Famous People

Even an Ancient Egyptian Mummy needs a passport!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

…AND DID YOU PACK YOUR CASE YOURSELF, SIR? The ancient Egyptian mummy of famous King Rameses the Great, or Rameses II as he is more commonly known had his own real-life passport! On the passport it listed his occupation as “King (deceased)”! In 1974, the mummy had to be flown from the Cairo Museum to [...]

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Think you know about “Robbie Burns”? Er, who’s that?

Monday, January 25th, 2010

The famous Scottish bard, the Ayrshire ploughman, the people’s poet – Robert Burns was called many things – but was not known by the contraction, “Robbie” in his lifetime. Nor Rabbie. He was known as Robert, or Rob; and he refers to himself as Rantin’ Robin in a poem, but Robbie was a later, sentimental invention. [...]

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Like a complete unknown…

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Maybe we here at IF are getting on a bit, but we find the following account reported in The Telegraph to be nothing short of incredible. After reports of a scruffy looking old man wandering the neighbourhood acting suspiciously were made to police, Bob Dylan, the veteran rock star and global icon, was picked up [...]

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Disney’s famous character – Mortimer Mouse!

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Walt Disney originally planned to name his famous cartoon mouse “Mortimer” not Mickey! It was his wife who persuaded him to name the mouse Mickey, although Mickey Rooney claimed that he was the inspiration of the name. Another Mortimer Mouse featured in later cartoons as Mickey’s love rival for Minnie.

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The Thatcher Effect – strange, and a bit creepy!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

The Thatcher effect, named after the notorious former premiere, whose photograph was first used to demonstrate the effect, refers to the odd way the human brain perceives an upside-down face. The best way to explain is to demonstrate. Have a look at this video, which is a wee bit creepy… embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Link:  [...]

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