Who was Andrea Palladio? He was a famous Venetian architect in the 1500s. He based his designs on the symmetry, perspective and values of formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks. It became popular in Britain and then in the New World. Especially among Virginia planters. Mount Vernon is loosely based on the style.
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San Marino is the only country with more vehicles than people.
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Yellow fever is why Philadelphia is not the capital of the United States, or at least a big reason. An epidemic in 1793 — when it was the capital — killed about 5,000 which was 10 percent of the population. The powers that be figured it was just too unhealthy a place.
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Historical Prussia is no longer part of Germany. For that matter, neither is the State of the Teutonic Order.
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Danny Lloyd, the boy who saw redrum in The Shining, is now a biology teacher in Kentucky.
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No Anthony, The Blue Banana is not a fruit. It is the name for an industrialized section of Western Europe from southern England to northern Italy that has a banana shape when imposed on a map. The original graphic artist made it blue. About 111 million persons live there.
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When a Brit says he lost two stones on his diet it means he had a pretty successful diet. A stone equals 14 pounds.
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Valentine was a popular name back in late Roman days. In fact three Saint Valentines are considered by the Catholic Church to have been martyred on Feb. 14 in the Third Century. They are a priest in Rome, a bishop in Terni and someone who died with several companions in Africa.
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You think your enemy is planning something nasty? Get your grandma to leave a fish head on his door. That’s how it’s done in Sicily. It has been SOP for a while. Dante wrote about it in 1308. When things really start to escalate they leave goat heads and then horses head. At that point it’s an offer you can’t refuse. This is for you Brad.
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Who was Newton Earp? He was Wyatt’s, Morgan’s and Virgil’s older brother. He was not at the O.K. Corral. He was a farmer then moved to California and became a carpenter. He died in 1928 at the age of 90.