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Kids will have to relearn ‘Eat an apple as a nighttime snack’.

(Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, North America, South America) New Zealand is actually part of a much bigger, sunken landmass. Dubbed Zealandia, it was only discovered after humans had traveled to space as they were able to easily see it from above the Earth. Some scientists believe it should be formally recognized as the world’sContinue reading “Kids will have to relearn ‘Eat an apple as a nighttime snack’.”

You figure out the connection

September 26, 1580 –Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, England, on this date, ending a three-and-a-half year journey around the world. Drake was knighted and awarded a prize of 10 thousand pounds (which he probably invested in his delicious snack cake company.) It was nearly four more centuries, however, before The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS-TVContinue reading “You figure out the connection”

Give ten cheers

On this day in 1789, Congress proposed twelve amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Habeas Corpus Luteum and Freedom from Unreasonably Surging Seashores were ultimately rejected but the other ten passed and have come to be known as the “Bill of Rights.” In honor of this important anniversary, I have chosen to celebrateContinue reading “Give ten cheers”

There are no second acts in American lives

September 24, 1896 –… Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. On this date in 1896, a young Minnesota woman gave birth to a depressive, witty young alcoholic named Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.Continue reading “There are no second acts in American lives”

Hooray for the Percontation Point

Today is National Punctuation Day (!,?.) It’s a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the every mysterious ellipsis. (The Interrobang is a combination of both the exclamation point and a question mark, used thusly: “What are you doing[insert interrobang. Unfortunately, the interrobang isn’t standardContinue reading “Hooray for the Percontation Point”

There’s a dirty joke in here but I’m just not going to say it.

The Eiffel Tower “grows” in the summer. The Eiffel Tower gets taller by up to 6 inches during the summer, when the temperature reaches as high as 40°C. Extreme heat causes the metal at the base to expand, increasing the height of the Eiffel Tower. It also causes the top of the tower to tiltContinue reading “There’s a dirty joke in here but I’m just not going to say it.”

It hard to be a saint in Csanád

September 24, 1046 –You might know that today is the feast day of St. Gerard Sagredo of Hungary and he was not having a great day today. During mass, hordes of heathens, stormed his church, poked him with pointed sticks, bundled him up and wheeled him to the top of Gellert Hill, in Hungary (butContinue reading “It hard to be a saint in Csanád”