February 25, 2006

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was 'shut up'.

~Joe Namath

Dinah doesn't
Treat him right
But if he'd shave
Dinah-might!
Burma Shave




An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

~ Agatha Christie

GEOGRAPHY
part 11 of 19

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

The border between Canada and the U.S. is the world's longest frontier. It stretches 3,987 miles (6,416 km).

The city of St. Petersburg, Russia, was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, hence the name, St. Petersburg. But it wasn't always that simple. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Russian leaders felt that Petersburg was too German-sounding. So they changed the name of the city to Petrograd -- to make it more Russian-sounding. Then, in 1924, the country's Soviet Communist leaders wanted to honor the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir I. Lenin. The city of Petrograd became Leningrad and was known as Leningrad until 1991 when the new Russian legislators -- no longer Soviet Communists -- wanted the city to reflect their change of government.

The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

A woman bought a used car for $600 and sold it a friend for $800. She later bought it back for $1,000 and resold it for $1,200. Did she make any profit and if so, how much?

Hummels - largest selection ever. 'If it's in stock, we have it!'



More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.