News, Entertainment, Enlightenment
The Hindu Jagannath Temple in Puri, India had a fesitval in which images of their gods were placed in huge wagons and rolled in a procession. These wagons would not stop even if it meant worshippers being crushed beneath the wheels. The English called the wagons “juggernauts” and from them we get the word for unstoppable object.
Liquid Diamond Seas — It’s very, very, very hard to melt a diamond. At 1292 degrees Farenheit, they burn if oxygen is present. If oxygen is absent they simply turn into graphite.
It is possible to melt them but requires 10 million time normal atmospheric pressure.
Scientists think Neputune and Uranaus have this pressure along with large quantities of carbon. They say it is possible that these planets have seas of liquid diamonds.
An unemployed English house painter named Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate Presdient Andrew Jackson in 1835. It was the first time anyone ever attempt to kill America’s leader.
Lawrence was taken into custody by bystanders including Congressman Davy Crockett. That possibly saved Lawrence’s life as Jackson was beating him with his cane.
Lawrence was found not guilty be reason of insanity — he claimed to be King Richard III – and was incarcerated in mental institutions until his death on June 13, 1861.
The Federated States of Micronesia is 1,678 miles wide or about the distance between Philadelphia and Denver. It’s land area though is 271 square miles, which is less than half the size of Chester County, Pa.
You say the banana is a herb? We say you are misusing semantics. The banana is a berry according to the botonical classification. This means it’s a fleshy fruit without a stone produced from a single flower containing one ovary.
The banana plant, however, is not a tree but herbaceous which means that it has no persistent woody stem above ground. The banana plant can be fairly called a herb.
Walmart sold 115,000 American flags on Sept. 11, 2001. It sold but 6,400 on the same date the year before.
John Adams of Harford, Pa. is considered to be the earliest-born person photographed. He was born Jan. 22, 1745 in Worcester, Ma. and died at the age of 104. His daguerreotype was taken in 1846.
There are other contenders though, especially a slave named Ceasar of Bethlehem, N.Y. who was said to be 114 when he died in 1852. Ceasar is said to be the last person to be subject to legal slavery in the North.
The FBI was started by Charles Bonaparte. He was Napoleon Bonaparte’s great nephew. Charles’ father was a Maryland farmer. His first name was Jerome but he went by Bo.
Famed Egyptian queen Cleopatra was Greek. And proud of it too. She wouldn’t even speak Egyptian.
The West African nations of Liberia and Sierra Leone were both founded as settlements for freed American slaves — Sierra Leone by the British for slaves freed in the American Revolution, and Liberia by American abolitionist. Ironically, slavery was reinstituted in Sierra Leone and didn’t didn’t end until 1928.