Famous people who write with their left hand. Left-handed celebrities. Original people - original gifts

World Lefties Day was first celebrated on August 13, 1992, at the initiative of the British Lefties Club. So the left-handers of the whole world sought to draw the attention of manufacturers of goods to the need to take into account their convenience. However, the main concern of the UK Left-Handed Club is that in many schools in the country, left-handed children are still trying to re-teach writing. right hand which causes psychological stress and lowers student performance. After conducting many tests, psychologists have established that it is left-handed people who have a strong character and powerful creative potential. But such people are only about 10% on the globe, and these are mostly men. However, among famous people there are many lefties in the world.

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The Incas believed that being left-handed is a great happiness. The ancient Germans, mocking awkwardness left-handers, they called them clumsy. In Japan, a husband could divorce his wife after learning that she wrote with her left hand. In Russia, they were forbidden to testify in court.

The main difference between lefties and righties is that Everyday life they are more involved in the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for figurative, visual-spatial, sensory perception, intuition, left-handed people are more impressionable, excitable, prone to emotional outbursts and sudden changes in mood. Therefore, among left-handed people there are many people of creative professions - artists, composers, musicians, poets:

Leonardo da Vinci- painter, architect, sculptor, scientist, writer of the Renaissance, brilliant artists: Michelangelo, Raphael (Raffaello Santi), Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens.

Jimi Hendrix- the greatest guitarist in the world, according to the American press, who also became famous as a composer and singer.

Paul McCartney- successful musician and composer recent history, bass player of the legendary The Beatles, in fact one of the pioneers of rock music. His famous Hofner bass guitar is symmetrical. At one time, McCartney took such a guitar so that it would not spoil its appearance when he changed it to his left hand.

Ringo Starr- Another member of The Beatles, drummer, also left-handed.

Angelina Jolie- an actress and her "star" husband - actor brad
Pitt, as well as other colleagues in the shop: Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise, Mila Jovovich, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah Jessica Parker.

Hollywood legends Marilyn Monroe sex symbol and silent film star Charlie Chaplin.

Singer and composer Sting and his "colleagues" in the shop: Celine Dion, Eminem, Ricky Martin, Kurt Cobain (Nirvana). Writer Mark Twain and his colleagues in "pen and paper": Franz Kafka, Hans Christian Andersen, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Herbert Wells.

There are many left-handers and famous scientists: Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Isaac Newton, Alan Turing, French physicist Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle and the German philosopher and poet Friedrich Nietzsche were also left-handed.

There are many left-handed people among famous commanders: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne. Evidence that they were left-handed is evidenced by descriptions of their meals and military campaigns, as well as paintings. Portrait of Charlemagne in full royal attire long time considered spoiled - he held the horse's reins in his left hand.

According to some experts, left-handed people have great oratorical talent, which is necessary requirement to achieve political success. Many lefties famous politicians- US President Barack Obama, Fidel Castro, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, Gerald Rudolph Ford, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Benjamin Franklin, Mahatma Gandhi and others. It is also believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a hidden left-hander.

There is an opinion that "left-handedness" is inherited. In order to determine whether your baby is left-handed, you need to invite him to draw a house first with one hand and then with the other. Which house turned out better, that child's hand is more active. Alternatively, you can ask him to pick up the ball from the floor and throw it to you, and then watch with which hand he does it.

Researchers report that many right-handed people are completely right-handed, but there is no left-handed person who is completely left-handed.

Julia Ivakina

left-handed musician. However, like Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix. But if you think that playing with the left hand is so easy, you are greatly mistaken. “I suffered for a long time until my mother took pity on me one day and bought a special left-handed guitar.” Thanks Mom!

Barack Obama is far from the only left-handed politician, and not even the only left-handed president of the United States. Reagan, Bush Jr. and Clinton all signed laws with their left hand - even if those laws were very different.

Apparently, he inherited this gene from his great-grandfather, King George VI, also left-handed. So it looks like it won't be the first king of Great Britain to sign decrees with his left hand.

