GREAT EVENTS
FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO DIED YOUNG:
- John Keats, English Poet. ( Age of Death - 25 )
- Beatrice Portinari, Italian Noble Woman, immotalised by Dante in his Divine Comedy. ( Age of Death - 23 )
- Joan of Arc, French heroin. ( Age of Death - 19 )
- Tutankhamen, Egyptian Pharaoh. ( Age of Death - 17 )
- Anne Frank, German Jew and diarist. ( Age of Death - 15 )
Thomas Alva Edison { AD 1878 } -- Inventer of first phonograph:
Did you know that Edison tested the machine by singing nursery rhyme into the mouth-piece, "Mary had a little lamb." ? To his excitement, the machine played his words back to him!.
Cape Of Good Hope:
Bartolomeu Dias originally named the Cape of Good Hope the "Cape of Stroms". It was later renamed by John II as the Cape of Good Hope because of the opening of a route to the East.
Shakespeare's Spelling:
In Shakespeare's time in England, no one bothered much about spelling. That's because the idea of always spelling words in the same way was still very new. As a matter of fact, even shakespeare wasn't consistent in using spelling. He signed his name in several different ways at different times. Shagspeare, Shakespeare and Shaxpere are just few of the spellings he used!
Bastile Fort:
The fall of Bastile Fort was a crutial event in the begining of the French revolution. To fight the king's troops, the people needed weapons and this could be got from Bastile, where many people had been imprisoned without trial. That is why the revolutionists first captured the Bastile.
Newton's Contribution:
Issac Newton had invented calculus, discovered the spectrum of light and written his theory of Gravitation, all before he was twenty four. He also invented the reflector telescope. In 1667, at the age of twenty five, he formulated his three laws of motion.
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