Ask Me Another General Quiz Round
Questions cover calendar reform flying fish medals of honor bullet trajectory Wordsworth laureate poetry during tenure Arthurian round table purpose sphinx pyramids and scientific interpretation for a curious audience.
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Answers to ancient questions and crime tallies
The list cites 1582 as the year of Pope Gregory XIII and asserts the hatchet fish can fly. It notes 406 medals awarded, explains gravity explains a yes answer, and claims a crime tally of 12 accidental killings, 18 murders, 31 rapes, 163 aggravated assaults, 149 robberies, 662 cars stolen, 881 burglaries, and 2,371 other thefts.
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Gregory XIII
Veterans Administration FAQ on GI Bill and benefits
A Washington Bureau column answers reader questions on VA policies in education on the job training and employer duties. Topics cover allotments family allowances muster out pay disability pensions and eligibility rules for dependents and service-related claims.
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Timberville’s turkey boom fuels Virginia industry
The Timberville area in Rockingham County flourishes with 175000 to 200000 turkeys and a thriving broiler market. A share-the-profits plan with local hatcheries and feed firms helped farmers move from relief to earning up to $1000 annually. Local coops process up to 6000 turkeys daily, employing over 200 workers, while freight from fruit and poultry adds substantial revenue.
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Sam Cox
Rockingham Poultry Marketing Co-op
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North Dakota Man Traps 200 Snakes From Single Den
Bryan Menzie of the soil conservation office recalls capturing more than 200 rattlesnakes from one den on the Bill Stanton ranch seven miles north of Chamberlain. Snake traps designed by Jackly and built by Bruce Campbell and Merlee contributed to a tally over 100 in recent weeks, with last fall’s haul exceeding 125.
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Bryan Menzie
Soil Conservation Office
Bill Stanton
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Bruce Campbell
Merleeee
Menzie
Paul Bunyan Plow Digs Deep Furrows in California
In San Diego California a gigantic Paul Bunyan plow digs furrows three feet wide and six feet deep. It requires four heavy tractors to pull and spreads the soil back over a row that turns over about three quarters of an acre per hour. The device aims to reclaim flood buried land in the San Luis Rey valley. Restoration of fertility costs from fifty to one hundred dollars per acre.
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California
Paul Bunyan
San Luis Rey
Mary Hill Sells 1903 Built Ogallala Home for 5000
Mrs. Mary Hill, long-time resident of Ogallala Nebraska, recently returned to ORD to sell the house her late husband built in 1903 at a cost of 1700 dollars. She found a buyer quickly and sold the property for 5000 dollars after living there 41 years.
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Ord, Neb
Mary Hill
Ogallala
Neb
Safest town for car theft in 1945 Columbia leads recovery
Columbia, South Carolina boasted the nation's highest car recovery rate in 1945 at 90 percent, well above the national average of 35 percent. The figure underscores Columbia as the safest town in the United States for auto theft recovery.
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Columbia
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United States
High School Teaches Fishing Adds Sport to Dover
Dover High School offers a fishing program under teacher Bernie Smith who coaches a student squad. The plan includes indoor training, making baits, tying flies, and casting practice as pilot for interscholastic competitions and future fishing clubs in schools.
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Bernie Smith
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Urgent Need for National Health Insurance Debate Grows
Washington views widen as hearings on the Wagner Murray Dingell bill expose gaps in voluntary coverage. The plan would insure medical, hospital, dental, optical, and maternal care for about 3 percent of income with shared costs and extended G I Bill benefits.
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Senate Committee On Education and Labor
American Medical Association
G.I
Health service reform urges bold expansion of pediatric and dental care
The report highlights that over 40 percent of young men and women were unfit for military service and many health gaps are due to wealth-based hospital location. It calls for a complete health system including child dental care at about 8 dollars annually, and outlines needs for thousands more pediatricians dentists nurses orthopedists obstetricians and psychiatrists for children to reduce eight billion dollars in lost work days. It notes current lag behind other nations in health metrics.
Pattern No 8036 sizes listed with fabric yardage
Pattern No 8036 comes in sizes 11 through 18. It calls for size 12 and uses 3% yards of 35 or 39 inch fabric.
Ancient offerings to Venus linked vegetables and myth
Early offerings to Venus included cabbages leeks and garlic as sacred gifts. The goddess, once a symbol of natural beauty and Rome market gardeners protector, later became linked to a planet and the golden apple myth. Cupid traces to Chaos.
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