In principle, this is such a trifle that interests us last. By the way, many beautiful women- lefties. Marilyn Monroe, for example. Or Nicole Kidman. Kate Hudson and her mother, Goldie Hawn. Sarah Jessica Parker. Because of Sarah Jessica, the trendiest heroine of the 2000s, Carrie Bradshaw, also became left-handed.

Here is another example. Since she is left-handed and at the same time a star, the whole film is “built” under her. Especially for Angie on the set of Lara Croft, a weapon was made that is convenient to shoot with the left hand. And the main requirement for understudies was the same: only left-handers!

Hugh is not afraid of difficulties. Left-handed from birth, he learned to use his right hand quite freely too - so now he reliably embodies a variety of heroes on the screen. Moreover, as in real life often you need to be able to use both hands: for example, during winderfing or playing the musical instruments(and Jackman, imagine, plays - the piano and the violin).

Julia Roberts

Another example of sacrifice for the sake of art. To play Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name, she changed her habits - and took the Oscar!

Julia Roberts

At the request of the director Night M. Shyamalan, he learned to write with his right hand, because in the film "The Sixth Sense" the viewer had to clearly see wedding ring the main character (and this ring is worn, as you know, only on the right hand).

This girl can afford to be anything - and the fact that she is left-handed is perhaps the most normal thing about her. With her left hand, Lady Gaga writes her hits and also plays the guitar.

Most a prime example the fact that you can build an entire business empire with your left hand. Gates is in excellent company: besides him, John Rockefeller and Henry Ford were left-handers.

In her quest for excellence, the TV Queen knows no bounds. She radically changed her fate, turning from a difficult teenager from the ghetto into the most rich woman show business. She lost 30 kg. But the only thing that Oprah did not change in herself was the habit of writing with her left hand.

Now we know why Tommy jumped on the couch in live The Oprah Winfrey Show. He wasn't head over heels in love with Katie Holmes, no! He just found a kindred spirit in the TV presenter.

In one interview, he was asked the question: what is it like to be left-handed? “I have no idea, I was born with it,” was the answer.

Sometimes this happens even with twins. Ashley Olsen is right-handed, while Mary-Kate is the opposite. Now we know a way to tell them apart - at least at autograph sessions.

We apologize - we still found a celebrity that we tried to retrain as a child. And this celebrity...! "My teacher is primary school desperately wanted to make me right-handed. I did not understand why she did this, and she could not give a reasonable answer. I began to consider her a complete fool. Since then, Miss Alba has had a problem with authority. She just had to switch to home schooling: for example, left-handed musician Billy Ray Cyrus raised his daughter (also left-handed) Miley.

The phenomenon of left-handers has worried mankind since ancient times. Some peoples even believed that they had magical powers. AT modern world Lefties make up over 10% of the population the globe: and now there are more of them than ever. In the USSR, teachers and pediatricians believed that a left-handed child must be retrained. All left-handed schoolchildren in the Soviet Union underwent this unpleasant procedure. Left-handers were left alone at the legislative level only in 1986. We have compiled a list of the most famous lefties in the world.

Rulers, politicians and military leaders

Among the people influencing the destinies of the world, at all times there were many left-handers - from Gaius Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great to Fidel Castro and Mahatma Gandhi. It is curious that there are entire left-handed ruling dynasties, for example, British Queen Elizabeth II and her grandchildren - Harry and William. There was a left-handed and famous Joan of Arc, who lived a very short, but - bright and unusual - life.
The history of the Maid of Orleans is surrounded by legends, but there are also indisputable facts. She was born in 1412 in France in a large rural family. From infancy, Jeanne heard tales of the Maid of Orleans, who will save native land. The common people were waiting for this miracle, because France was mired in the bloody Hundred Years War with England, the lands were devastated, and people were in poverty.

At first, military fortune was on the side of Jeanne, but then she was captured by the British. She was accused of heresy and witchcraft, although she was arrested as a prisoner of war. One of the points of accusation was precisely that the French heroine is left-handed, and this, according to the Inquisition, is nothing more than evidence of diabolical power.

