Category: Omnibit

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.

The first successful appendectomy took place in Iowa in 1885.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, was discovered in 1935 by Jimmy Angel, a daredevil pilot looking for gold. The falls, on Mount Auyantepui in Venezuela, has an unbroken drop of 2,648 feet and a total height of 3,212 feet. It is over 1,000 feet higher than any other known falls.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

Want to get out of the rain? Try moving to Nevada, our driest state, where the annual rainfall averages a mere 9.5 inches.

BTW, the average was 8.8. inches when this Omnibit was conceived in the ’80s.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

Don’t want to give our politicians any ideas, but in the 1600s there was a tax on every fireplace in England and Wales.

–William W. Lawrence Sr.

Tawdry, as you must know, means cheap and gaudy but this was not always true. The name comes from Saint Audrey’s Lace, a silk ribbon worn around the neck during the Middle Ages. Medieval merchants sold cheap, bright substitutes to country bumpkins who couldn’t afford the real thing. They called it “tawdry” an obvious take off of St. Audrey.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

Yes, Robert James, turtles are laid back parents. The mother sea turtle simple digs a hole in the sand, lays her eggs, covers them and returns to the sea. The sun’s heat hatches the eggs.

— William W. Lawrence Sr.

There are no permanent residents on Kahoolawe, the eighth largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

–William W. Lawrence Sr.