Category: Omnibit

Cleopatra was born 2,560 years after the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Now mull this: She died just 2,037 years before the iPhone was unveiled.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-13-17

Remington Arms World War I — Remington Arms  is said to have provided more than half the guns used by the Allies in World War I  even though the U.S. didn’t enter the war until the year before it ended.  It’s factory in Bridgeport, CT was arguably the largest in the world in 1917.

Remington Arms World War I William Lawrence Omnibit 11-11-17

Fishermen in the Atlantic are still injured by dredging mustard gas canisters dumped after the various wars.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-10-17

Not-so-macho songwriter Cole Porter served in the French Foreign Legion. Well, he says he did and the French Foreign Legion says he did so who are we to say otherwise?

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-9-17

MI6 is famed as the place where James Bond and George Smiley worked, and most have heard of Britain’s MI5 which is the agency responsible for counter-intelligence. So what was MI2? That was the department tasked with spying on the United States.

MI stands for military intelligence and came about during World War I as to describe the departments of the Directorate of Military Intelligence which was part of the British War Office. There were a total of 21 of them. MI4 handled maps, for instance.

There was a reorganization in 1965 and only MI5 and MI6 remain as terms in use and only because of popular culture.

MI2 William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-8-17

The classic American travel song “I’ve Been Everywhere” was originally written Down Under using Australian locales. The first North American who had a hit with it was Canadian Hank Snow.

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-7-17

Karl Marx once worked for Horace Greeley.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-6-17

Poison hemlock is native to Europe, western Asia and North Africa. It was brought to the United States from Europe in the 19th century as a pretty ornamental garden plant. Indeed, it has pretty white flowers, similar to Queen Anne’s lace.

Poison hemlock William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-4-17

Ever hear of Nazi beans? That’s what a Hitler Youth manual from the 1930s called soybeans to promote them as an alternative to meat.

Nazi beans William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-3-17

American singer John Denver was born in Roswell, New Mexico in 1943.  Four years later an alien space craft allegedly crashed there.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 11-2-17