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What is the difference of Perseus Jackson and Perseus? Find out!

In the book "Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse" how old is Percy Jackson?

14. Perseus (Percy) Jackson is a dyslexic adolescent with ADHD. Percy Jackson is moved to Camp Half Blood and is faced with various different quests. "Percy Jackson and The Titan's Curse" is the third book in the "Percy Jackson" series.

What is the second book in the Percy Jackson series called?

The Sea of Monsters. There are at least five books in the "Percy Jackson" series, although this quiz is only based on the first three.

Who is Percy Jackson's Godly Father?

Poseidon. All of the children at Camp Half Blood, the camp in which Percy attends, have Godly Parents. They have different houses for each of the different Gods and Goddesses.

Percy Jackson's friend, Grover, is what type of mythical Creature?

Satyr. A Satyr is a half goat and half man creature. Grover has a wind pipe in which he can enchant spells on whomever he wishes.

Percy Jackson's mother's name is which of the following?

Sally Jackson. In the third book Sally Jackson gets a boyfriend- Paul Blofis.

What is Percy's hair colour?

Black and Grey. The fact that he has black and grey hair is mentioned only once, when they are explaining what he looks like, in the first book.

What is Percy Jackson's half brother's name?

Tyson. Percy can control water, he can also control equestrian animals including mythical equestrian animals such as Pegasus and Sea Cows. These powers come from his father, Poseidon, who is the god of water and equestrian animals.

Which of these is Percy Jackson's nickname?

Seaweed Brain. One of Percy Jackson's more amazing powers is that of he can manipulate sail boats and can tell them what to do just by saying what he wants for them to do.

Which of these illnesses does Percy have?

ADHD. Percy is dyslexic when he is reading English, because Percy's brain is made for reading Ancient Greek.

Which camp does Percy Jackson attend?

Camp Half Blood. Camp Half Blood is a place where many half bloods (half human, half god) come every summer to escape danger from dangerous mythical creatures.



How about Perseus?

What was the name of Perseus' mother?

Heroes in Greek Mythology: Perseus

Danae. King Acrisius of Argos imprisoned his daughter Danae in a tower of bronze to avoid her having a son who, it was foretold, would murder him.

What god fathered Perseus?

Heroes in Greek Mythology: Perseus

Zeus. Zeus visited Danae in a shower of gold ...

According to Hermes, who was Perseus told to see about the location of Medusa?

Heroes in Greek Mythology: Perseus

The Gray Sisters. Only the Gray Sisters could tell the way.

What princess did Perseus save from the sea monster on his way home?

Heroes in Greek Mythology: Perseus

Andromeda.

What king who had plotted to marry Danae was killed instantaneously at the sight of Medusa?

Heroes in Greek Mythology: Perseus

Polydectes. The tricky Polydectes got his own medicine ... Acrisius was killed as well, fulfilling his prophesy.

Who was the maternal grandfather of Perseus?

Important Heroes in Greek Mythology #1: Perseus

Acrisius. Acrisius was the king of Argos and the maternal grandfather of Perseus. Adrastus was the leader of the Seven Against Thebes. Aeacus was the king of Aegina for whom Zeus created the Myrmidons. Aegisthus was the lover of Clytemnestra and slayer of Agamemnon.

Why did Perseus's grandfather lock his mother Danae in a bronze tower?

Important Heroes in Greek Mythology #1: Perseus

A prophesy said that her son would kill him and he wanted her to remain a virgin forever. When Acrisius consulted an oracle, it told him that he would be killed by his own grandson. Terrified at this prospect, Acrisius locked his daughter Danae in a bronze tower so that no man could ever impregnate her. Unfortunately for him, Zeus desired Danae and was determined to have her. Her turned into golden rain and entered her tower, making her pregnant with Perseus.

Onto the shore of which island did Perseus and Danae wash up after being locked in a chest and thrown into the sea?

Important Heroes in Greek Mythology #1: Perseus

Seriphos. When Acrisius found out the Danae was pregnant, he was still determined that the child would not survive. He could not kill them outright without incensing the Harpies, who punished those who kill family members, so he locked them in a box and threw them into the sea. That way, if they died, it was Poseidon's fault and not his. Zeus, however, protected them and they washed up on the shore of the island of Seriphos. Danae and Perseus were found by a kind fisherman, Dictys, who adopted them.

Why did King Polydectes ask Perseus to fetch the head of Medusa?

