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Tuesday, May 14
They say that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. So, that made us wonder how horseshoes works. If your horseshoe connects, that's a ringer. You get three points. If it leans against the stake, that's a leaner, worth one point. …Read more.
Monday, May 13
Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote a series of books set on Darkover, an ice-age planet orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman. She also wrote a feminist version of the Arthurian legend called "The Mists of Avalon." Interestingly, she …Read more.
Saturday, May 11
George Read was the only person to vote against the Declaration of Independence. The Delaware representative was a moderate who hoped to negotiate a settlement with Britain. Since Delaware's Thomas McKean voted in favour, Caesar Rodney had to ride …Read more.
Friday, May 10
Ghana used to be called the Gold Coast, back when it was a British colony. It was called that, you'll be shocked to learn, because they region was littered with gold. However, nationalists liked Kwame Nkrumah felt the name belittled them, defining …Read more.
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Saturday, May 4"Alias" was about a female college student work who was moonlighting as a secret agent for SD-6 (good guys), until it turned out they were part of the Alliance of Twelve (bad guys), at which point she joined the CIA (good guys, more or less). "Alias," incidentally, was a JJ Abrams project, just like "Lost," which, as you may recall, was not exactly immune to complicated plots that sort of fell apart the closer you looked at them.
What husband of Iman, a Somali supermodel, once said, "I think I was always a closet heterosexual"? A) David Bowie B) Elton John C) Freddy Mercury D) George Michael
Previous answer: The moon smells like burnt gunpowder.
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