Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
08 July 27: Foundation
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gave more than $8.5-million to their charitable foundation in 2006.
08 July 9: Burn
Longest Full-Body Burn (without Oxygen): Ted Batchelor, 2 min 38 sec, Nelson, Ohio, USA, July 17, 2004.
08 July 5: 720
By August 9, 2001, Elaine Davidson, of Edinburgh, Scotland, had a record-breaking total of 720 piercings.
08 July 3: Waist
Smallest Waist on a Living Person: Cathie Jung, 38.1 cm (15 in), Old Mystic, CT, as of 1999. Cathie Jung's waist is about the same size as a regular jar of mayonnaise. She's been wearing a corset every day for years, and now wears one 24 hours a day.
08 June 28: Chain
On December 11, 2004, over 5 million people joined hands to form a human chain, 1,050km (652.4 miles) long from Teknaf to Tentulia, Bangladesh.
08 June 16: Choice
Researchers have found patterns of brain activity that predict people’s decisions up to 10 seconds before they’re aware they’ve made a choice.
08 April 29: ‘1’
Amount a businessman in the UAE paid this year for the nation's license-plate number ‘1’: $14,000,000
08 February 11: EA
‘Electronic Arts (EA) received 93 out of 100 on the 2004 Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, which measures how equitably employers treat their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) employees, consumers and investors.’
08 January 9: Culturepreneurs
Culturepreneurs: ‘a new generation of twentysomething, business-minded culture obsessives who generate income from arty pursuits that have previously been notoriously poor sources of revenue – such as fanzines, street theatre, DVDs, and indie clothing lines.’
08 January 8: Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto called her time at Harvard the ‘four of the happiest years of my life’ and said it formed ‘the very basis of [her] belief in democracy.’
08 January 1: Koch
Edward I. Koch, the 105th mayor of New York whose slogan was How'm I doing?, kept the following maxim on his desk at City Hall: ‘If you say it can't be done, you are right, you can't do it.’
December 20: Stiff
15 per cent of Canadian working stiffs report that their jobs are ‘extremely boring.’
November 13: $320 million
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has purchased an Airbus A380, the world's biggest passenger plane, for private use.
November 12: Night Owls
‘A growing parliament of night owls is finally starting to hoot in protest. Citing genetic differences that force them to wake up late, these dawdlers are organizing worldwide to overthrow a workplace bias they say favours early birds.’
November 10: Oh dear...
A British man has been placed on the sex offenders' register after being caught trying to have sex with a bicycle. Telegraph story here.
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