Interesting People

• Faith Ali Shah Qajar

  • “Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopedia Britannica”.
  • First recorded person to have read the whole encyclopedia.

• Ishi

  • Last Indian Man.

• James Pike

  • A controversial bishop who held views of ordaining women and racial desegregation in churches.
  • Died near the Dead Sea while walking the desert.

• Kitty Genovese

  • The most famous example of the bystander effect — murdered simply because good people failed to call the police.

• Saint Olga of Kiev

  • Enacted revenge on the tribe who killed her husband (the former regent).
  • Part of the revenge plot involved burning a city using pigeons from within the city that were coated in sulphur

• The Wandering Jew

• Thomas Hoare

  • “Mike Hoare”. Glamorized the mercenary trade.
  • Had a role in the Simba rebellion in Seychelles
  • Had a role in staging a coup, was arrested however.

• Thornton Jones

  • “I dreamt that I had done it. I awoke to find it true”
  • Cut himself while asleep.

• [Amou Haji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amou_Haji#:~:text=Amou%20Haji%20(Persian%3A%20عمو%20حاجى,for%20more%20than%2060%20years.)

  • World’s Dirtiest Man.