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Monday, September 19, 2011
trivia directory
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sports trivia
» Until 1937, the refereee in basketball had to throw a jump ball after every basket.
» Until recently, a hockey goaltender never wore a mask. By 1959, Jacques Plante, an NHL All-Star goalie, had accumulated a hairline fracture and 200 stitches. Flying pucks had broken his jaw, both cheekbones, and his nose. Fibreglass Canada worked with Plante to develop the first-ever hockey goalie mask. While he was wearing the mask, his team, the Montreal Canadiens, won the Stanley cup for the third time.
» Up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch may be absorbed by a pole vaulter on the joints of his tubular thigh bones when he lands.
» Using a graphite tennis racket reportedly helps prevent the onset of "tennis elbow."
» Hockey word play: The letters in the name Jaromir (as in Jaromir Jagr of the Pittsburgh Penguins), when rearranged, spells Mario, Jr. (as in Mario Lemieux).
» P.O.T.U.S Sports: U.S. President George Washington's favorite sport was fox hunting; Abraham Lincoln's was wrestling; Franklin D. Roosevelt's was swimming; John F. Kennedy's athletic passion was sailing; Richard M. Nixon's was football; and Ronald Reagan's favorite sport was horseback riding.
» A "tirailleur" is a sharpshooter.
» A 27-inch-high silver America's Cup holds no liquid – it is bottomless.
» A cowboy in a rodeo bull riding competition must hang on for eight seconds. The same applies to bareback-bronc and saddle-bronc events.
» A croquet ball weighs 1 pound.
» A female softball pitcher can throw the ball 70 miles per hour.
» A pro volleyball player can spike the ball at 80 miles per hour.
» A scrum is rugby's equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all those playing the position of forward on both teams.
» A sport practiced in ancient China consisted of placing two angry male quails in a large glass bowl and watching as the creatures clawed each other to death.
» A top fuel dragster can accelerate from 0 to 100 miles an hour in 0.8 of a second and from 0 to 330 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds, using 10 gallons of nitro-methane.
» A total of 602 athletes from the United States competed at the Olympics in Sydney, Australia in 2000.
» Until recently, a hockey goaltender never wore a mask. By 1959, Jacques Plante, an NHL All-Star goalie, had accumulated a hairline fracture and 200 stitches. Flying pucks had broken his jaw, both cheekbones, and his nose. Fibreglass Canada worked with Plante to develop the first-ever hockey goalie mask. While he was wearing the mask, his team, the Montreal Canadiens, won the Stanley cup for the third time.
» Up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch may be absorbed by a pole vaulter on the joints of his tubular thigh bones when he lands.
» Using a graphite tennis racket reportedly helps prevent the onset of "tennis elbow."
» Hockey word play: The letters in the name Jaromir (as in Jaromir Jagr of the Pittsburgh Penguins), when rearranged, spells Mario, Jr. (as in Mario Lemieux).
» P.O.T.U.S Sports: U.S. President George Washington's favorite sport was fox hunting; Abraham Lincoln's was wrestling; Franklin D. Roosevelt's was swimming; John F. Kennedy's athletic passion was sailing; Richard M. Nixon's was football; and Ronald Reagan's favorite sport was horseback riding.
» A "tirailleur" is a sharpshooter.
» A 27-inch-high silver America's Cup holds no liquid – it is bottomless.
» A cowboy in a rodeo bull riding competition must hang on for eight seconds. The same applies to bareback-bronc and saddle-bronc events.
» A croquet ball weighs 1 pound.
» A female softball pitcher can throw the ball 70 miles per hour.
» A pro volleyball player can spike the ball at 80 miles per hour.
» A scrum is rugby's equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all those playing the position of forward on both teams.
» A sport practiced in ancient China consisted of placing two angry male quails in a large glass bowl and watching as the creatures clawed each other to death.
» A top fuel dragster can accelerate from 0 to 100 miles an hour in 0.8 of a second and from 0 to 330 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds, using 10 gallons of nitro-methane.
» A total of 602 athletes from the United States competed at the Olympics in Sydney, Australia in 2000.
law & custom trivia
» The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the prosecution must throw its files wide open to the defense if the accused is suffering from amnesia.
» Jaguar images and costumes were outlawed by the Catholic church in the seventeenth century because of their association with Indian religion, militia, and politics.
» The minimum age for marriage of Italian girls was raised by law to 12 years in 1892.
» Japanese bowing carries different meanings at different angles.
- A bow at an angle of five degrees means "Good day" (simple greeting).
- A bow at an angle of fifteen degrees is also a common salutation, a bit more formal it means "Good morning."
- A bow at an angle of thirty degrees is a respectful bow to indicate appreciation for a kind gesture.
- A bow at a forty-five-degree angle is used to convey deep respect or an apology.
» The New York Board of Education barred the whipping of children in its schools on March 4, 1908.
» Japanese rules for the proper use of chopsticks are many. Improper use includes wandering the chopsticks over several foods without decision, and is called mayoibashi. The unforgivable act of licking the ends of chopsticks is called neburibashi. Lack of chopstick etiquette is strictly taboo.
» King James VI and the Privy Council issued an edict in 1603 banning the use of the surname MacGregor.
» The penalty for conviction of smuggling in Bangladesh is the death penalty.
» The people of Hamamatsu, Japan, take part in a kite-fighting custom dating from the 1500s. It is believed that a kite was flown to honor the birth of an ancient prince. Another legend suggests the sport began when a ruler told his people to fight with kites instead of with one another. The annual custom honors the first-born sons of each family, and some of the enormous kites bear the names of the boys. Today, the kite-fighting festival draws nearly two million people to Hamamatsu.
» The Royal Flag of Scotland, the Lion Rampant flag, should now legally only be used by the monarch in relation to her capacity as Queen in Scotland. However, it is widely used as a second national flag. However, it is not allowable to fly the flag without permission, on a flagpole or from a building. The Lord Lyon once threatened the town councilors of Cumbernauld with an Act passed in 1679 which demanded the death penalty for misuse of the royal flag.
» The sale of chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."
» The Soviet Union banned Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes because of the book's references to occultism and spiritualism.
» The State of Nevada first legalized gambling in 1931. At that same time, the Hoover Dam was being built and the federal government did not want its workers (who earned 50 cents an hour) to be involved with such diversions, so they built the town of Boulder City to house the dam workers. To this day, Boulder City is the only city in Nevada where gambling is illegal. Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at its base. Enough rock was excavated in its construction to build the Great Wall of China. Contrary to old wives' tales, no workers were buried in the dam's concrete.
» The state of New York instituted the nation's first mandatory seat-belt law on July 12, 1984.
» The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change.
» The U.S. Congress passed a law in 1832 requiring all American citizens to spend one day each year fasting and praying. For the most part, people ignored the law, and no effort was made to enforce the legislation.
» Jaguar images and costumes were outlawed by the Catholic church in the seventeenth century because of their association with Indian religion, militia, and politics.
» The minimum age for marriage of Italian girls was raised by law to 12 years in 1892.
» Japanese bowing carries different meanings at different angles.
- A bow at an angle of five degrees means "Good day" (simple greeting).
- A bow at an angle of fifteen degrees is also a common salutation, a bit more formal it means "Good morning."
- A bow at an angle of thirty degrees is a respectful bow to indicate appreciation for a kind gesture.
- A bow at a forty-five-degree angle is used to convey deep respect or an apology.
» The New York Board of Education barred the whipping of children in its schools on March 4, 1908.
» Japanese rules for the proper use of chopsticks are many. Improper use includes wandering the chopsticks over several foods without decision, and is called mayoibashi. The unforgivable act of licking the ends of chopsticks is called neburibashi. Lack of chopstick etiquette is strictly taboo.
» King James VI and the Privy Council issued an edict in 1603 banning the use of the surname MacGregor.
» The penalty for conviction of smuggling in Bangladesh is the death penalty.
» The people of Hamamatsu, Japan, take part in a kite-fighting custom dating from the 1500s. It is believed that a kite was flown to honor the birth of an ancient prince. Another legend suggests the sport began when a ruler told his people to fight with kites instead of with one another. The annual custom honors the first-born sons of each family, and some of the enormous kites bear the names of the boys. Today, the kite-fighting festival draws nearly two million people to Hamamatsu.
