Filed under: Trivia — admin @ 11:14 am
+ Juliette Low, the founder of Girl Scouts of America was deaf
+ The Liberty Bell weighs 2080 pounds
+ Benjamin Franklin had seven sisters and nine brothers; he was the
fifteenth chid and youngest son
+ Europe is the only continent without a desert
+ Zambia and Zimbabwe are the only countries in the world to start with
the letter Z
Filed under: Movies, Books, TV, etc — admin @ 11:13 am
(Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse)
Not a place that is on a map, it only appears once every hundred years.
Two New Yorkers that were hunting and got lost happened to stumble
across this magical place. There, one of them met a young Scottish girl
and fell in love with her. He stayed and married her in Brigadoon, but
the sad part is, his friend died. Sad movie, really. I don’t know why I
ever watched it in the first place.
Filed under: Friends and Family — admin @ 11:13 am
My friend was buried today. I didn’t cry at the funeral, though it was a
big struggle not to. I can’t believe that my friend is actually gone. I
feel so sorry for his wife, too. She was doing better today than I would
have been, but she’s a stronger woman than I am. Hopefully, she’ll make
it through okay. I’m praying for her.
Filed under: Movies, Books, TV, etc — admin @ 11:12 am
(Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Jennifer Grey)
Ferris Bueller, the champion skipper, his best friend, Cameron, and his
girlfriend, Sloane, take the day off school and see the sights in
Chicago. The principal tried to catch them and instead, woound getting
dog chewed. Ferris’ sister got irritated because he kept getting away
it, and the minute she tried to skip school, she got caught. In the end,
though, she stood up for Ferris.
Filed under: Trivia — admin @ 11:06 am
+ The Battle of Waterloo lasted nine and a half hours
+ The game Hangman was the inspiration for the TV show, Wheel Of Fortune
+ The U.S.S Enterprise was orginally called the U.S.S Yorktown
+ The longest name in the Bible is Mahershalalhashbaz
+ The only woman whose age is mentioned in the Bible is Sarah, in
Genesis 17:17, when she was 90 and told Abraham that she would bear him
a child, and in Genesis 23:1, when she died at age 127
Filed under: Friends and Family — admin @ 11:05 am
One of my best friends committed suicide today. Nobody knows why he did
it. He just did, I guess. I can not believe that this is for real. I
keep expecting to see him walk into Wal-Mart or something
Filed under: Trivia — admin @ 11:04 am
+ The only track and field event for which a world record has not been
set in the Olympics is the discus throw
+ The first athlete to high jump over seven feet was the American
Charlie Dumas, in 1956
+ There are 42 dots on a pair of dice
+ Canasta originated in Uraguay in the 1940s
Filed under: Movies, Books, TV, etc — admin @ 11:03 am
(Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet)
One of the best love stories of all time, Titanic is one of my favorite
movies. The movie begins with the Titanic having sunk and eighty or so
years ago, and a dive team was trying to bring up artifacts from the
wreck. They come in contact with old rose, who shared her story of the
fateful voyage. Young Rose was engaged to Cal Hockley, and extremely
rich man. Yet, she didn’t love him, and didn’t want to marry him. She
tried to commit suicicde by throwing herself off the ship, but Jack
saved her. Jack and Rose continued to become closer. Then the Titanic
hit hte iceberg. Rose essentially told Cal where he could go, and stayed
with Jack in the freezing water until he died. One of the saddest movies
I’ve ever seen, but I still love it.
Filed under: Trivia — admin @ 11:02 am
+ Egypt’s only woman pharaoh was Hatshepsut, who ruled from 1492 to 1458
B.C.
+ The only named dog to appear in a Shakespearen play was Crab, in The
Two Gentlemen Of Verona
+ Rembrandt painted 100 known self-portraits
+ In the novel Gone With The Wind, Scarlett O’Hara’s original first name
was Pansy
+ In the novel Gone With The Wind, Melenie’s pregnancy lasted 21 months
Filed under: Movies, Books, TV, etc — admin @ 11:01 am
(Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball)
18 children…. That’s what happens when two lonely people get together
and get married. Helen North had eight kids and Frank Beardsley had ten,
and they decided to get married and cause chaos.They had to deal with
everything from the oldest going off to the army, to the birth of their
19th child. Really cool, if you think about it. Busy parents, anyway.