From The Lincoln Memorial To Insomnia
Issue 20
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC used to have a typo. The word “future” started with an E and was fixed later on.
Britain, England, the United Kingdom, Ireland, North Ireland etc. – so much confusion for this small island nation. Here is a key to understanding it – to some extent at least.
The person in the famous painting “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci which hangs in the Louvre in Paris, is Lisa Gherardini. She was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany. This portrait was commissioned by her husband during the Italian Renaissance but Da Vinci never delivered it to him. He held on to it.
Insomnia does not mean lack of sleep as commonly believed. It is a disorder caused by anxiety of lack of sleep, irrespective of how well the protagonist actually sleeps.
