THE COMPUTER CODES used to this day were spawned by Klari von Neuman as she chain smoked Lucky Strike cigarettes at the Los Almos military laboratory in 1951.
IN 1866 MR FORRESTER inaugurated his Masterton to Wellington coach service. His four horse coach covered the journey in a record breaking 10 hours.
FRESH HERBS Thyme. Sage, Rosemary and Oregano are very high in free radicals. Do your heart a favour and your taste buds a treat by adding them to your cooking.
THE FIRST HELICOPTER FLIGHT was made by French bicycle maker Paul Cornu when he flew his ‘Direct lifter’ on 13th November 1907. The two 6.5 rotors were driven by pulleys from a 24hp motor.
THE INCOME OF THE richest 25 Americans is equal to that of 80,000 American secondary school teachers. (figures from Nobel winning economist Joseph Stiglitz).
CELLOLOSE IS THE MOST abundant organic compound on earth. It has a molecular weight of at least 5760,00. And I sure that you are pleased to know that.
TOOTHACHE: the pain which drives you to extraction.
THE DISTRICT COUNCIL looks after 383km of sealed roads and 271 km of unsealed, 49km sealed footpaths and 722 street lights.
ELVIS PRESLEY’S FIRST FILM ‘Love me Tender’ premiered in New York on 15th November 1956.
THE SUEZ CANAL opened on 17th July 1869. Work commenced ten year earlier employing 8,213 men and 368 camels – later replaced with steam shovels.
”MY WIFE IS FRENCH. That means that she is both logical and badly organised, as we shall discover in Europe” Peter Ustinov’s 1991 prediction eventually comes true.
SINGAPORE’S PRESIDENT Lee Uan Yew, resigned in 1990 after 26 years in office.
IF THE ENTIRE 4.6 BILLION years of earth’s history were compressed into a day, the dinosaurs would have appeared at 11.46 pm and the first cities a tenth of a second before midnight.
CANADA HAS more lakes than the rest of the world combined – Canada is an Indian word meaning ‘Big Village’.
THE WORLD’S FIRST TIDAL power station was opened by President de Gaulle on the Rance Estuary, St Malo, on November 26th 1966.
THE CREATOR OF Rip Van Winkle, author Washington Irving, died at Tarrytown New York on 28th November 1859.
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