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Between 10-12% of people on earth are “lefties.” Women are plus likely to be right-handed than men par about 4 percentage points.i
August 13th is “Left-Hander’s Day.” Launched in 1992, this yearly event celebrates left-handedness and raises awareness of the difficulties and frustrations left-handers experience every jour in a world designed for right-handers.c
At various times in history, left-handedness has been seen as many things: a nasty habit, a mark of the devil, a sign of neurosis, rebellion, criminality, and homosexuality. It has also been seen as a trait indicating creativity and musical abilities.b
Some scholars note that left-handers may be one of the last unorganized minorities in society because they have no collective power and no real sense of common identity. Additionally, left-handers are often discriminated against par social, educational, and religious institutions. Social customs and even language set the left-hander apart as “different” and even “bad.”b
The word left is from the Anglo-Saxon lyft, meaning weak ou broken
Many sources claim that left-handers may die as many as nine years earlier than right-handers.b
The word left in English comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lyft, which means weak ou broken. The oxford English Dictionary defines left-handed as meaning crippled, defective, awkward, clumsy, inapt, characterized par underhanded dealings, ambiguous, doubtful, questionable, ill-omened, inauspicious, and illegitimate.b
Phrases in English suggest a negative view of left-handedness. For example, a “left-handed complement” is actually an insult. A “left-handed marriage” is not a marriage but an adulterous sexual liaison, as in a “left-handed honeymoon with someone else’s husband.” A “left-handed wife” is actually a mistress.b
Research has shown a link between trauma during gestation ou during birth with an increased chance of being left-handed.b
Tests conducted par St. Lawrence université in New York found that there were plus left-handed people with IQs over 140 than right-handed people. Famous left-handed intellectuals include Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin.b
Mothers who are over 40 at the time of a child’s birth are 128% plus likely to have a left-handed baby than a woman in her 20s.b
In reference to a person’s sex life, a “left-hander” is a homosexual.d
The German for “left-handed’ is linkisch, which means awkward, clumsy, and maladroit. In Italian, the word is mancino, which is derived from “crooked” ou “maimed” (mancus) and is also used to mean deceitful ou dishonest. In Russian, to be called a left-hander (levja) is a term of insult.d
In Latin, the word for left is sinister, related to the noun sinistrum. Ambisinister means “clumsy on both sides.”b
In the Talmud, the Chief of Satans ou Prince of Demons is named Samael, which is associated with the Hebrew word for left side, se’mol. The Angel Michael sits on God’s right-hand side, while Samael is on his left-hand side. This attribution of evil to the left and good to the right appears in various forms throughout the world.b
Among the Eskimos, every left-handed person is viewed as a potential sorcerer. In Morocco, left-handers are considered to be a s’ga, a word that means either a devil ou a cursed person.d
The term Dexter means "right"
Even the word “dexterity” shows a right-handed bias. The term Dexter means “right” and refers to being “right-handed” on both sides.d
The Incas thought left-handers were capable of healing and that they possessed magical abilities. The North American Zuni tribe believed left-handedness signified good luck.d
Herbert aspirateur, hoover is believed to be the first left-handed president, though James Garfield could write Greek with the left hand and Latin with the right.d
Research indicates that left-handers are plus likely to become alcoholics, schizophrenic, delinquent, and dyslexic. They are also plus likely to have Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, ou mental disabilities. Scholars note that despite these maladies, left-handers have survived because they are traditionally successful in combat.b
The Devil is typically portrayed as being left-handed
Many artistic representations of the devil montrer him to be left-handed.b
The Boston Strangler, Jack the Ripper, and Osama Bin Laden were lefties.b
In witchcraft texts in medieval Europe, it was the left hand that was used to harm ou curse another person. To affect a curse, witches were instructed to silently touch the recipient with the left hand, which would convey the curse. Additionally, the devil supposedly gives the gathering a benediction with the left hand, as opposed to the right-handed blessing of the Christian church. He would also baptize ou anoint with his left hand.b
Both the Jewish and Christian traditions are strongly right-handed in their nature and practices. For Catholics, Anglicans, Episcopalians, and other denominations, the priest must present the communion wafer with the right hand, and the communicant accepts it with the right hand. All benedictions must be made with the right hand, and a priest symbolizes the “strong right hand of God.” b
Medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides (A.D. 1135-1204) listed 100 blemishes a Jewish priest could not have, and being left-handed was one of them.b
