Did you know...

that part of Lewis and Clark's mission was to search for
mammoths because of an extreme interest from
Thomas Jefferson?


NatGeo

Did you know...

that C.S. Lewis's full name was Clive Staples Lewis?

Did you know...

that there are 160,000 glaciers in the world. Of these, about 67,000 have been inventoried and extended data exists on only 79 glaciers. Of these 79, some are melting.

from journal articles quoted in State of Fear, Michael Crichton, 2004.

Did You Know...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, architecht of 9/11, also attempted, at different times, to attack the Sears Tower, the NYSE, and the Panama Canal, as well as to assassinate Presidents Carter and Clinton and the Pope?

whole list in Rosenberg's Inside the Revolution, page 127

Did you know...

that there is a campaign in Australia to replace the Easter Bunny with the Easter Bilby? The bunny has always had poor approval because of its historic and continuing damage to the continent since introduction in 1788 . There are now more chocolate Bilbies in Australia than real ones.








A Chocolate Bilby


A Real Bilby

Did you know...

that morocco was the first nation to recognize the United States of America as a sovereign nation and holds the longest standing trade agreement with the USA, since 1777?

Did you know...

that the yolk of an unfertilized ostrich egg is the largest single cell?

from Dr. Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information

Did you know...

...that human languages vary in expanse from the 85 consonants of the Ubyxian language and the 55 vowels of the Sedang tongue to the Rotokas language which includes only 11 letters and the 2 vowels of Abkhazian?

* from In the Beginning Was Information, by Dr. Werner Gitt

Did you know...

that Manhattan, once Dutch territory, was traded to the English for Palau? Bad deal, in the long run.

Common Misconceptions...

• "Shaving does not cause hair to grow back thicker or coarser or darker. This belief is due to the fact that hair that has never been cut has a tapered end, whereas, after cutting, there is no taper. Thus, it appears thicker, and feels coarser due to the sharper, unworn edges. Hair can also appear darker after it grows back because hair that has never been cut is often lighter due to sun exposure."
• The Black box, used for aviation accident investigation, is actually painted bright orange as to aid in recovering it from the crash site.
• Biological evolution does not address the origin of life; for that, see abiogenesis. The two are commonly and mistakenly conflated. Evolution describes the changes in gene frequencies that occur in populations of living organisms over time, and thus, presupposes that life already exists. Evolution likewise says nothing about or the origins of the universe.
• Etc.,
  

Did you know...

That Saddam Hussein wrote a political thriller novel? (Name: Get Out, Damned One!)
It is a tale of Arabs fighting off Christian and Jewish conspirators, the leader of whom is named Ezekiel. Ironically, it was released about the same time as Joel Rosenberg's Ezekiel Option.
It is said Saddam finished it on the eve of the "shock and awe" of March 19, 2003.

Did you know...

That the European Economic Union, precursor to the EU, was founded upon the Treaties of Rome? I'm not a conspiracy theorist (Revived Roman Empire), but I am a thinker.

Did You Know...

That the Sanhedrin has been reconvened?

Did you know?

That the name "Iran, " replacing "Persia" in 1935, is Persian for "Land of the Aryans."
Note: 1935 is during the reign of Hitler.

Did you know?

That an unknown man set off a cart-bomb on Wall Street in 1920, killing 38 and injuring over 400?

see also

Did you know?

That the Roman Catholic Church has elevated the first woman to sainthood?

Saint Alphonsa Muttathupadathu

Did you know?

American forces will be handing over Babylon to the Iraqi security forces within a month, and this will be the 12th of 18 provinces returend to Iraqi control?

Did you know?

That Saddam Hussein did not deploy his air force during Operation Iraqi Freedom? Speculations as to why include the rumor that he feared they would turn on him and bomb his palaces.



* according to Oliver North, War Stories (Washington, D.C.:Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2005) 240.

Did you know?

That some interpret the name "Chernobyl" in Russian as "wormwood."

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Did You Know?

The United States is one of only three countries worldwide not using the metric system, along with Liberia and Bangladesh.