MAHARI YASABABISHA NDOA ISIFUNGWE

Bwana Harusi Fadhili Mahenge akiwa ndani ya Suti akisubiri kufungishwa ndoa 

Bi Harusi Naomi Ngoje akiwa amejilalia chumbani akisubiri hatima ya Wazazi ndipo ajiandae kwenda kanisani tayari kwa kufunga ndoa na mchumba wake waliodumu kwa miezi saba.

Bwana harusi akiwa na mpambe wake kanisani wakimsubiri bibi Harusi

Askofu Kenani Mpalala akiwa katika picha ya pomaja na Bwana Harusi na mpambe wake muda mfupi baada ya kuwasili kanisani

Askofu Keenan Mpalala wa kanisa la Free Pentecost Church of Tanzania akionesha tangazo la Ndoa

Baadhi ya ndugu wa mwanamke wakiwa katika kikao na kuendelea na msimamo wao kuwa mahali lazima imalize ndipo wamtoe binti yao

Jamaa wameshika vichwa hali haieleweki

Mwenyekiti wa Mtaa wa Ilolo Ndugu Benson Mbwana(aliyevalia shati rangi ya Zambarau) akionyesha ratiba ya sherehe.

Baadhi ya akina mama wakiangalia ratiba ya harusi

Kanisani

Baadhi ya waumini na majirani wakisubiri kanisani

KATIKA hali isiyokuwa ya kawaida Familia moja ya Makunguru  Mtaa wa Ilolo Jijini Mbeya imesababisha sintofahamu dhidi ya Familia nyingine baada ya kumkatalia binti yao kuolewa kwa madai ya waoaji kutokamilisha Mahari waliyokuwa wamepangiwa.

Tukio hilo la aina yake limetokea leo ambapo Bwana harusi aliyefahamika kwa jina la Fadhili Mahenge(28) Mkazi wa Songea aliyekuwa amuoe Naomi Ngoje na harusi yao kufungwa katika kanisa la Free Pentecoste Church Of Tanzania(FPCT) lililopo Makunguru Jijini hapa kushindwa kufungwa baada ya wazazi wa Bibi harusi kuzuia ndoa hiyo hadi Mahari itakapokamilika.

Wakizungumzia tukio hilo Nyumbani kwa Familia ya Bibi Harusi, Mjomba wa Bibi Harusi Dickson Ngoje amesema tatizo la wao kugomea ndoa hiyo ni kutaka waoaji kutimiza masharti waliokuwa wamekubaliana awali ambayo hadi siku ya mwisho familia hiyo haijatekeleza.

Amesema siku ya kwanza waoaji walifika Nyumbani kwa Mzee Ngoje na kujitambulisha ambapo walipangiwa taratibu za mahari kwa mujibu wa Mila kuwa watatakiwa kutoa Blanket 2, Mashuka mawili, Mkaja(200,000), mbuzi 4, Majembe 4, Ng’ombe Jike 2 na Ngo’mbe Dume 1 pamoja na fedha taslimu Shilingi Laki 3.

Amesema baada ya Familia hiyo ya Waoaji ambao ni Ukoo wa Mahenge kupangiwa vitu hivyo waliondoka na kuahidi kurudi siku nyingine kwa ajili kukamilisha vitu walivyopangiwa ambapo walirudi Septemba 11, Mwaka huu wakiongozwa na Mshenga aliyejulikana kwa jina moja la Mzee Katete wakiwa na Blanketi 2, Mashuka mawili pamoja na Fedha shilingi 10,000/= ambazo walizipokea na kuwaambia hawawezi kuzungumza chochote juu ya Ndoa.

Mjomba huyo anaongeza kuwa baada ya wiki mbili familia hiyo ilirudi na kukuta Nyumbani kuna ukoo mzima wakiwa na Shilingi 200,000/= ndipo walipoambiwa walipe kiingilio shilingi 100,000/= ndiyo wanaweza kupokelewa nyumbani jambo ambalo walilitekeleza kisha kulipa fedha walizokuwa nazo kama Mkaja na kuomba wapewe kibali cha kuandikisha ndoa na taratibu za kumalizia vilivyobaki zikiendelea.

Anasema tangu hapo Ndoa ilianza kutangazwa Disemba 8 na kuisha Disemba 22, Mwaka huu baada ya kutangazwa mara tatu huku tangazo likiashiria ndoa kufungwa tarehe 28/12/2013 ambapo wazazi wakiahidi kumalizia Mahari iliyobaki kabla ya siku ya kufunga ndoa.

Akizungumzia kwa kirefu kashishe hiyo, Mjomba huyo anasema baada ya wazazi wa Mwanaume kusisitiza kumaliza kila kitu hadi ifikapo Disemba 23, Mwaka huu na wao walijikusanya na kupanga taratibu za sherehe hususani ya kumwaga binti yao(Send Off) ambayo ilifanyika Disemba 24, Mwaka huu.

Aidha baadhi ya ndugu wameongeza kuwa familia hiyo haioneshi uaminifu wa kumalizia Mahari hiyo kutokana na ahadi zisizotekelezeka walizotoa tangu kipindi cha nyuma na kuongeza kuwa hata kwenye sherehe ya kumwaga binti yao walifika baadhi ya ndugu wakiwa na Zawadi tofauti na taratibu zinavyotaka.

