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Grandma Moses
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:07/26/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Although Grandma Moses didn’t pick up a paint brush until she was seventy, she still had time to become world famous, with shows in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. She continued painting for more than thirty years.*Very few artists are able to make a living from their art. Even fewer become famousaround the world, set attendance records when their work is displayed, and have theirpaintings hanging everywhere from the White House to European and Asian museums.Only one artist has ever done all of that, despite the fact that she had no training anddidn’t even start painting until she was more than seventy years old!The incredible story of Anna “Grandma“ Moses sounds like a corny movie plot, but it’sall true. The mother of ten children, Moses was a very active grandmother and great-grandmother,known in the little town of Hoosick Falls, New York for doing lovely embroidery. Butarthritis was making it more difficult for her to do her needlework, and she wanted tomake a Christmas gift for her postman. Moses decided to try painting him a pictureinstead.The postman loved his painting, and Moses found that she enjoyed working with paintand canvas. Soon she was painting all the time, and giving her artwork away to friendsand relatives.Anna Moses’s paintings were so charming that other people wanted to buy them, so the woman who was about to take the art world by storm started selling her paintings for twoto three dollars each.Then, when Moses was seventy-eight years old, the miracle happened. In 1938, an artcollector just happened to be passing through Hoosick Falls and saw some of herpaintings for sale in the local drug store. He bought every one, tracked Anna Mosesdown, and then he bought every painting she had at home, too!Within a year, three of her paintings were included in a show at the famous Museum ofModern Art in New York City. Galleries and collectors started talking about this amazingnew artist who captured rural scenes and people in a delightful folk-art style.It didn’t take long for Grandma Moses, as everyone called her, to become famous. Showsof her work were staged in major galleries and museums across the United States, andthen in Europe and Asia. Everywhere that her paintings were shown, record crowds cameout to see them and buy them.Grandmas Moses took it all in stride. She said that starting a new career in your seventiesand being active in your nineties just required a positive attitude.Anna Moses kept painting right up to her death at age 101, producing more than 3,600paintings.


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Robert Munsch
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:07/18/2025
Posted By:utopia online

When he’s not starting up a business or chasing new adventures, Richard Branson can be found tackling problems like global warming, poverty, and access to education. He has donated millions of dollars of his own money and helped raise many millions more for charities. * Few people in the world have as much fun and adventure as Richard Branson. He has set world records for hot air balloon trips over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as for crossing the English Channel in an amphibious car. Branson has ridden motorcycles across deserts, sailed through monster storms, paraglided off mountains, and bungeejumped over waterfalls. He counts people like legendary South African leader Nelson Mandela and musician Peter Gabriel among his many famous friends. Wherever he goes on his world travels, Branson seeks out new experiences, interesting people, and fresh challenges. He also finds new business opportunities - at last count, Richard Branson had more than 400 companies in every field from music and entertainment to airlines, mobile phone providers, green fuels, and a space travel agency! Not every one of his business ventures has worked out, but enough have succeeded to make Richard a multi-billionaire and one of the richest people in the world. It’s an impressive success story for a man who started off as a failure in school. Suffering from dyslexia (a learning disability in which the brain mixes up the order of letters and numbers), Richard Branson was a terrible student and dropped out of school at age sixteen. However, he was fearless, open-minded, and knew how to get along with just about anyone. So Branson played to his strengths, and began looking for ways to make money that involved his love of travel and music. He found his first opportunity buying left-over albums from music companies in Europe and selling them in his native England for a profit. That led to his first music store, a mail-order business, and a music-production company that signed up bands the mainstream labels were afraid to touch. Since then, Richard Branson has never stopped pursuing new ideas, testing the limits, and sometimes breaking the rules. Now sixty years old, Branson is still taking life as one big adventure. In his words, “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, then getting up to try again.”


