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The Marquis De Sade and the poet Petrarch were linked together by which woman?

Laura. Laura was the idealized beloved to whom Petrarch addressed all his sonnets. Some scholars feel Laura was a fictional character, but many think she was Laura de Noves who married Hugues De Sade from whom the infamous Marquis De Sade descends. The Marquis himself was involved with yet another woman called Laura in his youth , Lady Laure de Lauris, but his family forced him to marry Renee Pelagie.

Which two men are linked together by the most unlikely of things, a bathtub?

Diogenes and Marat. Diogenes the cynic was a strange man who carried a lantern , looking for just and honest men. He spent his life living in a bathtub. Jean-Paul Marat, a fiery French patriot , was killed in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a royalist, in 1793. Marat's death was the subject of a brilliant painting by Jacques-Louis David ' 'Death of Marat'

Link the 'Arabian Nights' and the 'Kama Sutra' with Elizabeth Taylor?

Richard Burton. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890) was an adventurer and scholar who published the first translation of the 'Kama Sutra'. He was even better known for the 'naughty bits' in his version of 'Arabian Nights'. Elizabeth Taylor was of course married twice to another Richard Burton (real name Richard Walter Jenkins Jr), the talented Welsh actor.

Which place links these people {;} Edmond Halley, William Gladstone, Elizabeth I, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren ?

Greenwich. Halley died at Greenwich in {1742;} William Gladstone was the MP for Greenwich before he became Prime {Minister;} Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich {Palace;} Pepys lived in Greenwich - he actually saw the Great Fire of London from {here;} Christopher Wren built Greenwich Hospital and Greenwich Observatory.

What links the following people - James Garfield , Michelangelo, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin?

all were ambidextrous. Michelangelo could paint at ease with both {hands,;} Garfield could write Latin with his right hand, and Greek with his left {;} Einstein and Franklin were ambidextrous too.