Encyclopædia Obscura — Merrylin Cryptid Museum. Thomas Theodore Merrylin was born in 1782 in Hellingshire, Northern England.
He was the son of a rich aristocrat and biologist, Edward Merrylin, and would eventually follow in his fathers footsteps of fringe naturalism. His mother had died in childbirth and he was raised by his dutiful father, until Edwards death at the age of 76. Thomas would become introverted and spend the majority of his life in seclusion, traveling extensively to collect bizarre specimens of species that were yet to be cataloged by reputable zoologists and naturalists. Amongst various anomalies attributed to his life, the most peculiar is his lifespan.
At aged 80, he still resembled a 40 year old man, this being remarked upon perhaps more than his incredible collection when he eventually took his specimens on a tour of the americas. Works of the Camden Society. John Dee. John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, imperialist[5] and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I.
He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy. In his lifetime Dee amassed one of the largest libraries in England. His high status as a scholar also allowed him to play a role in Elizabethan politics. He served as an occasional adviser and tutor to Elizabeth I and nurtured relationships with her ministers Francis Walsingham and William Cecil. Jack the Ripper was renowned poet Francis Thompson: teacher. England's most notorious serial killer may have been renowned poet Francis Thompson, according to one teacher who claims to have cracked the century-old murder mystery.
Thompson penned poetry by day and butchered prostitutes by night under the guise of legendary murderer Jack the Ripper, Australian teacher Richard Patterson claims. The 45-year-old educator says research from an exhaustive 20-year study shows the artist is the legendary culprit behind the grisly 1888 slays of five London prostitutes during a 10-week killing spree. Hulton Archive/Getty Images English poet Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907) wrote "The Hound of Heaven" and other works. A researcher claims he's behind the legendary Jack the Ripper murders. List of Nikola Tesla writings. Tesla wrote a number of books and articles for magazines and journals.[1] Among his books are My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla; The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla, compiled and edited by David Hatcher Childress; and The Tesla Papers.
Many of Tesla's writings are freely available on the web,[2][3][4] including the article, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, which he wrote for The Century Magazine in 1900,[5][6] and the article, Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency, published in his book, Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla.[7][8] Works[edit] Tesla working in his laboratory. Works About Tesla[edit] P. G. Wodehouse. English author Wodehouse in 1930, aged 48 Most of Wodehouse's fiction is set in England, although he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels and short stories.
He wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies during and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, that played an important part in the development of the American musical. He began the 1930s writing for MGM in Hollywood. Winston Graham. Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003) was an English novelist, best known for the Poldark novels, a series of historical fiction set in Cornwall.
Biography[edit] Graham's father, Albert Grime, was a prosperous tea-importer and grocer. His second son, Winston, was born at 66 Langdale Road, Victoria Park, Manchester on 30 June 1908, at 8 a.m. As a child, Winston contracted pneumonia, and on medical advice was educated at a local day school, rather than Manchester Grammar School which his father had in mind for him.[1] When he was 17 years old, Winston moved to Perranporth, Cornwall. During his youth Graham was a keen tennis player, recording in his diaries how many sets he played each day. In September 1939, Graham married Jean Williamson, having first met her in 1926 when she was 13 years old.
The Advertiser. Freakish powers of a formidable operator - National - smh.com.au. Penny Wong. Born in Malaysia to an Australian mother and Malaysian father, Wong was educated at Scotch College in Adelaide, and then attended the University of Adelaide, graduating with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees.
Prior to entering Federal parliament, Wong worked as a lawyer and political advisor.[1] Wong is the first Asian-born member of an Australian cabinet,[2] and also the first openly lesbian member of the Australian cabinet.[3][4] Early life[edit] Wong was born in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia to a Malaysian Chinese Hakka father and a European Australian mother.[7][8][9] After her parents, Francis Wong and Jane Wong (née Chapman), separated, she moved to Adelaide, South Australia when she was eight years old with her mother and younger brother Toby.[10] Career[edit] On returning to Adelaide, Wong began practising law, working as a solicitor at the firm Duncan and Hannon (1996-1999).
Personal life[edit] Her brother took his own life soon after her election to the Senate.[12] Terry Pratchett. Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s,[6][7] and has sold over 85 million books worldwide in 37 languages.[8][9] He is currently the second most-read writer in the UK, and seventh most-read non-US author in the US.[10] Pratchett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours.[11][12] In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children.[13][14] He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.
In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's disease.[15] Subsequently he made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust,[16] and filmed a programme chronicling his experiences with the disease for the BBC. Wilkie Collins. H. H. Holmes. Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861[1] – May 7, 1896[2]), better known under the name of Dr.
Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. Decamethonium. Decamethonium (Syncurine) is a depolarizing muscle relaxant or neuromuscular blocking agent,[1] and is used in anesthesia to induce paralysis.
Pharmacology[edit] Decamethonium, which has a short action time, is similar to acetylcholine and acts as a partial agonist of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.