Important Heroes in Greek Mythology #1: Perseus

He wanted Perseus gone permanently so he could marry Danae. Polydectes, the brother of Dictys and king of Seriphos, desired Perseus's mother Danae. Perseus, however, objected to the marriage, and Polydectes devised a way to get rid of him for good. Knowing that Perseus did not possess many worldly goods, Polydectes requested a wedding present from him; when Perseus asked him what he wanted, Polydectes asked him for the head of Medusa, hoping that Perseus would perish trying to procure it and he could marry Danae without interference.

In Ovid's "Metamorphoses", he mentions that Perseus turned which character, more commonly associated with Heracles, to stone?

Important Heroes in Greek Mythology #1: Perseus

Atlas. Although it clashes with the story that Heracles later asked Atlas for the Apples of the Hesperides, Ovid writes that Perseus turned the formidable Titan into stone by showing him the head of Medusa.

What shield of Athena did Perseus use as a mirror to slay Medusa?

Important Heroes in Greek Mythology #1: Perseus

Aegis. The Aegis, although technically the shield of Zeus, was carried by Athena. She let Perseus borrow it so he could slay Medusa, since looking at her directly would have turned him into stone. After he had returned to Seriphos and turned Polydectes into stone, Perseus placed the head of Medusa on the aegis and returned it to Athena.

What uncle and former fiancee of Andromeda was Perseus forced to turn into stone at their wedding feast?

Important Heroes in Greek Mythology #1: Perseus

Phineus. Phineus had been betrothed to Andromeda before she was tied to a boulder to be devoured by a sea monster. Cepheus offered Perseus her hand in marriage if he saved her life, and Perseus eagerly complied. At their wedding feast, an angry Phineus and some of his supporters attacked Perseus, who was forced to turn them into stone using the head of Medusa.

Who was the only daughter of Perseus and Andromeda?

Important Heroes in Greek Mythology #1: Perseus

Gorgophone. Although most accounts say Perseus and Andromeda had quite a few sons, Perses being one of them, Gorgophone, whose name means "slaying of the Gorgon," is the only daughter ever mentioned. Cassiopeia was the unfortunate mother of Andromeda and Phaedra was the second wife of Theseus and a princess of Crete.

With what did Perseus kill his grandfather?

Important Heroes in Greek Mythology #1: Perseus

Discus. Perseus happened to be competing in funeral games in Thessaly where Acrisius was in attendance. He accidentally threw his discus with too much force, killing Acrisius, who was a spectator there, thus fulfilling the prophesy that Acrisius had tried so hard to avoid.

Our story starts out on a sadder note. Perseus had a mom, who was very beautiful. However, her father cast her adrift because there was a prophecy that her son would kill his grandfather. What was his mother's name?

The Life and Times of Perseus

Danae. Danae's father was actually King Acrisius, Perseus's grandfather. Persephone is married to Hades and Aphrodite and Athena are both goddesses.

Now that we know who Perseus's mother was, can you tell me who his father was?

The Life and Times of Perseus

Zeus. Yes, Perseus is one of Zeus's many successful children.

Now there was a man who had grown fond of Danae but Perseus was a very protective son, and made sure that this man wouldn't get to her. What was this man's name?

The Life and Times of Perseus

Polydectes. Polydectes wanted to get to Danae but Perseus wouldn't let him. Perseus made sure that no one got to his mother. This would soon change though.

Now this man who had grown fond of Danae eventually devised a plan to get rid of Perseus so he could finally be with Danae. What was this plan?

The Life and Times of Perseus

He was going to send Perseus to slay Medusa. Yes he sent him to slay Medusa because he was sure that there was no way that he could ever return. Polydectes thought he was home free, until something else happened.

Now what this particular man didn't know is that Perseus had some help, and this wasn't just normal help, he had the help of the gods. What two gods aided Perseus on his quest?

The Life and Times of Perseus

Athena and Hermes. These two gods would end up helping Perseus a great deal on his quest by watching over him and giving him a few things to help him.

What were the gifts that Perseus received from the two gods who aided him?

The Life and Times of Perseus

A bag and winged sandals. The bag was to put Medusa's head in so that no one could see it after he had slain her and the winged sandals were so that he could fly around Medusa and stay away from her deathly gaze.

When Perseus had reached the object of his quest, what did he to do to complete it?

The Life and Times of Perseus

He used a shield to reflect its gaze back into its eyes and then chopped off its head. Yes, it was a brilliant plan. After he had slain her he put the head in his bag and set off back to his home, ready to shock everyone.