» The Royal Flag of Scotland, the Lion Rampant flag, should now legally only be used by the monarch in relation to her capacity as Queen in Scotland. However, it is widely used as a second national flag. However, it is not allowable to fly the flag without permission, on a flagpole or from a building. The Lord Lyon once threatened the town councilors of Cumbernauld with an Act passed in 1679 which demanded the death penalty for misuse of the royal flag.
» The sale of chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."
» The Soviet Union banned Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes because of the book's references to occultism and spiritualism.
» The State of Nevada first legalized gambling in 1931. At that same time, the Hoover Dam was being built and the federal government did not want its workers (who earned 50 cents an hour) to be involved with such diversions, so they built the town of Boulder City to house the dam workers. To this day, Boulder City is the only city in Nevada where gambling is illegal. Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at its base. Enough rock was excavated in its construction to build the Great Wall of China. Contrary to old wives' tales, no workers were buried in the dam's concrete.
» The state of New York instituted the nation's first mandatory seat-belt law on July 12, 1984.
» The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change.
» The U.S. Congress passed a law in 1832 requiring all American citizens to spend one day each year fasting and praying. For the most part, people ignored the law, and no effort was made to enforce the legislation.
» The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the prosecution must throw its files wide open to the defense if the accused is suffering from amnesia.
» Jaguar images and costumes were outlawed by the Catholic church in the seventeenth century because of their association with Indian religion, militia, and politics.
» The minimum age for marriage of Italian girls was raised by law to 12 years in 1892.
» Japanese bowing carries different meanings at different angles.
- A bow at an angle of five degrees means "Good day" (simple greeting).
- A bow at an angle of fifteen degrees is also a common salutation, a bit more formal it means "Good morning."
- A bow at an angle of thirty degrees is a respectful bow to indicate appreciation for a kind gesture.
- A bow at a forty-five-degree angle is used to convey deep respect or an apology.
» The New York Board of Education barred the whipping of children in its schools on March 4, 1908.
» Japanese rules for the proper use of chopsticks are many. Improper use includes wandering the chopsticks over several foods without decision, and is called mayoibashi. The unforgivable act of licking the ends of chopsticks is called neburibashi. Lack of chopstick etiquette is strictly taboo.
» King James VI and the Privy Council issued an edict in 1603 banning the use of the surname MacGregor.
» The penalty for conviction of smuggling in Bangladesh is the death penalty.
» The people of Hamamatsu, Japan, take part in a kite-fighting custom dating from the 1500s. It is believed that a kite was flown to honor the birth of an ancient prince. Another legend suggests the sport began when a ruler told his people to fight with kites instead of with one another. The annual custom honors the first-born sons of each family, and some of the enormous kites bear the names of the boys. Today, the kite-fighting festival draws nearly two million people to Hamamatsu.
» The Royal Flag of Scotland, the Lion Rampant flag, should now legally only be used by the monarch in relation to her capacity as Queen in Scotland. However, it is widely used as a second national flag. However, it is not allowable to fly the flag without permission, on a flagpole or from a building. The Lord Lyon once threatened the town councilors of Cumbernauld with an Act passed in 1679 which demanded the death penalty for misuse of the royal flag.
» The sale of chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."
» The Soviet Union banned Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes because of the book's references to occultism and spiritualism.
» The State of Nevada first legalized gambling in 1931. At that same time, the Hoover Dam was being built and the federal government did not want its workers (who earned 50 cents an hour) to be involved with such diversions, so they built the town of Boulder City to house the dam workers. To this day, Boulder City is the only city in Nevada where gambling is illegal. Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at its base. Enough rock was excavated in its construction to build the Great Wall of China. Contrary to old wives' tales, no workers were buried in the dam's concrete.
» The state of New York instituted the nation's first mandatory seat-belt law on July 12, 1984.
» The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change.
» The U.S. Congress passed a law in 1832 requiring all American citizens to spend one day each year fasting and praying. For the most part, people ignored the law, and no effort was made to enforce the legislation.
» Jaguar images and costumes were outlawed by the Catholic church in the seventeenth century because of their association with Indian religion, militia, and politics.
» The minimum age for marriage of Italian girls was raised by law to 12 years in 1892.
» Japanese bowing carries different meanings at different angles.
- A bow at an angle of five degrees means "Good day" (simple greeting).
- A bow at an angle of fifteen degrees is also a common salutation, a bit more formal it means "Good morning."
- A bow at an angle of thirty degrees is a respectful bow to indicate appreciation for a kind gesture.
- A bow at a forty-five-degree angle is used to convey deep respect or an apology.
» The New York Board of Education barred the whipping of children in its schools on March 4, 1908.
» Japanese rules for the proper use of chopsticks are many. Improper use includes wandering the chopsticks over several foods without decision, and is called mayoibashi. The unforgivable act of licking the ends of chopsticks is called neburibashi. Lack of chopstick etiquette is strictly taboo.
» King James VI and the Privy Council issued an edict in 1603 banning the use of the surname MacGregor.
» The penalty for conviction of smuggling in Bangladesh is the death penalty.
» The people of Hamamatsu, Japan, take part in a kite-fighting custom dating from the 1500s. It is believed that a kite was flown to honor the birth of an ancient prince. Another legend suggests the sport began when a ruler told his people to fight with kites instead of with one another. The annual custom honors the first-born sons of each family, and some of the enormous kites bear the names of the boys. Today, the kite-fighting festival draws nearly two million people to Hamamatsu.
» The Royal Flag of Scotland, the Lion Rampant flag, should now legally only be used by the monarch in relation to her capacity as Queen in Scotland. However, it is widely used as a second national flag. However, it is not allowable to fly the flag without permission, on a flagpole or from a building. The Lord Lyon once threatened the town councilors of Cumbernauld with an Act passed in 1679 which demanded the death penalty for misuse of the royal flag.
» The sale of chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."
» The Soviet Union banned Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes because of the book's references to occultism and spiritualism.
» The State of Nevada first legalized gambling in 1931. At that same time, the Hoover Dam was being built and the federal government did not want its workers (who earned 50 cents an hour) to be involved with such diversions, so they built the town of Boulder City to house the dam workers. To this day, Boulder City is the only city in Nevada where gambling is illegal. Hoover Dam is 726 feet tall and 660 feet thick at its base. Enough rock was excavated in its construction to build the Great Wall of China. Contrary to old wives' tales, no workers were buried in the dam's concrete.
» The state of New York instituted the nation's first mandatory seat-belt law on July 12, 1984.
» The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change.
» The U.S. Congress passed a law in 1832 requiring all American citizens to spend one day each year fasting and praying. For the most part, people ignored the law, and no effort was made to enforce the legislation.
Invention trivia
» There were 15,700,003 Model T Ford's manufactured, all in black.
» The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
» Thomas Edison held more than 1,300 U.S. and foreign patents.
» The father of the pink flamingo (the plastic lawn ornament) was Don Featherstone of Massachusetts. Featherstone graduated from art school and went to work as a designer for Union Products, a Leominster, Massachusetts company that manufactured flat plastic lawn ornaments. He designed the pink flamingo in 1957 as a follow-up project to his plastic duck. Today, Featherstone is president and part owner of the company that sells an average of 250,000 to 500,000 plastic pink flamingos a year.
» Thomas Edison, "the Wizard of Menlo Park," established an "invention factory," the first industrial research laboratory, with the hope of producing a new invention every ten days. In one 4-year period, he obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.
» The film for the first Kodak camera was 2¾ inches wide, or 70 millimeters. Kodak has been manufacturing 70-millimeter film continuously since 1888.
» The first "braces" were constructed by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. Fauchard's "braces" consisted of a flat strip of metal, which was connected to teeth by pieces of thread.
» Thomas Edison’s first major invention was the quadruplex telegraph. Unlike other telegraphs at the time, it could send four messages at the same time over one wire.
» Thomas Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter.
» Though Frederick Banting and Charles Best were co-discovers of insulin, only Banting was officially recognized for the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1923. He shared his winnings with Best, though.
» Today, 40 percent of the world's newspapers are printed on paper made from Canada's forests.
