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cjslman
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Early in his career, P. T. Barnum created an exhibit, entitled "The Happy Family," consisting of a cage housing a lion, a tiger, a panther - and a baby lamb. The remarkable display earned Barnum unprecedented publicity and attendance figures. Some time after its opening, Barnum was asked about his plans for the happy family. "The display will become a permanent feature," he declared, "if the supply of lambs holds out."
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For three days he lay in a coma Ronald Knox , but once Lady Eldon saw a stir of consciousness and asked whether he would like her to read to him from his own [translation of the] New Testament. He answered very faintly, but distinctly: "No," and then after a long pause in which he seemed to have lapsed again into unconsciousness, there came from the deathbed, just audibly, in the idiom of his youth: "Awfully jolly of you to suggest it, though."
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Patrick Stewart inherited alopecia and had completely lost his hair by the age of 19. Shortly after landing the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Stewart's daughter, then 15, suggested a new tagline for the show: "To baldly go where no man has gone before."
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Frederick's cook Noël one day served some marvelous pastry to which the king paid due honor. After complimenting Noël, he added, "But don't serve this too often. Gluttony is a sin, and we may both in consequence have to burn in hell." The cook replied, "That shouldn't frighten us — everyone knows that neither of us is afraid of fire."
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At a party one evening, a snobbish Bostonian approached James Whistler. "And where were you born, Mr. Whistler?" she asked. "Lowell, Massachusetts," replied the painter. "Whatever possessed you to be born in a place like that?" exclaimed the lady. "The explanation is quite simple," said Whistler. "I wished to be near my mother."
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On the 10th of March, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first complete sentence ever heard via telephone:
----------------------------------------"Watson, please come here. I want you." Was this historic moment carefully scripted and rehearsed? Well, not exactly. Bell's words were picked up by his assistant at the other end - when Bell blurted them out after spilling acid on his pants! |
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In 1998, a curator at Madame Tussaud's (London's famous wax museum) announced that the company had recently been obliged to use glue to 'fix' one of its most popular wax figures. "Every time we passed by," a curator explained, "Bill Clinton's zipper was undone!"
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Albert Einstein was once asked about predictions for the future. "I never worry about the future," he replied. "It comes soon enough."
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Pablo Picasso, who produced about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics, is not surprisingly listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific artist in history.
----------------------------------------Moreover, Picasso, whose full name is: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso... might also be named "most prolifically-named artist in history." |
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Even after suffering a heart attack in 1977 and undergoing triple-bypass surgery in 1983, Isaac Asimov continued to write ten books each year. Incredibly, he used no agents, researchers, or secretaries. "This way there are no arguments... no misunderstandings. I work every day. Writing is my only interest," he once reluctantly explained. "Even speaking is an interruption."
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