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Kanguru?
"In 1770, Captain Cook's ship Endeavour ran aground on the coast of Queensland, ...
Pyrrhic Victory
A formidable and courageous general, Pyrrus was enlisted by the Greek cities of ...
Wales
In 632 A.D. Caedwalla, King of Gwynedd (north Wales), went to war against King E...
Squinty-Eyed Gilbert
Gilbert Gottfried, famed for his squinty-eyed persona, developed his distinctive...
Pauncho Gonzo?
In 1969, Pancho Gonzalez beat Charlie Pasarell in a Wimbledon men's singles matc...
Stanley "H" Kaplan
"In [SAT/LSAT prep company founder Stanley H. Kaplan] Stanley Kaplan's sophomore...
AC/DC
While working as a mechanic (in a bra factory!) one day, Malcolm Young often not...
Birth of Grunge
Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm was among a group of pranksters who once advertised a...
Sure Man
In 1884 General Sherman received a telegram imploring him to become the Republic...
Julius Caesar: Veni, Vidi, ...
In 47 BC, having decisively defeated the king of Pontus, Pharnaces II, at Zela (...
Big Balsa
Despite his belief that the Polynesian islanders may have originated from South ...
Leonardo DiCaprio: Christening
Leonardo DiCaprio was christened in honor of Leonardo DaVinci - after his pregna...
Bottom Heavy
In the late 19th Century, it became fashionable to leave the bottom button of a ...
Serendipitoast?
According to the traditional account, the invention of Melba toast was a serendi...
No Kidding
Twentieth Century Fox chief Darryl Zanuck cast Robert Evans as bullfighter Pedro...
Grand Panjandrum
One day in 1755 the celebrated actor Charles Macklin boasted to Samuel Foote tha...
Jumblies
Whence does the shape of the shallow champagne glass derive? Incredibly, from wa...
Stilling Feet?
One day in the late 1740s, the naturalist Benjamin Stillingfleet was invited by ...
Intercourse, Pennsylvania R...
How did the Bay City Rollers get their name? One day Bay City Rollers
drummer D...
Son of Pete?
One wintry day in 1905, 11-year old Frank Epperson accidentally left a glass of ...
Dizzy Cat
During the Depression Dizzy Gillespie's specialty, the "snake hips," earned him ...
Blunt Order
One day Cardinal Richelieu became disgusted with the barbaric practice (common u...
Real McCoy
One night a drunk man in a bar loudly insisted that Kid McCoy was not the boxer ...
Cassandra Peterson
In 1981, Cassandra Peterson was signed by KHJ TV (LA) to serve as the hostess of...
New Coinage?
Liberace's concert in Madison Square Garden in June 1954 was panned by many crit...
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
How did Screamin' Jay Hawkins get his name? "Pop Teasley, he had a variety show ...
Gung Ho
While serving as an observer with the Chinese Army in the late 1930's, U.S. Mari...
Cordon Bleu
Mme du Barry once invited Louis XV - who had long held that women made inferior ...
Kicking Horse Pass
In August of 1858, the Palliser Expedition reached the Rocky Mountains. John Pal...
Moët
In 1967, an underrated American driver named Dan Gurney piloted his Ford racecar...
Handprints
Silent screen star Norma Talmadge was the first actress to have her handprints a...
Coal Burning
When Nathan Birnbaum was growing up on Manhattan's Lower East Side, New Yorkers ...
Classic Durocher
After a game against the New York Giants one day in the 1940s, legendary Brookly...
Beatniks
"John Clellon Holmes... and I [drug addict Herbert Huncke] were sitting around t...
Pointed Lesson
One day the young Benjamin Franklin was asked by a wastedr to demonstrate how hi...
Fifth Column
In February 1936, Emilio Mola and several other Spanish Army officers (including...
Procrusty Officials?
At the 1908 Olympic Games, the marathon, originally exactly 26 miles long, was o...
Grrrreat News?
Like many musicologists, Yale University professor Willie Ruff - an accomplished...
Animal Lover
Walt Disney's work place was infested with a family of mice. While other employe...
Apelles & the Cobbler
When a cobbler criticized the shoes worn by a figure in one of Apelles' painting...
Italian Screwdriver
Famed California surfer Tom Harvey had a great passion for "Italian Screwdrivers...
Thunder
Having decided that a scene in Appius and Virginia called for a clap of t...
Red Red Wine
According to local legend, the notable French white wine Corton-Charlemagne owes...
Lost Generation
"[Gertrude Stein] had some ignition trouble with the old Model T Ford she then d...
Hobson's Choice
Customers hoping to rent one of Thomas Hobson's horses were taken into the stabl...
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