Two Nobel Prize winners have declined the award. If one is Le Duct ho, then the other is..Jean Paul Sartre. Not only that, to my utter surprise I found out that, the eminent physicist Richard Feynman had also sought to decline that award in the fear of “being famous’ and the unavoidable fame after that. At last he did not do that when he was made to understand that doing so will ear more fame to him. One such other eminent personality in this category is the British scientist Paul Adrian Maurice Derrack. DNA man Francis Crick had an array of notices following him that read not to invite him in any sort of meetings, or confo or radio speeches, interviews..or anything like that. He pre thanked everyone beforehand and denied any sort of invitation from anyone. The other DNA man Watson had gone to receive at the mere age of 23 wearing a “half Pant” .But thank God was not allowed to be in the attire in front of the world.
The person credited with the invention of the symbol @ is Ray Tomlinson.
The Blarney Stone set in the wall of Blarney , Ireland
According to an Irish belief the touch from the seventh son cures the bite of a mad dog.
The word ‘terrorism ‘ was used in European language in the wake of the French revolution in 1789. In the early revolutionary years, the ruling Jacobin faction ruthlessly executed anyone thought to be a threat to their regime. The first meaning of the word as recorded by the ‘Academie Francise’ in 1798 was ‘system or rule of terror”
In the literal sense, an assassin was a person who used cannabis or ‘ganja’ .The root of the word ‘assassin’ which entered English in the 16th century from either the French or Medieval Latin is the Arabic word ‘hasisi’ (hashish eater), Renowned as militant fanatics they were a group of reputed to use hashish before being sent to kill.
THE MYTHOLOGY BEHIND MARATHON: According to mythology, in the war of Marathon, Athens won against Persia Athens Marathon .
