A SALUTE
TO JOE'S/MICHAEL'S LEFTHANDEDNESS!
Ancient Customs:
- The Aztecs gave medicine for kidney problems with the left hand and medicine for liver problems with the right hand. No one knows for sure why they had this practice.
- When a Mayan wanted to know the future, he would visit a soothsayer who would rub both of his arms. If the right arm twitched, the future was good. If the left arm twitched, doom was coming.
- The Incas believed that being left-handed was a sign of good luck.
- Native Americans, however, believed just the opposite, and used to discourage left-handedness by strapping the left hand of an infant to their cradleboard, while leaving the right hand free.
- An old Irish saying states, "The left hand of a dead man dipped in a milk pail causes cream."
- Wearing a medal on the left side of the body became a custom thanks to the Crusaders. They chose to wear their emblems close to their hearts.
(Publicity Photo)
Famous left-handers at BOOMERS:
Michael Landon
Joe Cartwright
Grimesgirl
Nikky
Cowgirl8
A Ponderosa Pine
(Can anyone else be added to this list?)
Famous left-handed artists:
Cathy Guisewite (cartoonist of Cathy
Leonardo da Vinci
M.C.Escher
Matt Groening (cartoonist of The Far Side)
Michelangelo
Pablo Picasso
Peter Paul Rubens
Raphael
Famous left-handed historical figures:
Alexander The Great
Benjamin Franklin
Billy The Kid
The Boston Strangler
Julius Caesar
Napoleon Bonaparte
(To be continued)
Pine
TO JOE'S/MICHAEL'S LEFTHANDEDNESS!
Ancient Customs:
- The Aztecs gave medicine for kidney problems with the left hand and medicine for liver problems with the right hand. No one knows for sure why they had this practice.
- When a Mayan wanted to know the future, he would visit a soothsayer who would rub both of his arms. If the right arm twitched, the future was good. If the left arm twitched, doom was coming.
- The Incas believed that being left-handed was a sign of good luck.
- Native Americans, however, believed just the opposite, and used to discourage left-handedness by strapping the left hand of an infant to their cradleboard, while leaving the right hand free.
- An old Irish saying states, "The left hand of a dead man dipped in a milk pail causes cream."
- Wearing a medal on the left side of the body became a custom thanks to the Crusaders. They chose to wear their emblems close to their hearts.
(Publicity Photo)
Famous left-handers at BOOMERS:
Michael Landon
Joe Cartwright
Grimesgirl
Nikky
Cowgirl8
A Ponderosa Pine
(Can anyone else be added to this list?)
Famous left-handed artists:
Cathy Guisewite (cartoonist of Cathy
Leonardo da Vinci
M.C.Escher
Matt Groening (cartoonist of The Far Side)
Michelangelo
Pablo Picasso
Peter Paul Rubens
Raphael
Famous left-handed historical figures:
Alexander The Great
Benjamin Franklin
Billy The Kid
The Boston Strangler
Julius Caesar
Napoleon Bonaparte
(To be continued)
Pine
