Okay, this is an easy one — especially since so many of you who read this blog are Okies. Can you identify the person described below?
He was born in Indian Territory, later known as Oklahoma, in 1879. Like most entertainers at the turn-of-the-century, he got his start in vaudeville telling jokes and doing rope tricks. He made fun of the rich in a newspaper column and starred in early movies. He died with famous aviator Wiley Post when their plane crashed in Alaska in 1935.
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Can you answer the following question? What was the name of the first manned Apollo mission?
Can you identify the person described below?
As did his parents and grandparents, he taught speech and worked with the deaf in several schools in New England. Trying to find away to transmit speech, he invented in 1876 what is now a common household item.
Hint, hint: In honor of his accomplishments, several telecommunications companies carry his name.
The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.
The Dead Sea is nine times saltier than the ocean.
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The Dark Blue Sea
by Lord Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.-
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean-roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin-his control
Stops with the shore;-upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own,
When for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknell’d, uncoffin’d, and unknown.
His steps are not upon thy paths-thy fields
Are not a spoil for him-thou dost arise
And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields
For earth’s destruction thou dost all despise,
Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies,
And send’st him, shivering in thy playful spray,
And howling, to his gods, where haply lies
His petty hope in some near port or bay,
And dashest him again to earth: there let him lay.
The armaments which thunderstrike the walls
Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,
And monarchs tremble in their capitals,
The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make
Their clay creator the vain title take
Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war;
These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake,
They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar
Alike the armada’s pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee-
Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?
Thy waters washed them power while they were free,
And many a tyrant since: their shores obey
The stranger, slave or savage; their decay
Has dried up realms to deserts:-not so thou,
Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves’ play-
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow-
Such as creation’s dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form
Glasses itself in tempests; in all time
Calm or convulsed-in breeze, or gale, or storm,
Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime
Dark-heaving; boundless, endless and sublime-
The image of eternity-the throne
Of the invisible; even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
And I have loved thee, ocean! And my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy
I wanton’d with thy breakers-they to me
Were a delight; and if the freshening sea
Made them a terror-’twas a pleasing fear,
For I was as it were a child of thee,
And trusted to thy billows far and near,
And laid my hand upon thy mane – as I do here.
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There is a 1-in-649,739 chance of being dealt a royal straight flush when you play poker. The odds of getting struck by lightning are actually higher.
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The earliest known pizza dates from about 200 BC. For centuries, Greeks and Italians used flat, round bread with toppings on it. But it was the Italians who added tomatoes and cheese to make the pizza as we know it.
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Cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal.
A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
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Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until they are approximately six to eight weeks old.
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
The name given to the groove above your upper lip and running from nose to mouth is “philtrum”.
The longest muscle in the human body is the “sartorius” and is located in the thigh.
The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain more sweat glands than any other part of the body.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
The hyoid bone in the throat is the only bone in the human body not joined to another.
The Ketchua Indians of the Andes Mountains in South America have 2 to 3 more quarts of blood in their bodies than people who live at lower elevations.
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Okay, guys, time for another pop quiz.
Can you name the following father and son? On September 14, 1990, they became the only father and son to hit back-to-back home runs in a Major League Baseball game.
Pressure’s on….