Now on his way home Perseus encountered someone who had been chained to the sea as a sacrifice. He fell in love with this woman and bargained with her father for her hand in marriage. Who was this woman?

The Life and Times of Perseus

Andromeda. The bargain was that if Perseus killed the monster that she was being sacrificed to he could marry her. Perseus succeeded of course and they eventually got married.

When Perseus returned home and found that the man who had sent him on his quest was pestering his mother what did he do to him?

The Life and Times of Perseus

Using Medusa's head, he turned him to stone. He had learned that Medusa's head was a useful tool as he had turned many people to stone with it on his journey back.

Finally, going back to question one. Did the prophecy of Perseus killing his grandfather ever come true?

The Life and Times of Perseus

Yes. He did end up killing him; however, it was an accident. One day Perseus was throwing a discus that went wild and struck his grandfather, killing him, and that is the story of Perseus.


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This is Annabeth Chase's Facts:

Annabeth said...
Name: Annabeth Chase
Gender: Female
Age: 13 and a half (yes, I’m older than Percy, and way more mature)
Location: San Francisco
Quote: Always, always have a plan.
About Me: I’ve had a kinda tough life. I ran away from home when I was seven because my dad got remarried. I hung around with Luke and Thalia for a while before coming to camp. I lived at Camp Half-Blood for about six years until I gave my dad another chance. Now we’re living in San Francisco, which is cool except it’s dangerous for half-bloods. VERY dangerous.
Who I’d Like to Meet: Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Graham Bell, Christopher Wren
Interests: architecture, Ancient Greek, battle tactics, questing
Music: Beyonce, Mariah Carey
Film: Dream Girls
TV: CSI, Law and Order
Books: The Illiad, A History of Architecture (seven volume set), Calvin & Hobbes
Heroes: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Civil War hero), Alexander the Great
Status: I used to have this huge crush on Luke... but then he turned evil. Now, why does everybody think Percy and I are a couple? He’s just my friend, seriously!
Hometown: Richmond, VA, but my family moved around a lot.
Favorite Drink: Root Beer float with vanilla ice cream.
Body Type: 5’9”, kinda athletic, I guess, blonde hair, gray eyes.
Occupation: student, camper at Camp Half-Blood
Education: I’m in the eighth grade. The last six years I pretty much taught myself at camp, but now I’m back in a regular school. I miss camp.


Alexandra facts:

The 23-year-old actress plays Annabeth Chase in the upcoming Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief — out this coming February. Based on a best-selling book series by Rick Riordan, Percy is about a boy who discovers he is a descendant of Greek gods.
Alexandra chatted with WWD about the movie and why she signed on for the role of Annabeth, daughter of Athena in the flick. She shared, “Greek gods are so human in so many ways — they love and they hate and they get jealous — and that’s what makes the stories about them so exciting.”
Alexandra even admitted that she picked up a few skills on the set of Percy like archery and fencing. She laughs, “Though I don’t know if I could get into an actual sword fight if I had the chance.”

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Logan Lerman is an up and coming actor who is recently grabbing title rolls on the big screen. He currently stars in the film Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightening Thief, which was released on February 12th, 2010.  Here are ten facts on the star that you may or may not know!

1. Logan Lerman was born on January 19th, 1992 in Beverly Hills, California. This makes him currently 18 years old!
2.  Logan Lerman attended highschool at Beverly Hills High-School, following in the footsteps of many famous celebrities including Jamie Lee Curtis, Carrie Fischer, Nicholas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Ariel Pink, Alicia Silverstone and many, many more.
3. Logan Lerman decided he wanted to be an actor at the age of two! He told his mother and by four years-old he was already booked for commercials and was signed to a talent agency.
4. Logan Lerman got his first big screen role at the age of eight, when he was cast as the youngest son of Mel Gibson’s character in The Patriot. He continued to work with Mel Gibson in the future, portraying the actor in his youth in his role as Nick Marshall in the movie What Women Want.
5. Logan Lerman may be super cute with his dark brown hair, sparkling blue eyes and winning smile, but he’s also a little on the short side. The actor is only 5 foot 8, however there is hope, he is only 18 years old and most males continue growing into their early twenties!
6. He really is obsessed with the movies. Logan Lerman’s favorite memory from when he was 14, which he told in an interview with J-14 Magazine, was going to see the movie “The Life Aquatic”. He described the film as life-changing and “mind-blowing“.
7. Logan Lerman plays the guitar. He was recently spotted at the Vancouver International Airport carrying not one, but TWO guitars. It’s always sexy when a guy is musically inclined. Lerman also plays the keyboard in his band called Indigo with friend and fellow actor Dean Collins, who stared with him in the T.V. series “Jack and Bobby” as well as the musician Daniel Pashman. Check out their myspace page here.
8. Logan Lerman also has a youtube account with Dean Collins called Monkeynuts1069. The two actors film, edit, write and act in various shorts which display their artistic talent.
9. Logan Lerman has won numerous acting awards for his work. He has won four Young Artist Awards including two Best Performance in a Feature Film awards for a Leading Young Actor for his films Hoot and 3:10 to Yuma. He also won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for 3:10 to Yuma.
10. Logan Lerman is single according to a recent interview on February 12th, 2010 with USA Today. When asked if he has a girlfriend, Logan states “No. I’m single” and in response to if that is an interest to fans, he says “I have no idea. I hope so.” Looks like there is luck for you ladies! Maybe he will write you a love song!

