Friday, January 15, 2010

151. Dark chocolate is a tasty way to get your antioxidants. Milk chocolate has some too but not as much. White chocolate, which is technically not really chocolate, doesn't have them. I like dark chocolate.

152. Thomas Hardy was a blue baby -- the story goes that he had been put over in the corner, thought to be dead, and finally started to cry. Think that this affected his worldview?

153. "All for one, and one for all!"

154. The word "fear" comes from the Old English but meant the event, not the emotion. The first documented use of the word meaning the feeling is in circa 1290.

155. Oliver Sack's middle name is Wolf.

156. Matt thinks this website is a "back-up" of my brain, and he may be right.

157. The asteroid 84928 is named for Sacks.

158. "Man of Constant Sorrow" was first recorded by the Dick Burnett, a visually impaired fiddler from Kentucky.

159. "You Are My Sunshine" was first recorded by James Houston "Jimmie" Davis as a campaign song when he ran for governor of Louisiana.

160. Davis taught history and yodeling at a girl's school in Louisiana.

2 comments:

  1. 154. The word "fear"....so, no one had the guts to admit that they felt fear before 1290? How does one label an event with "fear?"

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  2. They apparently used a different word which dropped out of use at some point. As far as I can tell, the word fear was more like "fearful" or "scary".

    Personally, I want to take yodeling lessons. (#160)

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