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	List of fictional left-handed characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Teen Detectives Nancy Drew, and Joe Hardy (of the Hardy Boys) are shown by some illustrators with their watch on their right wrist, which is more common among left-handed people.
		Barry Pepper the sniper in Saving Private Ryan is left handed, as can be seen in the closeup scenes of him shooting with his Springfield rifle on his left shoulder, and occasionally having difficulty operating the right handed bolt action.
		After crippling his left hand in an accident, he must contend with well-meaning strangers who (not knowing he was left-handed) tell him he's lucky the injury was to his left hand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_left-handed_characters (1623 words)

	List of famous left-handed people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Helen Keller - disputed, she has been included on lefthanded people list on website such as this one, but evident (such as biographic or photographic source) is yet to be found.
		People who are forced to use their left-hand because their right hand is not available for use (for example, due to injury or disease) should not be included on this list.
		Douglas Croft - Played left-handed athlete Lou Gehrig as a boy in the film The Pride of the Yankees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_left-handed_people (2105 words)

	Left-handed: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		People who are left-handed are more dextrous with their left hand than with their right hand: they will probably also use their left hand for tasks such as personal care, EHandler: no quick summary.
		A person who is right-handed is more dextrous with their right hand than with their left hand: they will write with their right hand, and probably also use this...
		Ambidexterity is the ability of being equally adept with each hand (or, to a limited degree, feet)....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/left-handed.htm (2359 words)

	List of famous left handed people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_famous_left_handed_people (173 words)

	alt.lefthanders Frequently Asked Questions
		The intent of this document is to provide a source of information for the left- handed population and to serve as a consciousness raising tool about issues of special concern for lefties for the population in general.
		Also, because of the side wall being on the left side of the court, it would be dangerous and almost impossible for players to throw with their left hand.
		The Chinese word for "left," when traced back to ancient pictograms, is a drawing of a hand with a drawing that means "work." The idea apparently was that the left hand did work by helping the right hand.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/lefty-faq (7634 words)

	The Left-Handed Writers Page
		Left-handed people run against the grain of our physical world.
		While just over ten percent of Americans are left handed, they represent a disproportionate number of fountain pen users (at least from the perspective of The Nib Works.) This may at first glance seem strange, given the difficulty that they have using fountain pens.
		One lefty told me that she chose to write with her left hand when she was confronted with the prospect of being in a class of first graders who were all writing alike.
	www.lefthander.com /writer.htm (1520 words)

	Left Handed People's Journal
		Being left handed has never caused me major problems, in fact when I was little I used to think that it was great being able to lend my left handed scissors to my right handed friends and watch them try and figure out why they couldn't get them to work.
		I handed a note to my wife with actual pride because my cursive was so neat and left handed.
		I write left, throw right, bat right, cut with scissors right, knife left, tennis serve is right but tennis swing is left, bowl right, eat mostly left, golf right but putt both, etc...
	community.livejournal.com /lefties (1936 words)

	Open Directory - Society: People: Lefthanders
		Left Hand Education - Information about campaign in the UK to ensure that teachers are trained on specific guidelines on helping left-handed children.
		The Left Hand Path - Speculations on how left-handedness came to be associated with satanism in western mythology.
		Left Is Right - Promotes a book described as a survival guide for living lefty in a right-handed world.
	dmoz.org /Society/People/Lefthanders (940 words)

	Being Left-Handed: A Left-Handed Home Page
		In the Left Handed DNA Hall of Fame, Tom Schneider has collected a humorous list of well-known scientific journals and publications that have gotten DNA backwards.
		What's Left (by Lori Pringle), includes a top-ten left-handed pet-peeves list, as well as her useful list of books about handedness and list of stores that sell things for lefties.
		Left Handed Studies is a very un-PC parody of the way colleges describe their multicultural offerings in course catalogs.
	www.emf.net /~estephen/facts/lefthand.html (2859 words)

	Lefties are all right
		Left-handed people also find themselves at a disadvantage in the game of polo, which forbids players from using their left hands.
		In Latin, the term for left is the word "sinister," an indication of society's deep stigma for the left-handed community.
		Southpaws tend to be slightly more expressive with the left side of their face; winking is easier and their smile tends to curve up slightly more.
	www.siue.edu /ALESTLE/library/SPRING2001/jan8/lefties.html (656 words)

	Left-handedness
		Historically, people whose dominant hand is the left one rather than the right one have faced all sorts of discrimination and fear.
		You can challenge people to armwrestle and sometimes catch them by surprise if they don't know about your handedness.
		In some cultures, whenever it was suspected that a child was showing too much favor to his or her left hand, the loving parent was expected to bind the child's hand tightly so it could not be used, and the child would be forced to develop manual dexterity in the right hand.
	vitriolaholic.blogster.com /left-handedness.html (684 words)

	Famous Left-Handers
		For this page, «famous» means that someone steeped in American culture will recognize most of these names, and «left-handed» is a loose common classification meaning to write with and/or use the left hand for manual tasks.
		A few of the people listed here might be better described as «ambidexterous».
		The terms «famous» and «left-hander» are both subjective judgments.
	www.indiana.edu /~primate/left.html (374 words)

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		(having equal use of both hands) I write left-handed, but I throw a football and shoot a basketball right-handed.
		The ratio of left to right-handers is 1 to 10.
		Today's older generations were forced to change hands at a young age if they were caught using their left, leaving very few left-handed children.
	www.tncc.cc.va.us /nelsonite/featur02.htm (1314 words)

	Guardian Unlimited The Guardian One hundred famous left-handed people
		This list is excerpted from a much longer directory at Lefthandersday.com.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1018015,00.html (67 words)

	ergoblogger.com
		Graphic artists and aspiring people who want to produce animations and other forms of drawings, really have a hard time doing this in the computer, since the freedom to move and coordinating their hands with their eyes is not as easy as the manual means.
		People may have poured in extra effort, but the effort does not seem to be worth it since the probability of doing such endeavor again looks like a remote possibility.
		People get so addicted to a certain game that they force the issue in terms of position and posture.
	www.ergoblogger.com /blog (1415 words)

	NG BBS - Left handed people
		Posted: 9/12/05 02:07 PM 10% of the whole population is left handed so it's no surprise that there isn't too much stuff used especially for left-handers.
		I am left handed, and some things are a little frustrating; like desks in the classroom...
		also drawing in flash using a mouse, is a bitch being left handed.
	www.newgrounds.com /bbs/topic.php?id=343624 (550 words)

	Don't Feel Left Out - Left Handed Thoughts
		James A. Garfield was the first left handed president of the USA.
		A left handed comedian started out his comedy career by literally dying for attension.
		"The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body, and the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body.
	pw1.netcom.com /~nikonman/lefties.html (537 words)

	Bloggers
		But seriously, here’s some important people who are now using Blogs and some more people who finally understand the importance of Blogs.
		I know lots of people, used to be Silicon Valley Geek Schmooze King, now I am playing the same game in Seattle.
		People who don’t read me, obviously aren’t quality material.
	radio.weblogs.com /0001011/blogparody.htm (4346 words)

	PCWorld.com - Microsoft Mouse Frees Lefties
		Microsoft offered a list of famous left-handers who may find the new IntelliMouse Optical useful.
		Many companies claim that their mouse designs are equally useful by both southpaws and northpaws, but most left-handed people beg to differ.
		The list includes President Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, rock singer Sting, Kermit the Frog, and Bart Simpson.
	www.pcworld.com /resource/article/0,aid,14719,00.asp (365 words)