Wamesema kwa mujibu wa taratibu za Sherehe za SendOff upande wa Mwanaume unatakiwa kuleta zawadi ambazo ni  nguo za Bibi Harusi za kuvaa siku ya Ndoa Pamoja n Harusi lakini wao hawakufanya hivyo ingawa walikuwa na Nguo ambazo tayari zilikuwa zimetumika.

Kwa upande wa Mchungaji aliyekuwa anataka kufingisha Ndoa hiyo ambaye pia ni Askofu wa Kanisa hilo, Mchungaji Kenan Mpalala alipoulizwa kuhusu hali hiyo amesema kwa mujibu wa taratibu za Sheria ya Ndoa ya mwaka 1971 kifungu cha 8 pingamizi litolewe ndani ya siku 21.

Amesema upande wa Wazazi wa Mwanamke ulishindwa kuwasilisha pingamizi lao kanisani kabla ya Siku 21 badala yake walifika kutoa malalamiko kuhusu kutomaliziwa kwa mahali jambo ambalo alisema yeye kama Mwandikisha Ndoa halimhusu bali pande mbili wanatakiwa kulimaliza kabla ya Ndoa.

Naye Bwana Harusi Mtarajiwa Fadhili Mahenge(28) alipoulizwa kuhusiana na suala hilo huku akiwa tayari Kanisani kwa ajili ya Kufungishwa Ndoa alisema anachosubiri ni hatma ya Wazazi wa Mwanamke kama wanaweza kumwachia Mkewe iliwanachodai awe anamalizia taratibu.

Amesema yeye kama yeye kwa sasa hana fedha zozote za kuweza kumalizia anachodaiwa zaidi ya kuomba busara za wazazi wa Mwanamke kumruhusu Ndoa ifungwe ndipo aweze kulipa Mahari anayodaiwa kwa awamu kutokana na hali yake ya kiuchumi kuwa Mbaya.

Ameenda mbali zaidi kwa kusema kama Wazazi wa Mwanamke wataendelea kuwa na Msimamo huo basi hata yeye ataomba arudishiwe kile alichokitoa awali ili ajipange upya kwa ajili ya ndoa baada ya kukamilisha madai yao.

Hadi tunaingia mtamboni Mbeyayetu ambayo ilikuwepo sehemu ya tukio timu ya usuluhishi ilikuwa ikiendelea na kazi yake ikiongozwa na Mchungaji, Mwenyekiti wa Mtaa na Mzee Maarufu ambaye ni Katibu wa Chama cha Wakulima (TASO) kanda ya Nyanda za Juu Kusini, Ramadhani Kiboko, huku muafaka ukiwa haujapatikana.

Na EZEKIEL KAMANGA,wa KAMANGANA MATUKIO BLOG

Operesheni Tokomeza Ujangili Haifanani na Sobibor

Wapenzi waperuzaji wa blogu yetu, natumaini mmesherehekea vema sikukuu ya Krismasi na kuelekea mwaka mpya. Kwa kuwa nimekuwa kimya kitambo kidogo si vema kama sitagusia kutoa salamu za pole kwa msiba wa Shujaa Nelson Mandela. Hii inatokana na kuwa nje ya ofisi kwa kipindi cha wiki tatu hivi. Kama nilivyoandika katika ukurasa wetu wa facebook nampenda Thatha Mandela kwa jambo kubwa moja “ alifungwa gerezani kwa miaka ishirini na saba, katika kipindi hicho alijifunza kusamehe na si kulipa kisasi” kama dunia ingepata watu kama Mandela wenye moyo wa kusamehe hakika bara letu lisingekuwa na migogoro mingi ya kisiasa kwani yote chanzo chake ni ubinafsi na visasi. Kwa kuwa hiyo si habari yangu mahsusi kwa leo acha niifanye ya akiba ili kuruhusu makala ya leo.

Mwishoni mwa mwaka tumeshuhudia simanzi kubwa ikiibuliwa nchini baada ya kusomwa kwa ripoti Kamati ya Kudumu ya Bunge ya Ardhi, Maliasili na Mazingira kuhusu Operesheni Tokomeza Ujangili. Nimejitahidi sana kujizuia nisiandike chochote juu ya  Operesheni Tokomeza Ujangili lakini ghafla nikajiwa na kumbukumbu mbaya za maangamizi ya wayahudi miaka ya 1940 kwenye kambi SOBIBOR mpakani mwa Ujerumani na Poland. Operesheni iliyoongozwa na dikteta Aldolf Hitler ama tunaweza kuyaita maangamizi ya karne iliutisha ulimwengu, Ulaya hata Ujerumani yenyewe, ni mauaji yaliyoambatana na mateso makali pamoja na matumizi ya gesi yenye sumu. Ndugu zangu Sobibor ilitisha kwani vijana wenye nguvu walifanyishwa kazi ngumu zenye mateso makali hata kufia kazini, watoto na wazee waliingizwa kwenye tanuru la moto na kuchomwa humo. Maangamizi haya ya wayahudi wengi wasio na hatia yalifanywa na askari wa Ujerumani kwa amri ya amiri jeshi mkuu wao Aldof Hitler katika kipindi cha vita ya pili ya Dunia.

Ndugu zangu nimeanza kwa kugusia tukio la kutisha la SOBIBOR baada ya kutafakari ripoti ya Lembeli na kupata mrejesho mbalimbali kutoka kwa wabunge na watanzania. Ninajaribu kuitofautisha Operesheni tokomeza Ujangili na maangamizi ya wayahudi kwa kuwa ni kama vinafanana. Ndio kwani Operesheni hii askari walipohojiwa walisema wanatekeleza agizo la Amiri Jeshi mkuu wakati Ujerumani pia ilikuwa kutii agizo la Amiri jeshi Mkuu dikteta Adolf Hitler, Operesheni Tokomeza Ujangili ilifanywa na jeshi la ulinzi na jeshi la polisi kadhalika maangamizi ya wayahudi.

Pamoja na ufanano huo lakini nimebaini tofauti kubwa ya ile operesheni ya Hitler na hii ya vijana wa Mh. Kikwete. Wakati ile ya Hitler ilitokana na chuki juu ya ustawi wa Wayahudi kwetu Tanzania haikuwa hivyo bali ilikuwa chuki ya askari kwa watanzania tofauti pasipo kujali rangi wala kabila, kila waliyemkumba walimuona ni jangili hata kama anauza nyanya. Ukatili wa Operesheni hii ni mbaya haijawahi tokea, kwani ni zaidi ya vita maana nijuavyo katika vita husikika milio ya risasi askari huua ili kusonga mbele. Lakini katika Operesheni hii askari walipiga kambi katika vijiji wakakamata watu na kuanza kuwadhalilisha, udhalilishaji wa hali ya juu, wengine waliwatesa ili mradi vurumai. Hapo ndo huwa nachanganyikiwa kwamba askari hawa walikuwa na chuki na nani na kwa sababu gani? Wajipambanue kwani Ujerumani walijitambulisha wazi kuwa walikuwa na chuki na wayahudi. Sielewi kama taaluma yao ina mapungufu makubwa hata kutoweza kubaini wahalifu hivyo kuamua kusomba kila waliyemuona, na hata walipoamua kuwasomba je hawaelewi katiba inasemaje juu yao? Hakuna mahakama hata wakageuka wao askari na tena mahakimu wakiwahukumu watu kwa adhabu kali hata kuwaua? Je askari hawa walikuwa wanatekeleza agizo la nani? Maana amiri jeshi mkuu Mh Rais Kikwete hakusikika akiagiza wakaue, wakadhalilishe na kuwatesa watanzania au labda kwa kuwa waziri Kagasheki alisema ikiwezekana majangali yauawe hukohuko?

Jaman watanzania tumefikia huko? Sasa nababaika ikiwa wanajeshi wanaoiwakilisha nchi huko Lebanon, Sudani na Kongo kama wanatuwakilisha vema kwani ikiwa watanzania wenzao wanawatenda hivi je hao wa huko si mara mia? Hebu tuangalie sehemu ya ripoti inapoonyesha udhalilishaji uliotokea.

Mwenyekiti wa kamati hiyo, James Lembeli akisoma ripoti hiyo bungeni alisema Operesheni Tokomeza Ujangili, ulisababisha hofu miongoni mwa wananchi na viongozi na baadhi yao kuyakimbia makazi. Lembeli alisema watuhumiwa, walikamatwa, walipekuliwa na  kudhalilishwa na baadhi kutojulikana walipo.

“Baadhi ya wananchi wakiwemo viongozi, madiwani na wenyeviti wa vijiji na vitongoji na watumishi wa Serikali, walikamatwa na kudhalilishwa mbele ya wananchi wanaowaongoza,” alisema Lembeli

Aliongeza; “Watuhumiwa waliokamatwa walidai kudhalilishwa mbele ya wanafamilia kwa kupewa adhabu wakiwa uchi na wanawake kushikwa sehemu za siri bila ridhaa yao.”

Lembeli alitoa mfano kuwa Ali Nyenge (38) wa Kata ya Iputi, Wilaya ya Ulanga alidai kuvuliwa nguo, kumwagiwa maji yaliyochanganywa na chumvi na kuchapwa viboko huku mwanawe wa kiume (11) akishuhudia huku akilazimishwa kuchora picha ya Chatu kwa kutumia wembe kwenye paja lake.

Alisema mwanamke mmoja wa  Babati (jina tunalo) alidai kuvuliwa nguo na kulazimishwa kufanya mapenzi na wakwe zake, pia kuingizwa chupa sehemu zake za siri.

Aidha, baadhi ya wanawake walidai kubakwa na kulawitiwa huku wilayani Ulanga, mwanamke mmoja alidai kubakwa na Askari wawili wa Operesheni Tokomeza Ujangili mida ya usiku.

