Inspiring People

Great Aeroplane Pioneers

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The Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville who made the first recorded flight using their 'Flyer' model in December 1903. Over the next several years, they developed aircraft leading to increasing levels of sophistication, gaining records for the first flights lasting more than one hour, and later two hours. They played a critical role in the development of modern aeroplanes. Their greatest contribution was the development of better plane control, based on the three-axis control system.

Amelia Earhart. First women to successfully fly solo across the Atlantic. Set many records and encouraged women to take up flying. Went missing, presumed dead during a trans-global record attempt.

Other Early Aeroplane Pioneers

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith - Made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia in 1928 and the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland.

Karl Jatho. Developed a motorised glider.

Hiram Stevens Maxim - famous for his wind tunnel tests, though his test plane never took off.

Giacomo D'Angelis was a Corsic-Indian aviation pioneer who became famous for the probably first flight of an own-built aircraft in 1910.

Richard Pearse A group of aviation historians in New Zealand claims that Pearse flew about a kilometer by the end of March 1902 and a similar distance in 1903. However, no proof of this flight has been presented although the topic has been researched since 1958.

Czesław Zbierański - First single wing planes. With Stanislaw Cywiński in the years of 1910–1911 constructed plane with 1 pairs of wings. On September 25, 1911 in Warsaw, the plane piloted by Michal Scipio del Campio flew distance around 15–20 kilometers.

Diego Marín Aguilera (Spain) flew a flying machine on May 15, 1793, of his own invention for approximately 360 meters at a height of 5–6 meters. Unfortunately, the residents of his town, believing him to be a lunatic, heretic, or a fraud, burned his creation and Marín Aguilera never attempted another flight.

Giuseppe Mario Bellanca of Sciacca, Sicily (later New York City), was an airplane designer and builder who created the first monoplane in the United States with an enclosed cabin.

Charles Lindbergh (US), the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, New York to Paris, in 1927.

E. Lilian Todd (US), first woman to design an airplane.

Quotes on Courage

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List of courageous people

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
Mark Twain

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
Confucius

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
William Shakespeare

"One man with courage is a majority."
Thomas Jefferson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nominate a courageous person in comments below.

Walt Whitman Quotes

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

"Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell’d. Study not only their productions. There is a still higher school for him who would kindle his fire with coal from the altar of the loftiest and purest art. It is the school of all grand actions and grand virtues, of heroism, of the death of patriots and martyrs — of all the mighty deeds written in the pages of history — deeds of daring, and enthusiasm, devotion, and fortitude. "

Walt Whitman

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

- Walt Whitman

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.

- Walt Whitman , Song Of The Open Road

O to make the most jubilant song!
Full of music-full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
Full of common employments-full of grain and trees.

- Walt Whitman , Song Of Joys

Come said the Muse,
Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,
Sing me the universal.

- Walt Whitman , Song Of The Universal

Let me have my own way,
Let others promulge the laws, I will make no account of the laws,
Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation
and conflict,
I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was
thought most worthy.

- Walt Whitman , Myself And Mine

Young man I think I know you- I think this face is the face of the
Christ himself,
Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies.

- Walt Whitman , A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak Grey And Dim

Walt Whitman Biography

Suggest Someone Who Has Made A Difference

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Suggest someone who has made a positive contribution to the world.

It can be in any field

Arts
Politics
Music
Literature
Sport
Humanitarian

They must be people who have left the world in a better place.

See:

People who made a difference

Famous Charity Quotes

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"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. "
- Mother Teresa

“The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."
- Audrey Hepburn

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British politician.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill

“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
St. Francis of Assisi

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) British clergyman and author.

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Politician. President of the United States.

"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."
Simone Weil (1910-1943) French Philosopher

"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

"Charity sees the need, not the cause."
German proverb

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.

"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself."
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist.

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Famous Charity Workers

Steve Jobs Quotes

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“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
- Steve Jobs

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” – Steve Jobs as quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993).

“We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.” – ABC News, Jobs on Mac OS X Beta

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

"We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream."

- Interview about the release of the Macintosh (24 January 1984)

"What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."

- Memory and Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress (1991)

"Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better."

- Interview in Rolling Stone magazine, no. 684 (16 June 1994)

"We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."

- Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)

“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.”

“Bill Gates‘d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” – The New York Times, Creating Jobs, 1997

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.” – YouTube

“It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do.” – CNNMoney

“So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.” – CNNMoney

“When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else.”

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” – Fortune

Biography Steve Jobs

Funny Sign Photos

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Idle is a town in Yorkshire.

This page is not blank

Anorexic's are not needed here.

So which part of free don't you understand? A whole new meaning of the world free

Careful does it.

A child is not just for Christmas.

the old internet classic.

