Sunday 13 January 2013
Howard Hughes
This business magnate, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, film maker and philanthropist bought the Desert Inn in Las Vegas because he refused to move and didn't want further conflicts with the owner. He also bought the small Silver Slipper casino only to reposition the hotel's trademark neon silver slipper, visible from Hughes' bedroom, which apparently had been keeping him up at night!
Saturday 12 January 2013
Coquette Productions
This is the motion picture production company created by the Arquettes (David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette) - a portmanteau of their surnames.
Friday 11 January 2013
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought
This book by Douglas Hofstadter was the first book ever sold on Amazon.com!
Monday 7 January 2013
C.O.L.B.E.R.T.
The treadmill on the International Space Station is the only piece of NASA engineered equipment in space that is named after a living human being - Stephen Colbert (!!!) thanks to his interest in a naming census. The "backronym" is Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.
Friday 4 January 2013
Judith Polgár
The Hungarian chess grandmaster along with her two older sisters, Susan and Sofia were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.
Wednesday 2 January 2013
Pehla Nasha
The only movie in which Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan share screen space - also Ashutosh Gowariker's directorial debut.
Tuesday 1 January 2013
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