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The inglorious death of a great genius

The great Dutch painter Van Gogh suffered from bouts of insanity. During one of these attacks, he even cut off a piece of his ear. Shortly before his death, the artist decided to settle in Saint-Paul-de-Mosole, a French asylum for the mentally ill. Here he received an isolated room in which he could also paint from time to time. Van Gogh was allowed, accompanied by a doctor, to walk around the neighborhood and paint his masterpieces - landscapes. It was here that he met Anna Bosch, who bought the painting "Red Vine" for 400 francs. By the way, this was the first and last time during the life of the artist when his painting was bought.

In 1890, on one of the July days, Van Gogh, having escaped, left his monastery. He walked a little alone, and then wandered into a peasant farmstead. The owners were absent at the time. The artist, having taken out a pistol, tried to shoot himself in the heart, but the bullet, hooking on the bone of the rib, passed by. Then, holding the wound with his hand, he slowly walked up to his room and lay down.

When the attendant saw Van Gogh bleeding, a doctor and police were immediately called from the nearby village. But, to their surprise, the doctor and the policeman saw the artist, who was calmly lying in bed and sucking on his pipe.

Van Gogh died that night.

The brain of all Russian literature

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev could safely be called the "brain of Russian literature." After his death, pathologists determined that the weight of the gray matter of the writer is 2 kilograms, which is more than that of other famous personalities. And, probably, that is why the doctor Botkin said that the Almighty simply did not have enough materials for a head of this size. But there is a rational grain in every joke: the writer's parietal bone was very thin. Turgenev himself, laughing at himself, said that through it you can feel the brain. It so happened that, even after receiving a light blow to the head, he fainted or for some time remained in a semi-conscious state.

One of the distinguishing features of Ivan Sergeevich was excessive cleanliness and love for order almost at a manic level. At least twice a day, he changed into clean linen, before which he wiped his entire body with a sponge moistened with cologne. Before sitting down to work at the desk, he always cleaned the room and folded all the papers. Sometimes he could jump out of bed in the middle of the night, remembering that some thing was not in its place. It also annoyed him if the curtains on the windows were not neatly curtained. Each thing or piece of paper on the table had its own specially designated place.

Complexes of the great dictator

Hitler's father was married several times. When he was about to enter into a third marriage with Clara Pelzl (and they were related), Alois had to apply to the Vatican for special permission. The family had six children, among whom Hitler was the third. Knowing about incest in the family, he tried to avoid talking about his parents. However, this fact did not prevent him from demanding other confirmations, and documentary ones, about the origin.

In addition to the idea of ​​​​dominating the whole world, the Fuhrer was still very concerned about the issue of health, so he took a lot of pills. Theodore Morell, Adolf's personal physician, recorded this fact in his medical records. The dictator's entourage considered Morell a charlatan, but Hitler himself trusted him immensely. In 1944, the doctor recommended injections to the patient, which included an extract from the sperm and prostate gland of young calves - testosterone. Adolf really hoped that this medicine, in fact, the "Viagra" of that time, would greatly help him during his close relationship with Eva Braun. Apparently, it is precisely the incomplete consistency in relations with women, phobias and complexes that can explain Hitler's perverted cruelty and his desire to subjugate the whole world.

Little prodigy

Mozart was a gifted child. Even at the age of four he had already written a concerto for stringed keyboard instruments. Moreover, this concert was very difficult, such that hardly any of the European musicians could play it. The father, realizing this, took away the notes with the notes from the young Wolfgang, which he had not yet managed to finish. The indignant young talent answered the parent: “And this music is not at all difficult to perform, even a child, for example, I can perform it.”

All of Mozart's childhood years were associated with musical studies and a large number of performances. Often performing musical works in front of an exquisite European audience, the little genius surprised the audience: his father blindfolded him with a handkerchief, and the child played the clavier blindly, or covered the keys with a piece of cloth, and Wolfgang masterfully coped with the game. During one of the concerts, a cat suddenly entered the stage. And a child is a child - Mozart, leaving the instrument, forgetting about the audience, rushed to her, picked up, stroked, and then began to play with the animal. The angry father demanded to return immediately, to which Wolfgang replied:

"The harpsichord will stand still, and the cat will now run away."

Good psychologist with excellent memory

Stalin had an extremely rich, capacious and tenacious memory. So, D. V. Ustinov recalled that the leader always remembered to the smallest detail all the issues that were discussed, he never allowed even the slightest deviation from the decisions made earlier. He knew everyone who led the Armed Forces and the economy, commanded divisions and managed factories by last name, first name and patronymic. Moreover, he kept in mind the data necessary for himself, which characterized them as individuals, knew almost everything about the state of affairs in the areas of work entrusted to them. Stalin had an analytical mind, which allowed him to focus on the most essential from a large amount of information, facts, data. He presented his conclusions and thoughts briefly, clearly, in an accessible way, so that there could be no objections. He did not like too much verbosity and did not allow others to talk much.

Reproaching any of the foreign figures in his speech or during the discussion, Iosif Vissarionovich looked at him very expressively and attentively, without averting his eyes for some time. And it should be noted that the object to which he turned his attention did not feel quite comfortable. Stalin's gaze pierced like arrows.

Great Avicenna

Born in Bukhara, he was both a grand vizier, and a criminal whose “crimes” were debunked by the state power, and an eternal wanderer.

Avicenna lived for almost 57 years, but for such short period proved himself in 29 branches of knowledge, and his medical conclusions cannot be overestimated. Yes, and it is believed that the very word "medicine" comes from the Latin-style "Madad Sina", which translates as "cure from Sin."

Avicenna did not officially study anywhere, but long before Louis Pasteur discovered pathogens, he concluded that “very small creatures” could cause fever. He also established the cause of most diseases - human feelings and nervousness, he was the first to draw attention to the contagiousness of infectious diseases, described the nature of meningitis, jaundice, stomach ulcers and many other diseases.

What is only worth the diagnostics developed by Ibn Sina on pulse beats. Once a famous merchant from Bukhara had a daughter who fell ill, and no one could help her. The father turned to Avicenna for salvation. The doctor, feeling for a pulse, began to call the streets of the city to the girl, and then asked her to list the names of those who lived on these streets. When the girl said one of the names, her pulse became quickened, and her face turned red. So the wise man learned that she was in love, but her father would never allow her to marry this man. This caused deadly disease. The merchant was forced to bless his daughter, and Avicenna won fame and respect among people.

The letter that found its addressee after seven years

Yuri Gagarin, about to fly into space and not knowing how his expedition might end, wrote a letter to his wife Valentina, in which he said goodbye to her. Addressing his beloved and the mother of his children, the first cosmonaut said that technology can fail at any time. Therefore, no matter what happens, you need to live on, not lose heart, and most importantly - love, cherish and educate your daughters.

The letter found its recipient seven years later, when the plane on which Yuri Gagarin was flying fell and crashed.

With my future wife the pilot met, being a cadet of the Orenburg pilot school, at a dance. Valentina had luxurious floor-length hair. And she, a beauty, did not like the thin, short, with a large head, short-cropped and sticking hair young man at all. But Yuri was such a persistent gentleman that after a while the girl's heart melted. After graduating from college, they got married, and soon Valentina gave her husband two wonderful, desired daughters.