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Pawn
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:07/11/2025
Posted By:utopia online

The game of chess is enjoyed by millions of people around the world, and you will perhaps be familiar with the various pieces that are placed on the board. The most numerous is clearly the pawn, but did you know that each pawn used to have its own name when we go back in time? The time we are talking about is the Middle Ages, and it was decided that each pawn should be given a name. Now, don’t think for one second that they opted for names such as Derek or Linda because that was not the case. Instead, they used titles referring to different jobs or industries at the time. That meant you had a pawn that was the agricultural worker, the farrier, an innkeeper, a businessman, and so on. The only problem was that the names just never really made it to the extent that they were hoping and they faded away into relative obscurity. By the end of it all, the pawns were just known as a pawn and nothing else.


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William Harvey
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:07/11/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Although brilliant William Harvey became the doctor of choice for the wealthy, the nobility, and even the King of England, he never stopped giving free treatments to the poor. * It may seem hard to believe, but until William Harvey came along, even the best doctors in Europe didn’t know that your heart pumps blood around your body. The common wisdom was that blood was created by your liver, and the heart pumped air and heat through your body, along with just some of your blood! So, you can imagine the uproar in 1628 when William Harvey published a book that explained exactly how the entire circulatory system worked, from your heart to arteries and veins. He was completely right, but his work contradicted the belief that had been around for hundreds of years. Many other doctors refused to believe Dr. Harvey, and said his theories were crazy. William Harvey was a brilliant physician who had astonished his professors at medical school. Almost straight out of university, he was hired as chief physician at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, where he provided medical treatment to the poor for free. Harvey’s reputation grew rapidly, and he was chosen to deliver an ongoing series of public lectures to explain anatomy and medicine to the general public. Soon, wealthy people, including members of the nobility, were asking him to be their doctor. He even wound up becoming the personal physician to the King of England! But when he published his now-famous book on the heart and blood circulation, it looked as if William Harvey might lose everything. However, Dr. Harvey’s critics hadn’t counted on his brilliance and tenacity. He proved his theories time and again with experiments that showed how the circulation system worked, and with calculations that proved the impossibility of the theory about blood originating in the liver. In the end, no one could argue with the powerful evidence; William Harvey had clearly made a huge advance in medical science. Not only did people finally understand how the heart really worked, they also were inspired to copy his style of provable, repeatable experiments. While Dr. Harvey went on to great fame and fortune as the physician of kings and other rich clients, and as the man who opened the eyes of the world to the wonders of the heart, he never stopped working for the poor. Until he was an old man, he served at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital every week, giving free health care to people who could not afford to pay a doctor.


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Winston Churchill
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:07/07/2025
Posted By:utopia online

“Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small.” That was the life philosophy of Sir Winston Churchill - the man who many people believe did more than anyone else did to save the world from the Nazis. * Churchill was a brilliant man (the only British prime minister to win the Nobel Prize for Literature), who came from a wealthy and famous family in England. But his childhood was not easy: Winston had a speech impediment and a rebellious nature. He did badly in school and felt unloved by his parents. Winston Churchill came into his own at military school as a teenager. Although it took him three tries to pass the entrance exam, he became a top student, and the school’s fencing champion. Once in the military, Churchill took every dangerous assignment available and quickly rose up through the ranks. To make extra money on the side, he wrote stories and books about his military campaigns and became a popular author. After leaving the British Army, Churchill kept working as a war reporter and historian. He gained even more fame when he was captured in South Africa during the Boer War, escaped from prison, and traveled 300 km on foot to rejoin the fighting as a volunteer! Back home in England, Churchill turned to politics, using his high profile and great speaking ability to become a member of parliament. Despite several political setbacks, he eventually served as a cabinet minister, introducing reforms such as Britain’s first minimum wage law and legislation that led to pensions for company employees. When World War I began, Churchill was in charge of the British Navy . . . but by the end of the war, unable to resist the call of battle, he was again leading troops on the front lines. When the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, began to rise to power in Germany in the 1930s, Churchill was one of the few political voices warning against them. So, when the Nazis started their campaign to conquer the world and British policies were failing, Britain turned to Churchill to lead them. As prime minister during World War II, Churchill rallied his tiny country to stand up against the strongest military machine ever known. His brilliant tactics, his ability to bring other allies together, and his stirring speeches and radio addresses, were the keys to defeating the Nazis. Churchill’s absolute refusal to give up, even against overwhelming odds, helped to save his and other nations, and made him one of the greatest heroes in British and world history.