Even the fact that in the Middle Ages in Europe they believed that a left-handed warrior, on the contrary, was blessed by God, did not save Jeanne, and could not die from a blow to left side chest. Burn Jeanne at the stake, but France revered her as a folk heroine, and at the beginning of the 20th century she was canonized as a saint.

Artists, architects, sculptors

A brilliant galaxy of left-handed creators has been known since the Renaissance: Raphael, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Albrecht Dürer, Auguste Rodin and many others. But Leonardo da Vinci rightfully ranks first in this list of geniuses who wrote freely with their left hand. Never before or since has history known such a versatile person. He was a prose writer, and a poet, and a musician, and a philosopher, and a natural scientist, and an anatomist, and a botanist, and a zoologist.
This unique man, centuries ahead of his time, often wrote his manuscripts in a “mirror” manner. Many hypotheses are still being built around this habit of his. For example, they say that he did this on purpose so that “ignoramuses and fools” could not read the manuscripts. Indirectly, this version is confirmed by the fact that in everyday life Leonardo da Vinci also used his right hand, and in general he always wrote official papers in the usual way (the phenomenon when a person is fluent in both the right and left hands is called “ambidexterity”). Da Vinci took his riddle with him, leaving a grateful humanity with a rich creative heritage.

Philosophers, publicists and writers

From antiquity to the present day, left-handed people have taken pride of place among the masters of the word. Lefties were: Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Dahl, HG Wells, Mark Twain. One of the most intriguing people on this list is Lewis Carroll. And not only because he was a mathematician who wrote an unusual fairy tale for children and adults, but also because he is an overtrained left-hander.
Carroll's unusual fairy tales "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking-Glass", belonging to the genre of "paradoxical literature", aroused great love among readers from all over the world. By the way, Lewis Carroll himself said that he wrote a fairy tale about how a left-hander feels in a right-handed world. And all left-handers feel in it about the same as Alice felt through the Looking Glass. They are familiar with doors and scissors that do not open and do not cut under the left hand. But what is surprising is that for more than a century and a half Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass has attracted more and more new readers, among whom there are still more right-handers.

Scientists, researchers, businessmen

Modern science claims that in left-handed people, the connection between the hemispheres of the brain is expressed less clearly, and this helps them more often than others to find non-standard solutions in difficult situations. Like it or not, it has not been definitely proven, but among the left-handers there have always been many "pure scientists", as well as scientists who are successfully engaged in business, and businessmen who promote science.

We all know such names as Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, John Rockefeller, Garry Kasparov. Among Russian scientists, the physiologist Ivan Pavlov gained the greatest popularity in his time. He has been called a "romantic, almost legendary figure" and a "citizen of the world".
The famous physiologist was born left-handed, like his father, which indirectly confirms another theory that left-handedness is inherited. At the same time, the scientist trained his right hand all his life, which confused everyone.

Colleagues said that it was very difficult to assist him in operations: it was impossible to guess which hand he would use, for example, to suture. With both his right and left hand, Pavlov did this so swiftly that two assistants could hardly keep up with giving him the instruments. But the rabbits practical exercises Ivan Pavlov always cut with his left hand, "mirror". And the right-handed students suffered a lot, trying to reproduce the actions of the teacher.

Musicians

Many great classical musicians were left-handed: Niccolo Paganini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin. Left-handers "noted" in various genres of rock and pop music. Who does not know such names as Enrique Caruso, Mireille Mathieu, Sting, Kurt Cobain, Celine Dion, Ricky Martin, Robert Plant or Eminem However, more than others from this star list, the 20th century was shocked by the legendary Beatle, who received the noble prefix “sir” for his merits before the name - Paul McCartney.
However, few people know that as soon as Paul picked up his first acoustic guitar, he immediately found himself in a dead end. He did not understand how to play it: after all, the teenager was left-handed, and in those years no one had heard of guitars for left-handed people. Fortunately, McCartney was familiar with the work of popular folk singer Slim Whitman. He was also left-handed, and the strings on his instrument were arranged in reverse order. Paul had no choice but to take this experience into service. Subsequently, Sir Paul McCartney changed the strings on all instruments in this way.

