Devon Island, in the Canadian arctic, is the world’s largest uninhabited island, as big as Vermont and New Hampshire combined. A settlement of 53 Inuit relocated in 1934, saying even they couldn’t survive there.
Not in play: re. Shoichi Yokoi, 1972, there are 2 confirmed holdouts who surrendered later, in 1974: Japanese holdout - Wikipedia
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The Devon Rex is a tall-eared, short-haired cat breed that emerged in Devon, England during the late 1950s. They are known for their slender bodies, wavy coat, and large ears, and are sometimes described as “pixie cats”, “alien cats” or “monkeys in cat suits”.
Zener cards were invented by Karl Zener in 1930 to teas for extra-sensory perception. A subject was to identify whether an unseen card has a circle, suare, plus, star or wavy lines. Decades of testing by J B Rhine at Duke University failed to produce statistical evidence that anyone possessed ESP’ But they still always beat Kansas.
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In play: The Rhine River is considered one of Europe’s most important rivers. At 760 miles, it is the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe, after the Danube. Some of the biggest cities on the Rhine include Cologne, Düsseldorf, Rotterdam, Strasbourg and Basel.
I took it as a reference to Duke University “always” beating the University of Kansas in basketball.
In play: Eau de Cologne was originally a particular type of perfume (of a spirit-citrus formulation), developed by Giovanni Maria Farina in the city of Cologne in 1709.
The term has since become more broadly (and sometimes inconsistently) applied to perfumes with a concentration of aromatic compounds of between 3% and 8%. In the U.S., the term “cologne” is commonly used to describe a product formulated for, and marketed to, men.
The city of Cologne, Germany (or Köln, as it’s called in German) was founded and established in Ubii territory in the 1st century AD as the Roman Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, the first word of which is the origin of its name.
A tribute to Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm, the undeservedly obscure German composer, was featured in a 1969 episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Whoopee John Wilfahrt, a native of New Ulm, Minnesota, recorded over 1,000 polka-band songs over a career into the 1950s. Wilfahrt was the second artist signed by the new Decca record company, after Bing Crosby.
The Turners are members of German-American gymnastics clubs, or Turnverein. They sprung from a gymnastics movement in Germany in the early 19th Century, and were brought to the United States by German immigrants, particularly in the Midwest, in the 1840s and 1850s.
Many Midwestern cities have (or had) a “Turner Hall,” though many of those halls have been converted to other uses now. The Turner Hall in New Ulm, Minnesota, is said to be the oldest Turner Hall in the U.S. still being used for its original function, and its rathskellar is believed to be the oldest continually-functioning bar in the state of Minnesota.
Turner, California, is the former name of Tuttle, California, a town in the Central Valley of California near Merced. The population of Tuttle, California is about 100 people. Tuttle, California is located on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
In 1948, the US Post Office issued a commemorative stamp honorind the American Turners who compete in that sport. However, as a trade from which the surname derives, turners were workmen who made things on a lathe.
Actress Janine Turner is now 57 years old. Ten years ago, in 2010, she founded Constituting America, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that educates and informs the public about the U.S. Constitution.
Constituting America is dedicated to increasing the general knowledge and understanding of the U.S. Constitution and is committed to reversing the trend of civic apathy and ignorance that exists among the American society.
British artist JMW Turner is known for his imaginative landscape paintings and expressive seascapes; he was also eccentric and intensely private. In 1841, on the day of the national census, he rowed a boat into the Thames so he could not be counted as being present at any property.
Turner Landing, Kentucky is on the Ohio River, about 25 miles upriver from the Mississippi River.
Turner Landing, Illinois is on the Mississippi River, about 200 miles upriver from the Ohio River.
Both are unincorporated communities. It is not documented who the one in Ohio was named after. The one in Kentucky was named after Oscar Turner, a US Representative from Kentucky who attended Transylvania University. Transylvania University, in Lexington KY, is colloquially known as “Transy”.
The Turner Diaries is a racist, antisemitic 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, published under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. The post-apocalyptic novel has inspired several hate crimes since its publication, both in the US and UK. Timothy McVeigh had several pages of the novel in his possession when he was arrested for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
On March 22, 1995, Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned to Earth after setting a record for 438 days in outer space.
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov’s record-setting time in space was spent on Mir, a modular space station which was assembled in Earth orbit by the Soviet Union, and then Russia, over the course of 1986 through 1996.
Due to the station’s advancing age, and loss of funding, Russia discontinued missions to the Mir station in 1999, though there was one final, privately-funded manned maintenance mission to the station in 2000. Mir was de-orbited on March 23, 2001, and the fragments which survived atmospheric re-entry landed in the South Pacific Ocean.
Humph. The two teams have played 13 times. Duke leads the series 8-5. Six of these games have been played in the NCAA tournament, where each team has won 3 of the six games.
In play: Ivan IV, better known as Ivan the Terrible, became Grand Prince of Moscow at the age of 3, following the death of his father. At age 16, he was the first to be crowned “Tsar of all the Russias” in 1547.
Both the first Tsar (Ivan IV) and the last Tsar (Nicholas II) abdicated their thrones.
Tsar Ivan IV (known also as “Ivan the Terrible” or “Ivan the Magnificent”) did pretend to abdicate in 1575, but then returned to power and reigned for another eight years.