Saying goodbye to last letter with his wife, Gagarin also said that after his death, she has the right to arrange her life as she wants, and he, in turn, does not impose any obligations on her. But her beloved wife, having remained a widow at the age of thirty-two, did not marry again, sacredly preserving the memory of the man who first conquered space.

The great philosopher despised women

Confucius, one of China's greatest philosophers, married early. Over time, he kicked his wife out of the house so that she would not interfere with his studies. And in general, the philosopher considered women to be mundane people, incapable of comprehending heavenly wisdom. He said that ordinary woman endowed with the mind of a chicken, and extraordinary - of two such birds.

Such behavior and statements do not seem strange, because Confucius was not endowed with an attractive appearance from birth. Once, one queen, not endowed with chaste morality, having heard a lot of stories about the great wisdom of this man, unambiguously invited him to her place alone, without escort. The philosopher always walked surrounded by his students, but this time he decided to heed the requests of the royal person ... And so Confucius was taken to the chambers. While the queen was absent, the learned man began to examine the room. There was a rustle, and he turned to face the incoming crowned lady. At this time, she wanted to utter greetings, but she froze with her mouth open - she was so struck by the appearance of the sage. When the queen's first shock had passed, she looked contemptuously at Confucius and hurried away. But this did not surprise the great philosopher, because beauty walks apart with the mind.

The great tenor dreamed of becoming a football player

Luciano Pavarotti was born into a simple Italian family. The boy's father loved opera singing and bought a lot of records. In the evenings he listened to them with his son. Thus, Luciano became addicted to singing. But the parents did not support the young talent in this, as they believed that a man should master a serious craft.

Football was another passion of Pavarotti. Since childhood, he was the captain of the youth city football team and saw himself as a professional goalkeeper in the future. But on the advice of his mother, he becomes a school teacher, then works in an insurance agency. Nevertheless, over time, the craving for singing wins. An agreement was drawn up with his father that Luciano, until the age of thirty, could occupy a room in parental home and also eat here. Pavarotti promises his father that if after the expiration of this period he does not achieve anything as Opera singer, then will be forced to earn a living by any means.

It is only when he is nineteen that the great tenor learns that he has perfect pitch. Soon the first success came: in 1961 he won the competition for young performers. Before this responsible performance, the mother put a rusty nail from the evil eye to her son. From then until the end of his days, Luciano Pavarotti kept this talisman of his.

The great conqueror was a coward

The fact that Genghis Khan (real name Temuchen) was incredibly cruel towards his enemies is not a secret. His horde massacred all who resisted. The rest, of course, were taken prisoner. Then, if there was a need to storm fortresses or cities, these prisoners were put in front of the troops as human shields. It turns out that it was not for nothing that the Muslim peoples considered the Mongol the destroyer of their cultural heritage.

Despite all his cruelty, he himself was terribly afraid of dying. Feeling the advent of old age, Genghis Khan searched for the elixir of immortality, but did not find it. Still, he managed to extend his life. For every warrior lost in battle, the great conqueror mercilessly avenged. It seemed that his life was many times more important than the lives taken by this man.

Genghis Khan did not give rest to the inhabitants of the cities destroyed and burned by his horde. During the invasion of the Mongols, people tried to escape by hiding in the forests and mountains. After the departure of the troops, they returned back. Created by the conqueror special squad, whose task was to return to the destroyed village and cut out all the survivors.

A distinctive feature of the attack of Genghis Khan was that he never led his horde into battle, but led it from afar. Mongol was such a coward.

Lomonosov knew how to stand up for himself

At a time when Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was already an adjunct, his apartment was on Vasilyevsky Island. The great scientist made it a rule to take walks in the evenings. One autumn day, at the end of the day, he made a promenade along his usual route - from Bolshoy Prospekt to the bay. In those distant times, Bolshoy Prospekt, located on Vasilyevsky Island, was nothing more than a wide clearing cut through the forest. Lomonosov was returning back when night had already begun to descend over St. Petersburg. The surroundings were deserted. And then three robbers jumped out of the bushes.

Mikhail Vasilievich was endowed with extraordinary strength from birth, so he was not afraid, but began to fight back. One of the villains, not expecting resistance at all, rushed to his heels. The second Lomonosov managed to knock to the ground with a strong blow. The third, seeing such a situation, began to ask for forgiveness, swearing that they only wanted to take the clothes from a lonely passerby. Then the scientist decided to rob the robber: he ordered the villain to undress, tie his clothes in a knot and give them to him. Throwing the luggage on his shoulder, Mikhail Lomonosov himself delivered it home, and the next day he visited the Admiralty and reported there about the attack of the sailors-robbers.

Genius among us

Grigory Yakovlevich Perelman, who owns the discovery of the millennium, now lives in St. Petersburg. It is this mathematician who owns the solution of the Poincaré hypothesis, which they tried to prove for more than one hundred years. Moreover, Grigory Yakovlevich did not publish his research in scientific papers, but simply posted on the Internet.

For such a brilliant discovery, the Clay Institute awarded the brilliant scientist a prize of one million dollars. But Perelman refused it, explaining his act by the fact that he was not interested in money and that he had everything necessary for life.

Today, Grigory Yakovlevich leads a solitary life, practically not communicating with anyone.

Since childhood, he has been accustomed to training for his brain. AT school years Perelman took part in the Mathematical Olympiad in Budapest, where he won gold medal. He was helped in this by the ability to think abstractly.

Almost all of my scientific life the scientist worked on the issues of three-dimensional construction of the Universe. The extent of his discoveries present stage ahead of the advances that science has made to date. That is why the activities of Grigory Perelman became interested in the special services of many countries.

If a person is talented, then he is talented in everything

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev had diverse interests. In addition to his life's work - research in the field of chemistry - his circle of hobbies was very wide.

famous discovery Periodic system at first brought him only ridicule, condemnation and accusations of plagiarism. True, with time came glory.

Whatever the great scientist undertook, everything turned out great for him. So, in his spare time, Mendeleev liked to make suitcases. Dmitry Ivanovich bought materials for their production in the same store, so that the sellers who sold the goods perceived a regular customer with a large beard and shoulder-length hair as a suitcase maker. As a joke, he even wanted to make a business card with the inscription “D. I. Mendeleev is a master of suitcases.”

The scientist was fond of meteorology. Already at an advanced age flew on hot-air balloon. His merit in metrology is the organization of the Chamber of Weights and Measures. He also proved himself in shipbuilding, taking part in the creation of the first icebreaker in Russia. Well, and finally, it was Mendeleev who managed to establish the most optimal ratio of water and alcohol in the production of vodka - this is sixty parts to forty.

She made herself

One of the wealthiest women in the world, TV presenter, popular actress, public figure leading own show It's all her, Oprah Winfrey. This woman came to the pinnacle of fame and success thanks to incredible hard work, the ability to communicate and, of course, great willpower.

After all, a girl was born in a very poor family. Her parents separated because her mother was not distinguished by chaste behavior. Oprah was barely nine years old when she was raped by a cousin on her mother's side, then by her own uncle. Since the mother very often brought her clients home, the daughter also provided intimate services, receiving money for this. Mother, most likely, knew about it, but turned a blind eye to everything.

