Who was Mac Bethad mac FindlaĆch? He was a king of Scotland back in 1057. You’ve heard of him. He is better known as MacBeth.
Now, who is Lady MacBeth better known as?
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No Anthony, hydrogen dioxide is not water. Water is H20, which means it is not dioxide but monoxide. The proper scientific name for water is water.
OK, oxidane is used as well.
If you want to mess with people’s heads you can call it dihyrdogen monoxide (DHMO).
Dolphins don’t drink water. It’s too salty where they live. They get their liquid from the food they eat.
Folk singer Woody Guthrie was a suspect in The Black Dahlia murder. He had sent creepy letters to a woman in California that caused police to take a look at him.
His father was a leader in Democrat politics in Oklahoma and reportedly lynched American Americans.
What do Wichita, Ks., Omaha, Neb. and the states of Iowa and Kansas have in common? They are named for Indian tribes.
The Persian emperor Cyrus the Great ended up not so great. He was killed in battle with the army of Tomyris, queen of the Massagetae. Tomyris had his head cut off and stuffed in a wine sack filled with blood.
September has twice as many summer days as June.
So you think the last major cavalry battle was in the Civil War? Or the Napoleonic wars? Nope. It occurred less than 100 years ago — Aug. 31, 1920 — and was between Poland and invading communists from the Soviet Union. The Poles had 1,700 cavalrymen. The Soviets had 10 times that number.
The Poles won. It is known as the Battle of KomarĆ³w, or the ZamoÅÄ Ring.
Sure you know that the doughnut cutter was invented by John F. Blondel of Maine in 1872 but how about giving a little credit to sea captain Hanson Gregory who actually invented the doughnut hole itself. That was in 1847.
Thomas Jefferson loved wine. He bought so much of the good stuff it almost bankrupted him.