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Saturday 16 February 2008
The Man of the Year Winners
1927 — Charles Augustus Lindbergh
1928 — Walter P. Chrysler
1929 — Owen D. Young
1930 — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
1931 — Pierre Laval
1932 — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933 — Hugh Samuel Johnson
1934 — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1935 — Haile Selassie
1936 — Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
1937 — Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek
1938 — Adolf Hitler
1939 — Joseph Stalin
1940 — Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1941 — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1942 — Joseph Stalin
1943 — George Catlett Marshall
1944 — Dwight David Eisenhower
1945 — Harry Truman
1946 — James F. Byrnes
1947 — George Catlett Marshall
1948 — Harry Truman
1949 — Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1950 — American Fighting-Man
1951 — Mohammed Mossadegh
1952 — Elizabeth II
1953 — Konrad Adenauer
1954 — John Foster Dulles
1955 — Harlow Herbert Curtice
1956 — Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1957 — Nikita Krushchev
1958 — Charles De Gaulle
1959 — Dwight David Eisenhower
1960 — U.S. Scientists
1961 — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1962 — Pope John XXIII
1963 — Martin Luther King Jr.
1964 — Lyndon B. Johnson
1965 — General William Childs Westmoreland
1966 — Twenty-Five and Under
1967 — Lyndon B. Johnson
1968 — Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell
1969 — The Middle Americans
1970 — Willy Brandt
1971 — Richard Milhous Nixon
1972 — Nixon and Kissinger
1973 — John J. Sirica
1974 — King Faisal
1975 — American Women
1976 — Jimmy Carter
1977 — Anwar Sadat
1978 — Teng Hsiao-P'ing
1979 — Ayatullah Khomeini
1980 — Ronald Reagan
1981 — Lech Walesa
1982 — The Computer
1983 — Ronald Regan & Yuri Andropov
1984 — Peter Ueberroth
1985 — Deng Xiaoping
1986 — Corazon Aquino
1987 — Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1988 — Endangered Earth
1989 — Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1990 — The Two George Bushes
1991 — Ted Turner
1992 — Bill Clinton
1993 — The Peacemakers
1994 — Pope John Paul II
1995 — Newt Gingrich
1996 — Dr. David Ho
1997 — Andy Grove
1998 — Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr
1999 — Jeff Bezos
2000 — George W. Bush
2001 — Rudolph Giuliani
2002 — The Whistleblowers
2003 — The American Soldier
2004 — George W. Bush
2005 — Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono
Elvis Had a Twin :
Most people consider Elvis exceptional, unique, and one-of-a-kind. Yet, Elvis had a twin brother (Jesse Garon) who died at birth. What would the world have been like with both Elvis and his twin? Would Jesse have been anything like his brother? We are left only to wonder.
Barbie's Full Name:
The Barbie doll, which first appeared on the world-stage in 1959, was invented by Ruth Handler (co-founder of Mattel) after she realized that her daughter liked to play with paper dolls that resembled grown-ups. Handler suggested making a three-dimensional doll that looked like an adult rather than a child. The doll was named after Handler's daughter, Barbara, and is still produced by Mattel. The doll's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
The First Barcode:
The first item sold after being scanned with a UPC barcode was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum. The sale occured at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974 at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The gum is now on display at the Smithsonian American History Museum in Washington D.C.
Strange Pick:
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, dictator for nearly a quarter century and infamous for his use of police terror and the frequent mass murders of his own people, was Time's "Man of the Year" in 1939 and 1942
A Renamed Russian City:
Did you know that in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Russia renamed its capital city St. Petersburg to Petrograd because they thought the name sounded too German? This same city changed name again only ten years later when it was renamed Leningrad after the Russian Revolution. In 1991, the city regained its original name of St. Petersburg.
1.Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
2.The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
3.Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
4.SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
5.Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
6.The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.
7.When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.
8.When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
9.In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
10.Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
