Kamis, 18 September 2008

Moby Dick

Hans Christian Anderson, the creater of fairy tales, was actually word-blind. He was never able to spell correctly. His publishers had to correct his errors.

Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because he/it didn’t wear pants.

During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville’s timeless classic of the sea, Moby Dick, only sold 50 copies.

The song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is a combination of an English poem “The Star” and a French tune “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman”. In the French tune, the original lyrics told the story of a girl telling her mother that she was being seduced by a man called “Silvandre”

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