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Some Little Known Bizarre Facts!

Posted by MeghnaK • 5/22/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: authors, bizarre, books, writing

I am always drawn towards the lives of interesting aspects of the famous authors of those wonderful classics & best sellers.

So, in my second blog, thewritingpages.blogspot.com , I have come up with some of the lesser known bizarre facts from those parts of their lives which may amuse and interest you.

Some of the posts are like:

1) Charles Dickens and the Rotten Eggs! tinyurl.com/2kafp7
2)Female Writers Won't Appeal To The Masses! tinyurl.com/2tt2na
3)Do Some Gambling and Become A Great Poet! tinyurl.com/64fbc8
4)O. Henry - The Talented Prisoner! tinyurl.com/6nr9o7
5) Arthur Conan Doyle Believed In Fairies! tinyurl.com/5td333
6)Sleep Facing North and Improve Your Writing! tinyurl.com/5gkcfk

So, I am here for you to request you to tell me whether these short posts are interesting! Please have a look at them if you can

Also, if you have some topics like this in mind, let it be informed so that I can have a look at them.

Thank you!!

User Comments

5/22/08

kinklade

Humerous stuff

A couple, like the last one make me want to say [citation needed] though. Oh and link 3 was broken

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1. 5/22/08
  
  MeghnaK
  
  Ha..ha. Thank you. The third one is:
  thewritingpages.blogspot.com/2008/04/do-some-gambling-and-become-great-poet...
  Sorry for the broken link
5/22/08

Lucyvp

Very interesting! Particularly to know why J.K. Rowling's name was used with just the initials. I always wondered why.

I really like your blog theme there too btw.

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1. 5/22/08
  
  MeghnaK
  
  Yes, I agree with you. The J.K. initials was one of the points caught my attention too!
5/22/08

clioandme

It's a nice series, Meghna. At some point you might want to do a post on your blog like you did here, so you have an easy-to-use list of them for your readers.

As Kinklade suggests, you should add a little information about your sources too. Yeah, that's the teacher in me speaking. Have you seen this guest post I did on the BC blog? blog.blogcatalog.com/guest-blogger/do-you-link-to-your-sources/

Also, Wikipedia is great for everyday life, including for basic background information for blogging, but since you're in school, I think I'll give you a few words of caution too, even though you're a pretty savvy internet user: homepage.mac.com/markstoneman/wikipedia%20in%20the%20history%20survey.html I hope you don't mind.

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1. 5/22/08
  
  MeghnaK
  
  Thank you Mark for providing these wonderful information. As you rightly said, I agree with you that I've to provide links to the source of information. I'll surely start doing it in my posts. Yes, I use wikipedia abundantly; but use library more often for my research. So, I suppose I can give the source as magazine/book/newspaper name, isn't it?
2. 5/22/08
  
  clioandme
  
  Sure. The author, if you know, article, journal or newspaper, page and date. Or if you found it online, just link to it, either using an important word in your post, or adding your source at the end.
5/22/08

kdawg68

I thought the Edgar Alan Poe link was going to be about me!

[reply]
1. 5/22/08
  
  MeghnaK
  
  No, but I can write a post about YOU amongst all these great people. What should it be titled ?
2. 5/22/08
  
  kdawg68
  
  well, how many other horses do you know that can type?
3. 5/22/08
  
  clioandme
  
  Hmmm. Kdawg might have a point there.
5/22/08

robertstevenson

I tried sleeping facing North but it didn't help ;>)

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1. 5/22/08
  
  clioandme
  
  What's Ollie North doing here? Meghna's in school in India learning real literature and other good stuff, not our crazy old political villains.
2. 5/22/08
  
  MeghnaK
  
  Robert, if your sleeping did not help, why don't you try my 4th one? Try to get into prison somehow and hope for the best!!
3. 5/22/08
  
  robertstevenson
  
  Thank you, Meghnak.
  I should say my "North" reply was an irrelevant attempt at humor. I'm on my way over to your blog now for a visit.
5/22/08

ekim941

That's some good work.

I love those little known facts as well. It's like watching the bonus features on a dvd and going behind the scenes

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1. 5/22/08
  
  ekim941
  
  Did you know that Shakespeare was a real estate Mogul?
  He has some pretty cool "little known facts" about his life.
2. 5/22/08
  
  MeghnaK
  
  No, I didn't know that, though I have some other bizarre facts about Shakespeare to write. Thank you. I'll really look into it.
5/22/08

robertstevenson

I loved your blog, and I particularly like the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. I am also immenseley impressed with his grandfather the famous lighthouse builder. I am a lover of lighthouse photography.

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1. 5/22/08
  
  MeghnaK
  
  Glad to know that you also like his works. Great writer, classic read!
  Are you in any anyway related to Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Stevenson?
5/22/08

robertstevenson

It's funny we had a relative study our geneaology. His research found that we probably weren't related to Robert Louis Stevenson, but we probably were related to the Stevenson lighthouse builders. That makes little sense since they were related.

I intend to confirm the study once and for all soon. Maybe I'll start this summer. When I find out, you'll be the third person to know. First my two boys, then you.

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1. 5/22/08
  
  MeghnaK
  
  Complete your study and let me know too
5/12/09

ColdRicePudding

My site is full of useless facts and little known issues.

Such as the Differences Between Chewing Gum And Bubble Gum - funky-facts.blogspot.com/2009/03/differences-between-chewing-gum-and.html

The Different Uses Of Tea- funky-facts.blogspot.com/2009/03/different-uses-of-tea.html

And the truth about Humpty Dumpty! - funky-facts.blogspot.com/2009/01/humpty-dumpty-egg.html

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1. 5/12/09
  
  MeghnaK
  
  WOW!! That's really SOME facts! Interesting read. Your labelling them as USELESS was funny too :-)