When, at the age of fourteen, Oprah found out that she was pregnant, she wanted to take her own life. Caught in a hopeless situation, the girl, trying to get rid of an unwanted child, drank detergents. And this "helped": the child was born dead.

Returning to school after that, Winfrey completely immersed herself in public life: participates in all activities, heads the student council. And today, the TV presenter is convinced that if it had then become known that she was pregnant, her fate would have been completely different.

Sigmund Freud has Ukrainian roots

Sigmund Freud, a well-known psychologist, professor at the University of Vienna, founder of the method of psychoanalysis, has Ukrainian roots.

Jacob Freud - his father - was born in the city of Tysmenitsa, which is located in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. In that locality he lived for 25 years. Tismenitsa at that time was a multinational city: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians got along well here. In this city he married and gave birth to Emmanuel and Philip, the elder brothers of the future professor. However, the Ukrainian roots of this surname are even deeper. Many generations of Freuds lived in the town of Buchach in the Ternopil region. Sigmund Freud's grandfather moved to Tismenitsa to continue his education and stayed here forever.

The mother of the famous psychoanalyst - nee Amalia Natanson - was born in the town of Brody, Lviv region. Then for some time she lived in Odessa, and after some time she left for Vienna, where she met her future husband. Her siblings remained in Odessa, with whom the family of Jacob Freud maintained family relations.

When Sigmund Freud was 27 years old, his father decided to found in Odessa own business and lived doing commercial activities, in this city for a while. True, this activity did not bring much profit, and Jacob again returned to Austria.

The world famous artist was also an inventor

God endowed Salvador Dali not only with the talent of an artist. He also owns the inventions that were brought to life, although at first they seemed strange.

For those traveling by car, the ingenious artist came up with multispectral glasses in case the landscape becomes boring from the contemplated landscape.

To create good mood while walking and enjoying the process of walking, he created shoes with springs.

Salvador Dali did not deprive women of his attention in terms of inventions. For them, false nails with a built-in mirror were invented. small size so that you can look at yourself at the right time. Another gift is a dress with various anatomical overlays as accessories. They were designed by the artist, having previously carried out a series of precise calculations that corresponded to the ideal of female beauty, born in the head of a man as an erotic imagination. One of the outlandish details of such a dress was additional breasts, which had to be fixed on the back. According to Dali, such an outfit was supposed to radically change fashion.

And for the paparazzi, the artist invented photomasks. They are especially relevant today, when many reporters are being called to court for interfering with privacy. And so - put on a photo mask with the face of a famous person - and look for the wind in the field.

Great Diva of Russia

When Alla Pugacheva was born, the doctors during the examination discovered she had a tumor on her throat. An operation was immediately performed to remove it. Perhaps that is why the singer had a special timbre of voice.

As a child, a red-haired girl with thin pigtails loved to play in the yard, but only with boys. Alla was thin, and she also wore glasses, as she had vision problems. After she gave birth to a daughter, Christina, she recovered. sat on many times different diets, but this did not give the desired result.

Another hobby of Pugacheva is drawing. She has had this hobby since childhood. She painted several hundred paintings that she presented to close friends. In the future, the Primadonna plans to take on a pseudonym and in some place where she can retire, she will take up painting.

Once, Alla Borisovna, having opened up, admitted that none of the men could sleep next to her in bed. Turns out she snores a lot at night. She did a lot to cure this deficiency, but no procedures brought results.

The prima donna wants to look good, so she does plastic surgery from time to time. After one of them, held in Switzerland, she almost died due to an abscess that developed. A surgeon from Moscow barely saved the singer. As a sign of gratitude, Pugacheva presented him with a gift - an apartment.

These two young men met at Stanford while at university. At first, they often argued, and at times even cursed. And although both were absolute opposites, they soon became so friends that they could not take a step without each other.

After they created a system for searching information on the requested page at their home university, and the management was about to close it, Sergey and Larry had to think about how to save their offspring. The search for sponsors began, but many of the wealthy people did not understand at all what kind of system it was, and they did not want to invest in the “doubtful” project.

But fate was kind to the young men and sent them Andy Bechtolstein. Not being able to listen for a long time to a story about what advantages the new search engine has, the businessman took out a checkbook. Brin and Paige, dumbfounded and surprised, took a check issued for 100 thousand dollars in their hands and did not immediately notice that it was issued on Google. Inc., not on Google. That's what they planned to call it. Googol is a one followed by a hundred zeros, which meant "an immeasurably large search engine."

To get this money, it was necessary to urgently found a company. Friends make out academic leave and do what they love.

Hard road to glory

At the age of eight, Yuri Kuklachev, a famous cat trainer, saw Charlie Chaplin perform on TV. The boy really liked how the great actor moved, and he asked his parents to send him to a ballet school. For five years, Yura studied ballet, but when he graduated from school, he firmly decided to enter the circus school.

For seven years in a row, Kuklachev made an attempt to become a student at the school, but he was not accepted, explaining that his face was not suitable and his height was small.

Then he began performing in the national circus, and later even became the winner of the All-Union Festival. Somehow, the folk circus gave a performance in a building on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, and the director of the school was present in the hall. After Kuklachev's performance, he approached the artist and invited him to study at his institution.

Yuri started training cats later. He did not leave the thought of what to do to be different from famous clowns. While on tour in Cherkassy, ​​I came across a stray cat with intelligent eyes and took it for myself. In Moscow, I picked up another cat - Strelka, with which I put my first number. The success was unprecedented, because before him no one entered the arena with such a number. This was the feature that Yuri Kuklachev was looking for.

The youngest of the boxing brothers

In childhood, Wladimir Klitschko dreamed of becoming a doctor. At the end of the eighth grade, he even tried to enter the medical school at the paramedic department, but the attempt was unsuccessful. He was not accepted due to the fact that at the time of the entrance exams he had not yet reached the age of fourteen.

The elder brother Vitaly at that time was already seriously engaged in boxing, and he invited Vladimir to visit a training session and try his hand at sports. So, trying to be like Vitaly in everything, the younger brother ended up in the boxing section. And after six years of hard work in the gym during training, Vladimir wins the title of Olympic champion.

Almost no one knows that the meeting in the ring between the Klitschko brothers, so intriguing to everyone, is long in the past. Back in mid-1992, secretly from the coach, despite his prohibitions, the brothers decided to compete. The strongest and best could not be determined, since the round ended with an injury: Vladimir broke his leg for an unknown reason for both brothers. So that the parents would not worry once again, Vitaly and Vladimir did not say a word about the fight that took place. The coach, Vladimir Zolotarev, also helped them in this, who immediately took the brothers to the training camp in the Crimea.

😉 Gentlemen, life stories famous people are always of interest. In this article, 7 interesting bankruptcy stories from happy ending. I hope you find it interesting.

The financial situation of a person is somewhat similar to the weather: today everything is sunny and clear, and then suddenly a thunderstorm and a downpour. But the main thing is not to perceive the word "bankrupt" as a sentence and not to let the spirit down.

You are not the first - you are not the last to lose money. In moments of difficulty, you need to look up to those who were able to pull themselves together and, despite failures, still pay off all debts and continue to do what they love.

