Friday, May 19, 2017

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Congratulations to Bill Oaks who won this week's "Mind Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:

One word I be,
Two meanings of me.
A puff of air, gently flowing;
A circular motion, useful for towing;
See me through the skies, feel me on the ground;
Move me again, around and around.

ANSWER: Wind

Enjoy!

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out."

HINT: (1942-2007), was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop.

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RANDOM TIDBITS
Queen Elizabeth I was taught caution early in life. She learned mistrust of men from her mother Anne Boleyn's fate and was nearly executed for treason by her half-sister Mary I.

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Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was once booted from the throne and exiled to the desert by her coruler, younger brother Ptolemy XIII. When Julius Caesar came to Alexandria to mediate the sibling rivalry, she had herself smuggled into her own palace in a rug in order to meet him.

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A master of propoganda, Pharaoh Hatshepsut is said to have dressed as a male king and even wore a false beard in the traditional style of pharaohs to ease common fears of a female in power.

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Mary I was desperate to have a child to secure the Catholic religion in England instead of her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth taking the throne. She twice thought she was pregnant, but was humiliated when both pregnancies proved false and her husband left for his native Spain.

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Princess Elizabeth was on an official trip to Kenya when her father, King George VI, died, making her the new sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II. She was at a state dinner in the Treetops Hotel, and it is often said that she "went up the tree a princess and came down a queen."

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A legendary warrior, Queen Boudicca rebelled against Roman rule in eastern Britain around A.D. 60. She raised an army and trashed several Roman cities, including London, in retribution for crimes against herself and her daughters, and nearly caused Emperor Nero to pull the Romans out of Britain entirely. She was later defeated, and committed suicide rather than be captured.




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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out."

ANSWER: Anita Roddick.