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Guinea pig
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:06/30/2025
Posted By:utopia online

The pig, no matter what you may think about it, there is a pretty good chance that you would never dream of copying what happened centuries ago in France. Even if you are not a big fan of this particular animal, you would probably feel that the French went a bit too far. The year is 1386, and France is quite an unruly place and is often preoccupied with its wars against the English. However, in towns and cities around the country, they had a tendency to have different ways of looking at things, especially when it came to the law. That was why there was a rather surprising event including a pig and a young child. In some strange way, the child was murdered, but rather than try to find the actual individual who was responsible for the brutal killing, the inhabitants of the village decided that they already knew the answer to what was going on, and it had everything to do with a pig. Yes, they decided that the pig was guilty of murder, and as a result they then hung the pig as its punishment. That had to have been a completely bizarre thing to set your eyes on to see them executing a pig for murder, but then back in the 14th century, there were always a number of strange events going on even though, you would be hard pressed to find something to beat this.


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walt disney shorts
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:06/27/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Sometimes it just takes one good idea to get started on the road to fame, but the good idea often comes after many years of hard work and many bumps along the road. Through his whole remarkable life, Walt Disney would always tell people, “It all started with that Mouse.” He was talking about Mickey Mouse - Walt Disney’s most famous creation and the one that led to what has been called the most successful entertainment company in the world. Walt Disney loved drawing as a boy, and was determined to be a cartoonist when he grew up. But getting a job drawing cartoons for a newspaper or ad agency turned out to be harder than he thought, and Disney struggled for many years. While he was working at one agency, he became interested in the new methods of animation. He started to experiment with cameras and drawings, and he was convinced he could make a living as an animator. After more years of hard work, Walt Disney finally hit it big. He and his crew came up with a character called “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.” Oswald cartoons were a hit, and Disney’s studio was finally making money. Then, the company that distributed his cartoons pulled a fast one; it seemed they had the legal rights to Oswald and they forced Walt Disney out. So he had to start all over again. This time, Walt Disney came up with an even better idea - a mouse he called “Mortimer.” His wife didn’t like that name, and suggested “Mickey” instead, and so the most popular cartoon character in history was born. With his first sound cartoon, “Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse,” Walt Disney began to make a lot of money. He used it to hire the best animators and writers he could find, and a string of classic characters followed - Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, the Three Little Pigs singing “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf,” and many more. Disney and his team went on to revolutionize movies with the first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, followed by a string of hit films that continues to this day. Walt Disney was nominated for fifty-nine Oscars, and won twentysix of them (both record numbers); he also won seven Emmy Awards for his television shows and specials. One successful idea followed another, including theme parks Disneyland and Walt Disney World - although Walt Disney died just before the second park was opened. After his beginnings as a struggling young artist, Walt Disney ended his life with great wealth, a world-wide reputation, and the satisfaction of bringing joy to millions of children - all because of a mouse and the tenacity to hang on his dreams.


Type:Technology
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the history of crayola
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:06/26/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Crayola is one of those brand names that just stands out from the crowd, and they certainly dominate their own particular market. However, it is also one of those names where you can perhaps sit and wonder as to what the origins are since it does, at first, appear to be a nonsensical name. But, as in most cases, the explanation itself is far more straightforward to understand than you would perhaps expect. For this, we need to go to France in order to get to the root of Crayola. The rather simple explanation is that it combines two different French words, ‘craie’ and ‘ola’ and the literal translation means ‘oily chalk’. It means this because the ‘craie’ part means chalk, and ‘ola’ translates as oily. When you look at it from that perspective, then it really is pretty easy to see how a small leap in the imagination led to the creation of the name ‘Crayola.’ Bonus • The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan. • Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye & tongue print along with their fingerprint. • 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled. • Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.


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