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In the West the most popular male names are James and John. The most popular female name is Mary. The name Wendy was first used in JM Barrie's Peter Pan. The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors. Julius Caesar was known as a great swimmer. There are more than 600 million telephone lines today, yet almost half the world's population has never made a phone call. When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute. The people killed most often during bank robberies are the robbers. On New Year's Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,513 people. The oldest person on record is Methuselah (969 years old).( ovo ne kužim) Queen Isabella of Castile, who dispatched Christopher Columbus to find the Americas, boasted that she had only two baths in her life - at her birth and before she got married. Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Winston Churchill was a stutterer. As a child, one of his teachers warned, "Because of his stuttering he should be discouraged from following in his father's political footsteps." The 17th-century French Cardinal Mazarin never travelled without his personal chocolate-maker. The word "electric" was first used in 1600 by William Gilbert, a doctor to Queen Elizabeth I. |
