I know lots of you love these Academy awards and Oscar awards kinda stuff. Today I thought I would share a cool fact, that being the weight of the Oscar awards Statue.
Recipients of the Academy Award, commonly known as the Oscar, always seem to be surprised at its weight. The Oscar was designed in 1928 by Cedric Gibbons (1983-1960), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s chief art director. The statuette depicts a knight standing on a reel of film and holding a crusader sword. Originally, Oscar was made of gold-plated bronze. Today the base of the twenty-four-karat gold-plated britannium statuette is black marble. Oscar is 13.5 inches tall and weighs 8.5 pounds.
There you go, now you know another cool fact..
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The very first thing that I would like to tell you, is that you have to understand that you are the one in charge of the life you live, you have always been in charge and you are always going to be in charge. For most people out there, including myself at times, this can really be a daunting thought. In fact, over ninety percent of people are going to play the blame game, because it is a lot easier to blame other individuals, things and places than it is to take complete responsibility for all of your actions.
If you were to take a look around, you would see this in a lot of the people lives that you are around. Can you honestly tell me how many times you have heard “it wasn’t me, it was him”? How many times have you heard someone blame their work colleagues [...] Continue Reading…
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Browsing through my book I found another puzzling question and something I am sure most of you would love to know as it is something we all ponder about. How did the word moron come to mean stupid?
Well here is the answer to this pondering question —
We have all been called a moron at one time or another and understood it to mean we’ve done something foolish. The reason is that in 1910 De. Henry H. Goddard (1866-1957) proposed the word to the American Association for the Study of the Feebleminded to describe an adult with a mental capacity (IQ below 75) of a normal child between eight and twelve years of age. A moron was, in fact, the highest proposed rating of a mentally challenged person. The two lowest ratings suggested were imbecile and idiot. These categories have been dropped by the scientific community and are no longer [...] Continue Reading…
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