McQueen Hackman Marines — Filmdom’s most famous car chases involved Steve McQueen in Bullitt and Gene Hackman in the French Connection. McQueen and Hackman both served as U.S. Marines.
Happy birthday United States Marine Corps.
Category: Omnibit
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-9-16
San Marino has been a republic since gaining independence from the Roman Empire in 301 A.D.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-9-16
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-8-16
Komodo dragons — the world’s largest lizards — are venomous. Yes, they will eat people when given the opportunity.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-8-16
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-7-16
The ocellated carpet viper kills 20,000 people a year in Africa, mostly farm workers.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-7-16
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-5-16
The world’s oldest city is Jericho in Israel. It’s thought to have been the planet’s largest in 7000 B.C. with a population of about 1,000.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-5-16
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-4-16
Ancient Egypt had two King Scorpions as rulers. Nobody knows their real names but their handle comes from the depictions of scorpions with hieroglyphics relating to them. The scorpion represented things like “storm” and “gale” to the Egyptians. Of course, it also represented “bad breath“. Mull that Dwayne Johnson.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-4-16 King Scorpions
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-3-16
How do you say “empty orchestra” in Japanese? Karaoke. Well, it’s a clipped compound, anyway. How do you say “orchestra” in Japanese? ōkesutora.
“Kara” does mean empty.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-3-16 empty orchestra
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-2-16
So what do the songs “The Unicorn” by the Irish Rovers and “The Cover of Rolling Stone” by Dr. Hook have in common? Shel Silverstine wrote the words. He did the same for the Johnny Cash hit “A Boy Named Sue”.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-2-16 Shel Silverstine 
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-1-16
November was called Blōtmōnaþ by the Anglo-Saxons. How would one pronounce “in the cold Blōtmōnaþ rain?”
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-1-16 Blōtmōnaþ
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-31-16
Herophilos of Alexandria reportedly vivisected at least 600 live prisoners.
Happy Halloween.