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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, March 27On June 4, 1944, British agents had a serious conversation with Leonard Dawe in Surrey. Utah, Omaha, Overlord and Neptune had been answers in the Guardian's crossword puzzle in the previous month. And all of them were codewords for the D-Day invasion, just days away. Two years earlier, Dawe had also been under suspicion, because he'd used the clue "French port (6)" just before the Dieppe debacle. But it was all a coincidence.
The world's tallest mountain is getting taller all the time, a few millimeters every year, thanks to plate tectonics.
A) Aconcagua B) Everest C) Kilimanjaro D) McKinley
Previous answer: Vatican City arrested an employee caught with cocaine at his desk.
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