Wednesday, April 4, 2007

SILT -- 4/4/07

Stuff I learned:

Tito was Croatian.
The Sava River separates Croatia from Bosnia/Herzegovena.
Merton College is part of Oxford.
In Japanese, kohhi is coffee, kaji is fire, and atsui means "heated."
Cardial Wolsey was an advisor to Henry VIII.
Other Voices, Other Rooms is the first novel by Truman Capote.
The Christmas Rose has black roots.
Betty's Blue and Twickle Purple are varieties of lavendar.
Cameron Diaz was dating Justin Timberlake in 2006.
Stedman's last name is Graham.
Shannon Tweed is the wife of Gene Simmons.
Jackie Onassis once had a relatioship with a man named Maurice Templesman.
The Pierce Arrow is a kind of car.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is also a Broadway musical.
Harker and Morris teamed up to kill Count Dracula.
Jean Valjean dies in the presence of Cosette, his beloved.
Randall McMurphy is smothered to death in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Kingfisher is a brand of Indian beer.
The Battle of Inkerman was during the Crimean War.
There was a Czar in 1604 named "The False Dmitri."
Boris Coudanov's death triggered the "Time of Troubles."
Carl Sagan wrote the first scientific paper on nuclear winter.

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