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Admitted to a Bern asylum in 1895, he was rationed one pencil and two sheets of newsprint a week. He used them to crown himself St. Adolf II and run the books on a cosmic empire — 25,000 pages of compounding interest, audited from a cell.
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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.
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No house. No job. No checkbook. Two half-empty suitcases, 1,500 papers, 511 collaborators, and a 4:30 a.m. greeting of "Let n be an integer." Paul Erdős ran on Benzedrine and bar mitzvahs — the homeless prince of twentieth-century mathematics.
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He picked the letter K because it struck him as incisive. He cut his fifty-room mansion in half and rolled the back nine feet four inches on jacks so an organ could fit. He designed a thirteen-month calendar.
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Eleven passports. Seven languages. A 1,049-piece Napoleon collection, including a lock of the Emperor's hair. In 1918 Moscow, British agent Sidney Reilly hatched a plot to topple the Bolsheviks by humiliation.
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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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He built America's largest life-insurance agency, invented modern estate planning, and on weekends composed symphonies almost nobody heard. One sat in a drawer 36 years before winning a Pulitzer.
https://oddlet.com/p/2zt
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Twelve million readers a day. Two thousand fan letters a year, all answered by hand. So she dynamited a fifty-ton boulder on a treeless Baltic rock and built a cabin with one window per wall. Tove Jansson, the woman who drew the Moomins.
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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.
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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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