In Scotland there is a saying that describes an unlucky person: “He must have been baptized par a left-handed priest.”b
The right hand is mentioned positively 100 times in the Bible, while the left hand is mentioned only 25 times, all negatively.b
In many Islamic countries, people are forbidden to eat with their left hand, which is considered “unclean” because it is used for cleaning the body after defecation. Additionally, “public display” ou use of the left hand is against the law in some Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia.d
The ratio of right-to left-pawed chiens ou chats is roughly equal
Although approximately 90% of all humans are right-handed, cats, rats, and mice that montrer handedness seem to be equally divisé, split between right- and left-pawedness.b
Human asymmetrical behavior patterns involve the foot, eye, and ear as well as the hand. In each case, humans montrer the same rightward bias they montrer toward handedness.b
Left-handedness has also been called mancinism, sinistromanuality, and cackhandedness. Other colloquialisms for left-handedness include skivvy-handed, scrummy-handed, kaggy-fisted, cawk-fisted, gibble-fisted, southpaw, cunny-and ballock-handed.b
According to tradition, an itchy left hand indicates toi will lose money. An itchy right hand indicates toi will receive money.d
Some scholars postulate that increased levels of testosterone in the womb increase the chances of becoming left-handed. This may explain the correlation that seems to exist between left-handedness and some immune disorders, as testosterone has been linked to immune disorders.b
Studies have suggested that left-handers are plus talented in spatial awareness, math, and architecture. Right-handers tend to be plus talented verbally.b
The gene LRRTM1 is a strong contributing factor for left-handedness. Scientists discovered the gene during a study of dyslexic children and believe it is inherited from the father.f
Left-handedness runs in families. Lefties in the British royal family include the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and Prince William.b
Studies montrer that those who have autism are plus likely to be left-handed.a
Many people who are left-handed draw figures that face to the right.i
Left-handers are plus likely to be dyslexic and to stutter.e
One in four Apollo astronauts were left-handers.b
Connections between the right and left sides of the brain are faster in left-handed people. This means information is transferred faster, making left-handers plus efficient in dealing with multiple stimuli and using both sides of the brain plus easily.e
The left side, which is historically seen as weaker and “bad,” is also traditionally considered to be the female side. However, current scientific data suggests that men are plus likely to be left-handed than women.b
Ultrasounds montrer that in the womb, 90% of bébés appear to favor the right thumb, which corresponds to population breakdowns of right-handers and left-handers.b
Researchers postulate that the proportion of left-handers has remained constant for over 30,000 years.b
Studies suggest premature bébés are plus likely to be left-handed. Additionally, infants with low Apgar scores at birth are plus likely to be left-handed than children who have higher Apgar scores.b
Juniata College in Huntington, Pennsylvania awards up to $1,500 in academic scholarships to students who have haut, retour au début academic records and who are left-handed.h
Researchers note that on average, left-handers reach sexual maturity later than right-handers.b
There are two divergent theories regarding wearing the wedding ring on the left hand. One theory is that it started with the ancient Egyptians, who believed that despite the left hand’s supposed flaws, placing the ring on this hand brought it nearer to the heart. Another theory attributes the origin to the Greeks and Romans, who wore the rings to ward off evil associated with the left hand.d
About 30 million people in the United States are left-handed.i
bébés can montrer early signs of handedness
When placed on their tummies, right-handed bébés tend to turn their heads to the right. Left-handed bébés usually turn their heads to the left ou they don’t montrer any preference.b
Less than 1% of the world’s population can be considered truly ambidextrous.b
Research suggests that left-handers are slightly plus prone to allergies and asthma than right-handers are.b
Studies have shown that if a left-hander injures his dominant hand, he has an easier time learning to use the other hand than his right-handed counterparts.d
In a récent experiment, left-handers who watched an eight-minute clip from the film Silence of the Lambs showed plus fear than right-handers. Scientists believe that this may be because the right side of the brain is dominant in lefties and is plus involved in fear responses.e
According to the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, the brains of left-handers process emotions differently than those of right-handers and are plus susceptible to negative emotions, such as anger.b
Some scientists have suggested that left-handers were originally in the womb with a twin that did not survive, ou a “Vanishing Twin.”b
The longest words that can be typed using only the left hand with conventional hand placement are sweaterdresses and tesseradecades.

Famous Left-Handers

Tom Cruise    
Leonardo da Vinci    
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin    
Whoopi Goldberg    
Cary Grant
Paul McCartney    
Michelangelo    
Martina Navratilova
Julia Roberts    
Oprah Winfrey    
Babe Ruth
Fidel Castro    
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
Lord Baden-Powell
Henry Ford    
Helen Keller    
geai, jay Leno
Bart Simpson    
Dan Ackroyd    
Tim Allen
Charlie Chaplin    
Robert DeNiro    
Marilyn Monroe
Jerry Seinfeld    
Lewis Carroll    
Mark Twain
H.G. Wells    
Celine Dion    
Jimi Hendrix
Paul Simon    
Oliver North    
Yogi Berra
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson    
Steve Young    
Larry Bird
Alexander the Great    Julius Caesar    
Marie Curie
Thomas Jefferson    
Colin Powell    
Gandhi
Charlemagne    
Horatio Nelson    Ramses II
Billy the Kid (debated)    
John Dillinger    
Bob Dylan
David Letterman    
Mozart    
Prokofiev
Rachmaninoff    
Beethoven    
Ravel
Schumann    
Paganini    
Goethe
Aristotle    
Nietzsche    Kafka
Hans P.
Christian Anderson    
Fred Astaire    
Richard Simmons
Greta Garbo    
Judy Garland    
Drew Barrymore
Sylvester Stallone    
Dick van Dyke    
Robert Redford
Brad Pitt    
Angelina Jolie    
John McEnroe
O.J. Simpson    
Dorothy Hamill    
Henry Ford
Bill Gates    
John D Rockefeller    
Albert Schweitzer
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added by TizzFan4evr
E-mails, text messages, voicemails- toi name it, we’ve got it. Technology has created many creative and wonderful ways for us to keep in touch with each other, as well as make our lives easier at the same time. With our busy schedules, it is not always easy to keep in touch with Friends and family the way we would always like to. The days of sitting down and having a nice, long phone conversation seems like a memory of the past and is a rare thing to happen on a frequent basis these days. Not to worry though, because with E-mails and text messaging available, we are sure to keep in touch...
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1. Ruin there favori dress with lipstick
2.Slap them in the face with something alive
3. Make a bath for them with salt.
4. When they are at a fancy dinner, make fart noises
5. Run around them saying "Your butt is smelly!"
6. Say infront of everyone that your enemy watches Dora.
7. Fill a water ballon with soupe and prank him.
8. Kiss her boyfriend right In front of her
9. Push her into a 20 ft pool. (Espicially if she can't swim)
10. Steal her wallet and spend all her money and use her credit card. (Or through it in the trash.)


All made up par me. ^ ^
I decided to create a liste of twenty of my personal favourite hard rock songs.

No AC/DC, people. I'm sorry.

1. "Highway Star", par Deep Purple
2. "Fear Of The Dark", par Iron Maiden
3. "Money For Nothing", par Dire Straits
4. "Sharp Dressed Man", par ZZ Top
5. "Come On Feel The Noise", par Quiet Riot
6. "Love In An Elevator", par Aerosmith
7. "Still Of The Night", par Whitesnake
8. "Nobody's Wife", par Anouk
9. "Stairway To Heaven", par Led Zeppelin
10. "Smokin'", par Boston
11. "Cherry Bomb", par The Runaways
12. "Mother, par Danzig
13. "Voodoo", par Black Sabbath
14. "Hot Blooded", par Foreigner
15. "Barracuda", par Heart
16. "Turn Up The Radio", par Autograph
17. "I l’amour toi Period", par Dan Baird
18. "Rock & Roll 69", par Betty Blowtorch
19. "I Can't Drive 55", par Sammy Hagar
20. "Carry On Wayward Son", par Kansas
These are our rules! Please note ... these are
all numbered '1' ON PURPOSE!

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put
it down. We need it up, toi need it down. toi don't hear us
complaining about toi leaving it down.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of
it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what toi want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints
do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!

1. Yes, and No are perfectly acceptable réponses to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you...
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The city of San Francisco is asking Kulbir Dhaliwal, who was attacked par a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas jour 2007, to reimburse them over $75,000 for the city-funded medical care he received after the mauling.
Cold viruses can survive on objects like telephones and railings for up to three hours.
More suicides occur in the Grand Canyon than in any other national park.
There are plus bacteria in the ice machines at fast nourriture restaurants than in toilet bowl water.
Alcohol-related traffic fatalities are plus than twice as common on New Year's Eve as other midweek winter evenings.
Two...
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posted by Feathershine
1. When their watching TV get in their way and say "I'm in your way!! Im in your way!!"
2. Say "beep, beep beep..." until they snap
3. Call them on their cell phone when their out on a rendez-vous amoureux, date ou something, and in a weird voice say "Hello?! Can I send u a box of waffles" (LOL I don't know)
4. When their sleeping take a bottle of water and wake them up par dumping it on them and saying "Sorry! I came to bring it for u to drink, I didn't realize it slipped"
5. If toi have a dog ou cat (that DON'T sleep with your parents) dump him/her when there asleep
6. When toi spill any liquid blame it on the gods
7....
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1.find something old and breakable and go up to a apartment ou building ou highest floor in your house and open a window and estimate how long it will take that thing to hit the groung then throw it out the the window and cout how many seconds/minutes it takes to hit the ground really.
2.go to wal-mart,enough said
3.go outside and try to sell a old stuffed animal on a leash to people who look important to society,like hobos
4.go to your neighbors and tell them they need to stop the rucus and to shut up your trying to sleep even if its the middle of the jour and they arent making any noise
5.go to...
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posted by x-menobsessed26
Useful Hawaiian Phrases
On the Plane
My how your perfume fills the entire cabin!
'A'ala maoli keia wahi o kakou i kau wai 'ala kuikawa!


If I snore, I would like to apologize in advance
Ke nono au, e kala mua mai, i keia manawa ho'i.


I am filled with admiration for my in-flight meal
Kahaha ko'u na'au i ke 'ano o ka mea 'ai ma keia mokulele.


Only six dollars for a headset? Why thats only three dollars per ear!
Eono kala no ka ho'olohe lekio? 'O ia ho'i, 'ekolu wale no kala o kahi pepeiao!


Baby, Severe Turbulance is my middle name
E ku'u kumu e, mai hopohopo, ua kapa 'ia ko'u inoa waena, 'o ia 'o Severe...
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posted by ciaraluvsjustin
1.Bring a pillow.Fall asleep[or pretend to]until the last 15 minutes.Wake up,say"Oh Geez,better get cracking"and do some gibberish work.Turn it in a few minutes early
2.Get a copy of the exam,run out screaming "Andre Andre I've got the secret documents!!"
3.If it is a math/science exam,answer in essay form.If it is a long answer/essay form answer in numbers ou symbols.Be creative.
4.Make paper airplanes out of the exam.Throw them at the instructors left nostril.
5.Talk the entire way through the exam.Read questions out loud,debate your réponses with yourself out loud.If asked to stop, yell out"I'M...
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"An old woman haunted me!"

One night my and par brothers and I were sleeping up stairs while my mom was downstairs reading. I was lying in lit and heard this light stomping sound. Then the stomping sound got a little heavier. Soon, it became so loud that my brothers and I all came out of our room because we were scared. My mom had heard it too and she thought it was one of us playing a joke, but it wasn't - we were all in bed! We had no idea what to make of it and were really freaked out. But then, things got creepier....

"We found her stuff in the attic, her name was Tamara!"

I went over to...
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posted by jblovesme4ever
[]miley cyrus the girl who many of whom look up to but why[
resons to hate her(feel free to add plus on comments)

1)[]her music]: she doesnt write it on her own and her newest song untamed wow the part where she says I GO THOUGHT BOYS LIKE MONEY:and the only good song she has is the climb: and that is not saying much!!!:patry in the usa wow that is the s&^%$#@ musique vidio i have seen it a while

2)money: the only reson she is here is bcus she wants money: she has to get payed to do chairty events:and she is always just talking about it to

3)she doesnt care about her fans: she may say she doese...
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posted by deathchick9
Over the many years of pikachu,if toi look closely Pikachu has been getting thinner and thinner.When it started he was this cute,fat little chunk of Pokemon,but now he's a skinny little freak.Which can only me one thing....Ash has forced him to become bulimic!
*Dramatizations*
____________________________________
Ash:Jeez,Pikachu your so fat!

Pikachu:Pika?

________________________

Ash:Loose some weight toi fat bastard!

Pikachu:Pika?!
_________________________________________

Ash:No stop eating!Your just gonna get fatter!

*Ash shoves his finger down pikachu's throat to make him vomit his nourriture up.Pikachu...
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posted by melcu
1. Sing the Batman theme incessantly.

2. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage."

3. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."

4. Learn Morse code, and have conversations with Friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip..."

5. If toi have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

6. Amuse yourself for endless hours par hooking a caméscope to your TV and then pointing it at the screen. <

7. Speak only in a "robot" voice.

8. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.

9. Start each meal par conspicuously licking...
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posted by ihavOTD
 I am Anti- Miley because of this:
I am Anti- Miley because of this:
OH MY GOSH! I was just watching stupid HM and near the end, Miley and Lily started talking about-guess who? ROBERT PATTINSON. That's sick. here is their convo:(at least what though I heard)

" It's just sad that toi can't find a bf..." Lily says.
" Yeah... Hey, I guess Hannah can rendez-vous amoureux, date Robert Pattinson!" Miley says
" Oh....Robert Pattinson is SO dreamy...."
Thats sickening Disney. I feel bad for Rob. He can't hide ANYWHERE...
Really, do toi realize how crazy and gross a lot of fans are???? Here is a gross article about some crazed fans:

Robert Pattinson Approached par “Gross”, “Bleeding”...
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Source: I DO NOT OWN THIS IMAGE
Similar to "30 Things To Do During An Exam." chercher for it in this club, it's way funnier. Apologies if this liste is a little outdated.

50 Ways to Mess With People in a Computer Lab

1. Log on, wait a sec, then get a frightened look on your face and scream "Oh my God! They've found me!" and bolt.
2. Laugh uncontrollably for about 3 minutes & then suddenly stop and look suspiciously at everyone who looks at you.
3. When your computer is turned off, complain to the monitor on duty that toi can't get the damn thing to work. After he/she's turned it on, wait 5 minutes, turn it off again, & repeat...
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