» U.S. Patent #D219,584 was issued in 1970 to veteran movie actor Steve McQueen. He was famous not only for his movies but also for racing cars and working on engines off-camera as well. A byproduct of his racing hobby was the invention of a bucket seat.
» Unknown people made the first glassware about 3,500 years ago in Mesopotamia.
» Until recent years, people living in remote areas of Afghanistan and Ethiopia were immunized against smallpox by having dried powdered scabs from victims of the disease blown up their noses. This treatment was invented by a Chinese Buddhist nun in the eleventh century. It is the oldest known form of vaccination.
» Until the mid 1800s, paper was made from cotton rags.
» Vellum, a fine-quality writing parchment, is prepared from animal skin: lambs, kids, and very young calves. Coarser, tougher types are made from the skins of male goats, wolves, and older calves. Vellum replaced papyrus and was superseded by paper.
» The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
» Thomas Edison held more than 1,300 U.S. and foreign patents.
» The father of the pink flamingo (the plastic lawn ornament) was Don Featherstone of Massachusetts. Featherstone graduated from art school and went to work as a designer for Union Products, a Leominster, Massachusetts company that manufactured flat plastic lawn ornaments. He designed the pink flamingo in 1957 as a follow-up project to his plastic duck. Today, Featherstone is president and part owner of the company that sells an average of 250,000 to 500,000 plastic pink flamingos a year.
» Thomas Edison, "the Wizard of Menlo Park," established an "invention factory," the first industrial research laboratory, with the hope of producing a new invention every ten days. In one 4-year period, he obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.
» The film for the first Kodak camera was 2¾ inches wide, or 70 millimeters. Kodak has been manufacturing 70-millimeter film continuously since 1888.
» The first "braces" were constructed by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. Fauchard's "braces" consisted of a flat strip of metal, which was connected to teeth by pieces of thread.
» Thomas Edison’s first major invention was the quadruplex telegraph. Unlike other telegraphs at the time, it could send four messages at the same time over one wire.
» Thomas Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter.
» Though Frederick Banting and Charles Best were co-discovers of insulin, only Banting was officially recognized for the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1923. He shared his winnings with Best, though.
» Today, 40 percent of the world's newspapers are printed on paper made from Canada's forests.
» U.S. Patent #D219,584 was issued in 1970 to veteran movie actor Steve McQueen. He was famous not only for his movies but also for racing cars and working on engines off-camera as well. A byproduct of his racing hobby was the invention of a bucket seat.
» Unknown people made the first glassware about 3,500 years ago in Mesopotamia.
» Until recent years, people living in remote areas of Afghanistan and Ethiopia were immunized against smallpox by having dried powdered scabs from victims of the disease blown up their noses. This treatment was invented by a Chinese Buddhist nun in the eleventh century. It is the oldest known form of vaccination.
» Until the mid 1800s, paper was made from cotton rags.
» Vellum, a fine-quality writing parchment, is prepared from animal skin: lambs, kids, and very young calves. Coarser, tougher types are made from the skins of male goats, wolves, and older calves. Vellum replaced papyrus and was superseded by paper.
Insect trivia
» The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
» The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.
» The ant has the largest brain in the animal kingdom, in proportion to its size.
» The are more different kinds of insects on existence today than the total of all kinds of other animals put together.
» "Formication" is a hallucination that bugs or snakes are crawling on or under the skin, and is common to amphetamine and cocaine users. This hallucination is also referred to as "crank bugs."
» Bombyx mori, a silkworm moth, has been cultivated for so long that it can no longer exist without human care. Because it has been domesticated, it has lost the ability to fly.
» Drosophila, the small fruit fly, has been warmly received by the scientific community, mainly owing to the giant-sized chromosomes possessed by the cells of its salivary glands. These chromosomes, which can stretch to more than a mile long when unraveled, allow scientists to study DNA using only a sheet of white paper and a bright table lamp.
» A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.
» A bee has five eyes, two large compound eyes on either side of its head, and three ocelli (primitive eyes) on top of its head to detect light intensity.
» A bumble bee flaps its wings 160 beats per second.
» A cockroach's heart is nothing but a simple tube with valves. The tube can pump blood backwards and forwards in the insect. The heart can even stop moving, apparently without harming the roach.
» A colony of white-footed ants varies in size from 400,000 to over 1 million individuals.
» A common housefly is faster--in one sense--than a jet airplane. The fly moves 300 times its body length in one second, while the jet, at the speed of sound, travels 100 times its body length in one second.
» A cricket an inch long has a chirp that is audible for nearly a mile.
» The Asian grasshopper can jump up to 15 feet, a distance the length of 18 of their 10-inch bodies.
» The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4.5 miles per hour. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.
» The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.
» The ant has the largest brain in the animal kingdom, in proportion to its size.
» The are more different kinds of insects on existence today than the total of all kinds of other animals put together.
» "Formication" is a hallucination that bugs or snakes are crawling on or under the skin, and is common to amphetamine and cocaine users. This hallucination is also referred to as "crank bugs."
» Bombyx mori, a silkworm moth, has been cultivated for so long that it can no longer exist without human care. Because it has been domesticated, it has lost the ability to fly.
» Drosophila, the small fruit fly, has been warmly received by the scientific community, mainly owing to the giant-sized chromosomes possessed by the cells of its salivary glands. These chromosomes, which can stretch to more than a mile long when unraveled, allow scientists to study DNA using only a sheet of white paper and a bright table lamp.
» A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.
» A bee has five eyes, two large compound eyes on either side of its head, and three ocelli (primitive eyes) on top of its head to detect light intensity.
» A bumble bee flaps its wings 160 beats per second.
» A cockroach's heart is nothing but a simple tube with valves. The tube can pump blood backwards and forwards in the insect. The heart can even stop moving, apparently without harming the roach.
» A colony of white-footed ants varies in size from 400,000 to over 1 million individuals.
» A common housefly is faster--in one sense--than a jet airplane. The fly moves 300 times its body length in one second, while the jet, at the speed of sound, travels 100 times its body length in one second.
» A cricket an inch long has a chirp that is audible for nearly a mile.
» The Asian grasshopper can jump up to 15 feet, a distance the length of 18 of their 10-inch bodies.
» The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4.5 miles per hour. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.
Human trivia
» The “spring up, fall out” phenomenon says children grow twice as fast in the spring as they do in the fall, while they gain more weight in the fall.
» In all of history, the most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year.
» The ability to firmly grip with your hand comes from the muscles in the forearm. The muscles pull on tendons in the hand, bending the fingers.
» In ancient Rome, gold salves were used for the treatment of skin ulcers. Today, gold leaf plays an important role in the treatment of chronic ulcers.
» In dentistry, a “mulberry molar” is a tooth with more than the usual four cusps.
» In medieval Europe, alchemists mixed powdered gold into drinks to "comfort sore limbs," one of the earliest references to arthritis.
» The skeleton of an average 160 pound body weighs about 29 pounds.
» The skin is only about as deep as the tip of a ball-point pen. First-degree burns affect only the very top layers of the skin; second-degree burns, midway through the skin's thickness. Third-degree burns penetrate and damage the entire thickness of the skin.
» The skin is the body’s largest organ. It helps keep the body at the ideal temperature by insulating it in the cold and allowing heat to escape when it is warm.
» The adjective "metopic" pertains to the forehead.
» The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearm, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch.
» The African bushman lives in a quiet, remote environment and has no measurable hearing loss at age 60.
» The smooth muscles of the human body operate involuntarily and are located inside organs, such as the stomach and intestines.
» The Alzheimer's Association estimates four million Americans have the disease and 100,000 die from it each year.
» The soft mass of the adult brain is motionless. Though it consumes up to 25 percent of the blood's oxygen supply, it does not grow, divide, or contract.
» The average adult eyeball weighs about one ounce.
» In all of history, the most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year.
» The ability to firmly grip with your hand comes from the muscles in the forearm. The muscles pull on tendons in the hand, bending the fingers.
» In ancient Rome, gold salves were used for the treatment of skin ulcers. Today, gold leaf plays an important role in the treatment of chronic ulcers.
» In dentistry, a “mulberry molar” is a tooth with more than the usual four cusps.
» In medieval Europe, alchemists mixed powdered gold into drinks to "comfort sore limbs," one of the earliest references to arthritis.