Hivi kama Operesheni hiyo ingeendelea japo kwa mwaka mmoja ingekuwaje? Si ni zaidi ya SOBIBOR maana ya Hitler hatukusikia ubakaji, kulazimisha wakwe kufanya mapenzi, hatukusikia uingizaji wa chupa, kujichora kwa nyembe mwilini na mateso mengi kama yaliyofanywa katika operesheni hiyo. Hakika haifanani hata kidogo.

Hebu tazama baadhi ya picha na video zikionyesha sehemu ya Operesheni hiyo;

Hii ndio moja ya unyama uliofanyika kwenye Operation Tokomeza Ujangili iliyosimamiwa na washiriki toka Wizara 4 za mawaziri waliondolewa juzi bungeni.

Hapa raia wakiadhibiwa vikali na askari walioendesha Operesheni hiyo.

tazama video kwa mujibu wa youtube.com pia imechapihwa na http://jumamtanda.blogspot.com/2013/12/video-inayodaiwa-watuhumiwa-wa-ujangili.html

Japo ripoti hiyo imesababisha mawaziri wanne kutenguliwa uteuzi wao lakini kwa nchi yetu ambayo inaiangaza Afrika na Dunia nzima kwa mwenge wake juu ya Mlima Kilimanjaro, inatupasa kwenda mbali kuwakabili wote waliojaribu kuichafua nchi yetu waliothubutu kuondoa amani kwa raia wasio na hatia. Kila aliyehusika katika operesheni hiyo si tu afukuzwe kazi kuwafuata wakubwa zake mawaziri waliofukuzwa,  la hasha wataendelea kutamba mtaani bali wakamatwe wapelekwe mahakamani wakashtakiwe ili wajue ni nchi inayoendeshwa kwa mujibu wa katiba na si wahuni na wababe wachache.

Hapa natamani kuzichochea taasisi zinazoweza kusisitiza haki kutendeka, yaani vyama vya siasa, tume ya haki za binadamu na wanaharakati mbalimbali kupaza sauti zao katika hili kwani likipita kimya kwa kuwawajibisha mawaziri tu linaweza kujirudia na kuwa baya zaidi.

Wahenga walisema Hala hala Mti na Jicho.

Mamia wanasubiri kunyongwa nchini

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Kutokana na Tanzania kufuata utaratibu wa maadili (moral) katika utawala wake, inaweza kuwa chanzo cha ugumu wa utekelezaji wake. Hukumu ya Kifo hutolewa chini ya Sheria ya Mwenendo wa Makosa ya Jinai (Criminal Procedure Act. 1985) ambayo inasisitiza kuwa utekelezaji wa hukumu hiyo ni muhukumiwa kunyongwa na siyo vinginevyo.   Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali, Jaji Frederick Werema 

Na Kelvin Matandiko, Mwananchi

Rais, ndiyo ataamua kusaini ama kutosaini, huwa kuna mambo mengi yanayoangaliwa

Wadhifa wa Urais wa Tanzania umeendelea kujikuta njia panda kila unapofika wakati wa kuidhinisha kutekelezwa kwa adhabu ya kifo kwa waliohukumiwa kunyongwa hadi kufa na mahakama, na suala hilo limekuwa gumu kutekelezwa katika awamu zote nne za uongozi.

Hukumu hiyo ni kama haitekelezeki na pengine mafaili yaliyobeba uamuzi wa mahakama wenye adhabu za vifo, yameendelea kusubiri kusainiwa tangu enzi za uongozi wa awamu ya kwanza wa Hayati Mwalimu Julius Nyerere na hata sasa Rais Jakaya Kikwete.

Watangulizi wengine wa Rais Kikwete ni Mzee Ali Hassan Mwinyi aliyeongoza Serikali ya Awamu ya Pili na Mzee Benjamin Mkapa, aliyeongoza Serikali ya Awamu ya Tatu. Wote wanatajwa kwamba walikuwa wazito kuidhinisha utekelezaji wa hukumu hiyo ya kuondoa uhai wa mtu.
soma zaidi kwa kubofya http://www.mwananchi.co.tz/Makala/Mamia-wanasubiri-kunyongwa-nchini/-/1597592/2127326/-/aiaaly/-/index.html

Shule taabani Yafaulisha Wanafunzi Wote

Wanafunzi wa shule ya msingi Machala wakiwa darasani.

Katika hali isiyo ya kawaida, shule moja wilayani Bagamoyo imekutwa ikiwa na mwalimu mmoja tu anayefundisha wanafunzi kuanzia chekechea hadi darasa la saba, wote wakifundishwa katika chumba kimoja kwa kutumia ubao mmoja. 

Hata hivyo, katika matokeo ya Darasa la Saba Mwaka huu, wanafunzi wote  12 walifaulu kuingia kidato cha kwanza.

Shule hiyo ya msingi  Machala, iliyokuwa na idadi ya wanafunzi 198 na imejengwa kwa majani kuanzia chini hadi kwenye paa.

Mwandishi wa habari hizi aliyetembelea shule hiyo, alimkuta mwalimu huyo akiwafundisha wanafunzi hao wa madarasa tofauti wakiwa kwenye chumba kimoja, huku ubao wa kufundishia ukiwa umechorwa mistari mitatu kutenganisha masomo ya chekechea hadi darasa la pili, mstari mwingine darasa la tatu hadi la tano na mwingine darasa la sita hadi la saba.

