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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
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Cathie Jung, who stands 5'8", has a tiny 15-inch waist. Cathie and her husband Bob, an orthopedic surgeon, worked together to develop her tiny waist as part of the enthusiasm for Victorian dress. The 38-year-old mother of three started wearing a six-inch-wide training belt to gradually reduce her waist. Cathie does not eat a special diet or exercise to maintain her waist.
"The Cure for Insomnia" (1987), directed by John Henry Timmis IV, is 85 hours long. It premiered in its entirety at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, from January 31 to February 3, 1987.
Karl Marx wrote to Fredrich Engels, " I do not trust any Russian. As soon as a Russian worms his way in, all hell breaks loose."
The University of Alaska stretches across four time zones, from the community college in Kitchikan - near Alaska's southeastern border with British Columbia - to a tiny "learning center" on remote Adak in the Aleutian Islands. Those two points are about as distant from each other as London and Moscow.
To find the actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" (1939), MGM shot 149,000 feet of black-and-white test film and another 13,000 feet of color with 60 actresses, none of whom got the part.
In 2002, Japanese citizens had the highest life expectancy at birth with a total population average of 81.1 years (77.5 years for men and 84.7 years for women).
Adolf Hitler kept a framed photograph of Henry Ford on his desk and Ford kept one of Hitler on his desk in Dearborn, Michigan. Hitler had used some of Ford's anti-Semitic views in Mein Kampf, and he always welcomed Ford's substantial contribution to the Nazi movement.
Rudyard Kipling spent five of the happiest years of his life in Brattleboro, Vermont, in the 1890s. So that he could get outdoor exercise in the winter, he invented snow golf, painting his golf balls red so they could be located in the snow.
Lewis Carroll, by his own account, wrote 98,721 letters in the last 37 years of his life.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone and teacher of the deaf, was a speed demon. His hydrofoil boat set a world water speed record in 1919, when Bell was 72, by topping 70 miles per hour.
30,000 monkeys were used in the massive three-year effort to classify the various types of polio.
At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
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