» The skeleton of an average 160 pound body weighs about 29 pounds.
» The skin is only about as deep as the tip of a ball-point pen. First-degree burns affect only the very top layers of the skin; second-degree burns, midway through the skin's thickness. Third-degree burns penetrate and damage the entire thickness of the skin.
» The skin is the body’s largest organ. It helps keep the body at the ideal temperature by insulating it in the cold and allowing heat to escape when it is warm.
» The adjective "metopic" pertains to the forehead.
» The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearm, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch.
» The African bushman lives in a quiet, remote environment and has no measurable hearing loss at age 60.
» The smooth muscles of the human body operate involuntarily and are located inside organs, such as the stomach and intestines.
» The Alzheimer's Association estimates four million Americans have the disease and 100,000 die from it each year.
» The soft mass of the adult brain is motionless. Though it consumes up to 25 percent of the blood's oxygen supply, it does not grow, divide, or contract.
» The average adult eyeball weighs about one ounce.
Holiday trivia
» “Within the Walls Rodeo Day” is when prisoners wear black and white striped outfits and take part in volunteer rodeos within the walls of the prison.
» Mother's Day Symbolism: The pink carnation is a gesture to honor a living mother, while a white carnation is worn to symbolize remembrance.
» Pashka is a Russian Easter cake decorated with molded reliefs depicting the Passion. It traditionally has candied fruits that form the initials X and B (for Khristos voskress, meaning “Christ is risen”) in the Cyrillic alphabet.
» Pooch Passion: According to a pet owner survey, 79 percent of Americans give their dogs holiday and/or birthday presents.
» St. Swithin's Day, July 15: During the 900s, a man named Swithin (spelling also recorded as "Swithun") was the Bishop of Winchester in England. Some years after his death, and for reasons not documented, Bishop Swithin's remains were transferred to Winchester Cathedral on July 15, 971. That same day, there was a tremendous rainstorm. Legend has it that Bishop Swithin was so angry about the move from his final resting place that he caused the storm. According to old English folklore, if it should now rain on July 15th, St. Swithin will make it rain for 40 days thereafter.
» A “distich” is composed of two poetic lines matching both sound and sense. It is used during the Chinese New Year to express the people’s wish for a peaceful and happy new year.
» A baked ham has graced traditional Easter tables in America for centuries. The tradition of ham served at Easter dates back to the 1600s. The colonists got the idea from their Native American neighbors. Every year the Native Americans welcomed spring with a planting festival that included the practice of smoking meats, especially venison. The colonists were fascinated with the process and decided to try it on the hogs they had raised. They salted, smoked, and stored the meat through the winter until it was perfectly cured and ready for the table in the spring, just in time for Easter.
» A shofar is a ram’s horn used in ancient times as a signaling trumpet, and is still blown in synagogues on Rosh Hashana and at the end of Yom Kippur.
» A tiny village in Quebec is named Saint-Valentin, reportedly because the first mass was held there on Valentine's Day in 1810. Today, the town named for the patron saint of lovers is a popular destination for letters sent by stamp collectors looking for unusual postmarks to add to their collection. Permission was granted by the Canada Post to let Saint-Valentin use a special heart-shaped postmark. In 1999, collectors throughout Quebec and other Canadian provinces sent more than 6,000 Valentine's Day cards to get the special stamp.
» About 75,600,000 pumpkin pies are baked each winter holiday season in the United States.
» About 99 percent of pumpkins marketed domestically are used as jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween.
» According to a survey, the most popular day for eating out in the United States is one's own birthday — 49 percent of American adults do. The worst holiday for eating out is Grandparents' Day, with less than 5 percent participating.
» According to the Data Group, grandparents spend an average of $82 per grandchild for a holiday gift, $42 for a birthday gift, $74 for a special occasion such as a graduation, and $19 for other occasions like Easter or Valentine's Day.
» Americans purchase an estimated 20 million pounds of candy corn for Halloween each year, and 93 percent of American children go trick-or-treating.
» Americans spent about $6 billion on Halloween in 2000, making it the second-biggest holiday – after Christmas – in terms of dollars spent.
» An AT&T survey estimated that 122.5 million phone calls to Mom are made on Mother's Day. Other Mother's Day findings revealed that 11 percent never call their mothers, and 3 percent of the 68 percent planning to ring Mom up called her collect. AT&T's query didn't include how many Mother's Day e-mails were sent to Mom.
» Mother's Day Symbolism: The pink carnation is a gesture to honor a living mother, while a white carnation is worn to symbolize remembrance.
» Pashka is a Russian Easter cake decorated with molded reliefs depicting the Passion. It traditionally has candied fruits that form the initials X and B (for Khristos voskress, meaning “Christ is risen”) in the Cyrillic alphabet.
» Pooch Passion: According to a pet owner survey, 79 percent of Americans give their dogs holiday and/or birthday presents.
» St. Swithin's Day, July 15: During the 900s, a man named Swithin (spelling also recorded as "Swithun") was the Bishop of Winchester in England. Some years after his death, and for reasons not documented, Bishop Swithin's remains were transferred to Winchester Cathedral on July 15, 971. That same day, there was a tremendous rainstorm. Legend has it that Bishop Swithin was so angry about the move from his final resting place that he caused the storm. According to old English folklore, if it should now rain on July 15th, St. Swithin will make it rain for 40 days thereafter.
» A “distich” is composed of two poetic lines matching both sound and sense. It is used during the Chinese New Year to express the people’s wish for a peaceful and happy new year.
» A baked ham has graced traditional Easter tables in America for centuries. The tradition of ham served at Easter dates back to the 1600s. The colonists got the idea from their Native American neighbors. Every year the Native Americans welcomed spring with a planting festival that included the practice of smoking meats, especially venison. The colonists were fascinated with the process and decided to try it on the hogs they had raised. They salted, smoked, and stored the meat through the winter until it was perfectly cured and ready for the table in the spring, just in time for Easter.
» A shofar is a ram’s horn used in ancient times as a signaling trumpet, and is still blown in synagogues on Rosh Hashana and at the end of Yom Kippur.
» A tiny village in Quebec is named Saint-Valentin, reportedly because the first mass was held there on Valentine's Day in 1810. Today, the town named for the patron saint of lovers is a popular destination for letters sent by stamp collectors looking for unusual postmarks to add to their collection. Permission was granted by the Canada Post to let Saint-Valentin use a special heart-shaped postmark. In 1999, collectors throughout Quebec and other Canadian provinces sent more than 6,000 Valentine's Day cards to get the special stamp.
» About 75,600,000 pumpkin pies are baked each winter holiday season in the United States.
» About 99 percent of pumpkins marketed domestically are used as jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween.
» According to a survey, the most popular day for eating out in the United States is one's own birthday — 49 percent of American adults do. The worst holiday for eating out is Grandparents' Day, with less than 5 percent participating.
» According to the Data Group, grandparents spend an average of $82 per grandchild for a holiday gift, $42 for a birthday gift, $74 for a special occasion such as a graduation, and $19 for other occasions like Easter or Valentine's Day.
» Americans purchase an estimated 20 million pounds of candy corn for Halloween each year, and 93 percent of American children go trick-or-treating.
» Americans spent about $6 billion on Halloween in 2000, making it the second-biggest holiday – after Christmas – in terms of dollars spent.
» An AT&T survey estimated that 122.5 million phone calls to Mom are made on Mother's Day. Other Mother's Day findings revealed that 11 percent never call their mothers, and 3 percent of the 68 percent planning to ring Mom up called her collect. AT&T's query didn't include how many Mother's Day e-mails were sent to Mom.
History trivia
» Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from the Manhattoe tribe for trinkets and cloth valued at 60 guilders. The price worked out to about $24.
» In 1942, because of World War II, the United States government forced all Japanese Americans on the West Coast into camps.
» Pharaohs ruled Egypt from 3110 B.C. until 332 B.C., when Egypt came under foreign rule.
» In 1950, Scottish Nationalists stole the "Stone of Destiny" from Westminster Abbey. This was Scotland's Coronation Stone, taken by the English in 1296. By tradition, all British monarchs have to be crowned while sitting on it. It was eventually recovered from Arbroath Abbey, although some claimed this was a copy, and the original remained in Scotland. In 1996, the "Stone of Destiny" was returned from London to Edinburgh Castle, exactly 700 years after being stolen by Edward I.
