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Fast facts: In Puerto Rico, wiggling one's nose means, roughly, "What's going on?" Mechanical clocks were invented in the late Middle Ages. The length of an hour had varied prior to that, depending on the time of year. Leonardo da Vinci wrote notebook entries in mirror - backward - script, a trick that kept many of his observations from being widely known until decades after his death. The official drink of the state of Nebraska is Kool-Aid. The longest Main Street in America, 33 miles in length, can be found in Island Park, Idaho.

 

On this date: In 1703, the "Man in the Iron Mask," a prisoner in the Bastille prison in Paris, died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue and is celebrated in the literary works of Francois Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas. In 1850, 36-year old Carolyn Ingraham of Madison, N.J., purchased the first life insurance policy issued to a female. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa. In 1895, Frederick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia patented the paper pencil, a pencil that writes on paper. In 1928, 5 year-old Time magazine presented its first cover portrait. The subject of the cover was Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

 

Quotable... "A new plan coming in from the flank isn't what's going to do it. It's both sides working together, finding ways to talk to each other, so that we can get a real cease-fire in place." - Secretary of State Colin Powell, on what actions should be taken to discontinue violence in the Middle East.