The world theater and cinema would be impoverished if there were no left-handers in the world. As for Hollywood, then, probably, it would simply cease to exist. After all, the top American actors are all left-handed: Jim Carrey, and Tom Cruise, and Robert De Niro, and Angelina Jolie, and Mila Jovovich, and Julia Roberts, and Bruce Willis, and Sylvester Stallone, and Whoopi Goldberg, and Keanu Reeves, and Hugh Jackman and Ben Stiller and Matthew Perry and Mickey Rourke.
But even in this brilliant list, Nicole Kidman stands apart: both by right of talent, and because, like the mythical King Midas, she turns everything she touches into gold. Lefty Nicole Marie Kidman was never retrained by anyone: she went for it absolutely voluntarily, and being already an adult woman. Having abandoned the understudy, the actress managed to learn how to write with her right hand. After all, this was demanded by the role in the film "The Hours", where she played a right-handed writer. Having received an Oscar for her efforts, Nicole later admitted: “Many thought I was crazy, but I was sure that this was necessary.”

Russian lefties

There have been and are many famous left-handers in our country: the writer Leo Tolstoy, and the ethnographer Vladimir Dal, and the musicians Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Sergei Prokofiev, and the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, and the chess player Gary Kasparov, and the singer Valery Meladze, and the director Yuri Lyubimov, and actor Viktor Sukhorukov. There has always been a lot of talk about left-handers, but it was the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov, who himself was left-handed, who guessed to write the first book in the history of mankind about left-handers.
By the way, the prototype of the protagonist of the piercingly bitter "The Tale of the Tula Oblique Lefty and the Steel Flea" actually existed. He was the gunsmith Alexei Surnin, who, a hundred years before writing the book, really traveled to England "to exchange experiences." But his life was not so tragic.

Famous left-handers of Russia and the world

Friends, on August 13, the world celebrates the International Left-Handed Day, and we are pleased to congratulate everyone whom nature has awarded this interesting feature! This may be news to many, but Lefthanders International's Lefthanders Day is nearly 40 years old! The purpose of this unofficial holiday is to draw attention to people who use their left hand more often - after all, there are at least ten percent of them on Earth!

However, manufacturers of various machinery and equipment, as well as everyday items, do not always take into account the needs of left-handed people. And absolutely in vain!

The manifestation of individuality deserves a respectful attitude, especially since left-handedness does not indicate any developmental disorders. Proof of this is a lot of successful left-handed people!

Famous left-handers of the world

You can start the list of famous left-handed people representatives from the distant past, after all, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Kafka, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Julius Caesar used mainly the left hand!

famous there are left-handers among the actors Cast: Keanu Reeves, Nicole Kidman, Robert de Niro, Drew Barrymore, Morgan Firman, Julia Roberts, Jim Carrey. Moreover, many of them are recognized sex symbols, beauty standards for people from any corner of the world: Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Pierce Brosnan, Hugh Jackman, Mila Jovovich and even Marilyn Monroe!

Most famous lefties world of music- David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Sting, and if we take the world-famous classics and composers - Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev.
And people of art? Vladimir Dal, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Picasso, Rodin, Rubens, Hans Christian Andersen, HG Wells! You can’t remember everyone, but the contribution of these great writers, artists and sculptors to world culture cannot be overestimated!

Of course, and in list public people Russia there are lefties. This is Ksenia Sobchak, singer Elka, actress Daria Sagalova. Even Maria Sharapova is left-handed, which few people know about.

The original people Original gifts

Involuntarily, I recall the times when a person’s tendency to wield mainly with his left hand was condemned in every possible way. Within the framework of standardization, a rather rigid relearning was supported - for example, in schools, children who write with their left hand were often attacked by teachers and became victims of increased drill. However, time always puts everything in its place, and as society develops, people learn to recognize other people's characteristics and accept them without showing negative reactions.

Surely everyone has at least one acquaintance who trusts his left hand more than his right. And today is a great opportunity to remind him that in his life there is one more holiday than the vast majority of the inhabitants of the planet Earth! Give it to him - let it serve as a small display of your friend's originality.