Just ten fun facts from many!
another : http://www.celebgossip.com/logan-lerman-is-single-ten-facts-on-the-star/

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Listen. Don't tell anyone. this is a secret of... MILEY CYRUS!

Her name is Destiny Hope Cyrus. She's called Miley because she's always smile. Actually, when she's small, her family call her Smiley. But now, she's threw the 's'

Famous Movie is Hannah Montana. Who's don't know Hannah Montana? NO ONE!

Her Parents is Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus. Sst, you know, Billy Ray is playing too in Hannah Montana, as Hannah's father!

She is like dog. She's LOVE dog. Even, when she was offered to play as Penny in BOLT, she's very happy!


You know? Miley is great. She's a good actress, a good singer, and a wonderful song writer! Of course her both parents are very proud!

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• Born: 29 November 1898
• Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Died: 22 November 1963 (natural causes)
• Best Known As: Author of The Chronicles of Narnia

Name at birth: Clive Staples Lewis
C.S. Lewis was a high-powered Oxford and Cambridge professor and one of the 20th century's most famous converts to Christianity. An atheist from boyhood, he converted at age 33 and devoted much of the rest of his life to writing about faith. His series of allegorical books known as The Chronicles of Narnia remains especially popular with children. (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book of the seven in the Narnia series, was published in 1950; The Last Battle, the final book, was published in 1956.) Lewis taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925-1954, when he moved to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he remained until 1963. Lewis and his close friend J.R.R. Tolkien were part of the casual Oxford literary group known as The Inklings.
Lewis died on the same day John F. Kennedy was assassinated... The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was made into a 2005 feature film with Liam Neeson providing the voice of Aslan, the heroic lion.

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 Here are some little known facts about J. K. Rowling.

J. K. stands for Joanne Kathleen. J. K. Rowling chose to use initials for her books because her publisher feared that if readers knew she was female, they would lose interest in the boy wizard, Harry Potter. Of course,
 everyone later learned this was hardly the case.

Harry Potter was created on napkins while J. K. Rowling was a single mother traveling by train. She completed her first book-length manuscript on an old manual typewriter while she was unemployed and living on state benefits.

Twelve publishing houses initially rejected her first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. A small publisher, Bloomsbury, finally decided to give Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling a chance, awarding the author a small advance.

J. K. Rowling experienced quite a turnaround with the success of Harry Potter, and in 2006, the author was named the second richest female entertainer in the world behind Oprah Winfrey. Her fortune is estimated at just over One Billion U.S. Dollars.

The sixth book of the Harry Potter series sold more copies in twenty-four hours than The Da Vinci Code sold in a year. It also earned the Guinness Book of World Records Award for being the fastest selling book ever.

J. K. Rowling has assured the world that the seventh book in the Harry Potter series will also be the last. Although famous authors such as Stephen King and John Irving have begged J. K. Rowling not to kill off Harry Potter, the author has remained ambiguous about the boy wizard's fate.

J. K. Rowling contributes a good deal of money and support to charitable causes. She has suggested that she might publish an encyclopedia of the Harry Potter world, and contribute any and all earnings from the publication to charity.

