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At
1300 feet below sea level, the Dead Sea is the lowest body of water on this planet.
The Queen of the Underworld (sounds like a good name for a rock group doesn’t
it?) and the wife of Hades in Greek mythology was called …Persephone.
Benny Benson, Benny Benson…..who was he? Well, he was a 13-year-old kid in the
7th grade in 1927 when he entered a contest and designed the winning entry for
the State flag of Alaska.
Cattle, climate, copper and cotton…known as the
‘Four C’s” are associated with what city…..? El
Paso, Texas …of course.
There was a Texas cattleman by the name of
Sam Maverick…refused to brand his cattle….so what word do we associate with him
today? If you said…’maverick’ you’d be right.
While we’re on words…the
term ‘The Real McCoy…” where’d it come from? It was from an advertisement for
a sewing machine in Ireland in the 1800’s.
Let’s see you name the only
word in the dictionary that starts and ends with ‘und’….Give up? It’s underground.
Queen
Elizabeth’s last words in 1603 were? “All my possessions for one moment of time.”
© Peary Perry
Bet You Didn’t
Know -
A Treasure Trove of Trivia
November 19, 2010 column
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