Here's a website about "The Yellow Kid"
http://www.neponset.com/yellowkid/
That's right, Equus! You got it. I just always thought it was a strange title.
Idaho is the only U.S. state never to have been explored by a European colonial power.
"Idaho" was among the suggestions for a state name for what eventually became Colorado.
The word "Idaho" is not a word from any native American language. Its origin is lost in obscurity.
Murmansk, Russia is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle.
Iceland is completely south of the Arctic Circle.
Doris Day and Marlon Brando were both born on April 3, 1924.
William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes both died on April 23, 1616. It was Shakespeare's 52nd birthday.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the 2nd and 3rd Presidents of the United States, both died on July 4, 1826, on the 50th anniversary of the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
The city most of us know as "Bangkok", Thailand, is locally known as Krung Thep, which means City of Angels. Its official name is actually Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit, or The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (of Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn.
With the confirmation of Samuel Alito, the U.S. Supreme Court now has a "catholic majority". Five of the nine current justices are Roman Catholic (Alito, Roberts, Kennedy, Scalia, and Thomas).
Equus wrote:
The word "Idaho" is not a word from any native American language. Its origin is lost in obscurity.
I read somewhere that it supposedly is the verbatim pidgen English quote from the first "madam" who came to the Northwest Territory when asked what she did for a living.
Indie movie triva here:
Trivia Game
The best I have gotten so far is 8...
Give it a shot.
SpauldingSmails wrote:Indie movie triva here:
Trivia Game
The best I have gotten so far is 8...
Give it a shot.
Thanks. Great fun. Got an 8, too.
There are about 1500 active above-ground volcanoes and more than 10,000 below sea ones... about 60 erupt every year, but are not calamitous.
I saw an amazing documentary about Krakatoa the other night. Mind blowing.
They sure are. 67.3% of all volcano-related deaths occur in Indonesia, where there are more volcanoes than in any other country.
Has anyone else read about this?
The twins, one black twin and one white twin, were borne by a woman who has a white mother and black father, as does her partner.
Here's a link:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/mixedtwins.asp
That's really something - and what a gorgeous pair of kids they are!
Reminds me of a newspaper story some years ago about a white woman who gave birth to a black baby. She swore she had never been with another man than her (white) husband. He did not believe her and divorced her. An investigation was made and it turned out that the husband had visited a prostitute one day, and then went home and had sex with his wife, impregnating her. The pro's previous client had been a black guy, and a certain amount of his sperm had survived the two trips and managed to do the job.
I guess an apology to the wife would have been in order.
Wow, that's interesting... I didn't know sperm could survive that long unless frozen in the interim. And yeah, an apology would have been nice, but I'm sure the divorce suited her just fine, too, in the end.
Quote: "There are about 1500 active above-ground volcanoes and more than 10,000 below sea ones... about 60 erupt every year, but are not calamitous."
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I just returned from Central America from a visit to Guatemala and Costa Rica where we saw some of those "active" volcanoes. As a matter of fact, while staying at Antigua, Guatemala, we saw the red glow at nite on Volcano Agua, and we stayed at a hotel close to Volcano Arenal in Costa Rica where the smoke from the volcano was constant.
Last November, I was on a cruise of the Med where we had a chance to visit Pompeii and Heraculenium where Mt Vesuvius blew in AD 79 and pareserved those towns/villages as no other preserved human villages on this planet. There are human forms frozen in time as the ash drowned all. At Heraculenium, they have kitchen stoves with granite table tops still in excellent condition; they lived well.
Speaking about the survival of sperm, nobody knows how long sperm will survive in a dead woman. I was involved as a jury member in a rape-murder trial, and the criminalists told us they still don't know how long sperm will live in a dead body, because they can't get any volunteers to test this. BTW, the defense used this in their arguement, because the man charged had a unusually high sperm count, but none was found in the dead body. ;(
