Interesting facts from the life of famous people. Interesting stories from the life of great people that can inspire

Once again, we want to invite you to combine business with pleasure and learn a lot of new and interesting things during breaks caused by a variety of reasons. Fill the time of forced waiting with reading easy and at the same time useful information for broadening one's horizons. This time, the most incredible and little-known facts from world history are offered to your attention. Thanks to its convenient design, the book can be used in almost any environment.

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The following excerpt from the book Required reading. 1000 new interesting facts for the mind and entertainment (E. Mirochnik, 2014) provided by our book partner - the company LitRes.

Chapter 2

Great Losers

Beethoven's teacher considered him a completely mediocre student. The great composer, until the end of his life, never mastered such a mathematical action as multiplication.

Darwin, who had abandoned medicine, was bitterly reproached by his father: “You are not interested in anything but catching dogs and rats!”

Walt Disney was fired from the paper for lack of ideas.

Edison's mentor said of him that he was stupid and could not learn anything.

Einstein did not speak until the age of four. His teacher described him as mentally retarded.

The father of Rodin, the great sculptor, said: “My son is an idiot. He failed three times in art school.”

Mozart, one of the most brilliant composers, Emperor Ferdinand said that in his "The Marriage of Figaro" "too little noise and too many notes."

Our compatriot Mendeleev had a triple in chemistry.

When we look at Ford cars, we mean that their creator, Henry Ford, has always been a wealthy, successful businessman. We see this huge empire that has been living for more than a hundred years. But few of us know that before achieving financial success, Ford declared himself bankrupt several times, went bankrupt clean - a man who changed the course of history, putting the world on wheels.

Henry Ford never had a driver's license.

When Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio and told his friends that he would transmit words over a distance through the air, they thought he was crazy and took him to a psychiatrist. But within a few months, his radio saved the lives of many sailors.

Nikolai Gogol, oddly enough, wrote rather mediocre compositions at school. Some progress he noted only in Russian literature and drawing. In addition, Nikolai Vasilyevich was an extremely shy person: for example, if a stranger appeared in the company, Gogol simply quietly left the room.

The great silent film actor Charlie Chaplin learned to read much later than he got his first role in the theater. He was terribly afraid that someone would discover his illiteracy, so he avoided situations in every possible way where he could be forced to read excerpts from the role.

The eminent politician Winston Churchill was an excellent orator. But as a child, he stuttered and lisped, and only thanks to a good speech therapist, speech defects were corrected.

In addition, Churchill literally hated the school. He was the worst student in the class and often received cuffs from teachers. When his father noticed that his son was fond of toy soldiers, he suggested that he enter the military academy. Churchill entered there ... on the third attempt.

The famous storyteller Hans Christian Andersen wrote with grammatical and spelling errors until the end of his life. He had particular difficulties with punctuation marks. Therefore, many Money it took to pay for the work of people who rewrote his works before they get to the publishing house.

Alexander Pushkin, as we know, was a lyceum graduate. But he got into it by pull - his uncle attached him there. And when the lists of graduates were prepared for the graduation party, Pushkin was listed second in his academic performance ... from the bottom.

The author of the law of universal gravitation, Isaac Newton, was a member of the House of Lords. We must give him his due - he attended all meetings of the chamber regularly, but for many years he did not utter a word there. And then one day he still asked to give him the opportunity to speak. Everyone literally froze, waiting for the significant speech of the great scientist. And in absolute silence, Newton said: “Gentlemen! I ask you to close the window, otherwise I may catch a cold! And that's it! This was his only performance.

The university graduation certificate of the German philosopher Georg Hegel stated: “A young man with sound judgments, but did not differ in eloquence and did not show himself in philosophy in any way.”

Little is known about the biography of Sylvester Stallone to a wide range of viewers who admire their favorite hero on the screen, and meanwhile the future action star was known at the school where he studied as a real gangster! His teachers unanimously insisted that Stallone would definitely kill someone and end his life in prison, with a life sentence, or be executed! Probably for this reason, young Sylvester changed several schools every year, of which there were 15 in the end!

Colombian singer Shakira was kicked out of her school choir at the age of 10 because her teacher didn't like her voice. Then she practically abandoned her dream of a musical career.

A woman with outstanding forms, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez at one time simply could not pass the very first selection in her life for filming in television commercials. The fact is that the experts who evaluated the contenders for the role of the girl who will advertise the jeans unanimously declared that Lopez simply would not fit into them.

