Did you know that....?

Monday, 1 February 2010

It is a miracle that CURIOSITY survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955, German-born American Physicist )

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• John Logie Baird: The inventor of the television transmitted the first long distance images from a room at the Central Hotel in Glasgow.
• The Edinburgh castle was built on an extinct volcano.
  
• Ireland has won the Nobel prize for literature on four occasions with George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney.
• The famous Titanic ship was built in Belfast.
• John Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the U.S.A.was born in Massachusetts in 1917. The Kennedy family were descendants of Irish emigrants to the U.S.A. in the nineteenth century.
  
  
• Ethnic Groups of Canada - British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%




• What's acrophobia? fear of heights or high places
• And moodle? Did you know that it means to pass time in doing nothing?

That's all for now! Bye.







The four Irish Literature Nobel Prizes