Amazing Stories

Kim Basinger

Kim Basinger owed $8.1 million to Main Line Pictures in 1993. The reason was negligence in the agreements. The actress verbally promised to play leading role in the independent American film "Elena in the Box".

Kim Basinger

However, the notion of a verbal contract in America does not take into account Kim's changing creative tastes. After three years of legal red tape, Basinger managed to reduce the debt to $3.8 million. But this did not save her much, she still had to declare bankruptcy.

In an interview, Basinger commented on the situation: “It would be better if they cut off my leg.” Interestingly, the film studio on Kim Basinger earned more than from the rental of the tape. Since that time, the actress has starred in many successful films and no longer finds herself in similar situations.

Walt Disney

Once, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper fired Walt Disney because he lacked imagination and lacked good ideas. Then another fiasco awaited him. At 22, Walt Disney opened the Laugh-o-gram Studio, an animation studio that was not destined to become profitable. Walt had to declare himself bankrupt.

Walt Disney

Today, the Disney brand is known all over the world, the characters of its cartoons do not lose popularity, and the Disneyland amusement park is almost the most popular in the world.

Donald Trump

“You are not a real entrepreneur unless you have been bankrupt at least once,” a famous expression that aptly describes the path of success. This is the 45th President (since January 20, 2017) of the States and one of the richest businessmen on the planet, declared himself financial insolvent four times: in 1991, 1992, 2004 and 2009.

Donald Trump, born 1946

Trump has often boasted that he knows how to use the law to his advantage, and he has always managed to make sure that the banking conditions for repaying the debt were as favorable to him as possible.

Despite defeats, Donald Trump has always managed to stay in control. Perhaps that is why his books on how to become successful are swept off the bookshelves like hot cakes.

Mark Twain

Creative people not always well can calculate what to invest in. Mark Twain became interested in science in 1894, because of the unsuccessful investment of his funds in inventions, he was forced to declare himself bankrupt. However, trouble alone does not come: in the same period, the publishing house of Mark Twain was closed due to the economic crisis in the country.

Mark Twain

In order to pay off all his debts, the writer had to move to Europe and earn money by giving lectures. Ultimately, in 1898, the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer managed to improve his financial situation.

Abraham Lincoln

Recognized national hero USA. Indeed, biography former president- a great story for a motivational movie. In 1831, Lincoln first went bankrupt with the business, but he did not dare and tried a second time, but in 1834 he had to close his business.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham repaid his debts for about 20 years. Despite unsuccessful entrepreneurship, the future president of the United States also has 8 defeats in the election.

But in 1860 he nevertheless became the President of America. The example of Abraham Lincoln teaches never to give up, because, despite all the failures, he managed to go down in history as the man who freed Americans from slavery.

Larry King

This is Larry King today famous TV presenter USA, which during his career took tens of thousands of interviews with almost all famous people. But if you go back to the 70s, it becomes clear that the path to success and wealth was not so easy for King.

Larry King

Then Larry owed 352 thousand dollars, and was also accused of stealing the funds of his business partner. A few years later, all charges were dropped, and King managed to restore his reputation with work, work and more work.

Henry Ford

In the last century, if you produced cars, you were a priori rich and successful. But not everything is so simple. Henry Ford, in his 30s, has accumulated enough funds and skills for a startup. He opened his own firm. However, the first company of Henry Ford is not something that did not make a profit - it ruined the engineer.

Henry Ford

This is how Henry famously said: “Failure is an opportunity to start over. There is nothing shameful in a just defeat, it is shameful to be afraid to experience defeat. That's exactly what he did - he tried again.

But already with the acquired experience and wisdom, Ford not only produced cars, but also agricultural machinery. Thus, the former bankrupt entered the history of the automotive industry and became involved in the development Agriculture and we still use his work today.

I hope that these stories from the lives of famous people will help many at a difficult moment in life not to lose hope for success, which will definitely come if you don’t give up.

