Robert Lincoln has been in the vicinity of every presidential assassin victim.
In 1865, of course he was with his father when he died.
In 1881, he was next to Garfield when he was shot.
In 1901, his train was passing through Buffalo as McKinley was being shot in that city.
In 1963, they buried John Kennedy at Arlington, where you can actually throw a stone from Kennedy’s grave to his.
If, relative to their sizes, a giraffe could jump as high as a grasshopper - he’d avoid a lot of trouble.
Make that Wolfram which, incidentally, is the name for it in Swedish.
And straight, and married, and a father.
And make a lot of baskets.
The bird known as the Dodo was named after the Dutch word for “Fat Arse”.
The key pads of a flute are traditionally lined with tissue taken from a certain fish’s air bladder.
Unfolded from its convolutions, the gray matter of a human brain would cover one square yard.
The mountain goat is not a goat, but a member of the antelope family.
Make that Wolfram which, incidentally, is the name for it in Swedish. **
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ACTUALLY, it looks like we were both wrong, as well as my high school physics teacher. But you were right on the spelling.
I work for one of the major cosmetics companies. I was formerly manufacturing supervisor over the color cosmetics department, which included lipstick manufacturing. I’m somewhat of an expert on lipstick.
I’ve never put either of these two things into lipstick. There is a lot of wax, but it’s not beeswax, it’s just regular wax. It’s a lot like crayons to be honest. As far as fish scales, lots of people seem to think this, but we’ve never actually seen it done.
Sorry.
The naked mole rat isn’t hairless, isnt a mole, and isnt a rat.
John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln in Ford’s Theater in Washington.
His brother, Edwin, was America’s most respected actor at the time of his death some years later. Thousands of people lined Washington’s streets to see his funeral procession.
While they were waiting, a cornice broke off of Ford’s Theater and fell into the crowd, killing twenty people.
The root hairs of the rye plant in one cubic inch of soil total over 6,000 miles in length. That’s six thousand. 6 x 10[sup]3[/sup] miles in one cubic inch.
Supposedly, as substantiated here, Tom Parker was actually an illegal immigrant from The Netherlands, originally named Andreas van Kuijk. Accordingly Parker would not leave the U.S. for fear he wouldn’t be let back in.
The North American Grasshopper Mouse is carnivorus & predatory. It eats grasshoppers, locusts, many other insects, & even other mice.
To stake out its territory or find a mate, it lets out a falsetto howl, like a miniature wolf.
It is also Bosda’s favorite beastie.
Every person farts 14 times per day.
If all the college students who attended UCLA were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
(Thanks Dorothy Parker!)
Not me!
Hell, I hit 14 before I get up in the morning.
The left lane on on highways is usually referred to as the passing lane.