Benjamin Franklin is remembered as an inventor, author, statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. But all great people were kids once and got into mischief. In writing about his life, Franklin recalled a youthful event that he later regretted.
Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. His father, whom Ben admired and respected, was a soapmaker and candlemaker with a large family. At the age of ten, Ben was taken out of school and put to work in the shop.
Our manager at the restaurant where I worked was a much beloved, jovial man. But there was one subject you didn't dare discuss in front of him -- his height. or, should I say, his lack of it.
One day, he stormed through the door and announced angrily, "Someone just picked my pocket!"
Most of my fellow waitresses and I were speechless, except for the one who blurted out, "How could anyone stoop so low?"
A long time ago, humans were only as tall as hens and rabbits.
These tiny "humans", if you can call them that, lived under trees.
Living in trees was not very nice.
During rains they got wet. In summers they sweated madly, and in winter they almost froze into ice.
Life was tough.
So they started living in burrows, just the way rabbits do.
They thought that at least this way they will be dry in the rains. And in summer, they will be safe from the hot sun.
But, often, the roofs fell upon them without warning. They would get trapped inside, unable to come out.
In the winter of 223 BC, Alexander the Great Macedonian soldiers into Asia. When he arrived in Asia Funijiya the city, the city heard that there was a famous prediction: a few hundred years ago, the Funijiya Gediyasi Wang in his cart on a complex system of knots, and Who can declare untie it, who will become King of Asia. Since then, every year many people look at Gediyasi end of the play. The warrior prince, and all try to end the solution can always Shengtou even can not find that they do not even know where to begin, most people just take a look at it, not from a person trying to pause to solve The Gordian knot. Alexander predicted this was very interested in, who lives with him to see this mysterious knot. Fortunately, this knot is still well preserved in the temple, Peter Zhu.
