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Interesting, but little known, Facts about Famous People
By: AGelbert Date: June 13, 2018, 6:50 pm
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[center]Did you know Groucho Marx's brother was an inventor?
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Zeppo Marx might have been the "straight man" among his brothers
(Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Gummo), but he got his chance to
laugh all the way to the bank in other ways. The youngest member
of the famous Marx Brothers comedy team, Zeppo (whose real name
was Herbert Manfred Marx) had a knack for mechanical processes
and founded the Marman Products Company in Inglewood,
California, in 1941. The company's biggest (and most infamous)
claim to fame was producing the clamps used to secure the atomic
bomb dropped by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima during World War II.
In fact, Marman clamps are still used in a variety of
spaceflight systems, including the Cassini orbiter. In addition
to his work on the Marman clamp, Zeppo Marx also earned two
patents for early heart rate monitors and another patent for a
heating pad.
Making their Marx:
֍ Groucho Marx hosted The Tonight Show for two weeks after
Jack Paar quit. He also introduced Johnny Carson as the show's
new host in 1962.
֍ The Marx Brothers originally wanted to be singers, but
after a commotion caused by a runaway mule :D interrupted an
early show, Groucho got the crowd roaring with laughter, and a
comedy team was born.
֍ Chico once impersonated Harpo on the TV game show I've
Got a Secret and got away with it.
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Re: Interesting, but little known, Facts about Famous People
By: AGelbert Date: June 14, 2018, 11:54 am
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[center]Did you know Groucho Marx's brother was an inventor?
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Zeppo Marx might have been the "straight man" among his brothers
(Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Gummo), but he got his chance to
laugh all the way to the bank in other ways. The youngest member
of the famous Marx Brothers comedy team, Zeppo (whose real name
was Herbert Manfred Marx) had a knack for mechanical processes
and founded the Marman Products Company in Inglewood,
California, in 1941. The company's biggest (and most infamous)
claim to fame was producing the clamps used to secure the atomic
bomb dropped by the Enola Gay on Hiroshima during World War II.
In fact, Marman clamps are still used in a variety of
spaceflight systems, including the Cassini orbiter. In addition
to his work on the Marman clamp, Zeppo Marx also earned two
patents for early heart rate monitors and another patent for a
heating pad.
Making their Marx:
֍ Groucho Marx hosted The Tonight Show for two weeks after
Jack Paar quit. He also introduced Johnny Carson as the show's
new host in 1962.
֍ The Marx Brothers originally wanted to be singers, but
after a commotion caused by a runaway mule :D interrupted an
early show, Groucho got the crowd roaring with laughter, and a
comedy team was born.
֍ Chico once impersonated Harpo on the TV game show I've
Got a Secret and got away with it.
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No, I had never heard about Zeppo and Marman Clamps. Pretty
cool.
I am old enough to remember Groucho from his TV show, and
remember those black and white TV movie matinees of the Marx
brothers, although I probably never saw half of 'em. They were
old then.
Groucho Marx was incredibly naturally funny. Brilliant
ad-libbing.....with him it seemed like it was all ad-libbed.
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I didn't know any of this. Great find. "You Bet Your Life" was a
staple on TV for me as a kid. I. remember the duck dropping down
if someone said the secret word.
Eddie's point about Groucho being a great ad-libber is true. He
was also reputedly quite the ladies' man. And I did not know
that Groucho Marx hosted The Tonight Show for two weeks after
Jack Paar quit, and introduced Johnny Carson as the show's new
host. I remember that Paar quitting was news, but I was only 12
and late night TV was not on the menu for school nights.
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As an old geezer, I remember Groucho well. ;D All he had to do
was lift his eyebrows and I would start laughing! :D
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Re: Interesting, but little known, Facts about Famous People
By: AGelbert Date: May 22, 2019, 9:37 pm
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[center]Which Author Used the Most Pen Names?[/center]
Daniel Defoe is best known as the author of the 1719 novel
Robinson Crusoe, but there’s so much more to know about this
outspoken writer, who is widely credited with popularizing the
English novel in the early 18th century. Defoe (born Daniel Foe
circa 1660) grew up in a family of dissenters: Presbyterians
opposed to the dominant Anglican Church. At an early age, Defoe
voiced his concerns in anti-establishment pamphlets. He was also
a businessman, journalist, and secret confidant to King William
III, always with an opinion about the day’s important issues.
Defoe frequently wrote under a pseudonym, and as many as 198 pen
names have been linked to him. Besides Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
also wrote Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, Colonel
Jack, A Journal of the Plague Year, and Moll Flanders, as well
as a variety of satirical poems, religious pamphlets, and more.
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A prominent voice in English literature:
✔ Defoe's views were not always well received. In fact,
in 1703, he was put in the pillory for seditious libel. Being
pilloried involved restraining the accused person's head and
hands, and leaving them to the whims of crowds that would
gather.
✔ In Defoe's early life, he experienced several epic
events in English history, including the Great Plague of London,
which killed 70,000 people; the Great Fire of London, when his
home and only two others survived in his neighborhood; and the
Dutch raid on the Medway.
✔ The full title of Robinson Crusoe is actually The Life
and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York,
Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an
un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of
the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by
Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An
Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates.
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How Did Beethoven Write Music after He Went Deaf?
By: AGelbert Date: August 15, 2019, 5:34 pm
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Great artists don't let adversity get in their way. Take Ludwig
van Beethoven, the iconic German composer who started going deaf
in his mid-20s and had lost virtually all hearing by his
mid-40s. While one would think that anyone who wants to write
music -- especially at Beethoven's level -- would need to hear
what he is playing, that didn't stop Beethoven. According to his
housekeepers, the composer would hold a pencil in his mouth
while he sat at the piano to compose and touch the end of it to
the soundboard, letting him feel the vibrations and keep
notating.
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The method apparently worked, as Beethoven continued composing
at a fervid rate, penning "Moonlight Sonata," Fidelio --his only
opera -- and several symphonies without being able to hear. Of
course, this later period wasn't all success, as Beethoven also
tried banging as loudly as possible on his piano to hear his
music, destroying the instrument in the process. Theories
regarding what caused Beethoven's deafness abound, ranging from
syphilis to Beethoven's habit of submerging his head in cold
water in order to stay awake, but no definitive answer has been
uncovered.
All about Beethoven:
🕯️ Beethoven was so well known in his time that
when he died in 1827, his headstone bore only a single word:
"Beethoven."
🕯️ In addition to hearing loss, Beethoven is also
thought to have dealt with other health problems, including
rheumatic fever, typhus, ophthalmia, jaundice, colitis,
rheumatism, hepatitis, and cirrhosis of the liver.
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🕯️ Beethoven had loved Friedrich Schiller’s poem
“Ode to Joy" as a child, and finally put it to music in the
final movement of his Ninth Symphony.
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Re: Interesting, but little known, Facts about Famous People
By: AGelbert Date: December 2, 2019, 1:38 pm
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Robert Frost wrote the folllowing poem to his writer friend
Edward Thomas as a joke.
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[center][font=times new roman]The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves, no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
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Now that you have read the poem, please note the following
relevant quote by the poem's author:
[quote]“I’m never more serious than when joking.” -- Robert
Frost[/quote]
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