The Diary Of A Young Girl

I've recently read a book called "The Diary Of A Young Girl" and at the top part, there was "Anne Frank." I have read about Anne Frank in various books and I was delighted when my friend allowed me to borrow her book. I finished it in three days and I was amazed by Anne's capability. She treated her diary as a friend who she confided in, yet her wording was so beautiful. It was like she expected that her diary was going to be found, one way or another. Also, her last entry was a perfect ending. 

If I didn't know any better, I would've thought that the diary was written by a best-selling author, rather than a 13-year-old girl.

Annelies Marie Frank (1929-1945) is one of the most influential children in the world. Her family and her, and some of her friends went to hiding in the hidden rooms in his father's office building. Her diary was found by her father, who was the only one in the Frank family who survived, was published into a book. Until these days, her book is still widely appreciated by everyone.

In her diary, there were accounts of how the Nazis treated the "outside people" as Anne mentioned. Her feelings were all freely expressed without fear of anyone reading them. Anne wanted to become a journalist one day and I'm sure that, if she lived, she would have easily accomplished her dream.

They had been betrayed by a person, who is unknown until this day, transpiring into her and her sister's death in a concentration camp. She was in love with a "Petel" as he calls him in his diary. His real name is Peter Schiff and Anne mentioned him a lot and even used another "Peter" who was also in hiding, as a kind of replacement.

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Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Queen

I have been watching an anime (Ghost Hunt) and it featured a woman who bathed in maiden's blood to stay young. It was gross, but I wanted to know more about it. I searched it in Google and the first result had a name: Elizabeth Bathory. (Search it yourself or click: Search)


My eyes were then opened to the life of Elizabeth Bathory. 

Her full name is Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was born in Transylvania on August 7 1560. She knew three languages in her early life: Latin, German and Greek. She was also the niece of the king of Poland.
She married Ferenc Nádasdy when she was fifteen and he was 26. She had six children, two of them had died at an early age.
Wikipedia says her husband died at 47, while bathory.org claims he died at 51.
She adored her complexion, though others thought of it as normal (but no one ever told her). She wanted to stay young and stay as beautiful as she is.

"Maintaining her youth and vitality became central to this developing plot; the absolute divine right to power she understood was hers to keep and protect would be essential to the attainment of all that she sought. Vanity, sexual desire, drive for political power all were seamlessly blended into a central primordial passion. If she lost her youth, she could forfeit all."

 One day, she was in a bad mood and raked her nails on a servant girl's face, because of a minor mistake. Some blood dropped upon her skin and later, she claimed that the part of her skin where the blood was dropped, look fresher and younger.


She consulted her alchemists for their opinion and they--not wanting to disappoint her--recalled an incident where the blood of a young virgin caused a similar effect to an aged woman.


With this clear proof, she believed that she could maintain her youth. She, together with her 'witches' went to find young, virgin girls at the country side.

And every now and then, a really lovely young girl would be obtained. As a special treat, Elizabeth would drink the child's blood: at first from a golden flask, but later, as her taste for it increased, directly from the stream, as the writhing and whimpering body hung from the rafters, turning pale.When back in the castle, each batch of young girls would be hung, alive and naked, upside-down by chains wrapped around their ankles. Their throats would be slit and all of their blood drained for Elizabeth's bath, to be taken while the heat of their young bodies still remained in the thickening and sticky crimson pool.

After five years, she noticed that the bodies did little effect to her skin. She decided that such blood was defective and she needed better blood.

In early 17th century Transylvania, parents of substantial position wished their daughters to be educated in the appropriate social graces and etiquettes, so that they might gain the 'right' connections when ripe. Here was an opportunity.
In 1609, Elizabeth established an academy in the castle, offering to take 25 girls at a time from proper families, and to correctly finish their educations. Indeed, their educations were finished.
Assisted by Dorotta Szentes (known also by the graceful diminutive "Dorka") these poor students were consumed in exactly the same beastly fashion as the anguished peasant girls who preceded them. This was too easy, and Elizabeth became careless in her actions for the first time in her dreadful career. During a frenzy of lust, four drained bodies were thrown off the walls of the castle.

The villagers have seen the girls, and word eventually reached the Hungarian Emperor Matthias II. Because she was a noble, she could not be excecuted. Her companions were burned alive, but she remained alive, locked in a tiny closet in her castle.


She died four years after.


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Why Do Discs Have Holes In Them?

I only found limited results for this topic, but I think I get it. (Actually, I only got one result)

When you close the tray (the thing you put your disc on) or insert it, a small head comes out, lifts it and spins it so it can be read by a laser. It's quite simple actually.

This is where I got my answer
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While we're at the topic, I also found about the Differences Between CDs and DVDs.

CD means Compact Disc, while DVD means Digital Versatile Disc.


A CD has less storage than the DVD. A common CD can hold around eighty minutes of high-quality audio and about sixty minutes of video, while a DVD can hold up to 17 GB.

People usually use CDs for music and DVDs for movies.

The transfer rate for a CD is around 150 kilobytes per second, while a DVD's is seven times greater [which makes...1050 KB!]


Lastly, a DVD can store video, audio, data or any combination of the three, but the CD has less storage ability.


Additional Fact: A DVD player can play both CDs and DVDs, but a CD player can only play CDs.


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DVDs, SVCD, CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, or VCDs.

Curiosity Killed The Cat, But Satisfaction Brought It Back

I finally found out the origin of the phrase above ^^ It's kinda complicated though.


 <----William Shakespeare


So yeah, Shakespeare used this phrase "...Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, up-tails all, and a pox on the hangman."  Before, 'care' meant 'worry' so it roughly translates to "curiosity will kill a cat." After that, a lot of people used the phrase and it transformed through time. :D
Hmm. I guess it isn't so complicated after all.


Anyway, this blog will be about the things I got curious about and my research about them. I will also include links, so you could better understand the subject without my opinions. :)


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