in list of the "saints" i did not find Jara da Cimerman:
Who is Jara Cimrman?
Anarchist yogurt inventor could be 'greatest' Czech
inventor, explorer, musician, architect and artist of all time.
According to them, Cimrman was born to an Austrian mother and Czech father in Vienna in either 1857, 1864, 1867, or 1894 — the exact date is uncertain, since the doctor recording the birth was drunk, and the records were smudged.
Sverak and Smoljak attribute Cimrman's genius to his parents, who raised Cimrman as a girl, so they could dress him in his sister's hand-me-downs. The theory is based on two assumptions -- that puberty scatters a boy's mental energy, and that girls get through it sooner. By the time classmates revealed to the 15-year-old Cimrman that he was male, he had already completed puberty as a girl, and could therefore concentrate like no other boy in his class.
Cimrman is credited unofficially with hundreds of inventions. He is also known for getting to the patent office five minutes too late to register them.
Among his accomplishments:
• Convincing Chekhov to rewrite the book, The Three Sisters. When Cimrman heard the working title, The Two Sisters, he said, "Isn't that too few?"
• Proposing the Panama Canal to the Americans, along with an opera libretto of the same name
• Coming within seven meters of the North Pole. A starving tribe of Native Americans chased him away at the last second
• Inventing yogurt
• Inventing the CD ("Cimrman's Disk")
• Carrying on a one-way correspondence with George Bernard Shaw
I thank you for that fine bit of cultural history. I looked into his story further, and it is a wonderful thing. I think I could make a case to the current editor to include him next year, in spite of the fact that he generally insists that our saints be real people. If I had the time and energy I might create a whole new calendar in which all of the "saints" are fictional characters who nonetheless did more than most real people to make life more livable.
thanks..,.I saw Apolinario Mabini on the list...He was a filipino, The greatParalytic...He was the Brain of the Philippine Revolution against Spain in 1896!!!
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Who is Jara Cimrman?
Anarchist yogurt inventor could be 'greatest' Czech
inventor, explorer, musician, architect and artist of all time.
According to them, Cimrman was born to an Austrian mother and Czech father in Vienna in either 1857, 1864, 1867, or 1894 — the exact date is uncertain, since the doctor recording the birth was drunk, and the records were smudged.
Sverak and Smoljak attribute Cimrman's genius to his parents, who raised Cimrman as a girl, so they could dress him in his sister's hand-me-downs. The theory is based on two assumptions -- that puberty scatters a boy's mental energy, and that girls get through it sooner. By the time classmates revealed to the 15-year-old Cimrman that he was male, he had already completed puberty as a girl, and could therefore concentrate like no other boy in his class.
Cimrman is credited unofficially with hundreds of inventions. He is also known for getting to the patent office five minutes too late to register them.
Among his accomplishments:
• Convincing Chekhov to rewrite the book, The Three Sisters. When Cimrman heard the working title, The Two Sisters, he said, "Isn't that too few?"
• Proposing the Panama Canal to the Americans, along with an opera libretto of the same name
• Coming within seven meters of the North Pole. A starving tribe of Native Americans chased him away at the last second
• Inventing yogurt
• Inventing the CD ("Cimrman's Disk")
• Carrying on a one-way correspondence with George Bernard Shaw
• Founding puppet theater in Paraguay
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