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measure of time
The ancient Greek playwright Sophocles once said in a conversation that three poems he wrote cost him three days of hard work.
- Three days! - exclaimed a mediocre poet. - Yes, I would have written a hundred at that time.
“Yes,” answered Sophocles, “but they would only exist for three days.
Critic
The tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius, sent Philoxenus, who criticized his poems, to work at the quarry. After some time, he again demanded him to the palace, so that he listened and appreciated his new poems.
Philoxenus listened attentively, then silently got up and walked towards the door.
- Where are you headed? asked the tyrant.
“Sir, I am returning to the quarry,” he replied.
Tyrant's Cunning
Someone reproached Dionysius for entrusting an important position to a man despised by all citizens in Syracuse.
Dionysius replied:
“I wish there was someone in Syracuse who would be more cursed than me.
Do not joke with students
Alexander the Great learned to play the cithara in his early youth. Once the teacher told him to hit one string, as required by the melody of the song, and Alexander, pointing to another, said:
- What will change if I hit this one?
“Nothing,” the teacher replied, “for someone who is preparing to rule the kingdom, but a lot for someone who wants to play skillfully.”
He seemed to be afraid of Lin's fate. After all, Lin taught the boy Hercules to play the cithara, and when he got down to business awkwardly, he got angry. In response, an irritated Hercules hit the teacher with a plectrum and killed him.
Walking speed
A passer-by asked the philosopher Socrates:
- How many hours drive to the city?
Socrates replied:
- Go...
The traveler went, and when he had walked twenty paces, Socrates called out:
- Two hours!
Why didn't you tell me right away? - he was indignant.
- And how did I know how fast you would go!
Socratic calm
Few people endure patiently when people talk badly about them in absentia. Socrates, the great Athenian philosopher, listened with the greatest indifference to being reviled behind the eyes.
“If they beat me in absentia,” the philosopher always said, “then I won’t say a word either.”
Practicality and mathematics
Once the teacher of the great Greek mathematician Euclidis asked:
- What would you prefer: two whole apples or four half ones?
- Of course, four half.
- And why? - Asked the teacher. - After all, it's the same thing.
- And not the same at all, - answered the future mathematician, - choosing two whole apples, how can I find out if they are wormy or not?
Monument to Cato
Cato the Elder was approached by one of his ardent supporters and said:
- It's outrageous that a monument to you has not yet been erected in Rome! This should be done.
- Leave it, - Cato answered him. - I prefer people to say: "Why doesn't Cato have a monument?" Than they will ask: "Why did they put a monument to Cato?"
Modesty makes a man
The Central Asian philosopher Abu Nasr Mohammed al-Farabi, the great scientist of his time, enjoyed worldwide fame, but was a very modest person and never showed his "I".
When once asked who is great, he or Aristotle, Farabi modestly replied:
- If I lived in the time of Aristotle, I would be only one of his students.
The opening of the pendulum
It was 1583. There was a service in the Pisa Cathedral. Everyone prayed hard. One young Italian, a student at a local university, did not seem to see or hear what was happening around him. His attention was riveted on the church chandeliers, swaying slightly on long chains. Taking your left hand wrist, he began to count the beats of the pulse, watching the swing of the chandeliers. “But in this way you can measure time,” he thought. This young man was the future great scientist Galileo Galilei. So in 1583 the pendulum was discovered.
Rabelais' resourcefulness
One day, the great French satirist Francois Rabelais found himself in financial difficulty and had nothing to pay for his journey from Lyon to Paris. But it was not in Rabelais's nature to lose heart and "wait for the weather by the sea." He poured granulated sugar into three paper bags, wrote on them: "Poison for the King", "Poison for the Queen", "Poison for the Dauphin" - and put them in a conspicuous place.
The hotel maid, cleaning the room, read the inscriptions and ran to the owner. He called the guards. Rabelais was captured and sent under escort to Paris. Appearing before the prosecutor, he hurried to confess his trick and, before the guardian of the law had time to come to his senses, he swallowed the "poison".
Lord, forgive me!
The first classic of opera, the famous Claudio Monteverdi, after being expelled from Mantua, arrived in Venice and led the chapel of St. Mark's Cathedral there.
Composing divine music, Monteverdi did not forget about secular music. He created opera after opera for non-resident customers. Naturally, the influence of such music also affected his church compositions. Cheerful visitors to the cathedral liked it. And it was no less liked by the crafty clergy from other churches in Venice, who acted on the principle: borrow secular music and select a pious text for it. Such tricks could not go unnoticed for a long time.
One day, accidentally falling into a service in another cathedral, Monteverdi, hearing music familiar to him, exclaimed in amazement:
- Lord, forgive me! I didn't write this music for you!
Almost Louis
A native of Italy, the famous composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, after a long struggle with his enemies and envious people, took such a high position at the French court that he achieved the royal privilege to impose a fine on those who, without his permission, allowed themselves to compose music for the court.
With good reason, the Italian Lully could say about himself: "French music is me!"
And yet the earth is spinning
The great Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei is told about the firmness in his convictions.
The seventy-year-old scientist appeared before the Inquisition and, in the clothes of a penitent sinner, on his knees uttered the words that he did not believe in the movement of the Earth. But, getting up, he exclaimed: "And yet she is spinning!"
Arithmetic with one unit
Intending to show people that binary calculus is not fun, but a method with a great future, the famous German mathematician G. Leibniz made a special medal. It depicts a table of the simplest operations on numbers in the binary system and the phrase is minted: "To bring everything out of insignificance, one is enough."
Atheistic book by a crazy author
Once A. I. Herzen called Peter I "a crowned revolutionary." And the fact that it was really so, that Peter was a mental giant, towering over the majority of his even enlightened compatriots, is evidenced by the most curious history of the publication in Russian of Kosmoteoros, a treatise in which the famous contemporary of Newton, the Dutchman H. Huygens, elaborated and developed the Copernican system.
Peter I, quickly realizing the falsity of geocentric ideas, was a convinced Copernican and in 1717, while in Paris, he bought himself a moving model of the Copernican system. Then he ordered the translation into Russian and the publication of 1200 copies of Huygens' treatise, published in The Hague in 1688. But the order of the king was not carried out ...
Director of the St. Petersburg printing house M. Avramov, having read the translation, was horrified: the book, according to him, was saturated with "satanic cunning" and "devilish machinations" of the Copernican teachings.
"Having trembled in heart and horrified in spirit," the director decided to violate the king's direct order. But since the jokes with Peter were bad, Avramov, at his own peril and risk, only dared to reduce the circulation of "the atheistic book of an extravagant author." Instead of 1200 copies, only 30 were printed only for Peter himself and his closest associates. But this trick, apparently, did not hide from the king: in 1724, "The Book of the Universe, or Opinion on the Heavenly-Earthly Globes and Their Decorations" came out again.
inquisitive king
On one of the warm May days in 1698, on grand canal near the city of Delft, in Holland, a yacht stopped. An elderly but very vigorous man boarded her. A man was walking towards him on the deck. gigantic growth surrounded by retinue. In broken Dutch, the giant greeted the guest who bowed in respect. This is how the Russian Tsar Peter I met the Dutch naturalist Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, the founder of microbiology, from Delft.
Passing by, the inquisitive Russian tsar could not help but stop his yacht near Delft, where the biologist Leeuwenhoek, who had already become famous all over the world, lived. The king listened with great interest to the explanations of the scientist about the invisible world of living beings.
Death prevented the presentation of the award
Remember the lines of Pushkin's "Poltava": "...Where is Mazepa? Where is the villain? Where did Judas flee in fear?" The comparison of Mazepa with Judas, who was paid thirty pieces of silver for the betrayal, has a special meaning from the point of view of numismatics.
Having learned about the betrayal of Mazepa, Peter I decided to "pay" the traitor with a kind of coin. This coin was specially made - weighing about 4 kg and with the appropriate inscription. According to Peter's plan, the notorious hetman, as a sign of his betrayal, had to wear a giant coin around his neck until the end of his life. Only the death of Mazepa prevented the tsar from carrying out this plan.
Drinking medal
Great Peter did not respect overly passionate drinkers. According to his decree, drunkards who ended up in prison were hung around their necks with a cast-iron medal weighing 17 pounds (about 7 kg) with the inscription "For drunkenness."
Philosopher and God
The French writer and philosopher Voltaire was asked what relationship he has with God, whether he shows disrespect for God. He answered with dignity:
- Unfortunately, many have long noticed the opposite. I have been bowing to God for many years, but he has never answered me even one of my most polite bows.
Caution
When Voltaire was asked if he would undertake to write the history of his king, he sharply replied:
- Never! This would be the surest way to lose the royal pension.
Spectacular sharpness
One scientist, wishing to see Voltaire, went specially to Ferne, where he was very affectionately received by the writer's niece, Madame Denis. However, Voltaire himself did not appear. Before leaving, the guest wrote to the host: "I considered you a god and now I am finally convinced that I am right, since it is impossible to see you."
Voltaire liked this joke so much that he ran after its author and kissed him.
Like chestnuts
Voltaire's books, which denounced churchmen, were subjected to censorship. The censors sentenced one of the books to be burned. Voltaire commented on this:
- All the better! My books are like chestnuts: the more they are roasted, the more they are bought.
Friend of Voltaire
Voltaire had a doctor friend with whom he willingly spent evenings when he was healthy. But as soon as he fell ill, he immediately wrote a note to the doctor: "Dear doctor! Please, do not come today: I am ill."
Voltaire's review
One young playwright asked Voltaire to listen to his new play. After reading his work to him, he looked forward to Voltaire's opinion.
- That's what, young man, - said Voltaire after a long pause. - You can write such things when you become old and famous. Until then, you need to write something better.
Mystery of Philosophy
One priest annoyed the French educator Jean-Jacques Rousseau with his importunity. He wanted to know what was the secret of philosophical wisdom.
“Although you will know the secret, it will still not give you anything,” Rousseau told him. “It is even harmful to you, holy fathers. The whole secret is that I always say what I think. And you always lie.
oracle error
A young man came to the old Viennese bandmaster and, holding out an envelope with a letter of recommendation from his first music teacher, shyly asked to teach him counterpoint.
Having opened the envelope, the bandmaster read: "The giver of this is an empty dreamer who is obsessed with the fact that he can make a revolution in music. He has no talent at all, and, of course, he will not compose anything decent in his whole life. His name is Joseph Haydn" .
bull minuet
The great Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, to his considerable surprise, once saw a guest in his house - a butcher, who turned out to be a lover and connoisseur of his works.
- Maestro, - the butcher respectfully took off his hat, - the other day is my daughter's wedding. Write me a beautiful new minuet. To whom should I turn with such an important request, if not to the illustrious Haydn?
A day later, the butcher received a precious gift from the composer, and a few days later decided to thank him. Haydn heard deafening sounds, in which he hardly recognized the melody of his minuet. Going to the window, he saw at his porch a magnificent bull with gilded horns, a happy butcher with his daughter and son-in-law, and a whole orchestra of itinerant musicians. The butcher took a step forward and said with feeling:
- Sir, I think that the best expression of gratitude for a fine minuet on the part of the butcher can only be the best of his bulls.
Since then, this Haydn minuet in C major has been called the Bull Minuet.
witty revenge
Once Haydn conducted an orchestra in London. He knew that many English people sometimes go to concerts not so much for the pleasure of listening to music, but for tradition. Some London concert hall patrons have developed the habit of falling asleep in their comfortable chairs during performances. Haydn had to make sure that no exception was made for him. This circumstance greatly annoyed the composer, and he decided to take revenge on the indifferent listeners.
Revenge was smart. Especially for the Londoners, Haydn wrote a new symphony.
At the most critical moment, when part of the audience began to nod off, there was a thunderous beat of a bass drum. And every time, as soon as the listeners calmed down and settled down to sleep again, a drumbeat was heard.
Since then, this symphony has been called "Symphony with timpani beats", or "Surprise".
Eye gauge
When they asked Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov what an eye was, the great commander replied:
- Eyeball - this means you need to climb a tree, survey the enemy camp and immediately congratulate yourself on the victory.
So he did under Rymnik.
Who cares
The wife of one officer once complained to A.V. Suvorov about her husband:
“Your Grace, he treats me badly.
“That doesn’t concern me,” the general replied.
- But he scolds you behind your back...
“That, mother, is none of your concern.
Townships
- Alexander Vasilievich, - Suvorov was asked, - how do you assess the game of gorodki?
- The game of towns develops an eye, speed and onslaught, - the commander answered. - I rush about with a bat - this is an eye. I beat with a bat - this is speed. I beat with a bat - this is an onslaught.
I see but I don't believe
Confillaci, a student of the famous Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, reported that with the help of a voltaic column he discovered the presence of chlorine and sodium in water.
Humboldt and Gay-Lussac, who were in Italy, asked Volta if this was really so.
- I saw the experience, - Volta told them, - but I don't believe it!
Grateful subject
Archduchess Marie Antoinette took little Mozart, the future composer, around the Vienna Palace. The boy slipped on the parquet floor and fell. The Archduchess hastened to pick it up.
- You are very kind, - the young musician told her, - I will marry you.
Marie Antoinette passed Mozart's words to her mother.
- Why do you want to marry her highness? the Empress asked.
“Out of gratitude,” Mozart replied.
Immediacy
Once a noble Salzburg dignitary decided to talk with the young Mozart, who by that time had already gained world fame. How to address the boy - that's what embarrassed the nobleman. To say “you” to Mozart is inconvenient, his fame is too great, to say “you” is too much honor for the boy ... But here is a way out:
- We were in France and England? Have we had great success? asked the dignitary.
- But I don't think I've ever met you anywhere except Salzburg! the ingenuous Wolfgang interrupted him.
How to do it
One young man asked Mozart how to write symphonies.
- You are still very young, - answered Mozart, - why don't you start with ballads?
- But you composed a symphony when you were only nine years old...
- That's right, - Mozart agreed, - but I didn't ask anyone how to do it.
Envious people are not an ally
Haydn had many envious people among mediocre composers. One of them decided to recruit ... Mozart as an ally. He invited the great composer to a concert in which the Haydn quartet was performed, and during the performance he said indignantly to Mozart.
- I would never write like that.
- Me too, - Mozart answered briskly, - and do you know why? Neither you nor I would have thought of these lovely melodies.

