Did you know...? Here are Fascinating facts!!!

When I was a little girl, I used to dream and wondering about almost everything I could think of... not to mention that I had that crazy vivid imagination on things...
So many mysteries and wondrous facts of life...sometimes we are experiencing them without realizing it.

Here I was thinking that it would be fun to share stuff worth knowing and fascinating facts and interesting stories about people, places and history and so on.

If you know some, please share with me too!

Here is one...

Record for most passengers on an airplane

It is not clear who was the first to fly an airplane: Richard Pearse, Gustave Whitehead or Orville Wright.

Whoever it may ha ve been, the distances of their flights were only about the length of the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
They probably never imagined the amount of people an aircraft will be able to carry one day.

The most passengers ever carried on one flight was in 1991 during the Operation Solomon evacuation of Ethiopian Jews during Operation Solomon.

1086 people boarded a 747 in Addis Ababa. When they landed in Jerusalem, there were 1089 passengers.
Three babies were born during the flight.

Whoa~~~ that is definitely a interesting fact!

Biggest Slot Winner  in Vegas

The largest slot machine payout is $39,713,982.25, which was won by a 25-year-old software engineer from Los Angeles after putting in $100 in the Megabucks slot machine at the Excalibur Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas on March 21, 2003.

The winner, who has chosen to remain anonymous, was in Las Vegas visiting his family and to watch college basketball's "March Madness" tournament. He said he had put in about $100 when he turned his head away for an instant. When he looked back, he had just won more than $39 million.

WOWWWW....wish this would've been ME!

Oh,Gawd...wish we could be that lucky,huh!!!
Sigh...it could only happen in Vegas

I can not wait the day when we all meet in Vegas!!!


Thanks for sharing a interesting story!

Facts of Honey bees

Did you know that bees are truly amazing creatures especially, honey bees!

                         



They have four wings that they stroke at 11,500 times per minute in flight.

Bees can communicate with other bees by dancing.
Their dance can alert other bees as to which direction and the distance nectar and pollen is located.

Bees have five eyes.

The honeybee has to travel an average of 43,000 miles to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey!

It takes 12 honey bees to make one teaspoon of honey.

In one trip, a honey bee visits about 75 flowers.(Holy cow!!!)

In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.

Honeybees use the sun as a compass which helps them navigate.

During honey production periods, a bee's life span is about 6 weeks.

Just a single hive contains approximately 40-45,000 bees!

Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans.

About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to produce 1 pound of beeswax.

Beeswax production in most hives is about 1 1/2% to 2% of the total honey yield.

Queens will lay almost 2000 eggs a day at a rate of 5 or 6 a minute. Between 175,000-200,000 eggs are laid per year.

The speed at which honey bees fly is at 15 miles per hour.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

Bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day.
One single bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand.

Texas frontiersmen used to put honey on wounds to help them heal.  Turns out this was actually a very smart idea.  Honey combines with bodily fluids to produce hydrogen peroxide!

                  Facts about Bones

Did you know, humans are born with 300 bones in their body?

however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones.

This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone...also your femur

bone is stronger than concrete!!!

And here are some amazing facts about our human bones!!!

* The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.

* There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.

* The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.

* The human face is made up of 14 bones.

* The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.

* If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing.

* Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

* Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

* Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.

* Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.

* Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.

* In 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.

* Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

* Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.

* The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!



Bones of the Head

    * frontal bone
    * mandible
    * maxilla
    * occiptal bone
    * parietal bone
    * temporal bone
    * zygomatic bone

Bones of the Neck and Chest

    * acromion
    * atlas
    * cervical vertebra
    * clavicle
    * false rib
    * floating rib
    * scapula
    * spine of scapula
    * sternum
    * thoracic vertebra
    * vertibral column

Bones of the Abdomen

    * coccyx
    * ilium
    * ischium
    * lumbar vertebra
    * sacrum
    * vertibral column

Bones of the Arm

    * carpus (carpals)
    * epicondyle
    * epitrochlea
    * head of humerus
    * humerus
    * metacarpus (metacarpals)
    * olecranon
    * phalanx (phalanges)
    * radius
    * ulna

Bones of the Leg

    * calcaneus
    * condyle of femur
    * femur
    * fibula
    * head of femur
    * metatarsus (metatarsals)
    * neck of femur
    * patella
    * phalanx (phalanges)
    * talus
    * tarsus (tarsals)
    * tibia

Kerry Packer

This billionaire businessman is reported to have won over $20 million playing Baccarat in Vegas over a weekend. One report holds that when Packer met a Texas oil man reportedly  bragging  he was worth $50million, Packer turned to him and asked if he wanted to flip a coin for it.

