Friday 28 June 2013

Five Celebrities' Secret Stories: 1. Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein
A genius prominent Jewish scientists was known as a friendly brilliant figure. But Eisntein actually had collected a number of human skeletons in her toilet. In 1901 Einstein and Mileva Maric his girlfriend were on holiday in Italy. After that Mileva was pregnant and gave birth to a child, but Einstein at the time did not have the money to support Mileva and her baby. The baby was named Lieserl born in 1902. In the letter to Mileva in 1903 Lieserl’s name is no longer mentioned. There was no information what happened to their baby. There is a possibility that the baby died due to dengue fever. Mileva Einstein then left in 1912 (and divorced in 1919). He then married his own cousin Elsa Lowenthal. The marriage later had a lot of cheating. Elsa Einstein died in 1936. It seems beside his being genius,  Einstein also was also exactly a playboy.

2. Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
The 16th President of America was famous for his beard. Lincoln was an authoritative and wise figure . Although he was born in a modest wooden house, Lincoln did not experience difficult childhood life. Laborer work was part of the neighborhood where he grew up. At the age of nine years old Lincoln mother died of illness. Lincoln was a tall president, he had a height of 193 centimeters. After he died, in 1876 a group of criminals wanted a ransom for his body in exchange for money of Rp 2 million in gold and wanted the release of one of their friends who was arrested. The group was later arrested and jailed a year later.

3. Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte
French famous warlord who was trying to conquer the European continent. Napoleon was short man, he actually had a height of about 170 centimeters, which was normal to the average size of the French at that time. Napoleon had miserable childhood. His father died of stomach cancer and left his family without any money because his gambling hobby. In the school year Napoleon was so often bullied by his friends because of his diligence and Korsikanya thick accent. Napoleon was also suffering from hemorrhoids and rumor says that was why he failed to win the war in Waterloo.

4. Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt
The 26th President of the United States is one of the important figures with big hearts. He was born of a wealthy family in New York City. In childhood he was known as a sickly kid. In adolescence he never participated in boxing training. He once traveled to Africa and South America to study exotic flora and fauna. The most shocking story was when he made ​​a speech in Milwaukee in 1912. Somebody tried to kill him with a pistol. But the bullets from the gun hit the glasses box. Spontaneously Roosevelt told the crowd that he had just been shot and then continued his speech. He was then taken to hospital after the incident.

5. Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin
This figure is known as a famous comedian in the 1920s who often played in black-and-white silent film. Chaplin’s Parents were not the parents who deserved to be role models. His mother had two children from other man and his father left the family when Chaplin was young. His mother later died of liver failure after previous contact with syphilis and malnutrition. Chaplin never been held liability for a child’s life who was not his own son. A woman claimed to have a child of Chaplin but the judge refused to decide the case and made Chaplin have to pay some money. Chaplin’s dead body was once stolen for ransom but it was returned two months later. Souce: merdeka

Terrible! Scientists Performed These Cruel Ways To Make Discovery: 1. Giovanni Aldini

Giovanni Aldini
Aldini was known as the nephew of Luigi Galvani, a scientist who invented the concept of galvanism, when experimenting with electrical currents on frog legs. Aldini tried to continue the experiment further. He conducted experiments on corpses in front of many people. Aldini did it to the hanged prisoners, George Forster. When he attempted the electric current, the dead hanged prisoners suddenly punched the air, kicked his legs and jerks.
Electric rod that was placed on the face, made the body clenched, trembled, and his left eye opened. Some people who attended the experiment thought that the corpse came back to life. They were very scared and some of them ran out of the room. Source:kapanlagi

2. Johann Conrad Dippel

Johann Conrad Dippel
Johann Conrad Dippel was born and raised in the castle Frankenstein, near Darmstadt, Germany, in 1673. He was called the original form of the novel Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'.
Dippel studied theology, philosophy, and alchemy. He then created an animal oil made ​​of bones, blood and various other animal products.
The product became known as Dippel's Oil, which was expected to be on par with the dream of the alchemists of the 'elixir of life'. He boiled various body parts in large vats to make potions. Dippel was also known as the inventor of synthetic chemicals called Prussian Blue. Not only that, Dippel also claimed to have created a fluid of eternal life. The experiments reported that Franskenstein was inspired by his character. Source: kapanlagi

3. Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele
Joseph Mengele's name was on the rise because he became one of the doctors who supervised the selection of prisoners who come, to determine who should be killed and who became slave laborers. He also conducted human experiments on that camp inmates. People who knew Mengele, called him 'Angel of Death' because some human life was in his hands.
At Auschwitz, Mengele conducted a study in twins. After the experiment was completed, the twins were usually killed and their body was dissected.
He oversaw the operations of two Gypsy children sewn together to create conjoined twins. Hands of the children were infected, and their veins were damaged.
Mengele notoriously became rabid with blood of twins, especially identical twins. According to news, he took their blood to death.

4. Stubbins Ffirth

 Stubbins Ffirth, source Internet
As a doctor training in Philadelphia, Stubbins Ffirth, made hypotheses about yellow fever. He revealed that the disease is not a contagious disease.
Around the 1800s, he still continued his hypothesis by conducting experiments on himself. He poured into an open wound infected blood. He also tried to drink the blood. Ffith did not fall ill, but it was not proved that yellow fever was not contagious. Because then known that transmission occurs by injection into the bloodstream, or through mosquito bites. Source: kapanlagi

5. Vladimir Demikhov


Vladimir Demikhov, Picture Courtesy of LIFE Magazine
A scientist who was famous for his theory, transplanting two-headed dog. In 1954, Soviet surgeon was revealed to the world his greatest work.
He transplanted puppy heads on the neck of a mature German shepherd dog. The second head did not need food, because the milk flew down the neck of the esophagus connection. Both animals eventually died quickly because of tissue rejection. But it did not stop him from creating for almost 20 two-headed dogs, 15 years later. Source: Kapanlagi