epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Nathan Belofsky [Belofsky, Nathan]

Dr. Coriat also noticed that stuttering patients would sometimes gesture with their hands, something he found “peculiar.” From this he was able to discern that stutterers stuttered because they were ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-06-21 | Author:Botham, Noel [Noel, Botham,]

The Book of Useless Information The three cardinal virtues are faith, hope, and charity. It was only after 440 C.E. that December 25 was celebrated as the birth date of ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:John Lloyd & John Mitchinson [Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John]

The South American revolutionary Simón Bolívar was, at various times, president of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Venezuela is Spanish for ‘Little Venice’. In 17th-century Venice, women’s high-heeled shoes ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Seymour Morris, Jr. [Morris, Seymour Jr.]

Living Well (on $1,000 a Day) 1880 William H. Vanderbilt sold $50 million of his New York Central stock and reinvested the money in government bonds. That very day, he ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Rainer Stahlberg

What to do: ■ Take a defensive driving course. ■ Do not drive by yourself. ■ You can make good money by purchasing shares in companies manufacturing surveillance equipment. ■ ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Fuller, Gary [Fuller, Gary]

Dr. G says: The nineteenth-century fall of Khartoum even today fuels radical Islam. It is surprising that prominent current leaders have not claimed to be the Mahdi. Trivia questions about ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-18 | Author:Cary McNeal [McNeal, Cary]

* * * 476 FACT: Currently, one in nine African-American males aged twenty-five to twenty-nine is incarcerated. But he’s already in contact with the Cincinnati Bengals about signing once he ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Noel Botham [Botham, Noel]

Astronauts get taller when they are in space. The farthest point from any ocean is in China. There are more than one hundred million dogs and cats in the United ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-09-29 | Author:Tom Shea [Shea, Tom]

8. “SEND IN THE CLOWNS” (FROM A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC) Stephen Sondheim’s one and only hit song (by himself, that is— West Side Story and Gypsy have done him just ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Breverton, Terry [Breverton, Terry]

Natural Contraceptive In his De Materia Medica, Dioscorides lists juniper berries, when crushed and put on the penis or vagina before intercourse, as a contraceptive. Native North Americans used juniper ...

mobi |eng | 2009-12-09 | Author:Davis, Kenneth C. [Davis, Kenneth C.]

WHO’S WHO OF THE CELTIC GODS This list is divided into two parts. Part I comprises the chief gods as they would have been known to early Celts in Europe ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Ann Leary

twelve “Rebecca McAllister called three times already this morning,” said my receptionist, Kendall, when I walked into my office on Monday morning. “It’s nine-fifteen,” I said. “She’s already called three ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Andrew Thompson

1 3 2 200 Curious Questions & Intriguing Answers It’s true that chewing gum does resist the body’s attempts to break it down, but it takes the same amount of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Wendy Northcutt

Reference: The Malaysian Insider DARWIN SAYS, MERITS DEBATED! We are divided about whether to give this man a Darwin Award. Local news reports indicate that inept do-it-yourself vehicle conversions are ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-09 | Author:Amy Wallace

13 Deposed Dictators … After the Fall IDI AMIN, Uganda Amin seized power in 1971 and launched a reign of terror that led to the deaths of an estimated 300,000 ...