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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-10-15
No Anthony, black pepper is not an American native. Its roots are in Java, and it was once so valuable that a small amount made a royal gift. It’s great demand was a reason for seeking a seat route to the East. Of course, that led to the discovery of red pepper in the New World.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-8-15
A tuna must keep swimming to live. It would suffocate if it stopped. Now we know what makes Charlie run.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-7-15
A pack of wolves killed 40 people in the city of Paris in 1450.
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 8-6-15
The first pocket Kodak camera was introduced in 1895. It was mentioned two years later in Bram Stocker’s novel Dracula.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-5-15
Ann Hodges of Alabama is the only person in history to have been sturck by a meteorite. It hurt.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-4-15
You’ve heard the media desribed as the “Fourth Estate” but what was the Second Estate? That was in, in the Estates-General of Medeval France, the nobles. The First Estate was the clergy and the Third Estate was the common people.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-3-15
The USS Irene Forsyte was part of the US Navy during World War II. It was armed with a 4-inch gun, a 40 mm gun and two 20 mm guns. And just as the naval vessels in continental times,it was propelled by sails. It was meant to decoy German submarines into attacking it. None ever did.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 8-1-15
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor was the first women to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons. She was an American. She famously told Winston Churchill that she would give him poison if he was her husband. Churchill famously responded that if he was her husband he would drink it. Churchill was half American.
Lady Astor’s first husband was Robert Gould Shaw II who was the cousin of Col. Robert Gould Shaw who was played by Matthew Broderick in the 1989 Oscar winning movie Glory. She divorced him but she never poisoned him.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-31-15
Spaniard Joan Pujol Garcia received a special Iron Cross from Adolph Hitler and an knighthood from King George VI for his World War II service. He was an almost unbelievably effective allied spy who pretended really well to be working for the Nazis.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-30-15
Tigers killed 1,000 persons a year in India in the early 20th century.