“Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.”
—Bob Moawad, Business Leader
As you journey Down the years Your mirror is The glass that cheers If you use Burma Shave
1936
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
ANIMALS Part 29 of 32
The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
The viscera of Japanese abalone can harbor a poisonous substance which causes a burning, stinging, prickling and itching over the entire body. It does not manifest itself until exposure to sunlight - if eaten outdoors in sunlight, symptoms occur quickly and suddenly.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
McKinley kept a parrot in the White House that could
whistle "Yankee Doodle." McKinley would whistle the first part, and the bird would finish it.
