Van Gogh only sold one painting in his entire life and that was to his brother. Lake Baikal... situated in Russian Siberia...is 400 miles long, 50 miles wide and over 1 mile deep. It is 20 million years old, making it the world's oldest lake. Australia is the only continent on earth that does nt have an active volcano. The Great Wall of China is 2149 miles long. 47 Bibles are sold every minute. Tarantulas are spiders, but they cant spin a web. They can live for 2 and 1/2 years without food. The earth travels round the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. Honeybees kill more people each year than venomous snakes. Winston Churchill's American mother had red indian ancestry. Around 150 people are killed by falling coconuts each year. Tittenhurst Park was John and Yoko's home near Royal Ascot, The working class hero's home was set in 72 acres complete with spectacular gardens and servant's cottages. Butterflies taste with their feet. Mary Mitchel spent 5 years of her life writing ... Gone with the Wind.... Shortly after the premier of the movie she was knocked down by a car in Atlanta and died of her injuries. She did n't live to enjoy the fruits of her writing success. The disco singer.....Amy Stewart is Sinitta's aunt. most famous for her hit disco record "Knock on Wood" Amy Stewart is the stepsister of actress-singer Miquel Brown and aunt to Miquel's singer daughter Sinitta. Europe is the only continent without a desert. The Bible tells us that Jesus was born in the reign of Herod............ but its known that King Herod died in the year 4 BC ! Hitler spent most of WW2 at the front. He fought in the Battle of the Somme. The only food that does not spoil... is honey . 5th August 1962.... Marilyn Monroe was found dead age 36. Each year in America 10,000 fires are started by lightening. On 24th December 1965 a meteorite weighing 100 lbs fell in Leicester. It is probably the biggest meteorite to fall in Britain in modern times. Jane Austin's father was age 44 when she was born. After the Philistine's victory they impaled the headless body of King Saul on the city walls. They took his head and put it in the temple of their chief god........... Dagon... They put Saul's armour in the temple of their fertility goddess.... Astarte. Schonberg grew up in Brittany , the son of a piano tuner. In 1978 Boublil travelled to London to see the revival of the musical ... Oliver. When the Artful Dodger came on stage he immediately thought of Gavroche in Victor Hugo's novel......... Les Miserables. He returned to Paris and said to Schonberg... " Could we make a musical of Les Miserables ? " "Vie Privee".... the 1962 Bardot movie was really Brigitte's own life laid bare. The Apple, the Almond and the Peach are all members of the Rose Family of plants. Queen Ann had 17 children.... every one of them died before her. A Boeing 747 holds 57,285 gallons of fuel The artist David Hockney avidly collected ... Physique Pictorial.... the magazine that originated in LA. He was also fond of the poetry of Cavafy... the Greek poet whose favourite city was Alexandria. LA was hot and sleazy, just like the Egyptian city. Spring of 1941.... with the loss of Crete , Britain reached a low point in the war. In Greek, the first letter of Christ's name is X Tommy Steele's wife was a Manchester girl. They had a house near to Noel Coward on the island of Jamaica Claude Francois at age 21 became a pop star in France. He got the nickname Clau Clau and had his own female backing group... the Clodettes. He helped write the famous song .... My Way... In 1978 he foolishly stood up .. while taking a bath... and changed a faulty lightbulb. He died instantly aged 37. Please Please Me was released in January 1963 and went straight to No1 For a while, Christine Keeler shared a flat with Stephen Ward... the close friend of Lord Astor. She often came home late from the clubs but Stephen would usually be awake, sitting up in bed ..... reading either a thriller or a Denis Wheatley novel. Carry on Columbus was the 30th Carry On movie. The milk inside a coconut can be used as a substitute for blood plasma. |
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