TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, August 13, 2012
Greetings Infomaniacs,Well, it was a fun but busy weekend. Friday was the Cubs game, which was so much fun, and such great weather! Sunday I went to the zoo with my aunt and my godson. The only not-so-fun day was Saturday, when I tackled the 15 page paper I have due this week. It is going to be a late night finishing it up tonight, so I think I will be making myself a pot of coffee! It's like undergrad college days all over again!
Enjoy!
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Email MelissaTODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee."
HINT: (1899-1965), bestselling humorist, memoirist and media personality of the early television era, based in the United States.
RANDOM TIDBITSAdding sugar to coffee is believed to have started in 1715, in the court of King Louis XIV, the French monarch.
Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.
After they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.
In 1727, as a result of seedlings smuggled from Paris, coffee plants first were cultivated in Brazil. Brazil is presently by far the world's largest producer of coffee.
The coffee filter was invented in 1908 by a German homemaker, Melitta Benz, when she lined a tin cup with blotter paper to filter the coffee grinds.
The heavy tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773, which caused the "Boston Tea Party," resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. Drinking coffee was an expression of freedom.
VIDEO CLIPMocha ArtCoffee has come a long way in recent years, but now the served-hot beverage has become a work of art. Watch as your everyday mocha can be transformed into a beautiful piece of artwork.
Watch It Now: Mocha Art*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***I have streets but no pavement.
I have cities but no buildings.
I have forests yet no trees.
I have rivers yet no water.
What am I?
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee."
ANSWER: Alexander King.
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