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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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Louis Pasteur
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:06/25/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Louis Pasteur’s germ theory was a breakthrough in medicine. He then went on to figure out how to prevent diseases by creating vaccines for cholera, smallpox, anthrax and rabies, and by developing a food purification method called “pasteurization.” * Back in the 1800s, people typically did not live long and healthy lives. Serious illness was very common, and people often died young. French chemistry professor Louis Pasteur and his wife had five children, and three of them died in childhood of typhoid (a disease caused by drinking water tainted with bacteria). Unlike most people who simply accepted that the death of children was something that happened in most families, Pasteur made a vow to find out how illnesses like this worked, and to find a way to stop them. At that time, there was a big debate in the medical profession about where illnesses came from: many people believed that “bad” particles just created themselves out of nowhere. Pasteur helped prove once and for all that these particles - or germs - were carried in the air and would grow and multiply where they landed. His findings led to ideas that seemed revolutionary then, like doctors washing their hands before operating on patients! His germ theory alone would make Pasteur a great figure in science, but his work was only half done. Now that he had shown where diseases came from, he set out to discover how to prevent the diseases, and cure them. In the course of experimenting with chickens and deliberately giving them cholera, Pasteur discovered that cholera bacteria that had been left to grow old and weak would not make the birds very sick; in fact, injections made the chickens immune to fresh cholera bacteria for the rest of their lives. Pasteur had just invented the modern vaccine. Louis Pasteur went on to create vaccines for other common diseases of the day, like anthrax, smallpox, and rabies. He was hailed as a hero for saving countless lives and preventing untold misery. But Pasteur made another discovery - one that has made him a household name to this very day. He found that when milk and other foods went “bad,” it was because of the bacteria and mold that had begun to grow in them. Most importantly, he proved that heating up the food would kill most of these microorganisms. The process he developed for making food safer is called “pasteurization,” and today you’ll find pasteurized milk, cheese, and other products in homes around the world. Louis Pasteur kept his vow on behalf of his children, and saved innumerable families the death and pain that his family had suffered.


Type:other
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Tea
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:06/24/2025
Posted By:utopia online

There are literally hundreds of varieties of tea leaves around the world, but do you know when and where it was ‘invented’? Of course, thinking that tea was invented is a strange choice of words, but there is a particular legend surrounding the drink that will kind of explain what is meant by the use of that individual phrase. To understand the legend, we have to go to China, which may not come as a surprise to many. The year is approximately 2737BC and we are in the presence of the Chinese Emperor. They say that the Emperor was sitting by an open window with a bowl of hot water by his side. A wind picked up and, via a miracle, it blew some tea leaves in through the open window and it landed in the bowl of hot water. Whether or not the Emperor was initially aware of this, he still went on to take a drink and was taken aback by the taste that he experienced. From that moment on, he would place the leaves into his hot water and a cup, or bowl to be more precise, tea was born. However, we did have to wait a considerable period of time before we then saw the tea bag emerging, which made life easier, as that did not appear until 1908. The inventor of the tea bag was an American in New York by the name of Thomas Sullivan, and we are pretty sure that he had no idea that his invention would take off in the manner that it did.


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mother Teresa
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:06/21/2025
Posted By:utopia online

How did a young girl from Albania, armed only with compassion, become world-renowned and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize? Even when Agnes Bojaxhiu was a little girl in Albania, she had a big heart. She longed to make things better for people, and she wanted to live in India, where she knew there was sickness and poverty. When she grew up, Agnes decided to become a nun and dedicate her life to helping people in need. As a nun, she took a new name, Sister Teresa, and a new job teaching near the poorest area of Calcutta, India. She had made her dream come true but wanted to do much more. So she asked for permission to start her own group of nuns. Her group would go right into the slums and take care of the very poorest and sickest people. Sister Teresa started orphanages and schools for children in need, and treated every child as her own. She also opened hospitals for people who couldn’t afford medical care. People started to call her “Mother Teresa,” and many were inspired to support her or join her efforts. But Sister Teresa’s big heart demanded she do even more. She personally walked the slums of Calcutta, comforting the people there. She would sit down next to people, hold their hands, or take their faces between her hands and look at them with love. She even did this with lepers (people suffering from the painful and often contagious skin disease called leprosy). Sister Teresa touched the people no one else would touch - the forgotten people, who needed love most. “There are poor people everywhere,” she said, “but the deepest poverty is not being loved.” Her remarkable compassion touched people’s hearts, and word began to spread. Newspapers started writing about “The Saint of The Gutters” and, before long, Mother Teresa was known all over the world. She was given the Nobel Peace Prize for her work but always gave credit to other people and to God. Her advice was to do little things to help others, with love. “There are many people who can do big things,” she said, “but there are very few people who will do the small things.” By doing the small things with love, Mother Teresa changed the world. She died in 1997, at age eighty-seven, and many consider her to have been a real-life saint.


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li kung fu panda
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:06/20/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Kung Fu Panda was not only successful because it was a hit at the box office. It was also deemed to be an accurate depiction of Chinese architecture, myths, and culture that was done extremely well. The film upset many top filmmakers in China, but not because it was offensive. They wished that they had made the movie about their own country. Viewers from all over the world were impressed that, despite the film being a comedic cartoon, they were able to accurately portray the ideas of family expectations and the afterlife, as well as the martial arts scenes. Filmmakers have said that they didn’t think Western countries would be interested in movies about their traditional culture, while others say a movie of that means was simply too expensive to be made in China. Kung Fu Panda cost over $130 million to produce, while most movies produced in China cap out around $1.5 million. They also don’t have the same level of animation that can be found in Hollywood. Many ordinary citizens in China say that people in China are often so busy trying to keep up with the latest Western trends that they tend to overlook their own appeal and culture. Top Chinese actors and producers hold out hope that China can produce a film of this caliber someday.


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Louis Braille
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:06/19/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Blind from age three, Louis Braille learned to read at a school for the blind in Paris where, at that time, books for the blind could weigh as much as a hundred pounds! Inspired by the indented dots on dice, he invented the Braille system of reading and writing. In 1812, a three-year-old boy was playing in his father’s leather workshop in Coupvray, France when he had an accident that would change the world. Louis Braille accidentally poked himself in the eye with an awl: The metal point blinded him in one eye and an infection soon left him totally blind. Louis was a bright boy and won a scholarship to a school for the blind in Paris. It was not a particularly nice place; students were often fed bread and water and locked up for punishment. Louis and the other blind children were taught various skills (Louis became expert at playing the organ and cello), and they were taught to read. At that time, books for the blind used raised letters with metal wires under the paper, and some of the books weighed one hundred pounds! One day, a soldier visited the school and talked about a code system that he had invented in the French army. It used raised dots and dashes on a piece of paper to allow soldiers to send each other messages in the dark while remaining silent. Louis and the other children found the system too confusing, but the basic idea stuck in the boy’s head. He began experimenting with different ways of creating a language using raised dots on paper - and for this, he used the same awl that had blinded him! One day, Louis Braille happened to pick up a pair of dice and feel the six dots on one side. That’s when inspiration struck him. He soon developed a code for each letter of the alphabet, with numbers and symbols like periods and question marks, all using no more than six dots. One great advantage of his system was that you could read each letter or symbol using the tip of your finger. With practice, a reader could run his finger along a line and read very quickly. The other big plus was that blind people using Braille’s system could write as well as read. His system opened up a whole new world! It took many years for the Braille system to take off, and its popularity was still spreading when Louis died in 1852. Not many people can say that they invented an entire new system of reading and writing, but Louis Braille did. What’s more, his system was adopted around the world, and today is available in virtually every language that humans speak.


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