The strangest deeds and habits of great people

The 16th-century astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose research helped Sir Isaac Newton create the theory of universal gravitation, took an untimely farewell to life because he did not go to the toilet on time. In those days, to leave the table before the end of the feast meant to inflict a grave insult on the owner of the house. Being a courteous man, Brahe did not dare to ask permission to leave the table. His bladder burst, and after suffering for 11 days, the astronomer died.

Jean-Baptiste Lully, a 17th-century composer who wrote music for the French king, died from an excess of devotion to his work. Once, during the rehearsal of the next concert, he got so excited that, knocking his cane on the floor, he broke his own leg and died from blood poisoning.

The great illusionist Harry Houdini died after being punched in the stomach by a fan. Houdini let people hit him, demonstrating the wonders of impenetrable abs. He died in the hospital from internal injuries.

The twelfth president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, after a ceremony on a particularly hot day on July 4, 1850, ate too much ice cream, fell ill with indigestion and died five days later, having been president for only 16 months.

Jack Daniel, the father of the famous Jack Daniel's whiskey, died of blood poisoning after suffering a leg injury: he broke his finger kicking his safe, to which he forgot the combination.

Vincent van Gogh painted for days, drank absinthe in buckets, cut off his left ear and painted a self-portrait in this form, and at the age of 37 he committed suicide. After his death, by the way, more than 150 medical diagnoses were made public by doctors, which were made to the great painter during his lifetime.

Gustave Flaubert, while working, moaned along with the characters he portrayed, cried and laughed, walked quickly around the office with large steps and loudly chanted words.

Honore de Balzac was afraid of getting married more than anything. For many years he was in love with Countess Evelina Hanska. Balzac resisted for another eight years, but still the countess insisted on the wedding. From fear, the writer fell ill and even wrote to his bride: they say, my health is such that you would rather accompany me to the cemetery than have time to try on my name. But the wedding took place. True, Honore was taken down the aisle in an armchair, since he himself could not walk.

The French artist Henri Matisse, before starting to paint, had an acute desire to strangle someone.

Voltaire drank up to 50 cups of coffee a day.

Ivan Krylov had an inexplicable mania: he loved to look at the fires and tried not to miss a single fire in St. Petersburg.

When the blues attacked Ivan Turgenev, he put a high cap on his head and put himself in a corner. And he stood there until the longing passed.

Anton Chekhov liked to say unusual compliments: “dog”, “actress”, “snake”, “crocodile of my soul”.

William Burroughs at one of the parties wanted to surprise the guests. The writer planned to repeat the act of the archer William Tell, who hit an apple standing on the head of his own son. Burroughs placed the glass on the head of his wife, Joan Vollmer, and fired his pistol. The wife died from a bullet in the head.

Ivan the Terrible in the mornings and evenings personally rang the bells on the main belfry of Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda. Thus, they say, he tried to drown out mental suffering.

Lord Byron became extremely irritated at the sight of a salt shaker.

Charles Dickens always washed down a sip of hot water every 50 lines of writing.

Johannes Brahms "for inspiration" constantly unnecessarily cleaned shoes.

Isaac Newton once welded a pocket watch while holding an egg and looking at it.

Ludwig van Beethoven went constantly unshaven, believing that shaving hinders creative inspiration. And before sitting down to write music, the composer poured a bucket of cold water on his head: this, in his opinion, should have greatly stimulated the brain.

Alexander Pushkin was very fond of shooting in the bathhouse. They say that in the village of Mikhailovskoye, almost nothing authentic since the time of the poet has been properly preserved, but the wall at which Pushkin fired was surprisingly intact.

Fyodor Dostoevsky could not work without strong tea. When he wrote his novels at night, there was always a glass of tea on his desk, and the samovar was always kept hot in the dining room.

Johann Goethe worked only in a hermetically sealed room, without the slightest access to fresh air.

Commander Alexander Suvorov was famous for his strange antics: an unusual daily routine - he went to bed at six o'clock in the evening and woke up at two in the morning, an unusual awakening - he doused himself with cold water and loudly shouted "ku-ka-re-ku!", unusual for we lay the commander in bed - with all the 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 through this - then!"

Suvorov was very fond of marrying his serfs, guided by a very peculiar principle - he lined them up in a row, selected those who were suitable for their height, and then married 20 couples at a time.

Emperor Nicholas I did not like music and, as a punishment for officers, gave them a choice between a guardhouse and listening to Glinka's operas.