Mwalimu huyo,  Christopher Rukutu, aliliambia NIPASHE Jumamosi kuwa shule hiyo hutumia kivuli cha mti  kama ofisi.

Shule hiyo iliyopo katika kijiji cha Mihunga Kata ya Miono, Wilaya ya Bagamoyo Mkoa wa Pwani, ilianzishwa na serikali tangu mwaka 2007 ikiwa na wanafunzi 12 ambao wamemaliza darasa la saba, mwaka huu na kubahatika kufaulu wote.

Kwa mujibu wa mwalimu Rukutu, wanafunzi wote waliofaulu walipata alama za A na B isipokuwa mmoja aliyepata alama C.

Pamoja na kuwa katika mazingira magumu,  shule hiyo kiwilaya ilishika nafasi ya sita na kimkoa nafasi ya 20.

Alisema shule hiyo haina vitabu vya kiada wala vya kufundishia na amekuwa akiazima kutoka shule za jirani.

“Ninafundisha kwa akili za kuzaliwa sina kitabu cha mtaala wa elimu, nguvu zangu zote nilimalizia kwa darasa la saba ili wajue kusoma, kuandika na kuhesabu.

Kwa mwaka mzima sijafundisha darasa la nne nina wasiwasi matokeo yao hayatakuwa mazuri kwa sababu  niko peke yangu," alisema kwa masikitiko.

Alifafanua kuwa tangu shule hiyo ianzishwe, serikali ilikuwa imewapanga walimu wawili tu, ambao kutokana na mazingira kuwa magumu waliripoti bila kuingia darasani na kuaga baada ya kuonyesha vyeti vya hospitali vinavyonyesha kuwa afya zao haziwezi kustahimili mazingira magumu.

Aliilalamikia serikali kuanzia ngazi ya kata hadi wilaya kwa kuisahau shule hiyo bila kuipa msaada wowote.

Mbali na kukosa msaada, shule hiyo pia inatumia tundu moja tu la choo kwa wanafunzi wa kike na kiume na kusababisha wengi wao kujisaidia vichakani.Alisema kutokana na hali hiyo, wanafunzi wengi hushambuliwa na ugonjwa wa kichocho.

Aliiomba Wizara ya Elimu na Mafunzo ya Ufundi, kuwapangia wanafunzi wake 12 waliofaulu katika shule yake ya Machari kwenye shule za sekondari zenye mahitaji muhimu ili kuwapunguzia mateso wanafunzi hao.

Alisema wanafunzi wake hawajawahi kuona vitabu vya kujisomea na huduma muhimu za kiafya.
 

CHANZO: NIPASHE

Top 10 Most Famous People

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What does it mean to be famous? Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, III, made it to second place on Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2009, and all for the single act of crash landing a plane without killing anyone. If you’re American, chances are you still remember his name. He made global headlines, so there’s a good chance people abroad from the US remember him. But he didn’t make the Google “top ten most searched for people of 2009.” Michael Jackson did. He still generates 11 million+ monthly searches. But compared to the following entries, Jackson doesn’t come close in terms of number of books written about him. He hasn’t had enough time. Here are the 10 most famous (or infamous), well known people in human history, ranked according to Google searches and approximate number of books written about them. If you travel to Bouvet Island, the most remote land mass in the whole world, how likely is the first person you meet going to know of the following 10 people?

10: Sir Isaac Newton

1642–1727

Google searches: 1 million+ per month

Number of books written about this person: c. 400,000

The discoverer of the calculus just edged out Albert Einstein for the 10th spot. Google searches alone would have netted Einstein a place on the list, at 6.1 million searches per month, but many more books have been written about Newton. Einstein is on track to break his record in far fewer than 286 years, but even then, Einstein would have had no foundation on which to base his theories of Relativity had Newton not existed. 95% of all classical mechanics is built on Isaac Newton alone.

He generalized the binomial theorem, invented the reflecting telescope, coined the word “gravity” and gave the Roman Catholic Church’s self-important hegemony over geocentrism its final knockout blow. Copernicus and Galileo had to face inquisitions, but no one ever attempted to reproach Newton’s Principia Mathematica. Perhaps arguing against someone else’s observations is inane enough, but arguing against math itself was in Newton’s case, impossible. He proved the former two’s theories on heliocentrism, and explained why and how every single macroscopic object in the entire Universe moves as it does. He did all this by himself and still had time to investigate elements and principles of optics, and invent the pet door, although he was too busy ever to have sex. He died a virgin at 84.

9: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

1452–1519

Google searches: 4 million+ per month

Number of books: c. 600,000

Google searches can be inaccurate, which is why they are only half the criteria for judgment. If you search “leonardo,” you’ll get a lot of pages about ninja turtles and people who drowned on Titanic. But if you type da Vinci’s full name, you’ll quickly see why he is world renowned. He could do anything. He has possibly the greatest resume in history. Imagine if you could put the following on yours and then make good on all of it at an interview:

Engineer, inventor, anatomist, architect, mathematician, geologist, musician, cartographer, botanist, writer, sculptor. You name it, da Vinci was into it. He invented the sniper rifle, although it was not rifled: he just bolted one of his refracting telescopes onto a wheellock musket and shot people from 1,000 yards. He probably invented the wheellock musket, too. He invented the parachute about 300 years before Louis-Sebastien Lenormand claimed the honor in the late 1700s. Da Vinci’s design is not known to have been tested until 2000. It worked perfectly. he invented the hang glider about 400 years before it really took off. His design was based on a bird’s wings. He gave the helicopter quite the college try, but couldn’t figure out a sufficiently powerful method for getting it airborne. He was the first to understand the concept of spinning helical blades tilted at just the right angle pulling an object up into the air.

