He was elected to the Royal Society for figuring out how baby cuckoos roll eggs out of nests. Then he had an idea about cows, a gardener's son, and a lancet. Edward Jenner: violinist, balloonist, planter of roses, inventor of vaccination.
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Cette page dans De Indiae utriusque (1658) de Willem Piso est importante, puisqu'elle contient la 1ère représentation d'un orang outan, ainsi que la fameuse phrase "Loqui vero eos easque posse..." (Les Javanais disent qu'ils savent parler, mais qu'ils se taisent de peur qu'on les mette au travail")
He wrote 'The Nightingale' in a single feverish evening. He handed her the proposal on a train platform; she read it after the train had gone. Her reply called him brother. Then Jenny Lind sailed for America as the Swedish Nightingale.
He stopped the etesian winds with flayed donkey skins. He redirected two rivers and ended a plague. He kept a woman breathless thirty days. Empedocles of Acragas dressed in purple and bronze, climbed Mount Etna, and jumped. It gave back one sandal.
Took the cross at Easter. Got the marriage annulled. Caught riding to a rebellion dressed as a man. Locked up sixteen years on a queenly stipend. Ransomed a king with fifty tons of silver. Eleanor of Aquitaine, mid-sentence at eighty-two.
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