Emperor Nicholas I ordered to hang portraits of his ancestors in the toilet. In addition, Nikolai Pavlovich transferred his library to the closet.

Arthur Schopenhauer was famous for his excellent appetite and ate for two; if someone made a remark to him on this score, he answered that he thought for two.

He used to pay for two seats so that no one could sit down at his table.

At dinner, he used to talk loudly with his poodle Atman, and at the same time every time he addressed him as "you" and "sir" if he behaved well, and "you" and "man" if he was a master in something upset.

Sigmund Freud hated music. He threw away his sister's piano and did not go to restaurants with an orchestra.

French writer Guy de Maupassant was one of those who annoyed the Eiffel Tower. Nevertheless, he dined daily at her restaurant, explaining that this was the only place in Paris where the tower was not visible.

Hunter Thompson came to the set before filming the film adaptation of his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The role of Raoul Duke was played by Johnny Depp. The writer, being intoxicated, personally cut the movie star's hair, making a huge bald patch on Depp's head.

The third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, independently designed his tombstone and wrote the text for it, which did not indicate that he was president.

The sixteenth US President Abraham Lincoln always wore a tall black top hat on his head, inside which he kept letters, financial papers, bills and notes.

The Chinese statesman and politician of the 20th century, Mao Zedong, never brushed his teeth. And to the words that it was unhygienic, he answered: “Have you ever seen a tiger brush his teeth?”

English footballer David Beckham can't stand mess. The surrounding objects must be carefully selected in color, shape and size, and their number must be a multiple of two.

Funny cases from the life of famous people

Once, Albert Einstein was riding a tram in Leipzig. And in this very tram there was a conductor. The conductor approached the physicist and asked him to pay the fare. Einstein quite calmly counted out the required amount and handed it to the conductor. He counted the money and said that another 5 pfennigs were missing.

- I carefully considered! It can't be! Einstein objected.

Galileo Galilei spent his wedding night reading a book. Noticing 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.

Once Voltaire was invited to a dinner party. When everyone was seated, it turned out that the maestro found himself between two grumpy gentlemen. Having drunk well, Voltaire's neighbors began to argue how to properly address the servants: "Bring me some water!" or "Give me water!". Voltaire unwittingly found himself right at the epicenter of this dispute. Finally, tired of this disgrace, the maestro could not stand it and said:

- Gentlemen, both of these expressions are inapplicable to you! Both of you should say: "Take me to the watering hole!"

Once Vladimir Mayakovsky had to speak in front of a whole hall of writers. This was not uncommon for him, but that performance of the proletarian poet became special. While he was reading his poems on the podium, one of the poet's ill-wishers, who were enough in those years, shouted:

I don't understand your poetry! They are kind of stupid!

“It's okay, your children will understand,” Vladimir Vladimirovich answered.

- And my children will not understand your poems! - continued the ill-wisher.

“Well, why are you talking about your children right away,” the poet replied with a grin. “Maybe their mother is smart, maybe they will follow her.

Once, speaking at a polytechnic institute at a debate about proletarian internationalism, Vladimir Mayakovsky said:

- Among Russians I feel like a Russian, among Georgians - a Georgian ...

What about fools? Suddenly, someone shouted from the hall.

“And for the first time among fools,” Mayakovsky replied instantly.

Traveling in France, Mark Twain traveled by train to the city of Dijon. The train was passing, and he asked to wake him up in time. At the same time, the writer said to the conductor:

- I sleep very soundly. When you wake me up, maybe I will scream. So ignore it and be sure to drop me off at Dijon.

When Mark Twain woke up, it was already morning and the train was approaching Paris. The writer realized that Dijon had passed and became very angry. He ran to the conductor and began to reprimand him.

“I have never been as angry as I am now!” he shouted.

"You're not as angry as the American I dropped off at Dijon last night," replied the guide.

Mark Twain, being a newspaper editor, once printed a devastating denunciation of a certain N. It contained the phrase: "Mr. N does not even deserve a spit in the face." This gentleman sued, which ordered the newspaper to publish a refutation, and Mark Twain showed himself to be a "law-abiding" citizen: in the next issue of his newspaper it was printed: "Mr. N deserves a spit in the face."

End of introductory segment.

Famous personalities differ from us not only in their achievements in a particular area of ​​life. Facts from life famous people confirm their strangeness. Famous people have such an entertaining biography that you want to study it in full. Interesting Facts from the life of famous people will appeal to both children and adults.

1. captured Italy at the age of 26.

