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Silent Night
2008-11-14 00:21:00 “Silent Night is a traditional and popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song Stille Nacht were written in German by Fr. Josef Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz X. Gruber. The version of the melody that is generally sung today differs slightly (particularly in the final strain) from ... More About: Music , History , Holiday , Lyrics
School Bus Yellow
2008-11-13 21:08:00 “School bus yellow is a color which was especially formulated for use on United States school buses in 1939. The color is now officially known in the U.S. as National School Bus Glossy Yellow and was originally called National School Bus Chrome.” From Wikipedia More About: Safety , Color , General , Automotive
What Does WD-40 Stand For?
2008-11-13 18:38:00 “WD-40 literally stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt. That’s the name straight out of the lab book used by the chemist who developed WD-40 back in 1953. The chemist, Norm Larsen, was attempting to concoct a formula to prevent corrosion; a task which is done by displacing water. Norm’s persistence paid off when he perfected ... More About: General , Words , Name , Chemicals , Definition
Honey Spoilage
2008-11-13 16:09:00 “Liquid honey does not spoil. Because of its high sugar concentration, it kills bacteria by plasmolysis. Natural airborne yeasts cannot become active in it because the moisture content is too low. Natural, raw honey varies from 14% to 18% moisture content. As long as the moisture content remains under 18%, virtually no organism can successfully ... More About: Food , Honey
Why Are Barns Red?
2008-11-13 04:16:00 “Many barns in the northern United States are painted red. One possible reason for this is that ferric oxide, which is used to create red paint, was the cheapest and most readily available chemical for farmers in New England and nearby areas. Barns were painted red from a mixture of soured milk and rust, which ... More About: History , Color , Paint , Chemical
What is RSS?
2008-11-13 04:09:00 “RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things) news websites, weblogs and podcasting. The abbreviation is variously used to refer to the following standards: Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91) RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0) Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) Web feeds provide ... More About: News , Internet , Technology , Words
Quick History of McDonalds
2008-11-13 04:04:00 “The company began in 1940 with a restaurant opened by siblings Dick and Mac McDonald, but it was their introduction of the “Speedee Service System” in 1948 that established the principles of the fast-food restaurant. However, the company today dates its “founding” to the opening of CEO Ray Kroc’s first franchised restaurant, the company’s ninth, ... More About: Food , History , Fast Food , Restaurant , Donalds
The Cost of a Penny
2008-11-12 18:44:00 “During the early 1970s, the price of copper rose to a point where the penny almost contained more than one cent’s worth of copper. This led the Mint to test alternate metals, including aluminum and bronze-clad steel. Aluminum was chosen, and over 1.5 million of these were struck and ready for public release before ultimately ... More About: History , Money , Currency , Cost , Cent
Webaholism
2008-11-12 18:11:00 “Webaholism is a dependency on the world-wide web (internet) characterized by craving (a strong need to use the internet for web browsing and chatting), loss of control (being unable to stop staying away from the internet despite a desire to do so), loss of interest in everything else.” [wikipedia] More About: Internet , Health , Technology , Addiction
The Story of Robert Ripley
2008-11-12 09:00:00 Robert LeRoy Ripley (12/26/1893 ? 5/27/1949) was the founder of Ripley?s Believe it or Not newspaper cartoon which featured odd and unusual facts, oddities and talents. On December 19, 1918 he was working in New York with the New York Globe newspaper drawing cartoons when he drew his first Believe it or Not! Cartoon , It featured ... More About: Entertainment , Travel , History , Story
Anatomy of the Finger
2008-11-05 20:21:00 “In anatomy, the thumb is the first finger and the little finger is the fifth finger. Thus the third finger means the middle finger in anatomy, not the ring finger as in daily English.” [read more] More About: Body , Anatomy , Human , Middle , Finger
Running Defined
2008-11-05 20:16:00 “Running is by definition the fastest means for an animal to move on foot. It is defined in sporting terms as a gait in which at some point all feet are off the ground at the same time. It is a form of aerobic exercise.” [read more] More About: Sports , Travel , Words , Definition
Shower-Curtain Effect
2008-11-05 17:00:00 “In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inwards with a running shower, regardless of the temperature of the water. The problem of the cause of this effect has been featured in Scientific American magazine, with several theories given to explain the phenomenon but no definite conclusion. ... More About: Science , General , Model , Effect , Shower
Cattle Stomachs
2008-11-05 16:03:00 “Cattle have one stomach, with four compartments. They are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. The rumen is the largest compartment and the reticulum is the smallest compartment. Cattle sometimes consume metal objects which are deposited in the reticulum, and this is where hardware disease occurs. The reticulum is known as the “Honeycomb.” The omasum’’s ... More About: Animals , Stomach
Dixville Notch, NH
2008-11-04 15:38:00 “Dixville Notch , NH is the site of the first voting in the primary elections for the USA. The voters gather at the stroke of midnight to cast their ballots to the click and whir of news cameras from around the world.” [source] More About: Elections , General , New Hampshire , Vote
Hardware Disease
2008-11-03 23:49:00 “Hardware disease is a common term for bovine traumatic gastritis and traumatic reticulitis. It is usually caused by ingestion of tramp iron in fodder or silage. Sharp metallic objects pass through the rumen and settle in the reticulum, and can irritate or even perforate its lining.” [read more] More About: Health , Animals , Disease
The Bradley Effect
2008-11-03 23:46:00 “The Bradley effect, less commonly called the Wilder effect, is a theory proposed to explain observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some US government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other. The theory proposes that some voters tend to tell pollsters that they are undecided ... More About: History , Opinion , Words , Theory , Election
Kinboshi
2008-11-03 16:21:00 From wikipedia.org “Kinboshi, literally meaning gold star, is a term used in professional sumo wrestling to describe a maegashira victory over a yokozuna.” [read more] More About: Wrestling , Words , Definition , Sumo , Term
Supercentenarian
2008-11-03 16:18:00 From wikipedia.org “A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only one in a thousand centenarians (0.1%, based on European data). In turn, only about one supercentenarian in forty-four lives to turn 115 (2% of 110-year-olds can expect to survive five more years).” [read ... More About: Life , Human
Who?s The Oldest Living Person?
