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Sunday, March 1, 2009

N U M B E R S


7 - age of Akrit Jaswal when he performed an operation on an 8 year old girl whose fingers were fused together

after being burnt. Although he never attended medical school, he is popular in India as a physician.

600+ - the total number of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart started composing when he was 5

6 age of Shirly Temple when she received an Academy Award in 1934. She was the youngest person to receive an Oscar

77.99 - number of seconds it took for Alexis Lemaire to calculate the 13th root of a 200 digit number mentally

8 - age of Pablo Picasso when he completed his first oil painting. "The Picador" named - most prolific artist

ever by the Guiness Book of World Record. He produced about 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints, 34,000

books illustrations and 300 sculptures.

$100 Million total earnings of Tiger Woods in 2007. Started playing golf at the age of 3, and first won the

Optimist International Junior World Cup at age 8, at 21 became the First African-American golfer to win
in the US Masters.

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