Today is the 12th and last day of Christmas and tonight is the 12th Night. It’s a celebration. Shakespeare wrote a play for it.
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The ancient Greeks were hip. Their music used the same Penatonic scale found in rock, jazz, the blues, Gospel and Celtic folk music.
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Black paint weighs more. It’s one of the reasons airlines avoid using it for their airliners.
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Tarzan Fighter Pilot — Tarzan was not just an ape man, he was also a fighter pilot with the R.A.F. In Tarzan and the Foreign Legion, written in 1944, he is shot down over the jungle where he reverts to using his jungle skills to fight the Japanese. It was the last work by Edgar Rice Burroughs to be published during his life.
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Japan’s Kimigayo has the oldest lyrics of any national anthem dating to at least 1,000 A.D.
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The last spots on Earth to move on to 2017 will be Baker Island and Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific. They are the only named places in the time zone UTC 12:00.
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Oil spread on water can stop small waves. Benjamin Franklin knew this. His walking stick had a special compartment in which he would keep cooking oil. He would wave it over ponds in Philadelphia, calm the waters and mess with people’s heads.
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Most Americans will get cancer, research indicates. Chalk it up to the benefit of living to an old age. Autopsy studies suggest that 80 percent of American men in their 80s have small amounts of cancer in their prostate. Most of this went undiagnosed, though, because it never caused any problems.
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Gaza, as in that place of controversy in the Mideast, was founded by people from Crete — called Philistines in the Bible — more than 1,100 years before Christ. Palestine is a word first used by the Ancient Greeks,
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McDonald’s in Nova Scotia serve lobster. So does Subway. Only in season, though.