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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday, February 11, 2005
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  • Two British prime ministers, Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill had the same governess when they were children.

  • Mount Everest is a foot higher today than it was a century ago, and it may be growing at an accelerating rate.

  • The Soviet Union was so wide it encompassed 11 time zones.

  • The Great Wall of China - 2,500 miles long, stretching over more than 1/20th of the Earth's circumference - was the longest continuous construction project in history. It was built over a period of 1,700 years, and enough stone was used to build an 8-foot wall that could wrap around the equator.

  • When he wasn't waging wars of revolution, Giuseppe Garibaldi took on a variety of jobs. They included selling spaghetti in Uruguay and making candles in Staten Island, N.Y.

  • Your inability to recall what Giuseppe Garibaldi did or who he was is a testament to the fallen state of our society.

  • A woodsman's axe was the only implement used to shape the 22 silvery-scaled onion domes of the wooden Church of the Transfiguration at Kizhi, Russia. It is located on an island in Lake Onega near Leningrad.

  • Don't know your geography either, do you? Tsk, tsk.

  • Veteran Roman soldiers, called triarii, carried a normal marching load weighing 88 pounds. It included a bronze helmet and breastplate, a deep rectangular shield made from leather-coated wood trimmed with iron, a long thrusting spear and a 2-foot stabbing sword. The triarii were spared the first onslaught of battle - they were held in reserve to strike the decisive blow.

  • A temple of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, was discovered - appropriately - by the American archaeologist Iris C. Love.

  • Because "It would be superfluous, as I have already conferred this order on myself," George Bernard Shaw rejected the offer of England's prestigious Order of Merit.


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