Lips

Did you know the capybara is the largest rodent.

They can grow to 4'3" and weigh 65lbs. 

I've seen them at the Arizona zoo.When I look at my sons guinea pigs... they remind me of a smaller version... they are a derivative. 

wnan:  Surprisingly, I knew all of those bone facts.

:)

This one is a really sad but so true...
Death by medicine...

Did you know...among the top ten causes of death in the US are toxic reactions to correctly

prescribed drugs, which make more than two million Americans seriously ill every year, and kill

106,000 more. Incorrectly prescribed drugs account for another 90,000 deaths each year!

While I was at the grocery, all of sudden I became curious about bar coding system and wondered who invented this wonderful and simple solution...
So here is what I found out...

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

What is bar code?
It is method of automatic identification and data collection.
The first patent for a bar code type product (US Patent #2,612,994) was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952.
The Woodland and Silver bar code can be described as a "bull's eye" symbol, made up of a series of concentric circles.

In 1932 an ambitious project was conducted by a small group of students headed by Wallace Flint at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.
The project proposed that customers select desired merchandise from a catalog by removing corresponding punched cards from the catalog.
These punched cards were then handed to a checker who placed the cards into a reader. The system then pulled the merchandise automatically from the storeroom and delivered it to the checkout counter.
A complete customer bill was produced and inventory records were updated.

Examine the 1958 patent drawing to the left that depicts the Woodland's and Silver's bar code label and the 1958 patent drawing below right of the inventors' bar code scanner technology. The photo below is an example of today's U.P.C. bar code on a product package.



In 1948, Bernard Silver was a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia.
A local food chain store owner had made an inquiry to the Drexel Institute asking about research into a method of automatically reading product information during checkout. Bernard Silver joined together with fellow graduate student Norman Joseph Woodland to work on a solution.

Woodland's first idea was to use ultraviolet light sensitive ink.
The team built a working prototype but decided that the system was too unstable and expensive.
They went back to the drawing board.



On October 20, 1949, Woodland and Silver filed their patent application for the "Classifying Apparatus and Method", describing their invention as "article classification...through the medium of identifying patterns".

Bar code was first used commercially in 1966, however, it was soon realized that there would have to be some sort of industry standard set.
By 1970, the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code or UGPIC was written by a company called Logicon Inc.
The first company to produce bar code equipment for retail trade use (using UGPIC) was the American company Monarch Marking in 1970, and for industrial use, the British company Plessey Telecommunications was also first in 1970.
UGPIC evolved into the U.P.C. symbol set or Universal Product Code, which is still used in the United States.
George J. Laurer is considered the inventor of U.P.C. or Uniform Product Code, which was invented in 1973.

In June of 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner was installed at a Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley's Gum.

Isn't this amazing?

Sure is amazing nan!

Here is a little fact........

The word "uncopyrightable" is the longest word without repeating a single letter. 

The longest name of any town in the United Kingdom is in Wales (on Anglesey Island).  It is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and is also the longest place name in Europe and one of the longest place names in the world. 

If you want to hear it being said, you can hear (and see) it here. 

blue

Omg!

There is no way that I can ever pronounce this name...impossible!
Can you imagine if you are a resident and have to give your address to someone?

LOL You're not alone Nan - I can't say it either (well not all of it anyways). 

blue

We are very familiar with the term Sheriff, but do you
know what it actually means?

England is divided up into counties - in feudal times these
divisions were called 'shires'. Some, like Hampshire or
Yorkshire, still are.

In each shire, the King appointed a Lord to act as the Reeve - a
reeve being the person who was in charge of administering the
law.

The word shire-reeve eventually became the modern English word Sheriff.
The Sheriff was in early England, and metaphorically is in present-day America, the keeper, or chief, of the county.


(The Hue and Cry, from Irene Gladwin’s book: The Sheriff)

The Office of the Sheriff has existed for over one thousand (1000) years and is the oldest law enforcement position in the United States.

The word Sheriff is derived from the Shire-reeve, who was the most powerful English law authority figure, even before 1000 A.D.

The Shire-reeve, in contrast to a reeve (in charge of mere tenths), was responsible for both the order of the land within his banded group of a hundred families (shire) and the call of the "hue and cry".

The hue and cry made every citizen in earshot of the sheriff’s call lawfully obligated to join in a posse-commitatas, or group, which banded to catch criminals.

Interesting...isn't it?

Very interesting nan! When i think of a Sheriff i think of an old western movie. I would of guessed that the name came from the old west.

Lips

I know,right...but when I read this I thought it was very interesting and fascinating.
We use so many words in our daily lives but sometimes we don't know the origin or the histories of them.
As you already know...( ) I love stuffs like this.

