Puzzles & Games
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Alex Stone [Stone, Alex]

* * * * Though some have tried. In April 2011, French footwear designer Christian Louboutin sued rival Yves Saint Laurent for issuing a red-soled shoe, claiming that red soles ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-31 | Author:Reti, Richard [Reti, Richard]

The attack on the queenside for some time interrupted is now resumed and brings about a speedy termination. 49 ... Kf8 50.b5 Resigns If 50...a×b5 51. a×b5 Be8 52. b×c6 ...
( Category: Chess March 26,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Trivia March 26,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Trivia March 26,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Trivia March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:H.G. Wells

* * * V EXTENSIONS AND AMPLIFICATIONS OF LITTLE WAR Now that battle of Hook's Farm is, as I have explained, a simplification of the game, set out entirely to ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-28 | Author:Nigel Goldman [Nigel Goldman]

London Heathrow Airport, 11 March 2004, 11.35am On this drizzly March morning, no other travellers took much notice of the three casually dressed Eastern Europeans who had flown economy, landed ...
( Category: Gambling March 26,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Trivia March 26,2014 )
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. ■ ...
( Category: Disaster Relief March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Mason Currey [Currey, Mason]

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) “My life has been regulated by insomnia,” Bourgeois told an interviewer in 1993. “It’s something that I have never been able to understand, but I accept it.” ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-03-25 | Author:Manning Rubin

7. THE SCENT OF MUSIC During your drive use aromas to form novel associations between smells and sounds. Instead of using a visual stimulation, this exercise associates auditory stimulation—music—with a ...
( Category: Nervous System March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society [Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society]

On the Road Forty-one percent of people ages 18 to 24 wear seat belts. Only 18 percent of people over age 65 do. If your car is more than 42 ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts March 26,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Trivia March 26,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Trivia March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-07 | Author:Bee Wilson [Wilson, Bee]

My mortar and pestle comes from Thailand and is fashioned from craggy black granite. I like it far better than those restrained white-china mortars, whose rough insides set my teeth ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )