Eponym of the week: Civil War Union Army Gen. Ambrose Burnside. After the war, he served as governor of Rhode Island and first president of the National Rifle Association. His unusual style of facial hair, originally called "burnsides," became "sideburns" later on.

Ceiling fans keep you cooler in the summer, not by lowering the temperature, but by circulating the air, which increases the evaporation of moisture on your skin. If you reverse a ceiling fan's rotation in a heated room in the winter, it will make you feel warmer by taking cooler air from the bottom of the room and forcing it upward, and lowering the heated higher air (hot air rises, remember?) closer to the floor.

What French dress size corresponds to a size 10 in the United States?
A) 8
B) 18
C) 38
D) 88

Previous answer: On Feb. 18, 1930, the first cow was carried by an airplane, as a publicity stunt for the International Air Exposition in St. Louis.

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