2. Time magazine named Hitler's Man of the Year.

3. Cleopatra was married to her brother.

4. Facts from the life of famous people of America confirm that Andrew Jackson, the President of the United States, considered the Earth to be flat.

5. At the wedding, Queen Victoria was presented with a piece of cheese, the diameter of which was 3 meters, and the weight was 500 kilograms.

6. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' toilet. When there was a ball, his mother felt unwell and soon gave birth to him there.

7. Beethoven always brewed coffee from 64 beans.

8. Beria had syphilis.

9. Celine Dion and Madonna are the cousins ​​of the wife of Prince Charles.

10. almost always fell asleep in front of the fireplace. As a result, he experienced sleep deprivation.

11. Socks were considered the most stupid thing.

12. The most loving man is the king of the island of Tonga, which is located in the Pacific Ocean. His name was Fatafehi ​​Paulah.

13. I have never had children, and intimate relationships too.

14. Facts from the life of famous people of Russia say that Alexander Suvorov did not lose a single battle.

15. always worked on the field on a par with other men. And this happened despite the fact that he was a count.

16. Nikola Tesla had a panicky fear of germs.

17. Andriana Lima, who is considered the famous Brazilian model, remained faithful before the wedding. And exactly 9 months after the wedding, her daughter was born.

18. Paul McCartney, due to his own workload, did not have time to buy an engagement ring for his chosen one.

19. Cristiano Ronaldo is the most expensive player in the history of football.

20. Jackie Chan's mother carried him for 12 months and this famous man was born with a weight of more than 5 kilograms.

21. Interesting facts about famous people provide information that Marilyn Monroe, before she became a famous model, worked at an aviation factory.

22. Brad Pitt's first job was to perform on the streets in "chicken" clothes.

24. Marilyn Monroe's bra sold at auction for $14,000.

25. Hiding hair loss, Julius Caesar put a wreath of laurel on his head.

26. Elizabeth the First taxed men who had beards.

27. More than 500 million dollars for charity gave away John Rockefeller for his own life.

28. Winston Churchill smoked at least 15 cigars a day.

29. King Solomon had about 700 wives and 100 mistresses.

30. Moart has never been to school.

31. Sigmund Freud had a panic rhinestone before the number 62.

32. Louis Pasteur was the sponsor of the beer factory.

33. Alexander the Great knew about 30,000 of his own soldiers by sight.

34. Approximately 3,000 outfits were from Queen Elizabeth.

35. Voltaire's body was stolen from the grave.

36. The Dutch artist Van Gogh had bouts of insanity. In one of them he cut off his ear.

37. Yuri Gagarin wrote a farewell letter to his wife before the flight into space, because he did not know how the expedition would end.

38. Luciano Pavarotti was fond of football.

39. Genghis Khan had a panic fear of death. And this is despite his cruelty towards enemies.

40. When Alla Pugacheva was born, cancer was found on her throat. It was removed immediately.

41. Sylvester Stallone was often beaten during his school years.

42. participated in duels more than 90 times.

43. Saddam Hussein wrote the Koran with his own blood.

44. Charlie Chaplin's body was stolen 3 months later by porters who demanded a ransom.

45. When Vladimir Putin worked for the KGB, his code name was "mol".

46. ​​The largest fee in the amount of $ 20 million was first received by Julia Roberts.

47. All shoes for Paris Hillton were made to order, because she has a large foot size and it is difficult to find the right shoes.

48. Whoopi Goldberg, who is considered an actress, has no eyebrows.

49. Rihanna didn't even finish school.

50. Beethoven drenched ice water in order to raise your mental tone.

51. In his childhood, Charles Darwin's father considered his son mediocrity.

52. Demosthenes had a speech impediment in childhood.

53. Genghis Khan died in the process of making love.

54. Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote Sherlock Holmes, was an ophthalmologist by profession.

55. Walt Disney was afraid of mice throughout his life.

56. Mozart began composing music at the age of 3. At the age of 35, he already had over 600 works.

57. At the age of 3, Albert Einstein did not say a word.

58. Timberlake is very afraid of spiders.

59. The Italian national flag was created by Napoleon Bonaparte.

60. Queen Anne was the mother of 17 children.

61. The autograph of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar was estimated at $ 2 million.

62. Charles Dickens preferred to sleep only facing north.

63. George Washington's birthday was the only birthday that was a public holiday in the US.

64. Uma Thurman's father was a monk and professor of Eastern religion.

65. Taylor Swift played the guitar for the first time at the age of 10.

66. Ashton Kutcher trained as a biochemist.

67. Riana was a cadet in the Barbadian army.

68. Angelina Jolie in her childhood wore braces and glasses, for which she was teased by the guys.

69. Until the age of 16, Jennifer Garner did not wear thongs and did not use cosmetics, because she was forbidden to do so.

