Friday, June 30, 2017
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Congratulations to Jeanie Steinmetz who won this week's "Mind Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:
Mates unbalanced,
Or so they seem;
But paired in tandem,
A deadly team.
She so gently round,
Him so firm and straight,
Yet when they are compounded,
Woe to them they hate.
What are we?
ANSWER: Bow and arrow.
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
HINT: (1881-1964), was an American writer, had a long career as a writer of fiction and short stories, stretching from 1913 to 1960.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
George Washington, the celebrated Father of Our Country, had no children of his own. Researchers believe that childhood illnesses may have rendered him sterile. He did adopt the two children from Martha Custis' first marriage.
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A.A. Milne created Winnie the Pooh for his son, Christopher Robin. Pooh was based on Robin's teddy bear, Edward, a gift Christopher had received for his first birthday, and on their father/son visits to the London Zoo, where the bear named Winnie was Christopher's favorite.
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In 2001, Yuri Usachev, cosmonaut and commander of the International Space Station, received a talking picture frame from his 12-year-old daughter while in orbit. The gift was made possible by RadioShack, which filmed the presentation of the gift for a TV commercial.
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The only father-daughter collaboration to hit the top spot on the Billboard pop music chart was the 1967 hit single "Something Stupid" by Frank & Nancy Sinatra.
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In Thailand, the King's Birthday also serves as National Father's Day. The celebration includes fireworks and acts of charity and honor - the most distinct being the donation of blood and the liberation of captive animals.
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Halsey Taylor invented the drinking fountain as a tribute to his father, who succumbed to typhoid fever after drinking from a contaminated public water supply in 1896.
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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
ANSWER: Clarence Budington Kelland.