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Vol.41 No.2

 * 12/15/2010
 * Esther Dyson. "The internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you want to do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect it makes oirt easier to connect."
 * The largest irragated crop in the world is...not soybeans/corn/wheat but...grass; mostly in lawns, parks, and golf courses.
 * Judo means "the gentle way".
 * The first vending machines sold chewing gum. First installed in 1888 in railway stations in NYC.
 * Where did the name "duffle bag" come from? The town of Duffle in Belgium where the material used to make duffle bags was originally from.
 * Wild West performer Calamity Janes real name was Martha Jane Canary and she had 12 husbands, 11 of which met with untimely deaths.
 * colors of the rainbow: red orange  yellow  green  blue  indigo  violet
 * Paul Revere was a silversmith.
 * 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
 * Fusilli is a kind of pasta.
 * There are 640 acres in one square mile.
 * Maslow hierarchy of needs. Fulfilling inner desires in terms of reaching your fullest potential as a human being. NY'er/1/04/2010l

Vol.41 No.5

 * The Sun is one million times the size of the earth.
 * Harper Lee's novel TKaMB celebrated 50 years in 2010. Gregory Peck played Atticus Finch whom the American Film Institute named the greatest movie hero of the 20th Century. Lee gave Peck her deceased fathers pocket watch which Peck lost.

Vol.41 No.6

 * Ernest Benn, British author: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
 * visit the Leaning Tower of Niles. Built in 1934 by indultrialist Robert Ilg, as a recreation park for employees of his Hot Air Electric Ventilating Company of Chicago.