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Bizarre Facts

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In October 2006, Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, a 35-year-old Japanese office worker, fell down a snowy slope while attending a work party near Kobe. His body was found 24 days later, during which time doctors estimated his core temperature had fallen to 71F (22C) (as opposed to the normal 96-98F (36-37C). He made a full recovery.[1]
If you feed canaries a diet of red peppers they will turn orange.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
The black box flight recorders on aircraft are actually bright orange so that they can be found more easily
More relatively interesting but useless facts

Photos of Catherine Middleton from Royal Wedding

2011-04-30T03:16:00.000-07:00

Catherine and William, on the yoyal balcony at Buckingham Palace. Over 1 million were estimated to line the streets of London, with a further 2 billion watching on TV. A record global tv audience.

Photo by Beacon Radio

Catherine and William on the balcony alone. Photo by Beacon Radio

Getting married, with father Michael Middleton on right

Photo by: Beacon Radio Creative Commons

Catherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge Biography

Kate's Sister - Pippa Middleton

Photo by www.chicagofabulousblog.com, creative commons.

Pippa Middleton biography

Photos from Royal Wedding 2011

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During the service.

With this ring

Happily married couple

Dress designed by Sarah Burton

The Royal Wedding of Catherine 'Kate' Middleton and Prince William

Policing during event

Expectant crowds

Bridegroom and best man. (Prince Harry)

Scenes from Street party, Regents Street.

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The Beauty of the Rising Sun

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Before Dawn

mist rising over Port Meadow

Mist and Magdalen college

sun creeping over horizon

Mist over Christ Church Meadow

mist

sun in the sky

Does Religion Create Conflict?

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"Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."

Matthew 5:9

Religion has been used for a variety of purposes. It has been used to justify war, it has been used to inspire men to higher ideals.

Religion is tool that can be used in various ways. With a knife we can stab our neighbour, we can also use it to cut an apple in half and share.

The essence of a divine religion is to love God, and love the truth. If we love God and our fellow men, how can we use it to create conflict? If we see our religion as superior and the only right religion, then this attitude does invariably create conflict.

Often the prophets of God are misunderstood. Jesus told us to love our fellow man as ourself. He told us to love even our enemies. But have those who professed the Christain faith always followed this teaching?

Now whose fault is that - the prophet who teaches love or the adherent who listens primarily to his own ego?

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Women Breaking Down Barriers

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Women tractor farmers were featured in the June 22, 1918 issue of Country Gentleman magazine

Land Girls The Women's Land Army was formed in June 1939, to help combat the agricultural labour shortage, caused by men enlisting at the outbreak World War II. Between eighty and ninety thousand women worked on farms up and down the country, many carrying out tasks they were unused to or untrained for. These women helped to ensure that vital domestic food supplies were available throughout the war years

The Suffragettes

Emmeline Pankhurst, leading suffragette who was sent to jail several times for violent protest to raise support for women's vote.

Women in Boat Race

Rural women take part in a traditional boat race challenging male members of the village in West Bengal, India.

Women from all over Côte d'Ivoire gather to celebrate International Women's Day at the Palais de la Culture in Abidjan. 8/Mar/2005. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. UN Photo/Ky Chung

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Symbols of Peace

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Lotus Flower.

Picasso Symbol of Peace

Eternal Peace Flame, Oslo

"A smile is the beginning of peace."
- Mother Teresa

People who made contribution to world peace

Chariots of Fire - Eric Liddell

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Eric Liddell the star of Chariots of Fire. Read more about Eric Liddell here: Eric Liddell Biography

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Close Up Flower Photos

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Adam Smith Quotes

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By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.

- Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)

It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people.

The Wealth Of Nations, Book I, Chapter I, p. 22, para. 10.

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

- Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

- Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

- Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)

"In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so."

The Wealth Of Nations, Book II, Chapter II, p.329, para. 106.

The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

- Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages."

The Wealth Of Nations, Book I, Chapter II, pp. 26-7, para 12.

Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from these rules, in consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.

- Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

- Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)

"The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."

- Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)

* It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.

- Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations (1776)

"This disposition to admire, and almost to worship , the rich and powerful, and to despise , or , at least neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments."

- Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith Biography

Robert Burns Quotes

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Beauty's of a fading nature
Has a season and is gone!

- Robert Burns, Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? (1764)

* Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!

- To a Mouse, st. 1 (1785)

* I'm truly sorry man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union.

- To a Mouse, st. 2 (1785)

* The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley;
And leave us naught but grief and pain
For promised joy.

- To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785)

* Nature's law,
That man was made to mourn.

- Man Was Made to Mourn, st. 4 (1786)

Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Man was made to Mourn.

- Man Was Made to Mourn, st. 4 (1786)

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min'?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' auld lang syne?

- Auld Lang Syne, st. 1 (1788)

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne!

- Auld Lang Syne, chorus (1788)

The voice of Nature loudly cries,
And many a message from the skies,
That something in us never dies.