70. Tom Cruise had a dream - to become a priest.

71. Demi Moore had an attempt to commit suicide during her school years.

72. Queen Victoria spent 40 years in mourning after the death of her husband. She did not take off her black dresses at that time.

73. Mussolini was scared to death of cats.

74. Alfred Hitchcock was afraid of eggs in any form.

75. Julio Iglesias played in the Real Madrid football team in his youth.

76. The highest paid actor is Charlie Chaplin.

77. Marilyn Monroe grew up in an orphanage.

78. Tchaikovsky had a law degree.

79. Two children Ricky Martin gave birth to a surrogate mother, and all his life he hid his own orientation.

80. Hitler was a vegetarian.

81. Two of his six spouses were executed by the English King Henry VIII.

82. Paul McCartney's mother was a midwife and helped the kids to be born.

83. Kipling could not write his works in ink due to the fact that they were black.

84. Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the turkey the national bird of the United States of America.

85. Bill Clinton has only sent 2 emails in all his years in office.

86. George Washington did not shake hands when meeting, but only bowed.

87. before starting writing, was a doctor.

88. Cleopatra preferred to test poisons on her slaves.

89. Winston Churchill had Indian ancestors on his mother's side.

90. Queen Victoria spoke English with a German accent.

91. Henry Ford, who is considered a successful businessman, had only a secondary education.

92. Sarah Jessica Parker is tied to a black little dress, so she even got married in a black dress.

93. At one of his concerts, Ozzy Osbourne bit off the head of a bat.

94. Elizabeth Taylor had a double row of eyelashes.

95. In my school years I was a loser in physics.

96. The Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dali.

97. Kate Middleton's wedding dress the morning after the celebration could be purchased for $300.

98. Elvis Presley worked for a trucking company when he was young.

99. Napoleon's penis was purchased for $40,000 by an American urologist.

Incredible Facts

The life of celebrities seems to us the ultimate dream, and their love stories are an incredibly beautiful fairy tale.

However, even for the beautiful and famous, not everything is so smooth and cloudless.

Sometimes even the most beautiful love stories, suddenly breaking off, find a tragic ending.

Here are 10 celebrity love stories with surprisingly sad endings:

The most tragic love stories

1. Simon Atli and Petra Nemkova

In a split second, a dream vacation turned into a nightmare for 25-year-old model Petra Nemkova and her 33-year-old boyfriend, photographer Simon Utley.

At the end of 2004, the lovers went to one of the popular resorts in Thailand. Vacation promised to be fabulous.

When a deadly tsunami hit the island, thousands of human destinies were broken in an instant.

Petra escaped certain death by clinging to the branches of a palm tree. For eight agonizing hours, the model stayed on the tree until rescuers finally rescued her.

The girl received a fracture of the pelvis and many other injuries, but she survived, and her lover died ...

Simon's body was found 6 months later near the place where the couple spent their holidays.

In memory of her dead fiancé, Petra founded a fund called The Happy Hearts Fund. This organization was engaged in helping the victims of the cataclysms in Haiti and the Philippines cope with the tragedies that fell upon them.

Michael Todd, perhaps, became famous for being the only husband of Elizabeth Taylor, whom she did not divorce. And it really was a feat.

After all, all 7 marriages of the famous actress ended in divorce. Marriage with Michael was the third in a row for the star Cleopatra (she was married a total of eight times) and the third for Todd, a famous Hollywood producer.

Taylor was two years younger than son Todd from his first marriage. However, the 23-year age difference did not stop the lovers. The relationship between Elizabeth and Michael was in the spotlight all the time and was surrounded by a lot of gossip and gossip.

6 months after the wedding, a daughter, Liza, was born in the family.

Despite the negative tabloid attention, the couple seemed genuinely in love and sincere.

Many have said that Elizabeth has never been happier than being paired with Todd.

Their fairy tale ended when, less than a year after their marriage in 1958, Todd's private jet, Lucky Liz, crashed. The plane's engine failed and it exploded on impact with the ground.

At the end of her life, Elizabeth called Michael "the love of her life" along with her 5th (and 6th) husband, Richard Burton, and, of course, jewelry.