More recently, on August 13, the world celebrated Left-Handed Day. Lefty - who is it? Why are they like this and how are they different from other people? The most famous lefties and the most famous misconceptions about lefties from ancient times to the present day, and much more ... I'll start with a story: a psychologist tells a parent: "Your child is left-handed." - "What are you, I have it normal", the parent replies. Morality: left-handedness is the same quality as right-handedness. They are not compared according to the principle of "good - bad." Until now, there are many sources that talk about left-handedness as a pathology. It is very old and this moment refuted notions. New data indicate that There are two causes of left-handedness: hereditary and pathological. Hereditary left-handedness occurs in a child whose family has left-handed relatives. Pathological left-handedness may be the result of intrauterine trauma or trauma at birth. Genetically determined left-handedness is not a disease and is not associated with pathological manifestations.
Moreover, numerous studies have not proven the connection of left-handedness with any psychological features person. It is known that Pavlov was left-handed. But another great Russian physiologist - Bekhterev - was right-handed. Napoleon was left-handed and at the same time was, of course, an outstanding commander, but he was defeated by the right-handed Kutuzov. The only difference in the development of left-handed and right-handed children is the different rate of maturation of certain brain structures. Some brain structures in left-handed children mature more slowly, but these differences between children disappear with age. George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama The main difference between left-handed people and right-handed people is that in everyday life they use the right hemisphere of the brain more, which is responsible for figurative, visual-spatial, sensory perception, intuition. Therefore, among the left-handers there are many people of creative professions - artists, composers, musicians, poets.
Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Charlemagne Embodiment of the Unclean AT Ancient Rome During the period of the empire, the custom of shaking hands was born, denoting good intentions - the patrician showed that he did not have a sword or stiletto in his hand. At the same time, the left-hander could calmly stretch out his right hand, squeezing the weapon in his left. Therefore, left-handers were hired for contract killings, and ordinary people were pretty afraid of them.
Napoleon, Queen Victoria and Otto von Bismarck The Incas believed that being left-handed is a great happiness. The ancient Germans, mocking the clumsiness of left-handers, called them clumsy. In Japan, a husband could divorce his wife after learning that she wrote with her left hand. In Russia, they were forbidden to testify in court.
Martina Navratilova, Rafael Nadal, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe The carnivorous Inquisition began to "rule" the planet, massively burning left-handed people: medieval treatises reported that the devil was left-handed. Actually, one of the reasons for the burning of the "iron maiden" Joan of Arc was her demonic left-handedness. Marvelous Marvin Hagler The Middle Ages cracked down on the left-wing bias of mankind and reduced the population of left-handers in Europe by almost half, and most of the "unclean" survivors of that hot time left for New World. Today, the United States is called the country of left-handers - this fraternity is about 30% there, and in colleges they make up more than 50% of students. Winston Spencer Churchill Misconceptions about left-handers still existed in the 20th century. In 1937, the famous British psychologist Cyril Burt wrote about them: “They look askance, they stumble, they drag and shuffle, they flounder like seals on land. are taken". And the German psychologist Rudolf Hertz in 1960 argued that "one of the signs that distinguishes a well-bred child is that he left hand becomes incapable of any independent action." Fidel Castro, Mahatma Gandhi and Ronald Reagan Statistics Approximately 15% of the adult population were left-handed. Studies indicate that left-handers are more often male than female. Lefties are most common among identical (monozygous) twins and some groups of people with neurological disorders such as epilepsy, Down syndrome, autism, mental retardation and dyslexia. Statistically, a left-handed human identical twin has a 76% chance of being left-handed, the reasons for this being identified as partly genetic and partly environmental. Among the people of South Asia, of Eastern Europe, South-East Asia In Australia, there are many more left-handers than in other ethnic groups around the world, while among the population of Western and Northern Europe, Africa - left-handers are much less common. Demi Moore, Eminem, Michael Jackson The southern hemisphere is more "left-handed": this can be provoked and social reasons- left-handers, like outcasts squeezed out to the periphery of the Old World, - but the influence