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| People | Benjamin Franklin
never patented a single one of his inventions.
Boris Karloff
was paid $125 a week for playing the role of Frankenstein in 1931.
David Berkowitz (aka: Son of Sam)
was known for killing 6 people in New York, USA in 1970's with a .44 caliber gun. He
stated that he took his orders from a dog.
Emilio Palma
became the first child ever born on Antarctica - on January 7th, 1978.
Euphonia Allen
wrote the piano piece 'Chopsticks' at age 16... and published it under the name of Arthur
de Lulli. (Euphonia never wrote another song.)
Ezra J Warner
invented the first can opener in 1858... 45 years AFTER the invention of the tin can.
Frederick Louis
also known as: The Prince Frederick, Prince of Wales - died in 1751 as a result of being struck
by a tennis ball.
Goodwife (Goody) Wright
was the first woman accused of witchcraft in America in 1622.
Herman Melville
is well known for his creation of the book called 'Moby-Dick'. But, 2 & 1/2 years before he
finished this masterpiece - on January 3rd 1841 he embarked on a whaling voyage from
Fairhaven, Massachusetts... and then jumped ship after 18 months due to his dislike of the sea.
Howard Hughes
was one of the wealthiest men in the world when he died in 1976. His holdings were worth over
$16 billion USD..., but he only had $1,799 in cash.
Jeffery Dahmer
was known for killing 16 people in Milwaukee, USA in the 1980's. As a child he liked to
impale animal heads on a stick.
Lois Maxwell
was the first James Bond babe as Miss Moneypenny in 1962.
Mary Ipsen
was the ONLY person who attended both the ceremonies of the Union Pacific and Central
Pacific Railroad's joining on May 10th 1869 at Promontory, Utah - and the 'Undriving of the
Golden Spike' in 1942.
Nancy Isenhour
was the first girl, (age 19), to play on a men's college varsity basketball team in 1945.
Pablo Picasso
was credited for over 13,500 paintings, but most unusual was his full name: Pablo Diego
Jose' Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano los Remedios Cipriano de
la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso Lopez
Sarah E. Goode
was the first black woman granted a US patent in 1885 for designing a folding cabinet bed.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
was the first woman nominated for the US Presidency in 1872.
Vincent Van Gogh
was an alcoholic, but his drinks of choice were paint thinner and absinthe.
* ( Absinthe is a green, liqueur that is 68 percent alcohol - now banned in most Western countries. )
William Kemmler
was the first American criminal to be executed - in Auburn, New York, on August 6th, 1890. | | Row 1 |
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