Celebrity tragedy

3. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love

Yes, their relationship was tumultuous, yes, the couple were notorious for both using illegal drugs.

In April 1994, the whole world was shocked by the news of the death of Kurt Cobain. The famous musician was found dead in his home. He died from a gunshot wound to the head. The police stated the fact of suicide.

Kurt and Courtney met at a nightclub in 1990. They secretly married on a beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1992.

6 months after the wedding, daughter Francis Bian was born.

There are many versions regarding the death of Kurt. Some say it was murder. Others are convinced that Cobain committed suicide. But for what exact reason, no one knows.

At the time of his death, Kurt was only 27 years old. He was in the prime of his life and at the zenith of his glory...

4. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable

Hollywood Golden Girl Carole Lombard met her fate on the set of the 1932 film The Difficult Man. Her partner in the role was the famous Clark Gable.

But only in 1939, seven long years after they met, the couple joined. The life of Clark and Carol seemed like a fairy tale idyll.

They were madly in love, constantly surprising each other with unusual actions.

For example, after one of their quarrels, Lombard sent her husband a pair of doves as a sign of reconciliation.

Unfortunately, just two years after their wedding, Carol died in a plane crash. She flew to the shooting of an anti-fascist film. Her plane crashed, crashing into a mountain while climbing.

She was only 33 years old. Although Gable later married, those who knew him closely claimed that the actor never recovered from the death of his wife. Undoubtedly, Carol was the most big love in his life.

To forget himself, Clark Gable went to the front as a simple private, despite the fact that relatives and friends were against it.

At Clark's request, after his death, he was buried next to Lombard in 1961.

5. Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski

At first glance, it seems that Hollywood couldn't have written a better script: in 1964, a rising actress (Tate) meets a promising young director (Polanski).

And although these two did not immediately find mutual language, Polanski tries it out in his film ("The Fearless Vampire Killers").

They fell in love during their stay in Italy and on their return to London she moved into the director's house.

Four years later, Sharon and Roman got married and were expecting a child.

Their love story could be called a fairy tale with a happy ending... However, a fatal set of circumstances cut short this wonderful fairy tale.

Just two weeks before giving birth, Tate was brutally murdered by a criminal group known as the "Charles Manson Family". After being tied up at gunpoint, she was stabbed 16 times.

Sharon was only 26 years old...

6. Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed

In just one short month, the stormy romance of Diana Spencer and her boyfriend, the son of the Egyptian billionaire Dodi Fayed, continued.

In August 1997, the world shuddered at the news that everyone's favorite princess and her new lover had died in a car accident while on holiday in Paris.

The lovers were in a terrible car accident. Dodi died instantly, while Diana was taken to the hospital with many injuries, where she died a few hours later.

Some sources report that the princess was pregnant at the time of her death, but this fact has not been officially confirmed.

Their fleeting romance remained a beautiful, but unfinished story of great love.

7. John and Jacqueline Kennedy

It was love at first sight. John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier met at a mutual friend's party.

A year later, in 1953, the couple married. And eight years later, Kennedy became President of the United States of America, and Jackie became the third young First Lady in history. She was only 31 years old.

The tragedy happened 2 years after Kennedy was elected head of state. During a trip to Texas, he was killed in an open convertible by multiple shots to the head and neck.

And although Jackie remarried a few years after the tragic death of her first husband, she could not forget him until her death.

Nobody could compare to him.

She admitted this in one of her interviews, being already an elderly woman. She called the years spent in the White House the best in her life.

Tragedies of famous people

8. Pierce Brosnan and Cassandra Harris

When James Bond falls in love with someone, he gets married and wants to live with that girl for the rest of his life.

In 1980, Pierce Brosnan met Cassandra Harris. They were born common child(Cassandra had two children from her first marriage).

After several years of cloudless happiness, a woman was diagnosed with oncology. Brosnan remained with his wife to the last, supporting her in everything.

He went through all the circles of hell with his beloved: several operations, an extensive course of chemotherapy. The treatment proved to be ineffective. The disease won, and in 1991, at the age of 43, Cassandra died.

Brosnan shared that he continued to talk with his beloved even after her death. But the tragedies associated with diseases did not end there.

A few years later, Cassandra's daughter from Charlotte's first marriage was diagnosed with an identical disease.

Pierce Brosnan was next to his stepdaughter to the last, holding her hand.

1. Edgar Allan Poe once wrote a story in which passengers who survived a shipwreck surf the ocean on a fragile boat and from starvation kill and eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker. A few years later (in 1884) a skiff was discovered on the high seas with three survivors of the shipwreck. It turned out that some time ago, hunger forced them to kill and eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker. None of the survivors knew of Poe's story.

