Sloe is a plum-like fruit. It’s what is the sloe is sloe gin.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-23-16
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Joseph Stalin had partially webbed feet and his left arm was shorter than his right.
What’s is hoar frost? That is snow that forms on surfaces that are colder than the frost point in the air around them, so water goes straight from vapor to solid. It’s often the kind on tree branches, telephone wires and other skinny items exposed to the chilly air.
So what is graupel? That is what happens when snowflakes fall through a cloud that contains supercooled water droplets. The droplets freeze onto the snowflakes and form misshapen, lumpy balls.
Happy winter.
A Russian TV company remade every single episode of the ’90s sitcom Married With Children in Russian with a Russian cast. They called it Schastlivy Vmeste which means happy together. Shoe Betcha.
Prisoners have a lot of time on their hands. That is one explanation of why so many novels are written in jail cells. Name one? Okay. Cervantes was doing time when he started writing “Don Quixote.”
Terry Gilliam, that icon of British humor, is not English. He was born in Minneapolis.
Bob Hope, on the other hand, was born in London.
Yes Virgil, the O.K. in the O.K. Corral stands for Old Kindersley. Why was it called Old Kindersley? Don’t know.
Top baby name — Worried about America becoming Hispanic? The most popular boy’s name for newborns in New Mexico in 1910 was Jose. Last year, it was Noah as it was in nine other states including California and Texas.
It’s Irishization that must be feared. Liam was the most popular baby name for boys in 14 states in 2015 including New York and Florida.
Liam, of course, is just another way of saying William which was the most popular name 11 states including most of the Deep South.
Oliver is tops in Washington, South Dakota and Wisconsin; Mason leads in Pennsylvania and Delaware; and Henry in Minnesota and Nebraska. New Hampshire prefers Jackson, Oklahoma, Elijah, and Massachusetts, Benjamin.
Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis was once Fidel Castrol’s gambling czar and director of intelligence for his air force.
Ivan the Terrible asked Queen Elizabeth I if England would provide him with asylum if his enemies gained power in Russia. She said yes but he’d have to provide for himself during his stay.
This was after he called her an old maid.