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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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Wednesday, April 17Despite her name, screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was actually born in Cologne in 1927, to Jewish parents. She ended up in India, marrying Cyrus Jhabvala. Although best known for writing movies about dead rich British people, for director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, she also won the Booker Prize for "Heat and Dust," about an interracial romance during the Raj.
What Chicago playwright, known for his steady patter of four-letter words, also wrote a kids' play called "Revenge of the Space Pandas?" A) David Mamet B) Harold Pinter C) Neil Simon D) Tom Stoppard
Previous answer: For decades, we didn't see Hitchcock's "Rope," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Rear Window," "The Trouble with Harry" or "Vertigo."
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