1. Napoleon was 26 years old when he captured Italy.
2. The University of Baghdad awarded Uday, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein, a doctorate in political science. Although he did not even have a secondary education. His dissertation was titled "The Decline of American Power by 2016".
3. In 1938, Time magazine named Hitler "Person of the Year."

4. During his service in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname "Moth".
5. Hitler was a vegetarian.
6. The Egyptian queen Cleopatra tested the effectiveness of her poisons by forcing her slaves to take them.
7. Cleopatra married her sibling— Ptolemy.
8. Cleopatra was not an Egyptian. She had Macedonian, Iranian and Greek roots.

9. Lafayette became a general in the US Army at 19. His full name sounds like this: Mary Joseph Paul Yves Rocher Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
10. The Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in the 50s, Alexei Popov, was a well-known swindler.
11. The Mongol conqueror Timur (1336-1405) played something like polo with the skulls of the people he killed. He created a pyramid of their severed heads 9 meters high.
12. At the time of Lenin's death, his brain was only a quarter of its normal size.

13. Napoleon was not born in France, but on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were Italian and they had eight children.
14. The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon.
15. One of Napoleon's drinking bowls was made from the skull of the famous Italian adventurer Cagliostro.
16. The founder of the theory of communism Karl Marx has never been to Russia.
17. The first American Chief Justice, John Jay, bought slaves to free them.

18. The first person in history to be hit by a train was British MP William Huskinson.
19. The ancestors of Winston Churchill on the maternal side were ... Indians.
20. US President Andrew Jackson believed the Earth was flat.
21. During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax on men's beards. However, Peter the Great did not favor bearded men either.

22. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar ordered the execution of her subjects if they appeared to her in dreams without her permission.
23. Queen Victoria was given a piece of cheese 3 meters in diameter and weighing 500 kilograms at her wedding.
24. King Henry VIII of England executed two of his six wives.
25. President of Uganda and one of the most ruthless dictators in the world, Idi Amin, served in the British Army before coming to power.
26. British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston died in 1865 on a pool table where he was making love to his servants.

27. At the court of the King of Spain, Alfonso, there was a special position - a hymnal. The fact is that the king did not have any musical ear, and he himself could not distinguish the hymn from other music. The hymnal had to warn the king when the national anthem was played.
28. The Roman emperor Nero married a man - one of his slaves named Skorus.
29. The Roman emperor Nero forced his teacher philosopher Seneca to commit suicide.

30. The height of Peter the Great was approximately 213 cm. Despite the fact that in those days the average height of men was significantly lower than today.
31. Sir Winston Churchill smoked no more than 15 cigars a day.
32. Tom Cruise at the age of 14 went to study at the seminary to become a priest, but left it after a year.
33. The French king Louis XIV had 413 beds.
34. The Israeli king Solomon had about 700 wives and several thousand mistresses.

35. King Louis XIV of France, known as the "Sun King", had over 400 beds.
36. Napoleon had ailurophobia - fear of cats.
37. Winston Churchill was born in the women's room of the Blenheim family castle. During the ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth.
38. Physicist and owner Nobel Prize Niels Bohr and his brother the famous mathematician Harald Bohr were football players. At the same time, Harald was a member of the Danish national team and even took second place at the 1905 Olympics.
39. The phrase "The king is dead, long live the king" was uttered by Catherine de Medici when she learned about the death of her son Charles IX.

