Prior to being chased by a knife-wielding maniac, 18-year-old Curtis played a surly waitress in an episode of Columbo titled "The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case." Apparently, getting gigs on the small screen mystery series was a family tradition, as her mother Janet Leigh played a ki...
For example, the price of wheat in the United States, adjusted for inflation, has fallen by about two-thirds in the last 200 years. Since 1950, the world’s per capita food production has increased by about one percent per year. The incidence of famine has diminished, with famines in ...
According to Thurmond and Holmes's confessions, Hart was killed about an hour after they kidnapped him. The mencalled in their first ransomdemand to the Hart residence at 9:30 pm, about four hours after Hart vanished. At this point, Hart had already been thrown off the bridge and was lik...
A: Contrails are human-induced clouds that usually form at very high altitudes (usually above 8 km – about 26,000 ft) where the air is extremely cold (less than -40ºC). Because of this, contrails form not when an airplane is taking off or landing, but while it is at cruise al...
took his helmet off and talked with trainers before jogging off the field, and later reported that he suffered a cut on his face and had a towel covering his eye while jogging off the field, which is a much better sign than any possible concussion symptoms if that is indeed the case. ...
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top of ones head. Those living in India tend to know a little more about his life and acts, but everyone in the world should know more about what he did for the people of India. There always seems to be something new you can learn about this particularly interesting and historic figure...
Fun facts about gold How is gold used? Additional resources The element gold is a pirate's booty and an ingredient in microcircuits. It's been used to make jewelry since at least 4000 B.C. and to treat cancer only in recent decades. It's in the pot at the end of the rainbow ...
In the process, the salary cap could skyrocket. The cap stands at $198.6 million and has jumped by an average of about 6% over the past seven seasons. After the league renegotiates the deals, the cap could jump dramatically. As was the case in the NBA, when players who cam...
"Violence has been in decline over long stretches of history, and today we are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our species' time on earth. According to anthropologists like Lawrence Keeley, Stephen LeBlanc, Phillip Walker, and Bruce Knauft, these factors combine to yield populatio...