Posted on 03/19/2011 5:49:18 PM PDT by FreeKeys
These are just a few examples to get us started:
The Harlem Globetrotters was the brainchild of promoter-coach Abe Saperstein in the mid- to late-1920s. He thought the name gave them the right amount of appeal, mystique and prestige despite the fact, or perhaps, because of the fact, that he and his original players all came from, Chicago, not New York. And their headquarters was in Chicago too.
Teens who own dogs get more physical exercise than teens who don't.
If you have a bottle or jar top that won't unscrew, just run it under the hot water faucet for a few minutes. The heat will usually make the top expand faster than the jar or bottle, and you'll usually be able to unscrew it without using an adjustable pliers or other opener.
Teddy bears were first made by Morris Michtom, who was inspired by a 1902 cartoon depicting President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt refusing to shoot a tired old bear that had been trapped and tied up for him because it would have been un-sportsmanlike. It was based on an actual hunting trip incident.
Coffee helps you wake up and keep you up because of how the caffeine in it affects your blood sugar level. But if you don't have a little fruit juice first, you may not have enough blood sugar in the first place, and it isn't anywhere near as effective as if you did.
John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman, did not, as many people believe, plant apple trees by tossing seeds hither and yon. He was a philanthropic missionary and businessman who actually started nurseries where sapling apple trees were nurtured until they could be sold to people who wanted to grow their own.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, 2nd and 3rd Presidents respectively, (also 1st and 2nd Vice Presidents respectively) both died on July 4, 1826 -- exactly 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Although they belonged to opposing parties, they remained fast friends who corresponded regularly until their simultaneous deaths.
23% of the Federal Budget now goes toward interest on the national debt. As the debt continues to explode, so does the percentage that goes toward interest. And Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security now make up almost half the Federal Budget. And the new health care bureaucracies, not yet in place, are estimated to cost a trillion dollars a year more.
Get a smaller camel? :-)
The elephant is the only land mammal that cannot jump at all.
The tongue of the blue whale outweighs the largest elephant
The male organ of the whale is called a “ dork”
The tiger is the only variety of feline that willingly swims
And .4 stands for one-third in base 12 -- and .3 stands for one-quarter and .9 stands for three-quarters in base 12.
It says Moops! :)
Both John and Robert were great friends and supporters of Joe McCarthy. The revised historical agenda doesn’t allow for that knowledge to be dispersed.
Point Pelee, Canada is further south than Milan, Italy.
Lafayette's wife and two children were released from the Bastille because James Monroe's wife, Elizabeth, took a carriage through the violence of the French Revolution and demanded it.
Charles Dickens came to the floor of the House to visit his friend...John Quincy Adams.
The first U.S. President to leave the U.S. while President...Woodrow Wilson.
The first President born in a hospital...J. Carter
The first President born in the U.S.A....Martin Van Buren
The only U.S. President to preside over the country with no deficit or national debt. (A. Jackson)
No two vertical lines are parallel. (This one always starts a fight)
I hope I explained that well. Sometimes I know it in my heart but, explaining it is a bit tricky :)
Reno is farther west than L.A.
I’m not with you on EITHER term — Malaria, a bacterial infection usually transmitted by mosquitoes, has been afflicting Humans AND various other species, since prehistoric times; Smallpox, a viral infection transmitted by contact and affecting only Humans, is occasionally declared ‘eradicated’ ( ignoring samples in Chem/Bio warfare lab vaults.
Jenner’s ‘cure’ for Smallpox was to preemptively afflict folks with Cowpox, a milder form of the same family of virii. I wouldn’t rate that as a ‘cure’ so much as a palliative measure.
WRT to Malaria, I don’t believe there are ANY claims of ‘cures’. Various measures affect transmission or the population of carrier mosquitoes and certain drugs can affect some symptomatic relief for the afflicted person. Over time, however, the afflicted person’s system ( including the now-resident bacterium ) tends to develop a tolerance for any drug that reduces its effectiveness and often permits full recurrence of the disease. Again, I don’t rate such outcomes within the scope of a ‘cure’.
N.B. DDT is an insecticide that affects the proliferation of the mosquitoes — IF it were permitted to be used. That might affect transmission but is entirely separate and distinct from the treatment of the disease itself.
I read recently that some UN health component claims 700 - 800 hundred thousand ‘new’ Malarial infections per year with no strong deviation in decades. I thought at the time this was seriously ‘low-balled’ ...
Since most of these cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and throughout the tropics, the ready availability of ANY measures to affect transmission or treat afflicted persons MUST be entirely suspect or even non-existent. How many subsequently die, each year ?
Allan Pinkerton founded the first detective agency in the U.S. He died in 1884, supposedly of gangrene - after biting his tongue!
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I had no idea Diogenese was Italian.
Malaria is caused by a protozoan of the Genus Falciparum not by a bacterium.
In Rosemary’s Baby, the voice of Donald Baumgart on the phone was Tony Curtis.
Another trivia from Rosemary’s Baby was Mia Farrow sang the haunting theme.
Another trivia from Rosemary’s Baby is that while Rosemary is in the basement’s laundry room on her first visit there, she meets one of the other tenants - Terry Gionoffrio, who is actually Victoria Vetri, who is credited in the film as Angela Dorian - her moniker as a Playboy Playmate model in September 1967 and as Playboy’s 1968 Playmate of the Year.
Momentarily, Rosemary thinks that Terry resembles a famous nude model/actress, “I’m sorry. I thought you were Victoria Vetri, the actress.”
JFK and the Kennedy family were friends with Nixon, too. I think it was JFK who even said something like “I’d vote for Dick if I weren’t tunning myself”
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