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A shot of vodka — 80 proof –has 96 calories, but there are no carbs, sugar or fat. Of course there are no vitamins, proteins or fiber either.
If you want to make it healthy you must add tomato juice. Or orange juice, whatever your preference.
Charles Dawes was the vice president under Calvin Coolidge, and created the Dawes Plan which successfully ended an international crisis caused by the World War I reparations forced on Germany, and for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize.
His most memorable achievement, however, may be the melody for Tommy Edwards 1958 number 1 It’s All in the Game.
Dawes wrote the music in 1911 as Melody in A Major which was itself a popular tune in the 19teens and early 20s.
Dawes can be consider an ur-Buckaroo Banzai.
The oldest boat — at least known boat — is the Pesse canoe, which is a dugout canoe discovered in 1955 during the the construction of the Dutch A28 motorway. It is estimated to have been built between 8040 and 7510 B.C. This doesn’t mean that there weren’t older boats, though. Wood rots.
Here’s some shocking news. Electric eels hunt in packs.
Pistachios stay fresh up to a year in a refrigerator or up to 3 years in the freezer, whether shelled or unshelled.
Every state except Maine William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 4-5-21
Every state except Maine, Rhode Island, Alaska and Hawaii is home to at least one species of venomous snake. Pennsylvania has three: the timber rattlesnake, the endangered eastern massauga rattlesnake and the copperhead. Remember, Robert James, check the eyes. If they are elliptical it is poisonous, round it is not.
The original version of Putting On The Ritz did not mention Gary Cooper and the avenue was Harlem’s Lenox, not Park.
Not the original version
The Proserpina and Cornalvo dams in Spain were built by the Romans in the 1st or 2nd century A.D.
They are still being used.
Barbara McKee was a secretary whose friends called her Bobby. She worked for Monument Records and her boss was the legendary Fred Foster. Kris Kristofferson needed help with the name of the subject for his song and Foster suggested he use hers.
Kristofferson misheard it and that’s how Me and Bobby McGee came to be.
And no, Anthony, the first hit with it was not by Janis Joplin by the Roger “King of the Road” Miller.
Roman gladiators didn’t eat much meat. It was mostly beans and barley. It was cheap and the extra fat the carbs provided was useful protection from glancing blows. They also apparently used a nutrient drink of vinegar, water and plant ash for extra calcium. Yum.