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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 striving 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 right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for figurative, visual-spatial, sensory perception, intuition, left-handers are more impressionable, excitable, prone to emotional outbursts and sudden mood swings. 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 the look when he changed it to 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, H. G. 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 generals: 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 for a 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 
a necessary requirement for political success. There are many well-known politicians among the lefties - 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
The phenomenon has excited 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 was needed. All left-handed schoolchildren in the Soviet Union underwent this unpleasant procedure. 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, the English 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 charges 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 warrior, on the contrary, was blessed by God, did not save Jeanne, and could not die from a blow to the left side of the 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 person, centuries ahead of his time, often wrote his manuscripts "". 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 hand 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 the connection between the hemispheres of the brain is less pronounced, 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 most popular at one time was the physiologist Ivan Pavlov. 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 during practical exercises, Ivan Pavlov always cut rabbits with his left hand, “mirror-like”. And the right-handed students suffered a lot, trying to reproduce the actions of the teacher.
Musicians
There were many great classical musicians: Niccolo Paganini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin. Left-handers "noted" in various genres of rock and pop music. Who doesn't know names like Enrique Caruso, Mireille Mathieu, Sting, Kurt Cobain, Celine Dion, Ricky Martin, Robert Plant or Eminem? However, more than others from this stellar list, the 20th century was shocked by the legendary "Beatle", who received the noble prefix "sir" in front of his name for his merits - 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.
actors
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: and Jim Carrey, and Tom Cruise, and Robert De Niro, and, 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, she stands apart: both by the 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: these are 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, and director Yuri Lyubimov, and the 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.
It is believed that lefties find it extremely difficult and uncomfortable to live in our world, which all the time gives them the wrong hand. But practice shows that lefties are extremely gifted, ambitious and purposeful people. The Times magazine published the top ten left-handers who have achieved the greatest global popularity. This list is headed by US President Barack Obama, the current, forty-fourth President of the United States, the first African American to head this state, and a laureate of Nobel Prize peace.
Another well-known left-hander is the founder of Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates. According to some reports, the richest man in the world in 2009. "One left" he earned 50 billion dollars. He donates most of his money to charity.
Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey- host of her own TV show, actress, producer, public figure. The press calls Oprah the most influential celebrity in the world. She is also the only black woman to earn a billion dollars.
Napoleon Bonaparte- the most famous emperor of France, a commander who conquered almost all of Europe.
Also left-handed Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Tiberius
Leonardo da Vinci- a man who is universal in his genius. Artist, architect, sculptor, scientist, writer of the Renaissance.
And no less ingenious - Michelangelo, Raphael (Raffaello Santi), Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie- Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry, discoverer of new chemical elements.
Aristotle- Ancient Greek philosopher, scientist, logician. Founder of classical (formal) logic.
Ned Flanders (Nedward "Ned" Flanders) character in the animated series The Simpsons. Neighbor of the Simpson family, Christian, founder of a left-handed store in Springfield.
Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix- the greatest guitarist in the world, according to the American press. He also became famous as a composer and singer.
The facts speak for themselves: left-handed people are often brilliant and multi-talented individuals. And society, which often repels those who are not like everyone else, is forced to recognize and accept them. Even though they don't seem to need it.
Here you can add:
Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Charles
Prince William
Singer Sting
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
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Tom Cruise
Charlie Chaplin
Marilyn Monroe
Benjamin Franklin
Fidel Castro and Harry Truman
Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi
Beethoven and Chopin
Pushkin and Lewis Carroll
Hmayak Hakobyan
The phenomenon has excited mankind since ancient times. Some peoples even believed that they had magical powers. In the modern world, left-handed people make up more than 10% of the world's population: and now there are more of them than ever. In the USSR, teachers and pediatricians believed that a left-handed child was needed. All left-handed schoolchildren in the Soviet Union underwent this unpleasant procedure. 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, the English 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 stories about the Maiden of Orleans, who would save her 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 charges 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 warrior, on the contrary, was blessed by God, did not save Jeanne, and could not die from a blow to the left side of the 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 person, centuries ahead of his time, often wrote his manuscripts "". 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 hand 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 the connection between the hemispheres of the brain is less pronounced, 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 most popular at one time was the physiologist Ivan Pavlov. 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 during practical exercises, Ivan Pavlov always cut rabbits with his left hand, “mirror-like”. And the right-handed students suffered a lot, trying to reproduce the actions of the teacher.
Musicians
There were many great classical musicians: Niccolo Paganini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin. Left-handers "noted" in various genres of rock and pop music. Who doesn't know names like Enrique Caruso, Mireille Mathieu, Sting, Kurt Cobain, Celine Dion, Ricky Martin, Robert Plant or Eminem? However, more than others from this stellar list, the 20th century was shocked by the legendary "Beatle", who received the noble prefix "sir" in front of his name for his merits - 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.
actors
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: and Jim Carrey, and Tom Cruise, and Robert De Niro, and, 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, she stands apart: both by the 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: these are 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, and director Yuri Lyubimov, and the 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.
