True or False?
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:28 am
Alfred Hitchcock was put in jail when he was only 5-years-old. As a result the terrified boy never got over his phobia of policemen.
Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
Benjamin Franklin was nearly killed by his early experiments with lightning; he survived only because he luckily didn't receive a strong enough charge. Twice he was knocked senseless--once when he attempted to treat a paralyzed man with electric shock and another time preparing to kill a turkey by electric shock.
Thomas Edison was hard of hearing and often communicated with his wife in Morse code.
"1812 Overture" composer Tchaikovsky suffered from a nervous disorder and hallucinations. He had a morbid fear that his head would roll off his shoulders while conducting the orchestra.
The scientist, Louis Pasteur used to sneak a microscope into friends' houses under his coat and then examine the food they were serving to make sure it was safe from germs.
Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old.
George Washington Carver, whose research on such common crops as the peanut led the South away from its perilous one-crop economy (cotton), was illiterate until the age of twenty.
Henry Ford was obsessed with soybeans. He once wore a suit and tie made from soy-based material, served a 16-course meal made entirely from soybeans, and ordered many Ford auto parts to be made from soy-erived plastic.
Isaac Newton's only recorded utterance while he was a Member of Parliament was a request to open a window.
Because he felt such an important tool should be public property, the English chemist John Walker never patented his invention-matches.
The French philosopher Rene Descartes (1586-1650) speculated that monkeys and apes have the ability to speak but maintain their peace to avoid being put to work.
Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
Benjamin Franklin was nearly killed by his early experiments with lightning; he survived only because he luckily didn't receive a strong enough charge. Twice he was knocked senseless--once when he attempted to treat a paralyzed man with electric shock and another time preparing to kill a turkey by electric shock.
Thomas Edison was hard of hearing and often communicated with his wife in Morse code.
"1812 Overture" composer Tchaikovsky suffered from a nervous disorder and hallucinations. He had a morbid fear that his head would roll off his shoulders while conducting the orchestra.
The scientist, Louis Pasteur used to sneak a microscope into friends' houses under his coat and then examine the food they were serving to make sure it was safe from germs.
Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old.
George Washington Carver, whose research on such common crops as the peanut led the South away from its perilous one-crop economy (cotton), was illiterate until the age of twenty.
Henry Ford was obsessed with soybeans. He once wore a suit and tie made from soy-based material, served a 16-course meal made entirely from soybeans, and ordered many Ford auto parts to be made from soy-erived plastic.
Isaac Newton's only recorded utterance while he was a Member of Parliament was a request to open a window.
Because he felt such an important tool should be public property, the English chemist John Walker never patented his invention-matches.
The French philosopher Rene Descartes (1586-1650) speculated that monkeys and apes have the ability to speak but maintain their peace to avoid being put to work.