Now I would like to inform you some interesting news about the great mans of history.

ð Leonardo Da Vinci is best remembered as the painter of the Mona Lisa (1504?)and The Last Supper (1495). But he's almost equally famous for his astonishing multiplicity of talents: he dabbled in architecture, sculpture, engineering, geology, hydraulics and the military arts, all with success, and in his spare time doodled parachutes and flying machines that resembled inventions of the 19th and 20th centuries.

ð He could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

ð He also made detailed drawings of human anatomy, which are still highly regarded today.

ð DaVinci wrote notebook entries in mirror (backwards) script, a trick that kept many of his observations from being widely known until decades after his death. It is believed that he was hiding his scientific ideas from the powerful Roman Catholic Church, whose teachings sometimes disagreed with what Leonardo observed.

ð He painted the Mona Lisa on a piece of pinewood, 77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in) in the year 1506.

ð He name for the painting was La Gioconda. Named for the wife of Francesco del Giocondo; 1503-06.

ð Vincent Van Gogh painted a picture a day in the last 70 days of his life.

ð Alexander Hamilton and his son, Philip, both died on the same spot, and both during duels. Philip went first, 3 years before his father would be killed in that same field by Aaron Burr.

ð Florence Nightingale served only two years of her life as a nurse. She contracted fever during her service in the Crimean War, and spent the last 50 years of her life as an invalid.

ð Salim (1569-1627)heir to the throne of India, had 4 wives when he was only 8 years of age.

ð Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

ð Shakespeare spelled his OWN name several different ways.

ð Napoleon, the famous French general, was not born in France. He was born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica of Italian parents.

ð Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

ð When Napoleon wore black silk handkerchiefs around his neck during a battle, he always won. At Waterloo, he wore a white cravat and lost the battle and his kingdom.

ð Although most people think that Napoleon was short, he was actually five feet six inches tall (1.676 meters), an average height for a Frenchman in those days

ð Napoleon took 14,000 French decrees and simplified them into a unified set of 7 laws. This was the first time in modern history that a nation's laws applied equally to all citizens. Napoleon's 7 laws are so impressive that by 1960 more than 70 governments had patterned their own laws after them or used them verbatim.

ð George Washington, who was nearly toothless himself, was meticulous with the teeth of the six white horses that pulled his presidential coach. He had their teeth picked and cleaned daily to improve their appearance.

ð President George Washington oversaw construction of the White House, but he never lived there. It was our second President, John Adams, elected in 1796, who first lived in the White House. His term was almost over by the time he moved in, and only six rooms had been finished.

ð Before winning the election in 1860, Abraham Lincoln lost eight elections for various offices.

ð Louis XIV had forty personal wigmakers and almost 1000 wigs.

ð Queen Supayalat of Burma ordered about 100 of her husband's relatives clubbed to death. She did this to ensure the throne to her husband.

ð While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.

ð Civil War General Stonewall Jackson died when he was accidentally hit by fire from his own troop.

ð Marco Polo was born on the Croatian island of Korcula (pronounced Kor-Chu-La).

ð Spartacus led the revolt of the Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 A.D.

ð When Elizabeth I of Russia died in 1762, 15,000 dresses were found in her closets. She used to change what she was wearing two and even three times an evening.

That’s all I have now.