of daily rotation Earth. According to statistics, about 500 million left-handed people now live on Earth. About ten percent of children are born left-handed in Europe and they are more noisy, impatient, but already in childhood more sociable, contact. Left-handers often choose the profession of artists, artists, writers, left-handers are especially valued in boxing, fencing, baseball. Keanu Reeves and Bruce Willis Left-handed discrimination"Left-handed people are vulnerable," says Professor Anatoly Chuprikov, a member of numerous academies, who is considered the greatest expert on the problem of left-handedness. “Unfortunately, no army has yet taken into account the specifics of left-handed people,” the professor complains. “A classic case: during exercises or maneuvers, a left-handed soldier throws a grenade. When he breaks the pin, he holds it, as taught, in his right hand, and when must be thrown, he shifts the grenade, of course, to his left hand. What happens after such a delay, guess for yourself ... My student, who studied the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, claims that among the liquidators of the nuclear reactor accident, left-handers suffered the most. " Oprah Winfrey and Pink Almost all mechanisms, from the door handle to the car, are adapted for the right hand. Therefore, left-handers are more likely to be injured or have an accident. Thus, a bandsaw forces a left-handed person to keep their hands too close to the cutting blade. Many companies from good intentions"made defective products for left-handed people: say, scissors that have to be cut blindly. A separate study is generally devoted to left-handed injuries when handling elementary household items. Natalia Imbruglia and Whoopi Goldberg Linguistic discrimination also persists: in different languages the word "right" is consonant with the words "right", and "left" sounds like "sinister". Everyone knows the expression "go to the left." English left-handed is translated not only as "left-handed", but also "hypocritical", "defective", "deceitful". That is why article 2 of the Bill of Leo, adopted by the International Confederation of Lefties in 1976, states: "Everyone should be allowed to reduce the use of the word "right" in the meaning of "true" in speech by replacing it with "OK", "indeed", " exactly" and other words similar in meaning. And Article 9 adds: "Everyone will be given the right to actively oppose the use of the word 'left' with negative connotations; no more 'left goods' and other 'leftists'." Paul McCartney and Julia Roberts However, in an open battle it is better not to meet with a defenseless left-hander: he has a "surprise" factor. Fencers are often unprepared for left-handers' unusual attack angles, right-handed opponents of tennis players cannot quickly navigate "left" strikes, and 40% of the medals in boxing go to left-handers. Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie retraining In the early stages of development modern society great importance given standardization and discipline. Under this approach, everything that was perceived as deviation had to be either corrected by means of increased drill, or isolated from society. The dominance of the left hand in manipulation was seen as an aberration, and in many countries, left-handers were forcibly retrained in childhood (as a rule, this concerned, first of all, the mandatory use of the right hand when writing and using cutlery). Gradually, the futility and harmfulness of this approach was realized, and retraining began to be abandoned.
Ricky Martin In our country, left-handedness was considered deformity and a disease like six-fingeredness. The barbaric methods of eradicating this vice brought children to tantrums and nightmares: the left hand was tied to the body or beaten with a ruler. There were many retrained left-handers. For example, Andrei Sakharov wrote with his right hand and drew with his left hand. In the USSR only 1986 In 1998, the need for retraining in preschool institutions and schools was abolished by law. Mark Wahlberg and Goldie Hawn Notable left-handers British scientist Chris McManus in his book "Right Hand, Left Hand" proves that throughout the history of mankind, left-handers have achieved higher achievements than right-handers. Indeed, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Charlemagne were left-handed, as evidenced by the descriptions of their meals and military campaigns, as well as paintings. The portrait of Charlemagne in full royal attire was considered spoiled for a long time - he held the reins of his horse in his left hand. Queen Victoria, Napoleon and Otto von Bismarck also wielded the "wrong" hand. Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain In the scientific world, Einstein and Newton were left-handed. Watching how Pavlov cuts rabbits, his students were forced to turn everything over and memorize in a mirror. In Mozart and Beethoven, parts for the left hand are often more difficult than for the right. Matthew Broderick Brilliant representatives of the "left" painting - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens and Picasso. The latter helped designers create special products for left-handers, including watches and phones. Lefties philosophized recklessly (Aristotle and Friedrich Nietzsche) and wrote wondrous books (Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain, HG Wells and Franz Kafka). Prince William, Sarah Jessica Parker and Marilyn Monroe As for the actors, almost all of Hollywood can be listed here. This is hard nut Willis, and fatal beauties, Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman, and many, many others. Among the left-handed politicians of the 20th century are Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi Ronald Reagan and Fidel Castro. In the United States in 1992, only left-handers fought for the presidency: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Ross Perot. Bill Gates and Mary-Kate Olsen Christopher Rubeck of Lafayette College, along with Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University, found that left-handers who graduated from at least college earn 15% more than right-handers with the same education. The cult rich like John Rockefeller and Henry Ford considered their capital with the left hand, just like the current American croissant - Bill Gates. Sylvester Stallone Difference between left-handed and right-handed Neurophysiologists from the Australian State University found that left-handed people think faster and manage tasks 43 milliseconds faster.
Bill Murray and Tom Cruise In 2004, St. Lawrence University published a paper that showed that left-handed people have markedly higher IQs than right-handed people. They're better at passing computer games, can talk without harm while driving, are the best jet fighter pilots.
Charlie Chaplin and David Bowie Jokes reach left-handers with lightning speed: right-handed people respond to jokes first by excitation of the left hemisphere (reaction to speech), then, with a slight delay, by the right one; whereas in left-handed people both hemispheres are excited simultaneously. Jim Carrey and Seal In modern culture Usually left-handed actors are forced to play in such a way that their "left-handedness" is not very conspicuous. And then they take an understudy for big plans. As a result, the production is carried out so cleverly that the viewer will never guess that the performer leading role- lefty. Dr. Foreman, Dr. Cuddy and Dr. Wilson For example, left-hander Nicole Kidman learned to write with her right hand for the role of Virginia Woolf. Or no one would have suspected her then-husband Lefty Tom Cruise. In "Wide closed eyes He embraced his wife with both arms with equal ease. Bart Simpson Lefty is one of the characters in the animated series The Simpsons, Ned Flanders, who is a practicing Protestant and the owner of a store selling left-handed goods ("Leftorium"). In the animated series Futurama, all residents of the 30th century are left-handed, right-handed are only people from the 20th century. In the television series House M.D., three of the main characters are left-handed - Cuddy, Wilson and Foreman. Nero - Devil May Cry Devil May Cry 4 Ambidextrous mice The terms "left-handed" and "right-handed" apply not only to people, but also to animals. All polar bears are left-handed, most cats are right-handed, and there are many ambidexters among mice. An employee at the Lincoln Zoo in Chicago published data showing that two-thirds of wild chimpanzees held twigs in their left hand when fishing for termites from their nests. Primates in captivity usually use their right hand. Probably at the same time they simply "monkey", adopting this habit from humanity.
It is interesting... It is known that in the 20s of the 20th century in Russia, left-handers accounted for 3.3% of women and 4.7% of men, and in the late 80s, 12.2 and 13.9%, respectively. Born left-handers are 80% more likely to suffer from allergic diseases, among them there are more alcoholics and suicides. According to statistics, left-handers live 5 years less than right-handers. Phil Collins, Rachelle Lefebvre If both parents were right-handed, then the children in 67.3% are right-handed, 27.7% are ambidexters and 4.2% are left-handed. If both parents are left-handed, then 48.9% of children are right-handed, 27.7% are mixed and 23.4% are left-handed. Parents with mixed hands have 37.7% right-handed children, 52.9% mixed children, and 9.4% left-handed children. Villains: Andrei Chikatilo, Adolf Hitler, Billy the Kid (famous Serial killer from the Wild West) and Jack the Ripper (19th century uncaught serial killer) Researchers report that many right-handed people are completely right-handed, but there is no left-handed person who is completely left-handed. When entering an unfamiliar room, the left-hander will turn to the left, and the right-hander will turn to the right. Premature babies are 5 times more likely to be left-handed. Women in their 40s are more likely to give birth to left-handers. The percentage of left-handed smokers is much higher than right-handed smokers. Pele and Diego Maradona In conclusion, it should be said that left-handers are no worse than right-handers: they are just completely different people.