“The Left-handers are few and Unique!

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By: Isagani Casimiro

Only 11 percent of the world population are left-handers. According to the medical
community, left-handedness is developed in the embryo when the child’s hand
──whether it’s the left or right ──is predominantly held close to mouth.
“Right” is used as adjective (correct, proper or orthodox), while left-handed gets the
flak of the antonyms of the right-handed.
“Left” was a symbol of power or custody to the Hebrews and other Semitic and
Mesopotamian languages.
In Western countries, “Right” connotes correct and proper.
In Chinese culture, “Left” sometimes means improper or out of accord.
In Korean “Right” means morally proper.
In the Incas of the Andes, left-handed person believed to possess spiritual abilities, as
well as magic and healing.
In the book “Right-hand, Left-hand”, Chris McManus says the proportion of left-
handers is on the rise.

These people made their marks in history were/are left-handed:

-Joan of Arc, Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Charlie Chaplin, George
Burns, Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, Isaac Hayes, Vicki Carr, Natalie Cole,
PaulMcCartney, Ringo Starr, Paul Williams, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison , Marilyn Monroe,
Robert de Niro, Goldie Hawn, Martina Navratilova, Whoopie Goldberg, Richard
Dreyfuss
These people are left-handed:
-Michelangelo, Rameses II, Tiberius, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Father-and-
son and Princes Charles and William of England, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Benjamin
Natanhayu of Israel
These people are left-handed in Western Country
-Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, George w. h. Bush, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, Ross
Perot, Bob Dole, John McCain