CONGRATUALTIONS to Kay and Roger Mills on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Our informant remarked that one of them deserved a medal but then refused to elaborate.
ANYBODY INTERESTED in joining a self-teaching group for beginner/intermediate German? Phone Tania 3049 991
WALTER E DIEMER invented bubble gum in 1928
NZ RESERVES in 1973 stood at today’s equivalent of eleven billion, seven hundred and eighty five million dollars – and unemployment numbers were under 3,000.
CASHTRATION (N): The act of buying a house which renders you financially impotent for an indefinite time.
ON MARCH 12TH 1969 Beatle Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman, the descendant of the inventor of the Kodak camera.
REGISTRATIONS showed that Labradors were America’s most popular dogs for the 22nd straight year. German Shepherds come in second spot with Retrievers nudging out Beagles for third spot.
CENSUS results show that there are now over 100 languages spoken in England with Polish the most widely spoken second language
E A MURPHY invented foam rubber in 1929
THE FIRST film to be made in Hollywood was ‘In Old California’ by director D W Griffith which premiered on 10th March 1910.
THE U.K. GOVERNMENT spends the equivalent of 49% of the countries GDP, the U.S. government 41.7% , New Zealand 38.5% and Australia 35.9%
THE EXCALAMTION OOOPS! evolved from the invocation to the ancient Goddess of good fortune, Ops, asking for her help when something bad has happened.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to thoroughly enjoy idling unless one has plenty of work on hand
A HONEY BEE’S venom is made up of forty different toxins.
THE BICYCLE was patented by London coach builder Denis Johnson in 1818 under the registered name ‘Pedestrian Curricle’
SVETIANA ALILUVEYA, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, defected to the West on March 9th 1967
SPIDER WEB I so strong that a web thread the thickness of a pencil could stop a Boeing 747 in mid flight. However a spider capable of producing such a thread would measure 128 metres across.
REVOLUTIONARY PHILOSOPHER Karl Marx, who wrote the socialist bible ‘Das Kapital’ and subsequently expelled from Prussia and France, died in London on March 14th 1883
AN AVERAGE of four point seven million American are bitten by dogs each year.
JULIUS CAESAR ignored his fortune teller’s ‘beware the Ides of March’ and attended a meeting of the senate where he was slain – on 15th March 44BC.
