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More than 100 billion crayons have been produced so far. The first crayons consisted of a mixture of charcoal and oil. In the early 1900s, cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith developed a nontoxic wax crayon. Binney’s wife, Alice, attached the French word for chalk, craie, with “ola,” from oily, to form the Crayola brand name. Their first box of Crayola crayons were sold for a nickel in 1903.

More than 100 billion crayons have been produced so far. The first crayons consisted of a mixture of charcoal and oil. In the early 1900s, cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith developed a nontoxic wax crayon. Binney’s wife, Alice, attached the French word for chalk, craie, with “ola,” from oily, to form the Crayola brand name. Their first box of Crayola crayons were sold for a nickel in 1903.

The first Crayola crayons came in a box of eight colors: black, blue, brown, green, orange, purple, red and yellow. By 1957, 40 new colors were introduced. Today there are more than 120 crayon colours, including Atomic Tangerine, Blizzard Blue, Mango Tango, Outrageous Orange, Laser Lemon, Screamin’ Green and Shocking Pink. Over 5 billion crayons are produced each year.

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In 1799 the naturalist George Shaw, Keeper of the Department of Natural History at the British Museum, received a truly bizarre animal specimen from Captain John Hunter in Australia. It appeared to be the bill of a duck attached to the skin of a mole. Shaw dutifully examined the specimen and wrote up a description of it in a scientific journal known as the Naturalist’s Miscellany, but he couldn’t help confessing that it was “impossible not to entertain some doubts as to the genuine nature of the animal, and to surmise that there might have been practised some arts of deception in its structure.”

Despite Shaw’s doubts about the reality of the animal, he gave it a name: Platypus anatinus, or flatfoot duck. The scientific name was later changed to Ornithorhynchus anatinus, but it popularly remained known as the Duckbilled Platypus.

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• “God has a sense of humor – just look at the platypus.” (cuteoverload.com)
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• It’s all in my Wildlife Treasury! (bexschwartz.blogspot.com)

Olympian Gods: Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Hera, Aris, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hermes, Artemis, Hephaestus

Titans: Gaea, Uranus, Cronus, Rhea, Oceanus, Tethys, Hyperion, Mnemosyne, Themis, Iapetus, Coeus, Crius, Phoebe, Thea, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Metis

Other Gods: Demeter, Persephone, Dionysus, Eros, Hebe, Eris, Helios, Thanatos, Pan, Nemesis, The Graces, The Muses, The Erinnyes, The Fates

Creatures: Cyclopes, Hecatoncheires, Giants, Ash Tree Nymphs, Typhoeus, Cerberus, Sirens, Centaur, Medusa, Argus Panoptes, Chimaera, Echidna, Gorgons, Pegasus, Chrysaor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology

As rough as you might think the earth is and all the bumps, dips, mountains, trenches, holes and other deformations on the surface…

If the earth were shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, it would actually have a smoother surface than the billiard ball!

(And a billiard ball looks pretty smooth!)

All in how you look at things…

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Playing cards were found in China as early as the 9th century during the Tang Dynasty (618–907), when relatives of a princess played a “leaf game”. The Tang writer Su E (obtained a jinshi degree in 885) stated that Princess Tongchang (?–870), daughter of Emperor Yizong of Tang (r. 860–874), played the leaf game with members of the Wei clan to pass the time. The Song Dynasty (960–1279) scholar Ouyang Xiu (1007–1072) asserted that card games existed since the mid Tang Dynasty and associated their invention with the simultaneous development of using sheets or pages instead of paper rolls as a writing medium. A book called Yezi Gexi was allegedly written by a Tang era woman, and was commented on by Chinese writers of subsequent dynasties. (Read More…)

Bet you did not know that China was first…

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Did You Know This? What our two halves of our brain do…

Did you know that you most likely walk wrong?

How You Walk Wrong:
1. Not maintaining proper posture. (Stand up straight)
2. Keeping your arms still. (Swing those arms)
3. Walking duck-footed (with the knees pointed out) or pigeon toed (with the knees pointed in).
4. Walking with your feet too close together. This makes it easy to trip and fall.
5. Taking short steps.

How You Walk Right:
1. Tuck your chin into your neck so your ear, shoulder, hip, and ankle form for straight line perpendicular to the ground when you’re standing still. Avoid arching your back.
2. Do a pelvic tilt. Tuck your buttocks under your body and hold in your stomach while you walk.
3. Pump your arms. Bend your elbows slightly for regular walking, and 90 degrees for aerobic walking.
4. Walk with your feet parallel and use the heel-toe roll.
5. Keep your feet width the same as your shoulder width.

So get out there and walk correctly…

It seems that there are two ways to eat and everything else is just barbaric…

* Assuming you are right-handed, hold the fork in your left hand and knife in your right.

* With the tines facing downward (curving towards you), hold down an end-piece of whatever you are cutting (let’s assume it’s meat).

* Do not hold the knife or fork like a dagger, but rather, place your index finger along the top of each utensil, holding each at the end.

* Gently, using a sawing motion, cut the meat near the tines of the fork, so that you have one bite-sized piece.

* Lay the knife down (without allowing it to touch the table), and switch the fork (complete with pierced meat) to your right hand.

* Bring it up to your mouth, chew quietly, and swallow when the meat is sufficiently masticated.

* This is called the American (or Zig-Zag) method of cutting food. The Continental (or European) method consists of not switching hands, and using the left hand for all fork-related activities.

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First President – George Washington
Lifespan – 1788 – 1824
Place of Birth – February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia
Term as President – 1789-1797
Political Party – Federalist
Vice President / Vice Presidents – John Adams
Religion – Episcopalian
George Washington, Military Experience – Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Name of Wife – George Washington was married to Martha Dandridge Washington, a widow with children
Career of George Washington – Surveyor, Farmer, Politician, Statesman, Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the American Revolution

Magma is liquid rock inside a volcano.

Lava is liquid rock (magma) that flows out of a volcano. Fresh lava ranges from 1,300° to 2,200° F (700° to 1,200° C) in temperature and glows red hot to white hot as it flows.

There are around 1510 ‘active’ volcanoes in the world. We currently know of 80 or more which are under the oceans.

When magma erupts through the earth’s surface it is called lava.

Over half of the world’s volcanoes arise in a belt around the Pacific Ocean called the Ring of Fire.

One in 10 people in the world live within ‘danger range’ of an active volcano.

People can get used to living near a volcano, but it is always a little dangerous. Scientists have estimated that at least 200,000 persons have lost their lives as a result of volcanic eruptions during the last 500 years.

People set up homes on the slopes of volcanoes because of the rich, fertile soil produced.

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