(http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/16088/little_known_facts_about_j_k_rowling.html?cat=38

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Full name: Justin Drew Bieber

D.O.B: 1st/ March/ 1994 (16)

Lives: In Atlanta Georgia
Fav Colors: blue and purple

Fav number: 6

Sibilings: Half sister named Jazmine and a brother named Jackson

From: Stratford, Ontario Canada

Plays: He taught himself how to play the Trumpet, Guitar, Piano and Drums

Celeb Crush: Beyonc'e

Most Embarrassing Moment: wore a white shirt on a date and order spaghetti and spilled it on his shirt
Languages: He can speak fluent french and count to ten in german

Friends: His 3 best friends are Ryan Butler, Christian Beadles and Chaz Somers

Relationships: He started dating at 13 and has only had three GF, one being Caitlin Beadles . He would date anyone he falls in love with

Shoes: He is size 7and a half

Sports: Likes playing soccer and he likes to skateboard

Signed By: signed with Usher

Dislikes: Blink-Blink (aka Bling)

Other: He is also known for his fashionable taste in sneakers, having a pair in almost every color, including blue, purple, red and yellow. He can be seen wearing a dog tag.
Usher bought him a Range Rover for his 'Super Sweet 16'. He was seen on Youtube by his future manager Scooter Braun

(Want know more? Click : http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_some_facts_about_Justin_Bieber)

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Favorite Junk Food: Mint and Creme Oreos.

Favorite Drink: Orange Gatorade.

Favorite Actress: Natalie Portman.

Favorite Sport: Wiffel Ball.

Favorite Band: Copeland and Switchfoot.

Favorite Actor: Jim Carey

Favorite Show: Boy Meets World and Heroes

Favorite Food: Chicken Cutlet Sandwich with Mayonnaise.

Favorite Candy: Twix and Tootsie Rolls.

Favorite Color: Blue

Favorite Holiday: Christmas

Favorite Song: "Only Hope" by Switchfoot.

Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Chocolate Marshmallow.

Favorite Animal:< Monkeys

Favorite Cereal: Trix

Favorite Gum Flavor: Bubblegum

Favorite Ice Cream Place: Pinkberry

Favorite Book: A Wrinkle in Time

Favorite Fast Food: In N Out Burger

Favorite Word: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Favorite Pizza Topping: BBQ Chicken


Brothers are Kevin, Nick, and Frankie.

Most outgoing brother

Incredibly humorous

He plays keyboard, guitar, tambourine, and lead vocals for the Jonas Brothers.

Before becoming a musician he wanted to be a comedian

Joe's favorite song from the album, Jonas Brothers is "Still in Love With You."


Enjoys running.

Before being in the Jonas Brothers with his two brothers Kevin and Nick, he was back up vocalists with his older brother Kevin.

Along with his two brothers Kevin and Nicholas, he performed at their church.
His favorite board game is Monopoly.


Joe's not afraid to let a girl know that he likes her.

Joe is the biggest ladies man out of him and his brothers.

Joe doesn't really like coffee, but he does like some drinks at Starbucks. He likes their Strawberries and Creme Frappuccino and the Passion Tea Lemonade.

To be funny, when people ask about his purity ring he says that he's married!

Out of his brothers, he is the loudest.

He got his tambourine from Guitar Center.

His acoustic guitar is called the Black Pearl.

He once drove the tour bus and almost crashed it.

Joe has a white video iPod.

Joe's most prized possession is his hair.

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• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics

• He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball

• His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili

• His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini

• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father

• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed


• He has read every Harry Potter book

• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali

• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream

• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars

• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia

• He can speak Spanish

• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead

• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea

• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't


• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia

• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs

• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name

• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived

• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy

• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books


• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck

• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female
committee.

• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees

• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date

• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker

• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol

• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician

• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine

• His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)

• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside

• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal

• His house in Chicago has four fire places

• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita

• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry

• He uses an Apple Mac laptop

• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300

• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits

• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes

• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)

• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire

• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers

• He was nicknamed "Bar" by his late grandmother

• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds

• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso

• His speciality as a cook is chilli

• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"

• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life

• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government

(from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3401168/Barack-Obama-The-50-facts-you-might-not-know.html)