40. The Swedish King Charles VII, who was killed in 1167, was the first king of the state with the name Charles! Charles I, II, III, IV, V and VI never existed, and it is not clear where the prefix "seventh" came from. A couple of centuries later, King Charles VIII (1448-1457) appeared in Sweden.
41. Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession.
42. Attila the Barbarian died in 453 on his wedding night immediately after the wedding.
43. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 grains.
44. The British Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who ruled Britain for 64 years, spoke English with an accent. She had German roots.

45. In 1357, a dead woman was crowned Queen of Portugal. She became Princess Ines de Castro, the second wife of Pedro I. 2 years before, her father-in-law, Alfonso "Proud", who hated her for being a commoner, secretly ordered his people to kill her and her children. When Pedro became king, he ordered the removal of Inés' body from the grave and forced the nobility to recognize her as Queen of Portugal.
46. ​​In 1849, Senator David Atchison became President of the United States for only 1 day, and most of that day he ... overslept.
47. The Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassim Ismail (who lived in the 10th century) never parted with his library. If he went somewhere, the library "followed" him. 117 thousand book volumes were transported by 400 camels. Moreover, the books (together with the camels) were arranged in alphabetical order.
48. The great Genghis Khan died while having sex.
49. Hannibal died in 183 BC. e. taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.

50. Hans-Christian Andersen could not write almost a single word without errors.
51. Henry IV often flogged his son, the future Louis XIII.
52. The Danish king Frederick IV was a bigamist. He married twice while his wife Queen Louise was alive. His first lover died in childbirth, his second lover was only queen for 19 days after the death of Queen Louise. All the children from both of his mistresses either died at birth or in infancy, as he believed for his sinful life. He later became extremely religious.
53. Jack the Ripper, the most famous killer of the 19th century, always committed his crimes on weekends.

54. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book "Healthy Eating" and many books about proper nutrition died of malnutrition.
55. Once the merchant Krasnobryukhov turned to Alexander I with a request to change his surname, and he allowed him to be called ... Sinebryukhov. After that, the merchant went to Finland with grief and founded the famous Koff brewing company there.
56. When the Russian Queen Elizabeth I died in 1762, more than 15,000 dresses were found in her wardrobe.
57. Mozart started composing music at the age of 3.
58. There is not a single living descendant of William Shakespeare left on Earth.
59. Before composing music, Beethoven poured a bucket of cold water on his head, believing that it stimulated the brain.

60. Thomas Edison wrote 40,000 pages while designing the light bulb.
61. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Felix Mendelssohn wrote at the age of 17. It became his most famous work.
62. Beria suffered from syphilis.
63. More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach became organists.
64. In the ZZ Top group, only one member does not have a beard. And his name is Beard, which in English means ... "beard".

65. Since 1932, only Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have not been elected to the United States for a second term as president.
66. Ilf and Petrov discarded ideas that came to both minds at once - in order to avoid clichés.
67. When Beethoven wrote the famous Ninth Symphony, he was completely deaf.
68. Composer Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of the German composer Richard Wagner.
69. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife.

70. Writer Rudyard Kipling couldn't write in ink unless it was black.
71. Writer Charles Dickens wrote with his face to the north. He also always slept with his head to the north.
72. The Roman emperor Commodus gathered dwarfs, cripples and freaks from all over the Roman Empire to arrange fights between them in the Colosseum.
73. The Roman emperor Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath on his head to hide his growing baldness.
74. Russian composer Alexander Borodin was also a well-known chemist in St. Petersburg.

75. The smallest of the American presidents is James Madison (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln is the tallest (1.93 m).
76. The shortest British monarch is Charles I. His height was 4 feet 9 inches (about 140 cm). After his head was cut off, his height became even smaller.
77. The body of Voltaire, who died in 1778, was stolen from the grave and was never found. The loss was discovered in 1864.
78. Balzac has a whole book dedicated to ... a tie.
79. The British Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) had about 3,000 outfits.

80. American Pete Ruff knocks an apple off his own head with a boomerang.
81. American industrial tycoon and billionaire John Rockefeller donated over $550 million. to various foundations and institutions.
82. American President Benjamin Franklin advocated that the national bird of America was the turkey.
83. In 1856, the English chemist William Perkin, while trying to obtain quinine from aniline, invented the first artificial dye, mauveine.

84. In the village of Lobovskoe Saratov region there lives a beekeeper who is able to withstand 40 hours in a hive with bees completely naked.
85. In the period from 1952 - 1966, 5 children were born in the family of Ralph and Carolyn Cummins and all of them have a birthday on February 20th.
86. Galileo Galilei was the first person to propose using a pendulum to measure time.
87. Hannibal died in 183 BC after taking poison when he learned that the Romans had come to kill him.
88. Grover Cleveland was the only US president to marry in the White House.

89. James Madison was the smallest of the American presidents (1.62 m), and Abraham Lincoln was the tallest (1.93 m).
90. Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote the book Healthy Eating and many books on proper nutrition, died of malnutrition.
91. For 35 years, Mozart created over 600 works. But after his death, the widow did not have money for a separate place in the cemetery
92. Famous 19th century bullfighter Lagarijo (born Rafael Molina) killed 4867 bulls.
93. When the German physicist A. Einstein died, his last words left with him. Nurse, former nearby did not understand German.

94. The maximum number of crossword puzzles was Andrian Bell. From January 1930 to 1980, he sent 4,520 crossword puzzles to The Times.
95. Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, was rescued from a car accident by one Edwin Booth. As it turns out, Edwin is the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. The father tried to kill the father, and their children saved each other
96. The first American president to use the telephone was James Garfield.
97. The concept of a negative number was first introduced by the Italian merchant Pisano in 1202, denoting his debts and losses.
98. The world's largest private collection of meteorites belongs to the American Robert Haag - from the age of 12 he collected 2 tons of heavenly stones.
99. Thomas Edison had a collection of birds in 5000 copies.

100. Frenchmen Jeanne Louise and Guy Bruty made a crossword puzzle on a sheet of paper 5 m long and 3 m wide, from 18 thousand words and 50 thousand cells.
101. Shakespeare mentioned roses more than 50 times in his poems.
102. Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, was the only president to make his own clothes.
103. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day - February 12, 1809. The scientist lived almost 20 years longer than the politician.
104. Bill Clinton has sent as many as two emails throughout his presidency, one of which was a test to check that everything is working properly. I wonder who the second letter was to? Maybe Monica?

105. In 1759, Arthur Guinness leased St. Gate's brewery for 9,000 years at a rent of £45 a year. The famous Guinness beer was brewed there.
106. In 1981, Deborah Ann Fontan, Miss NY, was disqualified for excessive use of cotton stuffing in a swimsuit competition
107. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting - he preferred to bow
108. The only president of the United States, concurrently being the chairman of any union - Ronald Reagan, head of the Guild of Actors (Screen Actors Guild).

