Category: Omnibit

The leopard seal will attack humans. Really.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-24-17

No Miranda, a swastika is not automatically bad and neither are all Nazis. Nazi Paikidze-Barnes is the U.S. Women’s Chess Champion and is a great role model. She is not weak and meek even though her name means “gentle” in her native Georgian. Nazi is refusing to participate in the Women’s World Chess Championship in Tehran, Iran because of a requirement to wear a hijab.

That’s a good thing.

With regard to swastikas, the word means “lucky object” in Sanskrit. There is one on the St. Thomas World War I Memorial in England.

The British used it on war savings coupons during World War I. And it appeared on U.S. planes in at the time.

Of course, they appeared on U.S. planes during World War II but that was for a different reason.

 

 

Nazi Paikidze Barnes Strong And Independent

No Anthony, Buchanan, LIberia is not named for James Buchanan who is the only president born in Pennsylvania and generally considered to be the worst in US history. It’s named for his cousin Thomas who was that West African nation’s first governor. 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-23-17 Buchanan, LIberia

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.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 2-22-17

San Marino is the only country with more vehicles than people.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-21-17

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.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-20-17

Historical Prussia is no longer part of Germany. For that matter, neither is the State of the Teutonic Order.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-18-17

Danny Lloyd, the boy who saw redrum in The Shining, is now a biology teacher in Kentucky.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-17-17

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.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-16-17 Blue Banana

When a Brit says he lost two stones on his diet it means he had a pretty successful diet. A stone equals 14 pounds.

— William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-15-17