- New Year's Day, st. 3 (1790)

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,
And framed her last, best work, the human mind,
Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,
She formed of various stuff the various Man.

- To Robert Graham, st. 1 (1791)

- Robert Burns Biography
Famous Scots

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

-Eleanor Roosevelt - Voice of America broadcast (11 November 1951)

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix

"A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt - The Wit and Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt (1996), p. 199

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt This Is My Story (1937)

"The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations."

"If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people."

Eleanor Roosevelt (5 November 1958)

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. "

Eleanor Roosevelt My Day (1935 - 1962)

"We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries..."

- Eleanor Roosevelt on UNHR

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Eleanor Roosevelt Biography

Oscar Wilde Facts

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Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin. His parents were well known for their extravagant lifestyles. They were also sympathetic to Irish nationalism.
Oscar Wilde was a talented student and gained a scholarship to Trinity Collge, Dublin and later Magdalen College, Oxford.
He was sent down from Magdalen after turning up to college three weeks later.
After moving to London, Wilde became well a well known celebrity mixing with high society and impressing many with his wit and flamboyance.

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

- Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde married Constance Lloyd. Together they had two sons.
Oscar Wilde had several homosexual relationships. He was particularly close to Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie)
Wilde became well known as a playwright. His plays offered sharp satires on life and people. His most popular included: The Importance of Being Earnest, His only novel was The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband
The father of Alfred Douglas, the Marquess of Queensberry, disliked Wilde and hinted Oscar Wilde was homosexual. Wilde launched a libel action against his father, but it soon fell apart. This led to Wilde being tried for the crime of sodomy.
Wilde was sentenced to two years in Reading Gaol. Afterwards he moved to Paris, where he lived in relative anonymity until his death in 1900.

I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky.

- Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde

After his experience in gaol, he became interested in religion. He applied for a six month Jesuit retreat, but was turned down. He received the last sacraments on his bedside before his death.

Oscar Wilde Biography

John Lennon Facts

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John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool to Julia Lennon after 30 hours of labour on October 9, 1940 during a German air raid.
John was inspired to become a popstar by listening to the music of Elvis Presley.
Without glasses, John was legally blind.
John loved cats, owning several at different times.
John formed his first band, The Quarrymen in 1956.
John didn't want George Harrison in The Quarrymen, at first, because he was too young.
John Lennon married Cynthia Powell on August 23, 1962, after finding out she was pregnant.
John and Yoko first met in 1966.
On the road, John would room with George Harrison, and Paul McCartney would room with Ringo.
John became increasingly interested in politics, and his music had a political slant.

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

John spent time with the Yogi Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India.
John Lennon became embroiled in controversy on a visit to the US, after he was quoted as saying 'the Beatles were bigger than Jesus Christ'. It led to many record burnings in the South of US.
In November 1968, John divorced his first wife Cynthia.
John and Yoko were married in March, 1969.
John ate very little after a reporter labelled him "the fat Beatle" in 1965.
The Beatles broke up in 1970, they are estimated to have sold more than a billion records worldwide.
John drank 20 to 30 cups of tea or coffee every day.
John frequently chose to wear no clothing, even when he had visitors in his home.
John Lennon released his solo album 'Imagine' in 1971. It has frequently been voted most popular song in the world.
By 1978, John Lennon weighed only 130 pounds compared to over 165 pounds earlier in year.
Mark Chapman shot John as he was walking into his apartment building around 10:50 p.m. on Monday, December 8, 1980. He had signed his autograph for Mark Chapman six hours earlier.
Yoko had John's body cremated on Wednesday, December 10, 1980.

John Lennon Biography

John Lennon Imagine

Top 10 Female Writers

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Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter Series
Emily Dickinson - Poetry
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
George Eliot (1819 - 1880) - Middlemarch
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928),
Agatha Christie - Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot
Anne Frank - - Diary of Anne Frank
Maya Angelou - American poet
Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Women

Appearances can be deceptive

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The old joke - "You're so ugly, you make onions cry." But, 'you can't judge a book by its cover'

Some great people had a reputation for being unable to win local beauty contests. But, I don't think Socrates, Beethoven and Abraham Lincoln were too bothered though.

It is a shame modern society often judges people on physical appearance.

Famous Ugly People

Top 10 Writers for Children

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J.K.Rowling (1960)- Harry Potter Series. The books which helped lead to a boom in reading by children.
Enid Blyton - (1897–1968) Noddy books, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven Series.
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) - Alice in Wonderland adventures
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) - The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) - James and Giant Peach, Matilda, Charlie and Chocolate Factory
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) - Tale of Peter Rabbit
Mark Twain (1835–1910) - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
C.S. Lewis (1898–1963) - Chronicles of Narnia
Douglas Adams - - Hitchikers Guide to Galaxy Series
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) - The Wind in the Willows