2. When Einstein died, his last words died with him: the nurse did not understand German.

3. Pushkin was challenged to a duel more than 90 times.

4. Stalin was 160 cm tall. Therefore, he was filmed exclusively from below. One of his arms was shorter than the other. To hide it, he kept it bent, put it in his pocket or smoked a pipe. It is noteworthy that many famous leaders often suffered from deformities. So, for example, Peter the Great had a very small head for his physique. And Napoleon - not counting the height (150cm) - his legs were very small.

5. Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered the law of attraction, also invented the cat door.

6. Hitler considered his main enemy in the USSR not Stalin, but the announcer Yuri Levitan. For his head, he announced a reward of 250 thousand marks. Soviet authorities Levitan was carefully guarded, and misinformation about his appearance was launched through the press.

7. Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar executed her subjects if they came to her in a dream without warning.

8. The most loving man in the world can be considered the king of the Pacific island of Tonga, who was met by the legendary Captain Cook in 1777. King Paulah of Fatafehi ​​loved his subjects ardently and passionately. He considered it not only his right, but also a sacred duty to deprive native virgins of innocence. He performed this duty very zealously - 8-10 times a day, without holidays and weekends. During his life, in this way, he benefited 37,800 girls.

9. It took Henry Ford seven years to make the first million cars. 132 working days later (in 1924) Ford had already made 10 million cars.

10. Marilyn Monroe to a journalist's question: "What do you wear at night when you go to bed?" - said: "Oh, just a few drops of Chanel number five."

11. Hans Christian Andersen until the end of his days wrote with terrible grammatical and spelling errors. Punctuation marks were especially difficult, and Andersen spent a lot of money on girls who rewrote his fairy tales before taking them to the publisher.

12. At the 1936 Summer Olympics, Adolf Hitler refused to shake hands with black American Jesse Owens in honor of his victory in running.

13. According to Yeltsin himself, while working as a machinist on a BKSM-5 tower crane, he negligently forgot to fix the crane after a working day, at night he discovered that he was moving, climbed into the control cabin and stopped the crane at the risk of his life.

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Time is a harmful and elusive thing. It always oozes through your fingers and flows away to no one knows where. What to do if all your life you wanted to write symphonies better than Mozart's, and you have two children, a wife, a mother, and a burning project in addition to everything?

We are in site We are also extremely concerned about this problem: we want to realize ourselves in life and not choke on a bone. Not to give up and do great things, we are helped by examples of famous people who certainly had enough 24 hours a day.

Leonardo da Vinci

The famous “universal man” will head our list. Recall that Leonardo is an outstanding Renaissance artist (does everyone remember Gioconda?), an inventor (all his inventions formed the basis for the construction of modern submarines), a scientist, as well as a writer and musician. And he was the first to explain why the sky is blue: "The blue of the sky is due to the thickness of the illuminated particles of air, which is located between the Earth and the blackness above." He managed all this thanks to his own developed sleep system: he slept for a total of 2 hours (lights out for 15 minutes several times a day), and in all the rest of his free time he changed the world and himself for the better.

Anton Chekhov

© Braz I.E. Portrait of A.P. Chekhov, 1898

The brilliant brother of his brother (he had such a pseudonym). famous master short story, humorist and satirist, the greatest playwright and part-time doctor. He himself admitted: “Medicine is my legal wife, and literature is my mistress. When one gets bored, I spend the night at the other. Constantly torn at the crossroads of his two talents, Chekhov was engaged in medical affairs until the end of his life. He even gave his dogs names according to the name of drugs: Bromine and Hina. But he also respected his “mistress”: over the course of his life, Chekhov created more than 300 works, including short stories and impressive dramas. And the great comedian loved to collect stamps. Here was a man!

Vladimir Nabokov

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Writer and entomologist, self-taught entomologist. In honor of Vladimir Vladimirovich, more than 20 genera of butterflies are named, one of which (that's cute!) Is called Nabokovia. Nabokov also played chess very well. They made several difficult chess problems. His love for this intellectual sport was reflected in the novel "Luzhin's Defense". Recall that Nabokov was fluent in English language. "Lolita" in America is loved just as much as we do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe was known not only as a great writer and poet, but also as a scientist: he made some discoveries in the field of the theory of light. In addition, he actively collected minerals - his collection includes 18,000 copies (it is clear where Faust got such a craving for alchemy). The author of the famous drama was so lucky or well done that he slept only 5 hours a day, and he had enough strength for many, many accomplishments. Perhaps this is because Goethe adhered to strict rules and was a supporter of a healthy lifestyle: he did not drink alcohol at all and could not stand the smell of tobacco smoke. That is why he lived for 82 years and managed to create so many things.

