

     ┗▶ Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention.

★ As a Painter

     ┗▶ He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.It is primarily as a painter that Leonardo was and is renowned. 

      

    ┗▶Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper occupy unique positions as the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also iconic.

★ As an Engineer

    ┗▶ As an engineer, Leonardo's ideas were vastly ahead of his time. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics.

     ┗▶ His conceptual drawings included plans for musical instruments, war machines, calculators, boats and other ideas. Many of these plans were limited by the level of technology at the time.

     ┗▶ Flight was of particular interest to da Vinci. He studied the flight of birds and created plans for flying machines that resemble hang gliders and helicopters.

★ As a Scientist

     ┗▶ As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

The renaissance man of the renaissance. He could have lived to be 500 and still not lived up to his potential.

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Miss Corazon "corry" Aquino

She was the 11th president and first female president of the Philippines.

She restored democracy after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos who held the title of President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.

She took office after Marcos fled the country, and served as president, until 1992.

Julia Child

Popular TV chef and author . Born in California in 1912.In 1948, she moved to France where she developed a fondness for French cuisine. With a goal of adapting sophisticated French cuisine for mainstream Americans.

"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."

STEPHEN HAWKING

1- Stephen William Hawking is one of the most famous living scientists. His computer-simulated voice is familiar on many television science programmes.

2- Stephen Hawking (b.1942) is a British physicist who is famous for his ideas on space and time.

3- Hawking was born in Oxford, England and studied at Cambridge University, where he is now a professor.

4- Hawking suffers from the paralyzing nerve disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He cannot move any more than a few hand and face muscles, but he gets around very well in an electric wheelchair.

5- Hawking cannot speak, but he communicates effectively with a computer-simulated voice.

6- Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time (1988) outlines his ideas on space, time and the history of the Universe since the Big Bang. It was one of the best-selling science books of the 20th century.

7- Einstein thought of and Hawking developed the idea of black holes. They are collapsed objects, such as stars, that have become invisible.

8- Hawking’s contributions to the study of gravity are considered to be the most important since Einstein’s.

9- More than anyone else, Hawking has developed the idea of black holes — points in space where gravity becomes so extreme that it even sucks in light.

10- Hawking developed the idea of a singularity, which is an incredibly small point in a black hole where all physical laws break down.

11- Hawking’s work provides a strong theoretical base for the idea that the Universe began with a Big Bang, starting with a singularity and exploding outwards.

12- Hawking is trying to find a quantum theory of gravity to link in with the three other basic forces (electromagnetism and nuclear forces). The Big Bang theory assumes the Universe started with a singularity, a point of infinite mass.

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William the Bastard

1- Duke William of Normandy also known as William the Bastard. 

2- He was born in Falaise in 1028 - his parents were unmarried - hence the nickname. 

3- His father was Robert I, the sixth Duke of Normandy.Duke Robert of Normandy died in 1035 and William became Duke of Normandy at the age of only seven years old. 

4- Edward the Confessor, the King of England, took refuge in Normandy after the Danes conquered England, he stayed at the palace of William. 

5- He was very kindly treated there, and William said that in 1051 Edward had promised in gratitude that William should succeed him as king of England. 

6- Edward the Confessor returned to England and took with him Norman friends and advisors. 

7- The English nobles led by Harold Godwinson were furious at having so many French at court and Edward was forced to expel them. 

8- Edward the Confessor then dies and Harold Godwinson claims the English throne and is crowned the King of England.

9- To press his claim to the English crown, William invaded England in 1066 leading the battle of Hastings .

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Ghengis Khan killed 11% of the world's population!

Ghengis Khan reached power by uniting the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. He founded the Mongol Empire and began invading other tribes. This resulted in the eventual conquest of most of Eurasia.

While most conquests like this are usually pretty bloody, no one holds a candle to Khan. He killed with such savagery that it is estimated that he killed 11.1% of the world's population at the time. In whole numbers, it is estimated that his campaigns resulted in the death of more than 40 million people!

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▬▬ Eminem Facts ▬▬

★ Eminem dropped out of school after failing 9th grade 3 times, mainly
because he skipped school too many times to battle kids on the street
corners.

★ Eminem was really quiet at school and had a hard time making friends, but
started becoming more social in the 8th grade. Eminem says that he was the
smallest kid in school.

★ Eminem worked for a factory called Gibbs Machinery when he was 16. He
had a lot of odd jobs (sweeping floors, taking out the trash) and also worked
at Little Ceaser's Pizza

★ When Eminem was younger, he would often come up with rhymes while
trying to fall asleep. In order to remember them, he used to write them on
the wall above his bed in pencil. Once, while he was trying to rub one of his
rhymes off, he accidentally scraped the paint off.

★ As a young boy, Eminem had a crush on Madonna

★ Eminem would spend hours at night studying the dictionary so that he could
expand his vocabulary for his raps. He wanted to concentrate a lot more on
his rap than school.


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★ Gregor Johann Mendel profoundly known as the genius behind the foundation of genetics had never ever studied biology.

★ He did his M.Sc in Mathematics and was then sent to a school as a Math teacher where he failed to maintain his position due to teaching problems. 

★ He then began his training as a priest and soon replaced an abbot of a monastery.