He invented the tank, which was propelled via men turning a crankshaft inside and fired cannon in all directions. He invented the mitrailleuse about 400 years before the French. It is a precursor to what we consider a machine gun, with multiple barrels firing all at once. Da Vinci invented the pivoting scissors by bolting two knives together for shearing cloth.

His sculptures are not as well known as those of Michelangelo, but da Vinci envisioned a gigantic horse sculpted out of poured bronze, which was impossible to make with the technology of his day (the sculpture would have broken apart under its own weight). But it was completed in 1998 and there are three models of it around the world, one in Milan, Italy, one in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, and one based in Florence, Italy that is shipped around the world for display. They are 24 feet high and the largest horse statues ever constructed.

Da Vinci was also a pretty good painter.

8: William Shakespeare

1564–1616

Google searches: 7.4 million+ per month

Number of books: c. 1 million

The man with the lion’s share of the percentage of votes for greatest writer in English or any language in human history is sure to be the source for quite a few words and phrases now common in his native language. A good 50% of common English phrases come from the King James Bible, and possibly 30% of the rest come from the Bard. If you’ve ever said, “It’s all Greek to me;” “food for the gods;” “all that glitters is not gold;” “a sorry sight;” “dead as a doornail;” “come what may;” “with one fell swoop;” or “all’s well that ends well;” then “by Jove” you’re quoting Shakespeare.

Egil Aarvik, of the Committee for the Nobel Prize, once said that Shakespeare would have been the only person in history to win more than one prize for his literature. There is no rule against this, and had he lived into the 20th Century, his plays would have certainly deserved one, but his sonnets alone are worth the bodies of work for which other laureates have been honored. What is the most famous quote in all of English literature? Probably “to be or not to be.”

What’s most impressive about his fame is that we know very little at all about Shakespeare himself, the man and his life. He only had a grammar school education and worked as an actor before becoming a playwright. What makes Shakespeare so great is his seamless blend of the finest poetry, profound, multifaceted philosophy, and a lively wit. Do it one time and you’ll win quite a few awards and be thought a great writer. Shakespeare did it 37 times, and that doesn’t account for his 154 sonnets, the bulk of the English repertory. Hamlet and King Lear are universally acclaimed masterpieces, benchmarks against which all other drama, before and after, is judged.

7: Adolf Hitler

1889–1945

Google searches: 6.1 million+ per month

Number of books: c. 175,000

We have covered Hitler many times on Listverse, but rarely from a somewhat historiometric perspective. We all know that he remains the primary cause of WWII. He instigated it to suit two profound desires: to become the most powerful person on Earth, preferably in history, if not to rule the whole world; and, for his own enjoyment, to cause as much pain as possible against all those he deemed responsible for Germany’s humiliating and miserable defeat in WWI, and its squalid poverty between the wars. Germany was forced to pay every other nation’s wartime expenses after the First World War, and this utterly destroyed Germany’s economy. The Deutschmark became so worthless that children burned millions of them at once to keep warm in the streets.

The Jews, meanwhile, largely kept their money in gold and jewelry, safe in international banks. Gold and diamonds do not depreciate, and Hitler seized on his own hatred of the Jews’ prosperity in the Interbellum to sway as many people to his side as possible. Add to this a supreme mastery of oratory, and history is about to suffer a severe catastrophe. WWII resulted in more deaths than any other war, up to 71 million, and Hitler is the most to blame. He knew and was not ashamed. He was despised and happy about it.

He is routinely listed alongside the following names on lists of the most evil people, real or fictitious, in history, especially those of public polls: “the Devil;” “Satan;” “Lucifer;” “Stalin.” The current US President (whoever it is) is usually next, although recently elected popes can unseat him. It can be argued that Hitler shaped the 20th Century more than any other person, except possibly Einstein, and Hitler is the only person of the 20th or 21st Century on this list. Quite an impressive ranking to have been dead for only 68 years.

6:  Paul the Apostle of Tarsus

c. 5–c. A.D. 67

Google searches: 3.35 million+ per month

Number of books: c. 7 million

Paul is quite possibly more responsible for the dissemination of Christianity, its ideals, theology, and principles, than anyone else. He is venerated in all branches, as a saint in many, or at least as a profoundly respected teacher, preacher, and the chief Christian apologist. And he did all this via 13 letters to various churches and people throughout Asia Minor.

