Total Trivia

[Stryderthorongil]

Glad that you enjoyed it.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Glad that you enjoyed it.

Forever in search of knowledge

 

[Stryderthorongil]

Forever in search of knowledge

The only way to be.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The class Cephalopoda, which means "head foot", are mollusks and therefore related to bivalves (scallops, oysters, clams), gastropods (snails and slugs), scaphopoda (tusk shells), and polyplacophorans (chitons). Some of these mollusks, like the bivalves, don't even have a head, much less something large enough to be called a brain! Yet cephalopods have well-developed senses and large brains. Most mollusks are protected by a shell and many of them are not very mobile. Although the ancient nautilus has an external shell, the trend in cephalopods is to internalize and reduce the shell. The shell in cuttlefish, when present, is internal and is called the cuttlebone, which is sold in many pet shops to supply calcium to birds. Squid also have a reduced internal shell called a pen. Octopuses lack a shell altogether.

 

[fire_breeze]

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one
cup of coffee


Oh hell... just give me the coffee!!

 

[CCaprice]

Women's hemlines go up as the economy gets better. They stay put when nothing happens in commerce. They go down when business drops off. Nobody knows why, evidently, but the record indicates the pattern dates back more than 65 years.

 

[CCaprice]

Tree crickets are called the poor man's thermometer because temperature directly affects their rate of activity. Count the number of chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds, then add 37. The sum will be very close to the outside temperature.

 

[fire_breeze]

You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.

 

[fire_breeze]

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

 

[fire_breeze]

It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma.

Umm... okay....

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Women's hemlines go up as the economy gets better. They stay put when nothing happens in commerce. They go down when business drops off. Nobody knows why, evidently, but the record indicates the pattern dates back more than 65 years.

That is fascinating
Perhaps in times of prosperity we subconciously feel that it is a good time to have children and so advertise our bodies?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

February 7th....

457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
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1301 - Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
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1550 - Julius III becomes Pope.
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1613 - Mikhail Romanov becomes Tsar of Russia.
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1795 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
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1807 - Napoléon's French Empire begin fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at the Battle of Eylau in Eylau, Poland.
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1812 - The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
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1842 - Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
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1856 - The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot. [1]
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1863 - HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
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1882 - The last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi.
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1894 - The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
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1898 - Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
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1900 - The British Labour Party is formed.
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1904 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
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1914 - Charlie Chaplin first appears as "The Tramp", as his first film Kid Auto Races at Venice is released at Keystone Studios.
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1942 - In Drakulici, Banja Luka, Croatian Nazis kill 2,300 Serbian civilians, among them 551 children.
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1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy Nazi forces launch a counteroffensive.
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1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
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1962 - The United States Government bans all Cuban imports and exports.
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1964 - The Beatles arrive on their first visit to the United States.
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1967 - A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people.
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1969 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.
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1971 - Women gain the right to vote in Switzerland.
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1974 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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1976 - Future Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs scores six goals and records four assists in an 11-4 victory over the Boston Bruins, setting a NHL record with 10 points in one game.
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1977 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24.
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1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either planet was known to science.
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1984 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
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1985 - "New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.
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1986 - Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
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1990 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
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1991 - Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
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1991 - The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
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1992 - The European Union is formed.
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1995 - Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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1999 - Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
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2000 - Bahria University is established through the Presidential Ordinance No. V of 2000 of Government of Pakistan.
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2003 - Last contact with Pioneer 10.

 

[CCaprice]

Women's hemlines go up as the economy gets better. They stay put when nothing happens in commerce. They go down when business drops off. Nobody knows why, evidently, but the record indicates the pattern dates back more than 65 years.

That is fascinating
Perhaps in times of prosperity we subconciously feel that it is a good time to have children and so advertise our bodies?

Interesting theory!

 

[CCaprice]

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

 

[CCaprice]

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

 

[spyro1123]

ok so.... why apples?

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

8th February

Births

1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)

Deaths

1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots (executed) (b. 1542)
1990 - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)

Events

421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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1555 - Laurence Saunders is led barefoot to his execution and burned at the stake.
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1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots is executed.
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1622 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
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1692 - A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony declares that three teenage girls are under domination of Satan, leading to the Salem witch trials.
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1693 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
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1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
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1837 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
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1887 - The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
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1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
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1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
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1918 - The Stars and Stripes newspaper publishes for the first time.
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1924 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
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1943 - World War II: Battle of Kursk - the Russian army captures the city.
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1943 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
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1968 - American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the deaths of three college students.
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1998 - First female ice hockey game in Olympic history: Finland beats Sweden 6-0.
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2005 - Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire.
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[Gaia_Lorraine]

The prefix "Step" as in stepmother and stepfather derives from the old English 'steop'. Originally this had connotations of death where a child was left an orphan - (Anglo-Saxon steopcild)
A stepmother or stepfather (steopmodor or steopfaeder) was someone who acted as a parent to the orphan.

 

[fire_breeze]

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

 

[mrtnmoon]

It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma.

Umm... okay....

at least I know I'd be safe in oklahoma or that I couldn't be used to plow a field in NC. *whew*

 

[fire_breeze]

The 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.

And I thought that some of my arguments were heated....

 

[fire_breeze]

at least I know I'd be safe in oklahoma or that I couldn't be used to plow a field in NC. *whew*

Which is why these laws are created.. to keep you safe!

 

[mrtnmoon]

Which is why these laws are created.. to keep you safe!

now, if only there were a law to keep me safe from myself. lol.

I really like reading through this thread. someday I'll have to contribute something,

 

[Daizie]

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The word brimstone as in fire and brimstone refers to the element Sodium. It derives from the Old English byrne (burning) and stan (stone).
The fact that sulphur is easily combustable and gives off noxious fumes gave it clear connotations with Hell.