109. If you remember a little school course physicists, you know that there is a Richter temperature scale. So this same Charles Richter was a malicious nudist, because of which his wife left him.
110. If you read the works of the writer Stephen King, you should notice that most of the actions of his stories take place in Maine. Paradoxically, this state has the lowest crime rate in the United States.
111. The founder of psychoanalysis has a lot of oddities. Freud was terrified of the number 62. He refused to book a hotel room with more than 62 rooms for fear of accidentally getting a room with the number 62. He used cocaine, like many of his contemporaries.
112. The famous entrepreneur Henry Ford preferred to hire people with physical disabilities - among the workers of his factories in 1919, there was one disabled person for four healthy people.

113. Research Louis Pasteur sponsored a beer factory. They also paid him a ticket to an international congress. When Pasteur was given the floor at the congress, the first thing he did was to hang advertising posters with beer on the stage. And he began his speech with the words that this beer is the best. And then he got down to business.
114. Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins ​​of Prince Charles's wife, Camilla
115. The father of the famous comedian Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun, etc.) served as a policeman in Canada, and his brother worked in the Canadian Parliament
116. The father of tennis player Andre Agassi represented Iran at Olympic Games 1948 and 1952. He was... a boxer

Usually great people differ from the average layman, and not only in their famous achievements, but also in character and habits. Among these habits there are many oddities that distinguished many famous people. In this post - a selection of oddities of famous people.

Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov was one of the most famous Russian generals. He did not lose a single battle, and all of them were won with the numerical superiority of the enemy. Suvorov was famous for his strange antics: he went to bed at six in the evening, and woke up at two in the morning, and, upon waking up, doused himself with cold water and loudly shouted “ku-ka-re-ku!”. With all his ranks, he slept in the hay. Preferring to walk in old boots, he could easily go out to meet high officials in a sleeping cap and underwear. He also gave the signal to attack to his beloved “ku-ka-re-ku!”, And, they say, after he was promoted to field marshal, he began to jump over chairs and say: “And I jumped over this one, and over this one - then!"

Often famous people were very forgetful and distracted. For example, Diderot forgot the days, months, years and names of loved ones. Anatole France sometimes forgot to get a new sheet of paper or a notebook and wrote on everything that came to hand: envelopes, business cards, wrappers, receipts. But scientists are usually the most scattered.

Newton somehow received guests and, wanting to treat them, went to his office for wine. Guests are waiting, but the owner does not return. It turned out that upon entering the working room, Newton thought so deeply about his next work that he completely forgot about his friends. There is also a case when Newton, having decided to boil an egg, took a watch, noticed the time and after a couple of minutes found that he was holding an egg in his hand, and was cooking a watch. One day Newton had lunch, but did not notice it. And when by mistake he went to dine another time, he was very surprised that someone had eaten his food.

Einstein, having met his friend and, absorbed in thoughts, said: Come to me in the evening. I will also have Professor Stimson. His friend, puzzled, objected: But I am Stimson! Einstein replied: It doesn't matter, come anyway! In addition, Einstein's wife had to repeat the same thing three times before the meaning of her remarks reached the great physicist.

One day, the father of Russian aviation, Zhukovsky, after talking all evening with friends in his own living room, suddenly got up, looking for his hat, and began to hurriedly say goodbye, muttering: However, I stayed too long with you, it's time to go home!

The German historian Theodor Mommsen once rummaged through all his pockets to find glasses. A little girl sitting next to him handed them to him. "Thanks, little one," Mommsen said. "What's your name?" “Anna Mommsen, papa,” the girl answered.

One day, Ampere, leaving his apartment, wrote with chalk on his door: Ampere will be at home only in the evening. But he returned home in the afternoon. I read the inscription on my doors and went back, because I forgot that he himself was Ampere. Another story that was told about Ampere was this. One day, sitting in a carriage, he wrote a formula with chalk instead of a slate on the coachman's back. And he was very surprised when, having arrived at the place and got off the carriage, he saw that the formula began to move away along with the crew.

Galileo was no less absent-minded. He spent his wedding night reading a book. Noticing at last that it was already dawn, he went to the bedroom, but immediately went out and asked the servant: - Who is lying in my bed? “Your wife, sir,” replied the servant. Galileo completely forgot that he was married.

Some of the greats didn't get married at all. Now you will not surprise anyone with this, but a hundred years ago it was considered a great oddity. Voltaire, Dante, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant and Beethoven died convinced bachelors, believing that the wife would only prevent them from creating, and the servant would look after the house perfectly.

True, in Beethoven's house, the servants were powerless to maintain at least some semblance of order: sheets with symphonies and overtures were scattered throughout the office mixed with bottles and plates, and woe to the one who tried to collect them, breaking this mess! And the owner himself at this time, despite any weather jogging around the streets of the city.

The famous satirist Lafontaine also liked to take a walk. At the same time, he loudly recited the lines and rhymes that came into his bright head, waving his arms and dancing. Fortunately for him, the people then treated such personalities quite calmly, and no one called the orderlies.

The famous writer Leo Tolstoy was famous among his contemporaries not only for his works, but also for his quirks. As a count, he worked in the field on a par with the peasants. At the same time, working in the field side by side with the peasants was not an extravagant hobby for him, he sincerely loved and respected hard physical labor. Tolstoy, with pleasure and, importantly, with skill, sewed boots, which he then gave to relatives, mowed grass and plowed the land, surprising the local peasants who were watching him and grieving his wife.

Over the years, Tolstoy was increasingly captured by spiritual quests, and he paid less and less attention to everyday life, striving for asceticism and “simplification” in almost everything. The count is engaged in hard peasant labor, sleeps on the bare floor and walks barefoot until the very cold, thus emphasizing his closeness to the people. Just like that - on a bare foot, in a belted peasant shirt, simple trousers - Ilya Repin captured him in his picture.

Lev Nikolaevich maintained physical vigor and strength of mind until the very last days. The reason for that is passionate love count to sports and all kinds of physical exercises, which, in his opinion, were obligatory, especially for those who are engaged in mental work. Walking was Tolstoy's favorite discipline; it is known that already at the fairly respectable age of sixty, he made three foot crossings from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana. In addition, the count was fond of skating, mastered cycling, horseback riding, swimming, and started every morning with gymnastics.

Already at the advanced age of 82 years, the writer decided to go wandering, leaving his estate, leaving his wife and children. In a farewell letter to his Countess Sophia, Tolstoy writes: “I can no longer live in those conditions of luxury in which I lived, and I do what old people of my age usually do: they leave worldly life to live in solitude and silence. last days own life".

And among scientists, Nikola Tesla was known as one of the most eccentric people. Tesla did not have his own house or apartment - only laboratories and land. The great inventor usually spent the night right in the laboratory or in hotels in New York. Tesla never married. According to him, a solitary lifestyle helped develop his scientific abilities.

He was terribly afraid of germs, constantly washed his hands, and in hotels he could demand up to a couple of dozen towels a day. By the way, in hotels he always checked whether the number of his apartments would be a multiple of three, otherwise he flatly refused to be settled. If a fly landed on the table during lunch, Tesla demanded that the waiters bring it all over again. In modern psychiatry, there is a special term for this kind of oddity - “misophobia”.

Tesla counted steps while walking, the volume of bowls of soup, cups of coffee and pieces of food. If he failed to do this, then the food did not give him pleasure, so he preferred to eat alone.

Having become the author of many inventions that changed the life of modern civilization, Nikola Tesla left behind even more rumors and guesses about incredible discoveries, which for some reason never reached their publication and application.