He was the first person to write anything that was later canonized into what we call the New Testament. He probably wrote his first epistle, to the churches in Galatia, in about A.D. 50, give or take 5 years. Mark wrote his Gospel 5 to 10 years later. Paul’s theological thesis throughout his 13 or so Epistles is a more detailed statement of Jesus’s philosophy of ethics and salvation given in the Gospels. Paul’s central point is that all you have to do is believe that Jesus is the Son of God, Savior of the world, rose again from the dead and ascended into Heaven, and you will not die. Your transition may be painful, but you’ll go to Heaven.

If that’s all you have to do, as most people have accepted his teaching, it’s obvious why Paul’s brand of evangelism caught on so quickly, firmly, and widely. He is far more immediately known than any of the Twelve Apostles, only rivaled, through the fame of the popes, by Peter. By his death, he permanently cemented his legacy for the ages: he was arrested in Rome for inciting political discord and beheaded south of the city center, at what is now San Paolo alle Tre Fontane, or the basilica of Saint Paul at the Three Fountains.

5: Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

c. 563–c. 483 B.C.

Google searches: 4 million+ per month

Number of books: c. 7 million

You might be surprised to know that most of the people who google Buddha are not Buddhists. In the Western Hemisphere and throughout Europe, Buddhism is not as well understood as the three major monotheisms. A few clarifications:

Gautama was probably born in Kapilavastu or Lumbini, Nepal in about 563 B.C., about 24 years after Babylon sacked Jerusalem. Gautama was a mortal man who attained Nirvana, or spiritual awakening and peace of mind, at the age of 35, while seated under a Pipal tree, now referred to as the Bodhi tree, in Bodh Gaya, India. The tree growing there now was planted in 288 B.C. from a seed of the original. Buddha sat in meditation for 49 days until he attained the knowledge of how to thoroughly end suffering for all people on Earth. The people do have to follow his teaching in order to free themselves from the various griefs of life.

This is called the Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right intention, right concentration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness. If you hold to all these, you will be able to put away all worries and you will be truly happy and unaffected by anything. Buddha rejected the notion of any literature being infallible, and argued that truth must be experienced to be known.

Gautama, the Supreme Buddha, is worshipped in Hinduism as well, as one of the ten representations of Vishnu, who is the god above all others. Baha’i also venerates Gautama as a mortal manifestation of God, who descended to teach mankind to love one another and how to be happy. Gautama is traditionally said to have died in about 411 B.C., at the age of 150 or so. Modern scholars place his death at about 483, at the age of 80.

4:  Moses

c. 1300–c. 1180 B.C.

Google searches: 2.7 million+ per month

Number of books: c. 8 million

Moses is revered but not worshipped by all three major monotheisms, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as Baha’i. He is regarded as the greatest prophet of the Old Testament; the liberator of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt; their leader into Canaan, the Promised Land; and their lawgiver, who relayed God’s commandments to the Jews, and founded much of Jewish life and tradition.

The Pharaoh’s daughter, usually named Bithiah, found the infant Moses in a basket floating in the Nile and took him as her own son. She named him after the Hebrew verb “to draw,” since she drew him out of the river. No information is given on Moses’s life, except that he was raised in the Egyptian noble household, and that one day he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave and saved the Hebrew by killing the Egyptian. He then hid in the wilderness, and met Jethro, who was a follower of the precursor faith to Islam.

Jethro gave him Zipporah, his daughter, to be his wife, and Moses met God for the first time, who showed himself in the form of a burning bush. Moses then bravely returned to Egypt and, with God’s help, forced the Pharaoh to let his people go. Moses was about 80 years old when this Exodus began. They wandered the desert wilds for 40 more years, received God’s law through Moses, built an ark into which the law was placed, and finally reached a land flowing with milk and honey, which God promised them. Moses, however, had acted arrogantly when he struck the stone from which water sprang for the Israelites, and so God refused to allow him entrance into Canaan. Moses died at 120 years and God buried him in the Moab valley opposite Mount Nebo. There is a memorial to him there today.

3: Abraham

c. 1812–c. 1637 B.C.

Google searches: 9.1 million+ per month

Number of books: c. 2 million

The google searches for Abraham the Old Testament prophet are not as reliable as those for Moses or Adolf Hitler, since quite a few famous historical or fictitious people have been named Abraham. The top three most famous are Abraham of the Bible, Abraham Lincoln, and Abraham van Helsing. But if you were to go, say, the Philippines, and ask the first passerby who Abraham Lincoln was, they might actually not know. Among well over 99% of the world’s cultures and societies, you will not have that problem when asking about the prophet called Abraham.

He is revered by all three monotheisms, as well as Baha’i, as a prophet, and one of the first, if not the first, persons of the Middle East to believe in a single God. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are referred to as “the Abrahamic religions.” In the Bible, God makes a covenant with Abraham because of his devout, unswerving faith in God, while everyone around him follows the newest god to take everyone’s fancy. This covenant is marked by circumcision. God then tests the conviction of Abraham’s faith in him by demanding that he kill his firstborn son, Isaac, to glorify God. Abraham does not hesitate, but takes Isaac up to the top of a mountain and is about to kill him when an angel arrives and tells him to stop. God is immensely impressed and blesses Abraham with fruitfulness: he will be the father of many nations.

