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Delta Airlines transports about 50,000 dead bodies per year, according to the Wall Street Journal, 5/17/2005.....
The average resident of Rome, Georgia drinks 1,000 Coca Colas per year, more than any other place on earth, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 8/5/2001.....
At Yale University from 1964 to 1968, George W. Bush's grade average was 77. He got a 69 in astronomy and an 88 in history, philosophy, and anthropology, according to the Boston Globe, 6/7/2005.....
In John Kerry’s freshman year at Yale, he got a 61 in geology, and a 63 and 68 in two history classes. His highest grade was an 89 in a senior year Political Science course, according to the Boston Globe, 6/7/2005.....
After his capture in 1964, for almost 30 years, Ivan the Gorilla lived in a concrete cage at the B&I shopping mall in Tacoma, Washington, where his job was to entertain customers. In 1994, Ivan was transported to the Atlanta Zoo, where he still lives, according to the Boston Globe, 10/22/1994.....
When Japanese corporation Maspro Denkoh decided to sell its collection of Impressionist paintings, it couldn't decide between Christie's and Sotheby's. Takashi Hashiyama, the corporation's president, decided that a game of rock-paper-scissors would be "'the best way to decide between two things which are equally good.'" Christie's and Sotheby's were instructed to write their choices on a sheet of paper. Christie's scissors beat Sotheby's paper, and Christie's went on to sell four works for $22.8 million dollars, according to The Chicago Sun-Times, 5/1/2005.....
President Franklin Pierce was driving his carriage back to the White House after visiting a friend's home one night in 1853 and hit a woman identified as Mrs. Nathan Lewis, who was uninjured. President Pierce was promptly arrested by Constable Stanley Edelin, but the charges were later dropped, according to The Washington Post, 2/18/1996.....
In their e-mails, French government employees are prohibited from using the word "e-mail." In July 2003, France advised all government employees that they should refer to e-mails as "courriels" rather than "e-mails" in an effort to stem the invasion of English words into the French language, according to Agence France Presse, 7/9/2003.
The average resident of Rome, Georgia drinks 1,000 Coca Colas per year, more than any other place on earth, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 8/5/2001.....
At Yale University from 1964 to 1968, George W. Bush's grade average was 77. He got a 69 in astronomy and an 88 in history, philosophy, and anthropology, according to the Boston Globe, 6/7/2005.....
In John Kerry’s freshman year at Yale, he got a 61 in geology, and a 63 and 68 in two history classes. His highest grade was an 89 in a senior year Political Science course, according to the Boston Globe, 6/7/2005.....
After his capture in 1964, for almost 30 years, Ivan the Gorilla lived in a concrete cage at the B&I shopping mall in Tacoma, Washington, where his job was to entertain customers. In 1994, Ivan was transported to the Atlanta Zoo, where he still lives, according to the Boston Globe, 10/22/1994.....
When Japanese corporation Maspro Denkoh decided to sell its collection of Impressionist paintings, it couldn't decide between Christie's and Sotheby's. Takashi Hashiyama, the corporation's president, decided that a game of rock-paper-scissors would be "'the best way to decide between two things which are equally good.'" Christie's and Sotheby's were instructed to write their choices on a sheet of paper. Christie's scissors beat Sotheby's paper, and Christie's went on to sell four works for $22.8 million dollars, according to The Chicago Sun-Times, 5/1/2005.....
President Franklin Pierce was driving his carriage back to the White House after visiting a friend's home one night in 1853 and hit a woman identified as Mrs. Nathan Lewis, who was uninjured. President Pierce was promptly arrested by Constable Stanley Edelin, but the charges were later dropped, according to The Washington Post, 2/18/1996.....
In their e-mails, French government employees are prohibited from using the word "e-mail." In July 2003, France advised all government employees that they should refer to e-mails as "courriels" rather than "e-mails" in an effort to stem the invasion of English words into the French language, according to Agence France Presse, 7/9/2003.
posted by Shnookylangston at 9:27 PM
1 Comments:
I didn't explicitly know any of those, but the French thing doesn't surprise me. I've known for a while that they're very into the purity of their language. In fact, Spanish and French, at least, have councils maybe every decade to normalize spelling to go along with how people have changed in terms of speaking. In Spanish, twenty-one used to be veinte y uno, twenty-two used to be veinte y dos, etc. Now they're veintiuno, veintidos, etc. I think that's fascinating.
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