From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical ...
Here are some fun facts about orange cats! 1. Orange tabby cats are almost always male. This is a really interesting fact and it tells us that sex and coat color genetics are somehow related, at least in orange cats. Up to 80% of orange cats are male and nobody knows why. 2. ...
One of the major sources of income for families in Morocco’s Northern Rif region is cannabis (marijuana) cultivation. In fact, the word “reefer” derives from the word rif. The cannabis, known in Arabic as kif, is then processed and sold as hashish.[3] ...
He was the last of his family, the waiter added-they had once been great and rich people-but he had no descendants;in fact the waiter mentioned with complacency, as if it were a story on which the locality prided itself, that the Conte had been unfortunate in love, and had never marri...
There is a contemporary Saudi legend that when Winston Churchill was determining the boundaries between Saudi Arabia and Jordan, he hiccupped from too much brandy; his hand slipped, and he bequeathed to Saudi Arabia several thousand square kilometers of not very valuable Jordanian land. This tract...
Warbeck had been promised his life, but in the same interview the king insisted that Perkin Warbeck publicly admit, in front of his wife, the extent of his deception; that he was not, in fact, the duke of York, and that he was an impostor from Tournai. It may well be that Katherine...
Watching a president speak on television today is so typical that most people do not even tune in when President Obama has a scheduled speech. In fact, most people just get annoyed that their favorite TV show is pre-empted for a presidential speech. However, in the early days television bec...
Professor Janine Barchas of the University of Texas at Austin and author of Matters of Fact in Jane Austen has also noted that Austen used yet another Wentworth family name in the novel Emma:“In the 13th century, a Robert Wentworth married a rich heiress by the name of Emma Wodehouse.” ...
“With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.” —Dan Airely “I had learned a basic truth about human nature, that the stress and strain of relationships can change us beyond recognition, blurring the lines between kindness and cruelty, loy...
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