» In 1961, a year after the death of novelist Boris Pasternak, his friend and collaborator Olga Ivinskaya was arrested for allegedly receiving foreign royalties for Pasternak's published works. She was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and hard labor in Siberia, and her daughter received three years for alleged complicity.
» In 1964, Ray Bellisario became the first British paparazzo, and was dubbed "The Peeping Tom" by the press. He sold photographs of Princess Margaret in a swimsuit to the Sunday Express, which published them. The British monarchy instructed editors not to buy Bellisario's photos, and they agreed.
» The right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty crossed the Atlantic Ocean three times. It first crossed for display at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and in New York, where money was raised for the foundation and pedestal. It was returned to Paris in 1882 to be reunited with the rest of the statue, which was then shipped back to the United States.
» The Roman emperor Commodus had all of the dwarfs, cripples, and freaks collected in the city of Rome and had them brought to the Colosseum, where they were ordered to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers.
» The Roman emperor Julius Caesar lost many ships when he invaded Britain--he didn't beach them high enough because he hadn't taken tides into account.
» Philadelphia was second only to London as the largest English-speaking city in the world at the time of the War of Independence.
» The Roman historian Pliny was so impressed by garlic and its perceived powers, he listed no less than 61 medicinal uses for the pungent bulb. Among them was that of warding off vampires, restoring hair loss, and preventing warts.
» Philadelphia, York, Lancaster, Baltimore, Annapolis, Princeton, Trenton, and New York City were the cities serving as the seat of government for the fledgling United States of America before Washington, D.C., became the nation's permanent capital in December 1800.
» The Romans were enamored with the smell of roses. According to historians, Nero had pipes installed under banquet plates to allow his guests to be spritzed with rose scent between dinner courses.
» Piercing nipples with rings and the like is not a new punk fad. It was popular among ladies in the late 1800s.
» The sailor suit became a classic outfit for young boys from its introduction in the 1860s. By 1905, American parents clamored for sailor suits and blouses for their sons. Sears Roebuck advertised a popular boy’s sailor blouse suit, with the blouse "trimmed with black tape and two rows of silk soutache,” for $1.35 – about $32 in 1998 dollars.
» Pocahontas and her husband John Rolfe had one son named Thomas who was born and educated in England, but settled in Virginia.
» In 1942, because of World War II, the United States government forced all Japanese Americans on the West Coast into camps.
» Pharaohs ruled Egypt from 3110 B.C. until 332 B.C., when Egypt came under foreign rule.
» In 1950, Scottish Nationalists stole the "Stone of Destiny" from Westminster Abbey. This was Scotland's Coronation Stone, taken by the English in 1296. By tradition, all British monarchs have to be crowned while sitting on it. It was eventually recovered from Arbroath Abbey, although some claimed this was a copy, and the original remained in Scotland. In 1996, the "Stone of Destiny" was returned from London to Edinburgh Castle, exactly 700 years after being stolen by Edward I.
» In 1961, a year after the death of novelist Boris Pasternak, his friend and collaborator Olga Ivinskaya was arrested for allegedly receiving foreign royalties for Pasternak's published works. She was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and hard labor in Siberia, and her daughter received three years for alleged complicity.
» In 1964, Ray Bellisario became the first British paparazzo, and was dubbed "The Peeping Tom" by the press. He sold photographs of Princess Margaret in a swimsuit to the Sunday Express, which published them. The British monarchy instructed editors not to buy Bellisario's photos, and they agreed.
» The right arm and torch of the Statue of Liberty crossed the Atlantic Ocean three times. It first crossed for display at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and in New York, where money was raised for the foundation and pedestal. It was returned to Paris in 1882 to be reunited with the rest of the statue, which was then shipped back to the United States.
» The Roman emperor Commodus had all of the dwarfs, cripples, and freaks collected in the city of Rome and had them brought to the Colosseum, where they were ordered to fight each other to the death with meat cleavers.
» The Roman emperor Julius Caesar lost many ships when he invaded Britain--he didn't beach them high enough because he hadn't taken tides into account.
» Philadelphia was second only to London as the largest English-speaking city in the world at the time of the War of Independence.
» The Roman historian Pliny was so impressed by garlic and its perceived powers, he listed no less than 61 medicinal uses for the pungent bulb. Among them was that of warding off vampires, restoring hair loss, and preventing warts.
» Philadelphia, York, Lancaster, Baltimore, Annapolis, Princeton, Trenton, and New York City were the cities serving as the seat of government for the fledgling United States of America before Washington, D.C., became the nation's permanent capital in December 1800.
» The Romans were enamored with the smell of roses. According to historians, Nero had pipes installed under banquet plates to allow his guests to be spritzed with rose scent between dinner courses.
» Piercing nipples with rings and the like is not a new punk fad. It was popular among ladies in the late 1800s.
» The sailor suit became a classic outfit for young boys from its introduction in the 1860s. By 1905, American parents clamored for sailor suits and blouses for their sons. Sears Roebuck advertised a popular boy’s sailor blouse suit, with the blouse "trimmed with black tape and two rows of silk soutache,” for $1.35 – about $32 in 1998 dollars.
» Pocahontas and her husband John Rolfe had one son named Thomas who was born and educated in England, but settled in Virginia.
Geography trivia
» "Exurbia" is the mostly rural residential area beyond the suburbs of a city.
» "Oceania" is a name for the thousands of islands in the central and southern Pacific Ocean. It is sometimes referred to as the South Seas.
» A bar of sand or other sediment linking an island to the mainland or another island is called a tombolo.
» Acapulco got its start as a major tourist destination during the early days of World War II. German U-boats threats off the eastern United States compelled the wealthy to find new places to vacation. At one time, one had to be a millionaire to enjoy Acapulco, but that hasn't been the case for years.
» According to research presented in National Geographic, Toronto’s name was derived from a Mohawk word meaning “poles in the water,” a reference to an old fish weir in the area.
» According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the first populated land where the Sun will rise on a new day is at Kahuitara Point (44° 16' S 176° 9' W) on Pitt Island in the Chatham Islands, a dependency of New Zealand.
» Afghanistan has been known by different names. It was called Ariana or Bactria in ancient times and Khorasan during the Middle Ages.
» Although "Holland" is a popular name for the Netherlands, North Holland and South Holland are actually two provinces in the Netherlands.
» A virtual underwater playground with its breathtaking coral, the Philippines draws thousands of divers from Japan, China, and Taiwan each year.
» Bangladesh is the most densely populated non-island region in the world, with more than 1,970 humans per square mile.
» Bhutan is derived from the Indian word Bhotanta, meaning "the edge of Tibet." It is located in Asia near the southern fringes of the eastern Himalayas.
» Ceylon became a republic in 1972 and changed its name to Sri Lanka.
» China produces about 70 percent of the world's silk supply.
» In Siberia, it can get so cold that the moisture in a person’s breath freezes instead of forming vapor. It can actually be heard when it falls to earth as ice crystals.
» In the southern part of Japan, it rarely snows to any great amount except for the mountains, but the northern part usually has plenty of snow in the winter. Autumn is by far the best time to visit Japan, as far as the weather goes.
» Israel is one-quarter the size of the state of Maine.
» "Oceania" is a name for the thousands of islands in the central and southern Pacific Ocean. It is sometimes referred to as the South Seas.
» A bar of sand or other sediment linking an island to the mainland or another island is called a tombolo.
» Acapulco got its start as a major tourist destination during the early days of World War II. German U-boats threats off the eastern United States compelled the wealthy to find new places to vacation. At one time, one had to be a millionaire to enjoy Acapulco, but that hasn't been the case for years.
» According to research presented in National Geographic, Toronto’s name was derived from a Mohawk word meaning “poles in the water,” a reference to an old fish weir in the area.
» According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the first populated land where the Sun will rise on a new day is at Kahuitara Point (44° 16' S 176° 9' W) on Pitt Island in the Chatham Islands, a dependency of New Zealand.
» Afghanistan has been known by different names. It was called Ariana or Bactria in ancient times and Khorasan during the Middle Ages.
» Although "Holland" is a popular name for the Netherlands, North Holland and South Holland are actually two provinces in the Netherlands.
» A virtual underwater playground with its breathtaking coral, the Philippines draws thousands of divers from Japan, China, and Taiwan each year.
» Bangladesh is the most densely populated non-island region in the world, with more than 1,970 humans per square mile.
» Bhutan is derived from the Indian word Bhotanta, meaning "the edge of Tibet." It is located in Asia near the southern fringes of the eastern Himalayas.
» Ceylon became a republic in 1972 and changed its name to Sri Lanka.
» China produces about 70 percent of the world's silk supply.
» In Siberia, it can get so cold that the moisture in a person’s breath freezes instead of forming vapor. It can actually be heard when it falls to earth as ice crystals.
» In the southern part of Japan, it rarely snows to any great amount except for the mountains, but the northern part usually has plenty of snow in the winter. Autumn is by far the best time to visit Japan, as far as the weather goes.
» Israel is one-quarter the size of the state of Maine.
Food and Drink trivia
» In 1765, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who gave the food its name. The Earl used to order roast beef between pieces of toast for a snack while he was at the gaming tables, it allowed him to keep one hand free to play while he ate.
» Caviar, or fish eggs, contain the same healthful omega-3 fatty acids as salmon.
» In 1889, Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented at St. Joseph, Missouri, was the first self-rising flour for pancakes and the first ready-mix food ever to be introduced commercially.
» Celery has negative calories — it takes more calories to eat and digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it initially.
» Cellophane noodles must typically be soaked before using, as must dried porcini mushrooms and most dried beans.
» Centuries ago, men were told that the evil effects of coffee would make them sterile; women were cautioned to avoid caffeine unless they wanted to be barren.
» Nutella is a hazelnut spread made with skim milk and cocoa. It is virtually unknown in America, but European children have happily smeared it on breakfast croissants for decades.
» Of about 350 million cans of chicken noodle soup of all commercial brands sold annually in the United States, 60 percent is purchased during the cold and flu season. January is the top-selling month of the year.
» Of all cheese customs, one of the more unusual was that of the "groaning cheese." Years ago in Europe, a prospective father would nibble on a huge chunk of cheese while awaiting the home birth of his child. Instead of pacing outside the bedroom door, the father would eat from the center of the cheese until a large hole had been gnawed out. Later, his newborn infant was ceremoniously passed through the hole.
» In 1893, Milwaukee's Pabst beer won a blue ribbon at the Chicago Fair, and was sold thereafter as Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
» Of all the major brewing nations, England remains the only one in which ale is the primary beer consumed. This is in contrast to lager, which is the world's overall dominant beer style.
» In 1918, Welch's developed its first jam product called "Grapelade." The initial quantity of Grapelade was purchased in its entirety by the U.S. Army. It was an immediate hit in the military lower ranks, and became a demanded product by doughboys when they returned to civilian life.
» Of all the potatoes grown in the United States, only 8 percent are used to make potato chips. Special varieties referred to as "chipping potatoes" are grown for this purpose.
» In 1928, William Dreyer and Joseph Edy opened a small ice cream factory at 3315 Grand Avenue in Oakland, California. "Grand" has been part of the Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream company name ever since: as a memento of the company's birthplace on Grand Avenue and a declaration of the magnificence of their ice cream.
» Official FDA guidelines allow whole pepper to be sold with up to 1 percent of the volume made up of rodent droppings.
» In 1938, a comic strip was used to advertise Pepsi-cola. It was titled "Pepsi and Pete."
» Caviar, or fish eggs, contain the same healthful omega-3 fatty acids as salmon.
» In 1889, Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented at St. Joseph, Missouri, was the first self-rising flour for pancakes and the first ready-mix food ever to be introduced commercially.
» Celery has negative calories — it takes more calories to eat and digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it initially.
» Cellophane noodles must typically be soaked before using, as must dried porcini mushrooms and most dried beans.
» Centuries ago, men were told that the evil effects of coffee would make them sterile; women were cautioned to avoid caffeine unless they wanted to be barren.
» Nutella is a hazelnut spread made with skim milk and cocoa. It is virtually unknown in America, but European children have happily smeared it on breakfast croissants for decades.
» Of about 350 million cans of chicken noodle soup of all commercial brands sold annually in the United States, 60 percent is purchased during the cold and flu season. January is the top-selling month of the year.
» Of all cheese customs, one of the more unusual was that of the "groaning cheese." Years ago in Europe, a prospective father would nibble on a huge chunk of cheese while awaiting the home birth of his child. Instead of pacing outside the bedroom door, the father would eat from the center of the cheese until a large hole had been gnawed out. Later, his newborn infant was ceremoniously passed through the hole.
» In 1893, Milwaukee's Pabst beer won a blue ribbon at the Chicago Fair, and was sold thereafter as Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
» Of all the major brewing nations, England remains the only one in which ale is the primary beer consumed. This is in contrast to lager, which is the world's overall dominant beer style.
» In 1918, Welch's developed its first jam product called "Grapelade." The initial quantity of Grapelade was purchased in its entirety by the U.S. Army. It was an immediate hit in the military lower ranks, and became a demanded product by doughboys when they returned to civilian life.
» Of all the potatoes grown in the United States, only 8 percent are used to make potato chips. Special varieties referred to as "chipping potatoes" are grown for this purpose.
» In 1928, William Dreyer and Joseph Edy opened a small ice cream factory at 3315 Grand Avenue in Oakland, California. "Grand" has been part of the Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream company name ever since: as a memento of the company's birthplace on Grand Avenue and a declaration of the magnificence of their ice cream.
» Official FDA guidelines allow whole pepper to be sold with up to 1 percent of the volume made up of rodent droppings.
» In 1938, a comic strip was used to advertise Pepsi-cola. It was titled "Pepsi and Pete."
Environment trivia
» The "French" marigold arrived in Europe with the Spanish conquistadors during the sixteenth century, who brought the delicate flower with them from its land of origin. It was from Mexico, not France.
» In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
» The African boabab tree can have a circumference as large as 100 feet. One such tree in Zimbabwe is so wide that the hollowed-out trunk serves as a shelter at a bus stop, with a capacity to hold as many as 40 people.
» In England, vraic is a seaweed used for fuel and fertilizer. It is found in the Channel Islands.
» In living memory, it was not until February 18, 1979 that snow fell on the Sahara. A half-hour storm in southern Algeria stopped traffic. But within a few hours, all the snow had melted.
» In Los Angeles, discarded garments are being recycled as industrial rags and carpet underlay. Such recycling keeps clothing out of landfills, where it makes up 4 percent of the trash dumped each year.
» There are more than 700 species of plants that grow in the United States that have been identified as dangerous if eaten. Among them are some that are commonly favored by gardeners: buttercups, daffodils, lily of the valley, sweet peas, oleander, azalea, bleeding heart, delphinium, and rhododendron.
» There are only about fifty geyser fields known to exist on Earth and approximately two-thirds of those fifty are home to five or fewer active geysers. Yellowstone National Park in the state of Wyoming has more geysers than any other field known in the world. The park has been the site of extensive study of the properties and characteristics of geysers.
» There is about one quarter-pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
» The Agulhas current in the western Indian Ocean is the fastest ocean current in the world. Even so, its speed is only 6 miles per hour.
» There is an organization in Berkeley, California, whose members gather monthly to discuss and honor the garlic plant. Called "The Lovers of the Stinky Rose," this unusual organization holds and annual garlic festival and publishes a newsletter known as "Garlic Time."
» The air is so polluted in Cubato, Brazil, no birds or insects remain, most trees are blackened stumps, and its mayor reportedly refuses to live there.
» There is so much moisture in the air that if it were all to condense and fall, there would be up to an additional three inches of water added to the earth's surface.
» The American yew, a shrub commonly found around federal buildings in Washington, D.C., has the botanical name Taxus taxus(italicize).
» There's enough energy in ten minutes of one hurricane to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
» The amount of lava produced when Iceland’s Laki volcano erupted in 1783, was, at 98 feet deep, enough to bury a four story, 66 foot home.
» In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
» The African boabab tree can have a circumference as large as 100 feet. One such tree in Zimbabwe is so wide that the hollowed-out trunk serves as a shelter at a bus stop, with a capacity to hold as many as 40 people.