2008-11-03 04:49:00 From wikipedia.org “The longest documented lifespan is the 122 years 164 days of Jeanne Calment (1875 - 1997). Jeanne Calment recalled meeting Vincent Van Gogh at age 14 in her father’’s shop and of attending the 1885 funeral of Victor Hugo. Calment’s life was documented in the records of her native city of Arles, France, beyond ... More About: Life , Living , History , Human , Death
D-Day
2008-11-03 04:47:00 From wikipedia.org “In English military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. Whilst the initial D in D-day stands for the word day it often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will or has occurred.” [read more] More About: History , Word , Words , War , Meaning
The Worlds Longest Comic Strip
2008-11-02 23:10:00 From wikipedia.org “The world’s longest comic strip is 88.9 metres long and on display at Trafalgar Square as part of the London Comedy Festival. The record was previously 81 metres and held in Florida. The London Cartoon Strip was created by fifteen of Britain’s best known cartoonists and depicts the history of London.” [read more] More About: Comic , Entertainment , Worlds , Long
The Health Benefits of Blueberries
2008-11-02 23:08:00 “Blueberries are nature’s number one source of antioxidants among fresh fruits and vegetables. Anthocyanins, the pigments giving blueberries their deep blue hue, act as antioxidants, which may provide many health benefits. In addition, blueberries are a low-calorie food, only 40 calories per 1/2 cup. Blueberries also are low in fat, sodium-free and a source of ... More About: Health , Food , Vegetables , Fruit , Berries
What?s a Backronym?
2008-11-02 05:11:00 “A backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is constructed “after the fact” from a previously existing word or abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym. Backronyms may be invented with humorous intent, or may be a type of false or folk etymology.” [Wikipedia] More About: Words , Definition
Pupilometrics
2008-11-02 02:48:00 “Scientists have actually studied how the way we feel about the things we see affects the size of our pupils (welcome to the world of pupilometrics). You can gain some insight as to how someone feels about you (or someone or something else) by observing changes in their pupils, and you can also affect the ... More About: Marketing , Eyes , Advertising , Human , Pupil
Ripsaw Music
2008-11-01 22:28:00 From wikipedia.org “Ripsaw is a musical genre which originated in the Turk & Caicos Islands, specifically in the Middle and North Caicos. A very closely related variant, rake-and-scrape, is played in the Bahamas. Its most distinctive characteristic is the use of the common handsaw as the primary instrument, along with various kinds of drums, box ... More About: Music , Entertainment , Instruments , Genre
Is Your Brain Grey?
2008-11-01 20:52:00 From howstuffworks.com “Have you given any thought to the color of your brain? Maybe not, unless you work in the medical field. We have all colors of the rainbow in our bodies in the form of blood, tissue, bone and other fluids. But you may have seen preserved brains sitting in jars in a classroom or ... More About: Health , Body , Color , Human , Grey
Black Widow Spider Bites
2008-10-31 21:17:00 “Although the venom of a Black Widow spider is extremely dangerous, there are relatively few cases of fatal effects from a Black Widow bite. There where only sixty-three deaths reported in the United States between 1950 and 1959. Prior to the development of antivenin, 5% of reported bites resulted in fatalities.” wikipedia More About: Animals , Bugs , Venom , Death
Hair Color
2008-10-31 05:35:00 “Hair color is generally yellow/gold, red, brown, or black depending on the ethnic origins of the person in question. Hair color is genetically associated with certain skin tones, eye colors, and even disorders (such as skin cancer or albinism in persons with blond or red hair).” [wikipedia] More About: Health , Color , Cancer , Human
The First Automatic Calculator
More articles from this author:2008-10-28 01:39:00 “Wilhelm Schickard built the first automatic calculator called the “Calculating Clock” in 1623. Some 20 years later, in 1645, French philosopher Blaise Pascal invented the calculation device later known as Pascal’s calculator, which was used for taxes in France until 1799. The German philosopher G.W.v.Leibniz also produced a calculating machine.” [wikipedia] More About: Technology , History , Machine , Calculator , Automatic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
