Category: Omnibit

The king of hearts is the king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

William W. Lawrence Omnibit — The flu killed more than 100 men on the World War I troop ship President Grant.

Among those it spared was Branch Rickey, a major in the 1st Gas Regiment, albeit he had to be carried to shore at  Brest on a stretcher due to pneumonia.

Rickey would be the one to break the color barrier in major league baseball by signing Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Hat tip VFW magazine

 

World War I troop ship President Grant

 

Scientists think that there are 20 times more galaxies in the universe than there are people on Earth.

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

One of the great advances in labor law occurred in 61 AD with the Lex Petronia which forbade employers to send their slaves to be eaten by animals without a judicial verdict.

Lex Petronia William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 9-4-17

Horace Greeley, founder, publisher and editor of the New York Tribune, popularized the phase “Go west young man,” which was first published by John Soule, an Indiana newspaperman. Greeley always insisted the word news was plural. He once queried a reporter by telegram: “Are there any news?” The reporter wired back: “Not a new.”

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

Oh Canada. It was on Sept. 1, 1905 that the districts of Alberta and Saskatchewan were split from the Northwest Territories became full-fledged provinces.

The southern border of the provinces once belonged to the United States as they were part of the Louisiana Purchase. They were traded in 1818 for parts of Rupert’s Land which include large parts of  North Dakota and Minnesota. The treaty established the 49th parallel east of the Continental Divide the boundary of Canada and the United States.

Sept. 1, 1905 William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 9-1-17

 

No, Christopher Anthony, the ten-gallon hat does not hold ten gallons. It holds three-fourths of a gallon.

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

Latchstring is the English word with the most consonants.

–William W. Lawrence Sr.