Victoria Woodhull was the first woman ever to run for president of the United States (1872).
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Victoria Woodhull
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savant is considered to be the smartest person in the world. Her IQ is too high to be calculated.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Madeline Albright
In high school, Madeline Albright won the Rocky Mountain Empire Award for reciting, in alphabetical order, the 51 members of the United Nations.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The North Pole
There is no land at all at the North Pole, only ice on top of sea. The Arctic Ocean has about 4.6 million square miles of floating ice and has the coldest winter temperature of -29 degrees Fahrenheit.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Gamerosters.com
Since the NCAA prohibits the use of players' real names on video games, Gamerosters.com has been launched to provide just that. The site offers NCAA Football by EA Sports and plans to distribute rosters for the College Hoops and March Madness video games.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Water polo in the Olympics
During the two weeks of the Olympics, water polo players may lose about 5 to 10 pounds.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Usain Bolt
A lightning storm preceded Usain Bolt's record breaking 100 meter dash in New York City on May 31, 2008. It embellished his nickname "Lightning Bolt."
Friday, August 22, 2008
Toby Keith
Country singer Toby Keith considers himself a conservative Democrat.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi is an animated short film produced by Walt Disney and released in 1943.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Women trying too hard to impress guys
Women in the United States spend $7 billion a year on beauty products.
An average American woman wastes more than 3,000 hours "primping" and "preening" over her lifetime. You can go to the moon and back 22 times in that amount of time.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney ran Bush's VP search team in 2000 before picking himself.
Monday, August 18, 2008
John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa, known as "The March King," was a composer and conductor known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. His most famous work is "Stars and Stripes Forever."
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Ivy Bean
Ivy Bean is believed to be the world's oldest person on Facebook. She is 102 years old.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Why do divers shower right after a dive?
To keep their muscles warm after getting out of the pool. The temperature of the pool water is about 8-12 degrees warmer than the air temperature, which can cause muscle tightness. To combat this, divers warm up in either the showers or a hot tub.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Windy City
Rock Port, Missouri is the first community in the United States to be powered completely by wind.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Speedo LZR Racer
The Speedo LZR Racer is being used in the Olympic swimming contests. It was engineered by NASA and produces 38% less hydrodynamic drag than a normal bathing suit. It is responsible for breaking dozens of world records.
Monday, August 11, 2008
The longest time without sleep
Randy Gardner holds the scientifically documented record for the longest period of time a human being has intentionally gone without sleep not using stimulants of any kind. In 1964 — as a 17-year-old — Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (eleven days even), breaking the previous record of 260 hours.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Is it possible to drink too much water?
The short answer is "no" as long as you stay within these guidelines.
1) Try to stick with high-quality water. In most cases, "high-quality" means spring water or filtered water. Mineral waters are also excellent for exactly what their name says - many contain significant amounts of calcium and magnesium. Plain tap water, in most cities throughout the United States, contains a variety of contaminants, including pesticide residues and heavy metals.
2) Try to drink the most between meals. Excessive intake of water along with a meal can compromise stomach acidity and stomach function, and will not allow you to get the most nutritional value from your food.
3) Be careful drinking too much too late in the day. Waking up to go to the bathroom will not help your overall health.
4) Replenish water whenever you have obvious water loss: the most easy to recognize situations include sweating and diarrhea. After a heavy workout and profuse sweating, for example, you may easily need an additional quart of water.
5) Be consistent, and keep your water intake adequate on a morning-afternoon-and-evening basis. Although the exact amount of water needed each day may vary, you can use a general guideline of 6-8 glasses (8 ounces each) daily.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon occurs when a person, after having learned some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Adoption
American men are more than twice as likely to adopt a child compared with women, according to statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among men ages 18 to 44, 2.3% had adopted compared with 1.1% of women in that age range.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Rosa Parks of New York
In 1855, Lizzie Jennings, a black woman living in New York, was forced to get off a Brooklyn streetcar because it was for whites only. Chester A. Arthur, future president of the U.S., represented her in a suit against the streetcar company and won. The landmark decision led to desegregation of public transportation in New York City.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian author who made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet's labor camp system. For these efforts, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970 and exiled from the country four years later. He died on August 3, 2008.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Charles J. Guiteau
Charles J. Guiteau was the assassin of President James A. Garfield. Guiteau had actually supported Garfield in the election of 1880 but when he went to Washington seeking a diplomatic post as his reward he was rebuffed. The mentally unstable Guiteau decided to assassinate Garfield and wrote on the morning of the murder that "the president's tragic death was a sad necessity, but it will unite the Republican party and save the Republic. ...I have no ill-will toward the president. His death was a political necessity."
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
Microcephalics
A microcephalic is a person born with a small skull and a protruding nose and ears because of a genetic mutation.