Today, Abraham is precisely that. Muslims believe that it was not Isaac, but Ishmael, his other son, whom God told Abraham to sacrifice, and Muslims believe that Ishmael’s lineage led to the next entry. The site of the near sacrifice is traditionally deemed to be where the Dome of the Rock sits today. This shrine is sacred to all three Abrahamic religions.

2:  Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh

c. A.D. 570–632

Google searches: 13.6 million+ per month

Number of books: incalculable

To non-Muslims, Muhammad founded Islam. To Muslims, he did not found anything, because the religion, called Islam, was already there, and had to be restored to its proper maintenance. Muslims believe that Muhammad restored the religion and unified it under the philosophies God imparted to him in revelations he wrote down. These became the Q’uran. Islam is the Arabic noun for “a surrendering,” or “a yielding,” in this case to the will of Allah. Muhammad was born about A.D. 570 in Makkah (Mecca), Saudi Arabia. He had 13 wives, which is acceptable and encouraged in Muslim cultures.

Muhammad’s status as second most famous person in history is especially remarkable given that it is illegal according to Islamic law to depict Muhammad in any way (which is why you don’t see him in the above picture). That law dictates that Muhammad is the last prophet to have been sent by God to teach mankind the ways of peace and righteousness, and that he is too holy to be viewed by our sinful eyes. For this reason, very few films have been made about him. The most notable was The Message (1977), the premiere of which incited suicide bombings throughout the Middle East and protests around the world, until everyone realized that Muhammad is not actually depicted; rather, the camera’s point of view represents him: the film is seen through his eyes.

If you’d like to know, there is nothing in the Q’uran that states, “To kill Americans, both civil and military, is the duty of every Muslim who is able.” That nonsense was concocted by various Middle Eastern leaders over the years, mostly in the last half of the 20th Century and beyond. These leaders know full well that knowledge is power and have done their level best to hoard literacy education from the public. The literacy rate in Yemen is currently about 70%, which is terrible compared to “more civilized” countries like the USA, England, Germany, and Japan. And because the Middle Eastern Muslim public largely cannot read the Q’uran, the governments disseminate anti-American, anti-Western lies to indoctrinate them into hatred.

Muhammad died on 8 June A.D. 632 in Medina, Saudi Arabia, having united the whole of the Middle East under a single God, whose name is Allah. There are many spellings of Muhammad, including Mohammed, Moammar, Mehmet, Mahomet, and others. Because of him, Muhammad is the most common given name in the world, with about 200 million carriers. “Muhammad” means “praised.”

If you anticipated Muhammad, you probably anticipated the next entry.

1:  Jesus of Nazareth

c. 5 B.C.–c. A.D. 28

Google searches: 24.9 million+ per month

Number of books: incalculable

There’s really no need to explain just what the four Gospels say Jesus did to become famous, but in the interest of fairness, here are the claims: he was born to a virgin, died at about the age of 33 sometime around the year A.D. 33 (plus or minus 5), the most famous victim of crucifixion, and rose from the dead on his own power 3 days later, ascended into Heaven and now sits at the right hand of God the Father as a manifestation of that God’s only offspring. You can look up the various miracles attributed to him. There are just over 7 billion people on Earth as of this list, and just about one-third precisely, 33.32%, of them, worship Jesus as “the Christ of God.” We may fairly say that these 2.33 billion people know very well who he was/is, and specifics about his life.

It is also indisputable that those followers of Islam and Judaism both know perfectly well who he was. There are some 1.75 billion Muslims on Earth today, or 25% of the global population, and since Jesus is venerated as a very important prophet of their religion, to whom they say Muhammad spoke when he sprang to Heaven on a horse, Jesus is certainly not unknown to them. There are about 1.3 billion atheists the world over, and at least 98% of those people certainly know all about Jesus. It is highly possible that the only people on Earth who have no idea who he was, or anything about him, are those people who belong to the 100 or so primitive, uncontacted tribes remaining around the world, the most well known across the Internet of which are the Envira people of the Brazilian-Peruvian border area, deep in the Amazon Jungle. They have been photographed from helicopter. It is doubtful they know of Jesus, or Muhammad, or anyone else on this list, as they are 100% isolated from the rest of the world’s societies.

Google claims that 129,864,880 books have been written and bound throughout human history and which still survive in book form in some library in the world. That is not as high a number as you might have expected, but we are speaking of different volumes, so only one of the 25 million copies of the Bible printed every single year counts toward this total. Out of these c. 130 million books, it is estimated that 40% are about Jesus. This percentage includes books about Christianity in general, whether evangelical (or anti-evangelical) or historical. Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion focuses on God in general, but pays special attention to Christianity, as any atheist apology must, since Christianity is the most popular religion, and thus Dawkins’s book counts as 1 book about Jesus, as it counts as 1 book about Muhammad. So there are some 52 million different books circulating the world right now that are in some way concerned with Jesus, the man who may have lived, who may have walked on water, and risen from the dead. The Gospel of John, one of the 52 million books written about Jesus, ends with this passage: “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.”

Just missed the cut (many): Confucius, Napoleon Bonaparte, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Jack the Ripper, Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, and more.

Source: http://listverse.com/2013/03/22/top-10-most-famous-people/