Wednesday, November 9, 2011

[Celebs_of_TV_and_Magazine2] Interesting Info

 


  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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