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1. Daniel Radcliffe got a kick out of Dumbledore’s “outing.”
“I thought it was hilarious,” Radcliffe told us about his reaction to Rowling’s late-2007 revelation that she “always saw Dumbledore as gay.” Radcliffe continued, “But what was even funnier about it was the reaction from people who were up in arms about it. I don’t think it really matters. He’s [Rowling's] character and she can do what she likes with him.” Michael Gambon, who plays the sage headmaster, was “camping it up around the set for a couple weeks” after the news broke, Radcliffe reports. We can only hope there’s footage available of that for the DVD.
2. It takes “about 10 takes” for the perfect kiss.
Or at least that’s how many takes Rupert Grint estimates were shot for the first of a few smooches between Ron and Lavender (Jessie Cave). “Quite embarrassing” is how the reserved Grint describes the scene’s filming. “We were both quite nervous and [director David Yates] was really good and only let it go on for about 10 takes.” Only? To make matters worse, Grint and Lavender were performing for a live audience. “I had a room full of people cheering,” Grint says. Well, he must be doing something right.
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3. A “Bizarro World” exists on the set of ‘Potter.’
One of the first things you notice wandering around the outskirts-of-London set of ‘Potter’? There are twice the number of main characters. Each lead has a stand-in, and they look so strikingly similar (and are also sporting identical costumes), it’s easy to confuse them at any distance. “It’s weird,” Grint admits. “And they all sit together at lunchtime!” Emma Watson even admits she wishes she could send her body double to education classes in her place. The only problem? “She’s like 24, something like that,” Watson says.
4. Radcliffe isn’t exactly Homer Simpson when it comes to bacon.
During the scene we watched filmed, Harry and Ron discuss a forthcoming Quidditch match over breakfast in the Hogwarts dining hall; and take after take we watch them nibble on seemingly fresh plates of bacon and eggs. Sounds like a food lover’s dream, right? Wrong. Radcliffe was so sick and tired of bacon, he took to feeding a 10-year-old extra who couldn’t get enough of it. “I’ve been turning around and shoving all my bacon onto his plate just to amuse myself,” Radcliffe laughs. “He seems to be having a good time.” Mmmm?
5. Rupert Grint won’t be selling ice cream any time soon.
Anyone who follows the exploits of the ‘Potter’ cast (religiously or otherwise) probably knows that the quirky Grint is the proud owner of an ice cream truck. Why not live out your childhood fantasies when you have the means, right? But Grint, at the time of our visit, hadn’t yet brought his parlor-on-wheels to set (the 1970s-built truck was having engine trouble at the time), and doesn’t plan on getting it licensed to you know, actually sell ice cream. “That’s quite complicated,” he says. “You have to go through all sorts of different health checks.”

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1. Tolkien’s full name is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
2. He was born January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
3. Three of the first languages that Tolkien worked on as a child were Animalic (he explored this one with friends, and did not actually invent it himself), Nevbosh (meaning “new nonsense,” Tolkien helped to construct it and enjoyed conversing with his friends in it), and Naffarin (the first language he worked on alone at age eight or nine.)
4. By 1904, Tolkien and his brother were orphans. His father (Arthur) died of rheumatic fever in February of 1896. Mabel, their mother, died of complications from diabetes on 14 November 1904.
5. Tolkien met Edith Bratt about four years after his mother died. They lived in the same lodging house. She was three years older than Tolkien, but they gradually fell in love. Actually, Tolkien adored her. Unfortunately, his guardian felt that she was distracting him from his studies, and that at eighteen he was too young to marry. Tolkien agreed to not see her for three years, and she moved away to stay with friends. At midnight on the day he turned twenty-one Tolkien wrote to Edith asking when he could see her again. When he learned that she had become engaged to marry another man he boarded a train and went to convince her to marry him instead. Needless to say, he was successful.
6. At one point during his first semester at Oxford, Tolkien stole a city bus as a prank, and took his friends on a joyride.
7. Tolkien fought in World War I and lost all but one of his childhood friends there.
8. In 1918, Tolkien was hired to work on what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary. Started in 1879, by the time Tolkien joined the team they had finally reached the “W”s.
9. Tolkien earned a professorship at Oxford in 1925. (Very few of the faculty actually had a “professorship” at that time. A high honor indeed.)
10. Tolkien’s four children were the ultimate inspiration for his fiction writing. Can you imagine the sorts of bedtime stories that they got to hear?
11. Tolkien was a big fan of clubs. Two of the clubs he was a member of at Oxford were the “Coalbiters” and “The Inklings.” C.S. Lewis was one of the members of The Inklings.
12. Rayner Unwin, age ten at the time, is the one who judged The Hobbit worthy of publishing. He was paid a shilling for his review. (For the record, his father, Sir Stanley Unwin, was the director of publisher George Allen & Unwin at that point.)
13. When Tolkien’s son Michael entered the army he listed his father’s profession on his paperwork as “Wizard.” It would seem that Michael really understood his father.

(From : Biography Resource Center Database , J. R. R. Tolkien: Creator of Languages and Legends by Doris Lynch)

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