» In England, vraic is a seaweed used for fuel and fertilizer. It is found in the Channel Islands.
» In living memory, it was not until February 18, 1979 that snow fell on the Sahara. A half-hour storm in southern Algeria stopped traffic. But within a few hours, all the snow had melted.
» In Los Angeles, discarded garments are being recycled as industrial rags and carpet underlay. Such recycling keeps clothing out of landfills, where it makes up 4 percent of the trash dumped each year.
» There are more than 700 species of plants that grow in the United States that have been identified as dangerous if eaten. Among them are some that are commonly favored by gardeners: buttercups, daffodils, lily of the valley, sweet peas, oleander, azalea, bleeding heart, delphinium, and rhododendron.
» There are only about fifty geyser fields known to exist on Earth and approximately two-thirds of those fifty are home to five or fewer active geysers. Yellowstone National Park in the state of Wyoming has more geysers than any other field known in the world. The park has been the site of extensive study of the properties and characteristics of geysers.
» There is about one quarter-pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.
» The Agulhas current in the western Indian Ocean is the fastest ocean current in the world. Even so, its speed is only 6 miles per hour.
» There is an organization in Berkeley, California, whose members gather monthly to discuss and honor the garlic plant. Called "The Lovers of the Stinky Rose," this unusual organization holds and annual garlic festival and publishes a newsletter known as "Garlic Time."
» The air is so polluted in Cubato, Brazil, no birds or insects remain, most trees are blackened stumps, and its mayor reportedly refuses to live there.
» There is so much moisture in the air that if it were all to condense and fall, there would be up to an additional three inches of water added to the earth's surface.
» The American yew, a shrub commonly found around federal buildings in Washington, D.C., has the botanical name Taxus taxus(italicize).
» There's enough energy in ten minutes of one hurricane to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
» The amount of lava produced when Iceland’s Laki volcano erupted in 1783, was, at 98 feet deep, enough to bury a four story, 66 foot home.
Disney trivia
» According to one source, Americans buy about 5 million things that are shaped like Mickey Mouse, or have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them, in the course of one day.
» According to the folks at Disney there were 6,469,952 spots painted on the dogs in the original 101 Dalmatians.
» Actor Jeremy Irons provides the voice of the narrator for Spaceship Earth at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida.
» Animation artists love inside jokes. In the Disney film Beauty and the Beast (1991), the road signs that Belle’s father encounters in the forest show the names of two California cities: one points to Anaheim, while the other points down a dark, sinister-looking path to Valencia. In truth, Anaheim is the site of Disneyland, while the rival Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement theme park is in the city of Valencia.
» As of December 30, 1997, Disney held eight of the top ten spots on the All Time Movie Video Sales Chart: The Lion King (1); Aladdin (2); Cinderella (3); Beauty and The Beast (4); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (5); Toy Story (7); 101 Dalmatians (8); and Pocahontas (10). The two non-Disney flicks to make the list were Forrest Gump (6) and Jurassic Park (9).
» At Disneyland in California, José the Macaw, the mechanical star of the Enchanted Tiki Room, originally sat near the entrance to Adventureland. He was so popular with visitors that he created a traffic jam and had to relocated to inside the attraction.
» At Disneyland Paris, the park’s famous Sleeping Beauty Castle is known as Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant.
» At the rate of about 40 painting hours per horse on the King Arthur's Carrousel at Disneyland, it takes several years to refurbish all of the horses. Then the cycle starts again.
» Box-office champ Toy Story (1995) is said to be filled with subtle inside jokes. One is in the name of the evil boy who lives next door to Andy and the toys. Sid Phillips, the wicked boy, was reportedly inspired by a former Pixar employee of the same last name who was known to disassemble toys and use the parts to build bizarre creations.
» Cowboy singer Rex Allen narrated more than 80 Walt Disney films.
» Discovering two photographs of a nude women among the film's more than 110,000 frames, Disney Studios recalled 3.4 million copies of the kiddie home video release of The Rescuers (1977), featuring the voices of Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor.
» Disney World in Florida was opened to the public in 1971. The amusement park was the largest in the world, set within 28,000 acres. It required a $400-million investment, and did not do well during the first year it was opened. Only 10,000 people visited Disney World during that initial year. With time, however, the attendance numbers rose to more than 10,000 people an hour.
» Disney World in Orlando, Florida, covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles), making it twice the size of the island of Manhattan, New York.
» Disney's Mulan was the first feature length production created by Walt Disney Feature Animation, Florida, located at Disney/MGM Studios at Walt Disney World.
» Disney's animated film Mulan did not do well in China. Many Chinese, especially the elderly, complained that the title character looked too Western.
» Disney's Matterhorn was the first roller coaster to run on steel tubes, which made the ride smoother while allowing Disney to build longer-lasting coasters faster and cheaper.
» According to the folks at Disney there were 6,469,952 spots painted on the dogs in the original 101 Dalmatians.
» Actor Jeremy Irons provides the voice of the narrator for Spaceship Earth at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida.
» Animation artists love inside jokes. In the Disney film Beauty and the Beast (1991), the road signs that Belle’s father encounters in the forest show the names of two California cities: one points to Anaheim, while the other points down a dark, sinister-looking path to Valencia. In truth, Anaheim is the site of Disneyland, while the rival Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement theme park is in the city of Valencia.
» As of December 30, 1997, Disney held eight of the top ten spots on the All Time Movie Video Sales Chart: The Lion King (1); Aladdin (2); Cinderella (3); Beauty and The Beast (4); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (5); Toy Story (7); 101 Dalmatians (8); and Pocahontas (10). The two non-Disney flicks to make the list were Forrest Gump (6) and Jurassic Park (9).
» At Disneyland in California, José the Macaw, the mechanical star of the Enchanted Tiki Room, originally sat near the entrance to Adventureland. He was so popular with visitors that he created a traffic jam and had to relocated to inside the attraction.
» At Disneyland Paris, the park’s famous Sleeping Beauty Castle is known as Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant.
» At the rate of about 40 painting hours per horse on the King Arthur's Carrousel at Disneyland, it takes several years to refurbish all of the horses. Then the cycle starts again.
» Box-office champ Toy Story (1995) is said to be filled with subtle inside jokes. One is in the name of the evil boy who lives next door to Andy and the toys. Sid Phillips, the wicked boy, was reportedly inspired by a former Pixar employee of the same last name who was known to disassemble toys and use the parts to build bizarre creations.
» Cowboy singer Rex Allen narrated more than 80 Walt Disney films.
» Discovering two photographs of a nude women among the film's more than 110,000 frames, Disney Studios recalled 3.4 million copies of the kiddie home video release of The Rescuers (1977), featuring the voices of Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor.
» Disney World in Florida was opened to the public in 1971. The amusement park was the largest in the world, set within 28,000 acres. It required a $400-million investment, and did not do well during the first year it was opened. Only 10,000 people visited Disney World during that initial year. With time, however, the attendance numbers rose to more than 10,000 people an hour.
» Disney World in Orlando, Florida, covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles), making it twice the size of the island of Manhattan, New York.
» Disney's Mulan was the first feature length production created by Walt Disney Feature Animation, Florida, located at Disney/MGM Studios at Walt Disney World.
» Disney's animated film Mulan did not do well in China. Many Chinese, especially the elderly, complained that the title character looked too Western.
» Disney's Matterhorn was the first roller coaster to run on steel tubes, which made the ride smoother while allowing Disney to build longer-lasting coasters faster and cheaper.
Entertainment trivia
» John Lennon joined Elton John onstage at Madison Square Garden in 1974 to perform the song they co-wrote, "Whatever Gets You Through the Night." This was to be Lennon's final live performance.
» Frank Sinatra was offered the male lead in the film Funny Girl (1968), but Barbra Streisand, who had performed the role successfully on Broadway, refused to take second billing, as did Sinatra. Even though this was her film debut, Streisand would not back down, and Sinatra, in a frustrated huff, dropped out. A film deal with David Janssen to take the role fell apart. The part was ultimately given to the exotic Omar Shariff, on the heels of his success in Doctor Zhivago.
» John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, at Oxford Maternity Hospital in Liverpool, England, during an air raid.
» Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were not permitted to dance together in public, according to their movie contracts.
