by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 17, 2013 | Deaths of Famous People
If you are envious of great athletes, read the true story of what happened when two Olympic athletes married. Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia (born May 3, 1942) won 35 medals, (including 22 gold) at the Olympic Games and at world and European championships. She was...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 20, 2013 | Deaths of Famous People
Emily Dickinson was probably America’s greatest female poet, but during her lifetime she wrote only for herself. Because she felt that her work was of inferior quality, only seven of her 1768 poems were published during her lifetime. I will give you clues that should...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 13, 2013 | Deaths of Famous People
In the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, 36-year-old Mamo Wolde won the marathon and took second in the 10,000-meter run. He spent the last years of his life in prison for crimes that he probably did not commit. MY CONTACT WITH MAMO WOLDE AND ABEBE BIKILA: In 1963,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 16, 2012 | Deaths of Famous People
Students in every medical school hear the same stories heard in every other medical school, but they usually believe that these stories happened to their own professors at their own school. Here is a story that I heard when I was in medical school in the 1950s. DR...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 14, 2012 | Deaths of Famous People
The next time you go to Richmond, Virginia, visit the Patrick Henry House in nearby Hanover County and you will see a first-floor room with bars over the windows and steel locks on the doors. The guide will tell you that Patrick Henry’s wife was crazy, and that...
