Jimi Hendrix facts and trivia

• Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter.
• Name at birth: Johnny Allen Hendrix
• On September 11, 1946, James Marshall Hendrix became Jimi's official name.
• Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, 1942.
• Jimi Hendrix is considered the greatest electric guitarist in musical history
• Parents: James Allen "Al" Hendrix and Lucille Jeter.
• Jimi's astrological sign is Sagittarius.
• Jimi's height: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
• Hendrix was influenced by blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper.
• Jimi was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992
• Rolling Stone named Hendrix the top guitarist on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time in 2003.
• Hendrix was a devout fan of Bob Dylan.
• Jimi Hendrix got his first guitar at the age of 15.
• Jimi's childhood nickname was Buster.
• Hendrix claims that his music is called electric church music because he claims music is a religion.
• On September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London.
• A Fender Stratocaster guitar is carved on Jimi Hendrix's tombstone.

JIMI HENDRIX - QUOTES

"I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice."

"Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway..."

"We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... Cause there are so many sleeping people."

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."

"I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks 'wow, I must have been really great' and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world."

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Galileo Galilei facts

Galileo was born on February 15, 1564.

Birthname: Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei.

Birth Place: Pisa, Italy.

Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science".

Galileo was a proponent of the heliocentric theory of the universe.
Galileo Galilei built his first telescope in 1609.
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Steve Jobs - interesting facts

• Steve Jobs is an American busines magnate and inventor.
• Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, which he co-founded in 1976.
• Parents: Paul and Clara Jobs.
• Biological parents: Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble.
• Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 (San Francisco, California).
• Real name: Steven Paul Jobs.
• In 1986, Jobs acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd (Pixar Animation Studios).
• Jobs is either the primary inventor or co-inventor in over 230 awarded patents or patent applications.
• Steve Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune Magazine (2007).
• Steve Jobs worked for Atari, Inc.

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General facts about Frida Kahlo

• Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán. At the time, it was a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City.
• Real name: Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón.
• Kahlo was a Mexican painter perhaps best known for her self-portraits.
• Parents: Guillermo (Wilhelm) Kahlo and Matilde Calderón y González.
• Kahlo had a stormy but passionate marriage with the prominent Mexican artist Diego Rivera.
• Height: 1.60 m (5' 3")
• Date of Birth July 6, 1907
• Frida Kahlo was born in the house of her parents, known as La Casa Azul (The Blue House), in Coyoacán.
• Zodiac Sign: Cancer.
• Frida contracted polio at age six, which left her right leg thinner than the left.
• Frida Kahlo was terribly injured in a freak accident in 1925, when she was just 18.
• She underwent as many as thirty-five operations as a result of the accident, mainly on her back, her right leg and her right foot.
• Died July 14, 1954 (Aged 47)
• Cause of Death: pulmonary embolism.

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Fernando Botero facts

• Fernando Botero was born on April 19, 1932 in Medellin, Colombia.
• Parents: David Botero and Flora Angulo.
• Botero calls himself  "the most Colombian of Colombian artists".
• Fernando Botero one of the most celebrated contemporary Latin American artists.
• His paintings and sculptures are united by their proportionally exaggerated, or "fat" figures, as he once referred to them.
• The Colombian artist lived in Mexico (1956—-1957) and New York City (1960-19—73) before moving (1973) to Paris, where he usually resides.
• In 1964 Botero began living with Cecilia Zambrano. They had a son Pedro, born in 1974, and separated in 1975. Pedro was killed in 1979 in a car accident, in which Botero was also injured.

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Interesting facts about Eva Perón (Evita)

• Eva Perón was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos, Argentina.
• Parents: Juan Duarte and Juana Ibarguren,
• Eva was the highest paid radio actress of Argentina.
• Eva Perón became the First lady of Argentina by the age of 27.
• Eva started her own charitable foundation in 1947.
• She is often referred by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.
• Eva underwent an emergency appendectomy in 1950.
• Eva tried to become Vice-President but was stopped by Juan Domingo Peron and the military in 1951.
• In 1952 shortly before her death from cancer at the age of 33, Eva Perón was given the official title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress.
• Eva Perón died of Uterine cancer on July 26 1952.
• She died at just 33.
• Eva Perón was instrumental in bringing to "los descamisados" (shirtless ones) social services.
• She is portrayed by Faye Dunaway on Evita Peron (1981) and Madonna on Evita (1996).

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Ezra Pound facts

• Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885 in Hailey, Idaho.
• He believed that poetry is the highest of arts.
• Ezra Pound was a great admirer of the poet William Butler Yeats.
• Ezra Pound became known for his role in developing Imagism.
• Ezra Pound was a noted translator of Asian literature.
• Ezra Pound is mainly responsible for bringing Vivaldi’s music back into popularity.
• Ezra Pound made anti-American radio broadcasts during World War II.
• Pound embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler.
• Pound was arrested as a traitor in 1945.
• Pound's major work was the Cantos.
• He died in November 1, 1972 in Venice.

EZRA POUND QUOTES

• Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
  
• Nothing written for pay is worth printing. ONLY what has been written AGAINST the market.
• Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
• The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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Edwin Hubble facts and trivia

• Edwin Hubble was born on November 20, 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri, United States.
• Parents: John Powell Hubble and Virginia Lee James.
• Edwin Hubble taught Spanish, physics and mathematics at the New Albany high school in Indiana before taking up a staff position in California.
• Edwin Hubble served in the U.S. Army in World War I,
• His major contributions are the Discovery of galaxies beyond the Milky Way; Hubble's Law and expansion of the Universe; Discovery of asteroid 1373 Cincinnati; Hubble's galaxy classification and the tuning fork diagram.
• Edwin Hubble was awarded the Medal of Merit in 1946, for services rendered during World War II.
• Hubble died on September 28, 1953.
• The Space Telescope (HST) is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble.
• On March 6, 2008, the US Postal Service issued a postal stamp with his picture on it.

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Edgar Allan Poe facts and trivia

• Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Poe had a brother, William, and a sister, Rosalie.
• Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin, who died at an early age.
• His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
• Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia.
• In January 1845 Allan Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success.
• The Baltimore Ravens football team is named after Poe's poem The Raven, which he wrote in Baltimore.
• Poe attempted suicide in 1848
• Poe served two years in the army.
• On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore.
• Edgar Allan Poe was buried in an unmarked grave.
• The cause of his death has been variously attributed to Brain congestion, alcohol, cholera, heart disease, drugs, tuberculosis, rabies, suicide, and other agents.
• Every year since 1949, an anonymous fan known as the "Poe Toaster" has visited Poe's grave on the night of his birthday and has left a partially filled bottle of cognac and 3 roses.

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