» Fred Astaire's favorite dance partner was Gene Kelly.
» French leading man Gérard Dépardieu was so wild as a youth that he was encouraged to enter dramatics as therapy. Dépardieu made his film debut in a bit part in Le Beatnik et le minet (1965) at age 17.
» Singer and songwriter Cyndi Lauper won an Emmy for her guest performance on NBC's Mad About You.
» Singer and TV personality Andy Williams's full name at birth was Howard Andrew Williams.
» Singer Billie Holiday's real name was Eleanora Fagan (one source says McKay). Her father, Clarence Holiday — a guitarist who played with Fletcher Henderson’s big band, never married her mother, Sadie Fagan, and eventually abandoned the family.
» John Wayne was on the Top Ten Box Office List 25 times during his career, more often than any other film star in history. Between the years 1949 and 1974, there was only one year that Wayne did not appear on the list: 1956. Four times Wayne landed in the Number 1 Box Office spot – in 1950, 1951, 1954, and 1971.
» Singer Billy Joel once played the piano at the Executive Lounge in Los Angeles under the name of William Martin.
» Johnny Carson's reply to a reporter when asked what he would like his epitaph to be was "I'll be right back."
» Singer Céline Dion was the youngest of 14 children in a working-class family in Quebec.
» José Ferrer won several awards for portraying the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac in film and on the stage. He was awarded the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Dramatic Actor Golden Globe for his 1950 film portrayal, and the Best Actor Tony for his original stage performance of the lovesick poet with the large proboscis.
» Singer Dionne Warwick's full name at birth was Marie Dionne Warwick.
» Julia Roberts' father died of cancer when she was just 9 years old.
» Frank Sinatra was offered the male lead in the film Funny Girl (1968), but Barbra Streisand, who had performed the role successfully on Broadway, refused to take second billing, as did Sinatra. Even though this was her film debut, Streisand would not back down, and Sinatra, in a frustrated huff, dropped out. A film deal with David Janssen to take the role fell apart. The part was ultimately given to the exotic Omar Shariff, on the heels of his success in Doctor Zhivago.
» John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, at Oxford Maternity Hospital in Liverpool, England, during an air raid.
» Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were not permitted to dance together in public, according to their movie contracts.
» Fred Astaire's favorite dance partner was Gene Kelly.
» French leading man Gérard Dépardieu was so wild as a youth that he was encouraged to enter dramatics as therapy. Dépardieu made his film debut in a bit part in Le Beatnik et le minet (1965) at age 17.
» Singer and songwriter Cyndi Lauper won an Emmy for her guest performance on NBC's Mad About You.
» Singer and TV personality Andy Williams's full name at birth was Howard Andrew Williams.
» Singer Billie Holiday's real name was Eleanora Fagan (one source says McKay). Her father, Clarence Holiday — a guitarist who played with Fletcher Henderson’s big band, never married her mother, Sadie Fagan, and eventually abandoned the family.
» John Wayne was on the Top Ten Box Office List 25 times during his career, more often than any other film star in history. Between the years 1949 and 1974, there was only one year that Wayne did not appear on the list: 1956. Four times Wayne landed in the Number 1 Box Office spot – in 1950, 1951, 1954, and 1971.
» Singer Billy Joel once played the piano at the Executive Lounge in Los Angeles under the name of William Martin.
» Johnny Carson's reply to a reporter when asked what he would like his epitaph to be was "I'll be right back."
» Singer Céline Dion was the youngest of 14 children in a working-class family in Quebec.
» José Ferrer won several awards for portraying the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac in film and on the stage. He was awarded the Best Actor Oscar and the Best Dramatic Actor Golden Globe for his 1950 film portrayal, and the Best Actor Tony for his original stage performance of the lovesick poet with the large proboscis.
» Singer Dionne Warwick's full name at birth was Marie Dionne Warwick.
» Julia Roberts' father died of cancer when she was just 9 years old.
Animals trivia
» Despite its great strength, the octopus tires easily. The oxygen-carrying component of its blood, hemocyanin, is copper-based and is less efficient than the iron-based hemoglobin of humans. Therefore, a struggling octopus will quickly go into oxygen deprivation, and becomes lethargic.
» Americans consume more than 353 million pounds of turkey during National Turkey Lovers' Month in June. By comparison, more than 675 million pounds of turkey will be consumed at Thanksgiving.
» Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
» Among other well-known names, a group of fish can also be called a draught.
» Amphibians see no color; they perceive only black and white.
» Amphibians’ eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square- or heart-shaped pupils.
» Insectivores are animals that eat insects. They include shrews, moles and hedgehogs.
» Invertebrates are animals that don’t have a backbone. Most animals are invertebrates, 98 of every 100 animal species falls into this category.
» It can take a deep-sea clam up to 100 years to reach 0.3 inches (8 millimeters) in length. The clam is among the slowest growing, yet longest living species on the planet.
» Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
» It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
» Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
» It is estimated that manatees live a maximum of 50 to 60 years.
» Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares. Today, the dog is widely used in racing.
» It is the female lion who does more than 90 percent of the hunting, while the male is afraid to risk his life, or simply prefers to rest.
» Dinosaurs lived on Earth for around 165 million years before they became extinct.
» Americans consume more than 353 million pounds of turkey during National Turkey Lovers' Month in June. By comparison, more than 675 million pounds of turkey will be consumed at Thanksgiving.
» Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
» Among other well-known names, a group of fish can also be called a draught.
» Amphibians see no color; they perceive only black and white.
» Amphibians’ eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square- or heart-shaped pupils.
» Insectivores are animals that eat insects. They include shrews, moles and hedgehogs.
» Invertebrates are animals that don’t have a backbone. Most animals are invertebrates, 98 of every 100 animal species falls into this category.
» It can take a deep-sea clam up to 100 years to reach 0.3 inches (8 millimeters) in length. The clam is among the slowest growing, yet longest living species on the planet.
» Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
» It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
» Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
» It is estimated that manatees live a maximum of 50 to 60 years.
» Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares. Today, the dog is widely used in racing.
» It is the female lion who does more than 90 percent of the hunting, while the male is afraid to risk his life, or simply prefers to rest.
» Dinosaurs lived on Earth for around 165 million years before they became extinct.
QUOTABLE QUOTES
Quotations for Wedding Anniversaries
Quotations for Birthdays
Merry Christmas Quotations
Quotations for Earth Day
Quotations for Fathers Day
Quotations: Get Well Soon
Quotations for Homecomings
I Love You Quotations
Quotations for Mother's Day
New Year Quotations
Romantic Quotations
Quotations for Sweetest Day
Quotations: Happy Thanksgiving
Quotations for St Valentine's Day
Quotations for Weddings
Quotations for Weddings
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown
We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. ~Gene Perret
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig
I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ~Douglas William Jerrold
[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown
My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders
My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~Martin Luther
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor
Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner
Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ~Ambrose Bierce
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin
The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee?
~Author Unknown
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. ~William Lyon Phelps
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~Charles Dickens
Let all thy joys be as the month of May,
And all thy days be as a marriage day.
~Francis Quarles
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
All things do go a-courting,
In earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single
But thee in His world so fair.
~Emily Dickinson
We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. ~Gene Perret
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig
I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ~Douglas William Jerrold
[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown
My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders
My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~Martin Luther
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor
Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner
Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ~Ambrose Bierce
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin
The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee?
~Author Unknown
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. ~William Lyon Phelps
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~Charles Dickens
Let all thy joys be as the month of May,
And all thy days be as a marriage day.
~Francis Quarles
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
All things do go a-courting,
In earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single
But thee in His world so fair.
~Emily Dickinson
Quotations for St Valentine's Day
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown
I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"
We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love. ~Robert Fulghum, True Love
Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare
kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston
Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor
Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ~Author Unknown
Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts. ~Anonymous, winner of February 2011 quotegarden Twitter create your own quote contest
Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January. ~Jim Gaffigan
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato
True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown
I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown
A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"
We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love. ~Robert Fulghum, True Love
Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare
kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde
In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore
We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston
Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor
Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ~Author Unknown
Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts. ~Anonymous, winner of February 2011 quotegarden Twitter create your own quote contest
Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January. ~Jim Gaffigan
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism
I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato
True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald
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