Top Items About Stubbornness
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | Chinese worker sues for wrongful dismissal | In 2007, a Chinese woman sued her former employer after being fired for contradicting her boss three times (a... | root | 84 | |
| Quotes | Nikola Tesla on Thomas Edison's brute force approach | Nikola Tesla on Thomas Edison: "He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard... | root | 58 | |
| Anecdotes | 50th Birthday | "When I was young, people used to say to me: `Wait until you`re fifty, you`ll see,`" the eccentric composer Erik... | Anonymous | 43 | |
| Anecdotes | Magnus Pyke: Blinded with Science? | While composing his 1983 hit "She Blinded Me With Science," Thomas Dolby enlisted Magnus Pyke to contribute the... | Anonymous | 40 | |
| Anecdotes | Pardon? | In 1830 President Andrew Jackson issued a pardon to a man (George Wilson) who had been convicted of robbing the United... | Anonymous | 36 | |
| Anecdotes | Stubborn Jackson | In 1828, opponents of Andrew Jackson`s presidential ambitions called him a jackass. His response? He defiantly adopted... | Anonymous | 34 | |
| Anecdotes | Cafe Central | Ferenc Molnar`s affinity for the Cafe Central in Budapest was akin to Sartre`s love of his Parisian cafes. It was here... | Anonymous | 33 | |
| Anecdotes | Thomas Mitchell: Australian Explorer | "Several of the earliest [Australian] explorers were so convinced that they would encounter mighty river systems, or even... | Anonymous | 32 | |
| Jokes | David Lee: Stubborn | Breath-hold diver David Lee: "In October 2003, I attempted a 63-meter dive off the coast of Kas, Turkey... I had a cold.... | Anonymous | 26 | |
| Anecdotes | Galileo Galilei: Heretic? | Galileo made a number of important astronomical discoveries which convinced him of the validity of Nicholas... | Anonymous | 25 |