Hugh Jackman

Not only a famous actor, but also a Broadway artist, and what a one! Within one season, he managed to get all the major theater awards. Everyone knows the third area of ​​Jackman's activity, in which he achieved success - family life. Hugh and Deborra-Lee Furness have been married for 20 years, and together they have two children. Yes, what is there! Our Hugh is generally capable of everything: he can play the piano, guitar, violin, and also ... vibrate his pupils and even juggle. Probably even Wolverine can't do that.

Salvador Dali

Everyone says that he is crazy, but they are silent about the fact that he was universal. Dali is famous not only as a painter and sculptor, but also as the director of the terrible Andalusian Dog. Dali also wrote several "works": "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, told by himself" and "The Diary of a Genius." For the sake of his psychedelic masterpieces, the humble genius often "perverted" in terms of sleep. Let us explain: Dali hired a special servant for himself, who, seeing that the owner was starting to fall asleep in complete exhaustion, woke him up after waiting a few seconds. The disheveled Dali immediately grabbed the paper and tried to sketch what he saw in the first seconds of the superficial phase of sleep.

Mikhail Lomonosov

© Miropolsky L.S. Portrait of M.V. Lomonosov, 1787

Russian natural scientist, chemist and physicist, poet, artist... you can hardly list everything here. Lomonosov is not just an active figure - he is revered as a reformer. It was he who carried out the reform of versification. Therefore, by memorization of iambs and choreas, we, oddly enough, are obliged to an outstanding chemist. By the way, being smart does not mean being bullied. While studying in Marburg, for example, Lomonosov perfectly mastered the ability to handle a sword. Local bullies avoided this overly capable and skillful Muscovite. That's certainly a talented person is talented in everything!

Isaac Newton

Everyone should know that he is not only famous for the apple that fell on his head. Newton wrote books on theology, where he spoke about the denial of the Holy Trinity, and was also chairman of the Royal Society of Arts. Not many people know that Newton also invented two stunningly ingenious things: a means for carrying cats and a door for them (where would we be without them now?). His love for furry and mustachioed friends is to blame for this. Newton preferred vigorous activity to sleep - he took only 4 hours a day for night rest.

Benjamin Franklin

We all know him as an uncle from the dollar and politics, but Franklin is still like our Lomonosov. He was a journalist and inventor. He invented, for example, the stove (“Pennsylvania fireplace”), and also predicted the weather. The first developed a detailed map of the Gulf Stream. He founded the Philadelphia Academy, as well as the first public library in the States. Franklin also had musical talent. Uncle Ben managed to keep up with everything by strictly following the daily regimen, in which only 4 hours a day were allotted for sleep.

Alexander Borodin

© I. E. Repin. Portrait of A. P. Borodin, 1888

A man whose portrait hangs both in the music class and in the chemistry class. Do you know that the author of the famous opera "Prince Igor" was also a chemist and physician? He jokingly called himself a "Sunday musician": he had to sacrifice days off in order to create something of that kind for the world of music. The memory of Borodin's everyday life was left by his wife: "I could sit for ten hours in a row, I could not sleep at all, not have lunch." Still would! After all, as you know, one of Borodin's mottos was such a super-motivating phrase: "All that we do not have, we owe only to ourselves." Alexander Porfiryevich was also an active public figure - he was one of the initiators of the opening of Women's Medical Courses.

Flea (Michael Peter Balzary)

In his youth, Bulgakov worked as a zemstvo doctor, and he had to be a generalist: a general practitioner, a gynecologist, a surgeon, and a dentist. "Notes of a Young Doctor" owe their birth to that period of the young Bulgakov's life. It was difficult to combine healing and creativity, so I had to “plow” a shift, treat the unpretentious village people all day, and then also carve out time for writing ... Whatever you don’t sacrifice for the sake of art. Once, in a letter to his mother, he wrote: “At night I write“ Notes of a Zemstvo Doctor. It might turn out to be a solid thing." Bulgakov is also an example of the correct attitude towards criticism. He collected critical articles about his work, including 298 negative and 3 positive reviews from critics.

Well, do you still think that you do not have enough time?