Portia
2010- 11- 29, 09:10 AM
HI
Here are some quick facts..some are strange but all are true..
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In most of Elizabeth I’s portraits, she is wearing enormous dresses with puffy sleeves. Although it wasn’t the fashion, she wore them to make her look big and powerful so that people didn’t take advantage of her being a woman.
Elizabeth I ate so many sweets that her teeth just rotted away ! As she grew older, servants kept mirrors away from
her.
:biggrin:
the school time in the Elizabithan era was from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. !
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The first novel ever written is believed to be The Tale of Genji, written in the first decade of the 11th century by Murasaki Shibuku, a Japanese noblewoman. It contains 54 chapters.
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The story of Cinderella first appears in a Chinese book written in the 850s.
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Agatha Christie is the top-selling English-language author of all time. She wrote 78 mystery novels that have sold an estimated 2,000,000,000 copies.
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So many people have used Shakespeare's works in their books or plays that if he were alive today, he would earn 55 million dollars a year!
:biggrin:
*****
Hope u liked it
:106:...
Here are some quick facts..some are strange but all are true..
http://dc15.arabsh.com/i/02356/rbyr492mzbrj.jpg
In most of Elizabeth I’s portraits, she is wearing enormous dresses with puffy sleeves. Although it wasn’t the fashion, she wore them to make her look big and powerful so that people didn’t take advantage of her being a woman.
Elizabeth I ate so many sweets that her teeth just rotted away ! As she grew older, servants kept mirrors away from
her.
:biggrin:
the school time in the Elizabithan era was from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. !
:000:
http://dc15.arabsh.com/i/02356/k32zvfftzp0n.jpg
The first novel ever written is believed to be The Tale of Genji, written in the first decade of the 11th century by Murasaki Shibuku, a Japanese noblewoman. It contains 54 chapters.
http://dc15.arabsh.com/i/02356/1kloqnbgim6q.jpg
The story of Cinderella first appears in a Chinese book written in the 850s.
http://dc15.arabsh.com/i/02356/xy5dv5qpptic.jpg
Agatha Christie is the top-selling English-language author of all time. She wrote 78 mystery novels that have sold an estimated 2,000,000,000 copies.
http://dc16.arabsh.com/i/02356/gefz3k4wyvxk.jpg
So many people have used Shakespeare's works in their books or plays that if he were alive today, he would earn 55 million dollars a year!
:biggrin:
*****
Hope u liked it
:106:...