Famous People
- Maude Menten, pioneering chemist. Broke ground as a woman and with her famous contribution to scientific thought, the Michaelis-Menten equation. She was born in Port Lambton on March 20, 1879. She is honoured with a historical plaque at Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario. http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=780bccaa-4408-4009-970c-0cb2a24b9d66&gid=3
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“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
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—David Cronenberg (b. 1943)