The warmest temperature recorded on earth was 136 F at El Azizia Libya on 13 sept 1922 Mike Todd for the movie ... Sound of Music.... used 70mm film to get wide screen and high quality pictures. Elephants and humans are the only animals that can stand on their heads. The microwave was invented in the 1940s when a researcher walked near a radar tube and discovered that the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Hammer began shooting .. Dracula.. at Bray Studios in 1957 . Universal Pictures were the co- financiers and distributors. Universal were as astonished as every other American Major by Hammers sudden eruption into the International big league with " Curse of Frankenstein " in 1956 . Using nano technology a microscopic guitar with strings has been made. It is no larger than a human blood cell. The temp on the moon can drop by 500 F at night. John Logie Baird made the very first television in 1924 using cardboard, scrap wood, needles, string and other materials. Arthur Rank was the son of a flour miller in Hull. At his local Methodist youth club Arthur began showing short films to the kids who flocked in to see them. Eventually he began making his own films with a religious and moral theme. His organization grew into "Rank Films " Nearly 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year. A camels hump stores fat, not water. January 1973 .... Thames TV stage the "Miss TV Europe " event. The winner was the 20 year old........ Sylvia Kristel from Holland . Bees are born fully grown. The Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 left 140,000 dead. Incredibly it was fires caused by the earthquake that were the biggest cause of death. Gerry Thomas directed the Carry On movies, his brother Ralph Thomas directed the Carry on Doctor movies. Fri.22 Nov 1963......... the assassination of Pres Kennedy Sat 23 Nov 1963........ the very first episode of Doctor Who. The world population increases by 1 million every 4 days ! Dinosaurs were on earth for almost 150million years..... that is 75 times longer than humans have been on the planet. Britain's youngest prime minister was William Pitt who became PM in 1783 at the age of 24 years. " Bring him Home " a song from Les Mis.... is nt that a massive steal from The Humming Bird Chorus .... in Puccini's Madame Butterfly ? A car travelling at 100 miles per hour would take over 29 million years to reach the sun. 1966 the soap series ..." Weavers Green.".. with Susan George and Kate Omara .... made by Anglia TV Some species of bamboo will grow 35 " in one day ! Diana Rigg joined The Avengers in 1965 and made over 50 episodes. The 1968 Olympics held in Mexico city ( at 7300 feet ! ) was the first Olympics to be seen via satellite. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Sunrise to sunset on Mercury lasts 6 earth months. Mandy Rice Davies said that she was sure that Emil Savundra ( Infamous for Insurance fraud ) was one of the "Mr Bigs" behind the Great Train Robbery. A bee needs to flap its wings 250 times per second to remain in flight. With the coming to power of the Puritans a fresh wave of witch persecution broke out in England ...... more severe than at any other period. It was the era of Witchfinder Hopkins who began hunting witches in 1645 when the English Civil War was rageing. Until the reformation there is no record of witch trials in Scotland. George W Bush was on vacation for 42% of the time during his first 8 months of being President. Waves in the Pacific Ocean sometimes reach 111 feet high Alma Cogan, the pop singer used to read palms to entertain her guests. At one show biz party she read the palm of singer Max Bygraves... " there are lines going everywhere " she said " you r'e going to live to a ripe old age !" Someone got Alma to read her own palm... there were just two distinct lines ... " Me, " she said .... " I wont be here next year ! " Alma died in 1966 aged just 34 . ( August 2011 ... Max...age 88 .... is still going ) The earth is 80 times bigger than the moon. Parson Gastrell of Frodsham in Cheshire travelled to Stratford in 1756 and bought William Shakespeare's old house ... "New Place...." He hated people peeping over the wall to see the famous Mulberry Tree that William Shakespeare had planted.... in the end he cut the tree down. Some time later he got into a quarrel with the local council about taxes. Just to spite the Town Council and its petty councillors Parson Gastrell demolished the old house... that same house that William Shakespeare built when he became rich in middle age. The people of Stratford were outraged at this act of vandalism and cursed the cleric. Parson Gastrell eventually returned to Frodsham where he was vicar of the medieval church there for a total of 32 years. It takes light from the sun 8 mins and 17 seconds to reach the earth. By January 1994 over 600 people had climbed Everest and over 100 people had died trying. On 12th May 1992............... 30 climbers reached the summit of Everest on the same day ! The Amazon River puts so much fresh water into the Pacific Ocean that there is fresh water over 100 miles out from the shore. In the year 1990 hand guns killed .... 10 in Australia 68 in Canada 10,567 in USA In the year 1994 in the USA an average of 65 people were killed each day by hand guns. 1994 statistic..... over 60% of homes in America have firearms. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.... there was an aura of evil around this supposed "Holy Man " who set up a Commune in Oregan. He died in 1990 . Nicknamed the " Sex Guru " he also had an impressive collection of Rolls Royces. The human heart beats 100,000 times per day . Buddy Holly died in 1959 aged 22 Otis Reading died in 1967 aged 26 Pete Waterman pop producer ... is also famous for his love of steam railways and keeping Koi carp . In an interview he admitted paying £400,000 for just one fish ! In the Musicals Heyday on Broadway during the 1930s and 1940s, Cole Porter was one of the few songwriters who was not Jewish ! April 1976 ..... the last ever performance of Pan's People. There are more than 3500 species of cockroach living on earth. The tea plant is a member of the camelia family and if left to grow naturally it will reach 30 ft high. |
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