	LEFTY'S HOME-YOUR LEFTHANDED GUIDE
		With sports, Cricket is a sport that I hadn't thought of and people have given me a whole section for left-handed Cricketers.
		I have created a list of lefthanders that are known in specific areas of the lefty world.
		Sports figures are praised for their use of the lefthand and their handedness is sought after.
	www.fortunecity.com /bennyhills/holygrail/176/lefthome.htm (406 words)

	Famous lefthanders list from Anything Left Handed
		This is our list of famous left-handers - with over 1,000 people we think it is the most comprehensive on the Web.
		If you spot any errors in our list, can provide any further information or have any famous left-handers we should add to our list, please let us know.
		The list is based on our research and reports from Club members, but we know we are not perfect.
	www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk /famous.html (174 words)

	Brain information
		A The closest I have been able to find is a list of famous left-handed people.
		However, 30% of right-handed people are right-brained, and 10% of left-handed people are left-brained.
		A Probably, because the two sides of the brains are said to have slightly different specialisations (although these specialisations are not always the same in all people).
	archive.8m.net /brain.htm (330 words)

	Famous Germans Austrians Swiss - The German Way
		Led the way to a new art perspective of the world with his realistic drawings of animals (a hare being one of the most famous), Ritter, Tod und Teufel, in which death is portrayed as a skeleton, and other subjects.
		Before Hertz gained professorships in Karlsruhe and Bonn, he had studied under the famous scientist Hermann von Helmholtz in Bonn, and it was Helmholtz who encouraged Hertz to attempt to win the science prize that led to some of Hertz's most important discoveries.
		Became famous as the chief designer and architect for Germany's AEG electrical concern between 1909 and 1912.
	www.german-way.com /famous.html (3035 words)

	Famous Left Hander of the month at ANYTHING LEFT HANDED
		Phil has played the jungle game very well and he's come across as a goody two-shoes, but people haven't seen the other side of his character.
		Tufnell's popular TV appeal has not necessarily been reflected by his poll rating in the Middlesex dressing-room, where the team-mates he left behind by announcing his retirement from first-class cricket last month have all been casting their votes.
		Phil Tufnell had to eat a selection of insects for his trial, Linda Barker had to transfer five eels from one tank to another and John Fashanu had to walk across a log while grabbing hanging stars.
	www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk /top_lefty.html (2487 words)

	gauche! Lefty Tips: music, sports, medical, daily life
		As a result of the nurse not asking, I couldn't use my left hand to write for a week and a half after that, and it hurt constantly because I would forget and try to use it for simple tasks.
		Ted Williams batted left, never hit to the off field -- not even once, batted.344 lifetime and hit 521 home runs.
		The clarinet is a wonderful instrument for the left hand because the first notes that you learn on it is with the left hand.
	www.indiana.edu /~primate/lspeak4.html (8520 words)

	Left-handed ballet question - Golden Skate Forums
		There are still people out there who think being left handed is a "handicap." In fact, most artistic people are left handed.
		I merely pointed out that "the left" is the norm in skating, so why would there be any thought of a problem in the first place.
		At this stage of the game ballet is all for fun, my questions is how much of a problem is it for lefty's as they get more advanced?
	www.goldenskate.com /forum/showthread.php?t=1414 (716 words)

	famous.htm
		Reba was born in McAlester Oklahoma, and raised in Chockie, a town of 18 people.
		Fred Beaver, best known for his images of the Seminole people, named "Outstanding Oklahoman of the Year" in 1976.
		If you would like to list a craft show or event go to http://www.shopoklahoma.com/craftlist.php.
	www.shopoklahoma.com /famous.htm (3859 words)

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	On the left hand....
		Yeah you left hand people are in the minority us right handed folk are trying to breed you out of existence so the gene pool is not corrupt.
		what baffles people when they watch me write is that I'm left handed and I don't curl my hand at all.
		On a serious note it is claimed that left handed people are more artistic - which obviously means I am right handed although I do use my left a lot more than most right handed folk would
	www.magickalkingdom.com /topic_9614.htm (860 words)

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