It's interesting how similar in looks The Sun King.... Louis XIV of France was to King Charles II of England. Not very surprising really as the father of Louis and the mother of Charles were brother and sister. The oldest cockroach fossil is about 280 million years old, which means that the cockroach was around 80 million years before the first dinosaur appeared on earth. Vikings reached North America 500 years before the Pilgrims. Neither Cliff, nor the Shadows really made it big in the USA .... though it must have p......d them off when "Apache" reached No1 in the U.S. via a cover version by Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingmann. Walt Disney , the famous creator of Mickey Mouse, was actually afraid of mice. 1972 " Face of Kronos" ( Doc Who ) with Katy Manning, Ingrid Pit and Susan Penhaligan, .......... not a bad line up for the TV series ! The first toy to be advertised on TV was Mr Potato Head . In 1956 80 % of American homes had a fridge while over in Britain only 8% of homes had one. John Lennon was obsessed with the No.9, he even had a track about it on one LP. He was shot and died on 8th Dec 1980 in New York but it was already the 9th back home in England. The coldest temp ever recorded on Earth was -129 degrees F at Vostok Antarctica on 21 July 1983. Pinocchio is Italian for " pine eyes " Keith Relf of the Yardbirds was found dead in his London home in 1976 holding an electric guitar. John Rosthill of the shadows was found dead in 1973 supposedly electricuted by his guitar. The largest iceberg ever sighted was seen in the South Pacific in 1956. It was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide ! ................... about the size of Belgium. Top of the Pops on Thurs 22 Dec 1981 had Abba singing ................ "One of Us" Dollar singing .............. " Mirror Mirror" and Human League singing ...... " Dont You Want Me" not a bad line up for the show........ a foxy blonde in each group ! The artist Alfred Munnings burnt Stanley Spencer's erotic and bizarre paintings after the painters death in Dec 1959. The Tallest tree in the world is a redwood.... measured at 367 feet high. William Gladstone, the politician and long serving PM in Victorian England used to walk the streets of Soho at night meeting prostitutes and getting into conversation with them. He tried to persuade them to enter the .. "Home for Former Prostitutes"... that he had founded. Greenland is four times the size of France. The building of Salisbury Cathedral began in the year 1220. A Chinese woman knocked a huge 42 seconds off the women's 10,000metre world record in 1993. The biggest palace in the world is the Imperial Palace in Beijing. If you slept in a diffent room every night it would take you 25 years to sleep in every room. Elvis was fascinated by Hank Williams who died age 29 from drug overdose. Hank died about the time that Elvis was just becoming famous. Hank came from a similar, "dirt poor" background . In 1950, at her peak, Enid Blighton was earning £150,000 a year... that was a lot of lolly back then ! The Victorian painter... Walter Sickert.... like the painter ....L.S. Lowry..... worked in obscurity and.. like Lowry, did n't achieve artistic recognition until he was in his 60's. Cliff Richard was only 20 when his dad died and many think it was this tragedy that led to his turning to religion. Five years later his mum.. Dorothy.... married Cliff's ex chauffer.... the guy was a year younger than Cliff ! Bruce Welch's girlfriend came back from South Africa and had a tape worm. The worm had attached itself to her throat by hooks and was 15 feet long spreading deep into her intestines. They had to insert tubes down her throat to poison the parasite worm. White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby has sold over 100 million records. |
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