★ Luckily his parents were gardeners and having a practical knowledge of Gardening, he started observing the plants (mostly pea plants) of a huge garden which was a part of the monastery.

★ After a span of 8 years, he finally formulated his famous 2 laws of genetics and sent his works compiled in a diary to a biological research department in Germany where his work was not given much attention and he died before seeing the impact of his work.

★ After 35 years of his death, 2 friends, Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns rediscovered Mendel's laws and it was then after 35 years of his death that his work was investigated ,verified & appreciated and he is now regarded as the founder of Genetics — the most active branch in biology.


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★ John Milton, considered by scholars as the greatest poet in the English history after Shakespeare was renowned because of his 2 books namely "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained".

★ Despite starting his poetic journey long before he became blind, these books were amazingly dictated by him to his 3 daughters after he had lost his "power of sight".

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★ Inspite of being the greatest English poet, dramatist and an actor of all ages, William Shakespeare never published his books in his whole life.

★ He became renowned after his death and this is the reason that not even a single original portrait of him is available. 

★ All are imaginary or abstract and only 1 portrait in the whole world is considered as authentic although even it is not true but it's authenticity is due to its acceptance from his 2 friends who were responsible for introducing him to the world after his death.

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★ When Galileo 1st gave the idea in Italy that the earth revolves around the sun, it angered the religious leaders of that time according to their scriptures which says that the whole universe revolves around the Earth.

★ They felt so much offended that Galileo was presented and accused in the court and was given 2 conditions : Either to apologize from his devil for his mistakes or to face public prosecution i.e. death in front of public. 

★ He was so frightened for his statement that he apologized and on exiting the court he uttered silently to one of his friends that "My apology won't stop Earth from revolving around the Sun". 

★ This became the basis for modern Science and when his statement was proved, people finally learned to discriminate between Religion and Science. 

★ That was the begining if Renaissance Age in Europe.

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Albert Einstein couldn't speak clearly until he was 10, his parents thought he was retard.

And now— He's the "Man of the 20th Century", 1 not in hundreds, thousands, millions or billions but the whole Planet and the Century !

He is responsible for reshaping our minds and changing views of of our imagination, for the first time in history we see, collision of science fiction with Reality—Time Travel through his famous "Theory of Relativity"

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Dracula was originally a Romanian prince born in Transylvania in 1431.

He belonged to a club called "The Order of the Dragon." That's how he got his nickname, Dracula which comes from "Draco" which is Latin for "Dragon".

A member of this order would be referred to as Draconist or Dracul and son of Dracul would then be called Dracula.The word Dracul also has the meaning "devil" which sometimes leads to mistranslation of Dracula's name.

His real name was "Wladislaus Dragwlya or Drakwlya" and since he was a very cruel leader and having name "Dracula" , people started associating "Dracula" with socail evils. BUT THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN DRACULA AND A VAMPIRE, however you may associate a Dracula with a Dragon.

Today "Drakula" or "Drakulić" (e.g. Slavenka Drakulić) is a common surname in countries of the former Yugoslavia.


Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_the_Impaler

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Yuri Garagarin(right),Valentina Tereshkova(middle) & Alexei Leonov(left)

★ Everybody knows that 1st Man to travel in space was a Soviet cosmonaut "Yuri Gagarin" on 12 April 1961 aboard Vostok 1 spacecraft.

★ But the 1st woman to venture space was also a Russian astronaut "Valentina Tereshkova" on 16 June 1963.

★ And if still not enough, the 1st person to walk in space was also a Russian astronaut "Alexei Leonov" on 18 March 1965 spending over ten minutes outside his spacecraft, the Voskhod1.

★ The Americans were the second except walking on moon "Neil Armstrong".


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★ Nostradamus real name was Michel de Nostredame.

★ He was born in 1503 and died in 1566.

★ Although his fame is due to the prophecies, Nostradamus was a doctor and pharmacist quite appreciated at the time.

★ He had published poems since the year 1555 under the original name of “Les Propheties” (The Prophecies).

★ Besides,he published a book of recipes for cosmetics, perfumes and fruit preservatives.

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Quick comparison of a few genius

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★ William III and his wife Mary II (daughter of James II), were proclaimed joint sovereigns of England in 1688 following the Glorious Revolution.

★ They were accepted by Scotland the following year, but Ireland, which was mainly Catholic, remained loyal to James II. 

★ William led an army into Ireland and James was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. 

★ Mary II died in 1694 and William ruled alone until his death in 1702.

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★ Queen Anne was the sister of Mary II and was married to Prince George of Denmark.

★ She was a committed Protestant and supported the Glorious Revolution that deposed her father and replaced him with her sister and brother-in-law. 

★ In 1707 the Act of Union formally united the Kingdoms of England and Scotland. 

★ She was the last Stuart monarch as none of her eighteen children survived beyond infancy.

★ Queen Anne ruled from 1702 till 1714.

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Queen Elizabeth I almost died of Smallpox in 1562 and was left with some scars on her face which were covered with the heavy white make-up which was fashionable at the time.

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★ Wernher von Braun was one of the most important German weapons specialists to work on rocketry and jet propulsion in the U.S. after WWII.

★ He disapproved of military use of the rocket . 

★ He was chiefly responsible for rocketry for the space program.

★ He worked on rocket technology first for Germany and then for the United States.

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