People trivia

People

» In parts of Greece and Italy, people say “no” by tossing their heads back and clucking their tongues.

» Helen Keller (1880-1968), blind and deaf from an early age, developed her sense of smell so finely that she could identify friends by their personal odors.

» Emerson Moser, who was Crayola's senior crayon maker, revealed upon his retirement that he was blue-green colorblind and couldn't see all the colors. He molded more than 1.4 billion crayons in his 37-year career.

» Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish genius who devised the naming system of living things, was a fervent believer in sea monsters, citing numerous reports of fishermen.

» Helen of Troy was queen of Sparta.

» Emily Dickinson wrote more than nine hundred poems, of which only four were published during her lifetime.

» Carrie Donovan, former fashion editor who has written for "The New York Times," "Vogue," and "Harper's Bazaar," was featured for the first time in April 1997 in Old Navy ads in "The New York Times." She is the older blondish woman with the big round glasses, known in the New York fashion industry, but apparently not as well known elsewhere.

» Emmett Kelly's classic tramp clown character "Weary Willie" provided comic relief in the Circus through the end of 1956. When Kelly left his circus career, he became the mascot for the Brooklyn Dodgers.