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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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Friday, April 19Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison set about writing a sequel to "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial," which would have been called "ET: Nocturnal Fears." In it, ET's evil relations would terrorize the family looking for him, even abducting him aboard a UFO. This was, in fact, much like one of the working screenplays for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," which was about an abducted child. This notion survives in the film as a minor storyline.
What superhero's absence from the WWII frontlines was explained away as being the result of a failed eye-test, when his x-ray vision read the wrong chart in another room? A) Captain Marvel B) Captain America C) Green Lantern D) Superman
Previous answer: There is a statue of Powhatan (maybe) in Cuzco, Peru.
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