Don't y'all remember the Sheriff of Nottingham from Robin Hood?

uhmmm...n~o...
dang woman, now you are making me to find the movie and watch it again.

well, you can find a different one in most every robin hood movie.  the first one I saw had this one:

I once asked this question to my friends and they all thought I was insane...  hah!

Can we taste without smelling food?
I'm wondering whether we can taste without smelling food because yesterday, I had a blocked nose and onion tasted like potato.

Did you know, If you hold your nose when you eat something you'll notice that your taste
buds will tell your brain something about what you're eating - that it's sweet, for instance -
but you won't be able to pick the exact flavor until you let go of your nose.

Because it’s not just about our taste in our mouths.  It’s also our nose that leads to a sensation of flavour and taste, and we have two things going on.

We have our tongues which have taste buds on them, in little ridges and valleys called papillae, and these are responsible for picking up the four and some people think five main tastes which are bitter, sweet, sour, salty, and savoury or ‘umami’.

There’s not much nuance to those different flavours, but we do pick those up in our tongue, and the rest of the taste that we have comes from smelling the food, from the odour molecules that come off it.  They waft up our nose and essentially, fire nerves signals from somewhere called the olfactory mucosa inside your nose which has receptor neurons and they will tell your brain when you've picked up certain different chemicals in the food.

But interestingly, it’s not all the smell that comes up your nose that is responsible for the taste.  So the reason you can't smell when you have a cold is because your olfactory mucosa gets covered in goo and those receptor neurons really don't get anywhere near to those molecules of odour that they're interested in.  But if you hold your nose, you might have noticed you can still taste quite well when you're eating, and that’s because some of those molecules also go from your mouth through the internal passages, and still find their way to the olfactory mucosa.

So it’s no good just holding your nose if you don't like the taste of your medicine.  (I have tried it so many times...oops)

So this is why,an apple, potato and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged...aha!

Hahahahaha that is great advice! I can't stand the smell dog food! I hold my breath every time i open a pouch of it for bugsy. Hazel is on dry dog food and that don't get me like the wet stuff!

Lips

a bit of help for making the medicine go down- tuck the tip of your tongue as far under your bottom front teeth as possible, toss the offensive medicine as far back in your mouth as possible.  Swallow a couple of times before you take a breath.  You'll bypass most of your taste buds and won't get the olfactory bonus if you aren't actively inhaling.

drink vodka its odorless. won't have to hold your nose 

drink tequila.  after the first shot it will just taste like cactus.  lol

talking about tequila...oh my goodness!
I once drank 14 shots of it and passed out and couldn't move for three days and one of my friend told me if I knew the reason of why it's called tequila? it's called it because it means to kill ya!

funny how it makes you feel like you aren't even drunk, until BOOM- out go the lights (or body parts you didn't think you'd show in public)

Here is another fascinating fact!

FUN Facts of Violin!

* While playing the violin you burn 170 calories an hour!
   
* The modern Violin contains over 70 separate pieces of d. [True, according to Etienne Vatelot in a foreward to Menuhin's "The Violin"]
   
* Handel was nearly killed in a sword fight at the age of 18. [Not true. However, Handel DID in fact get into a duel once with composer Johann Matteson over who got to play the harpsichord for an opera]
   
* The worlds smallest violin is only 37 millimetres long and is small enough to fit in a box of matches. [Almost true. The smallest violin just under 2" or about 50 millimeters-still very small]
       
* If a violinist is placed into an MRI machine, we can see that a much larger area of the brain - the right primary motor cortex - is devoted to his or her left fingers when compared with a non-violinist.
Two or three times as large, in fact. Violinists also have more connections between the two sides of the brainwhich account for the better co-ordination they have between each hand compared with a non-violin player. ---WOW wonder if this is reallly true!
   
* Joseph Merlin of Huy, Belgium invented the roller skates.
To introduce his invention he entered the ballroom-playing violin in 1759.
Unfortunately he did not know how to stop and crashed into a full-length mirror, breaking his violin.---huh?
   
* The violin was officially designed by Andrea Amati, an Italian lute maker.
Amati was asked to build the violin as a lighter alternative to the lyre.
   
* The most expensive violin was sold for $18 million dollars (Almost. It is actually on sale currently at that price.) If sold it will be the most expensive violin ever sold.-Holy Cow!-scroll down for more information.
   
* Violins are generally either maple or spruce.
       
* Though the violin used to be an instrument for the lower class, today it is highly regarded and respected as a difficult instrument to learn.
   
* The violin can trace its history back several thousands of years ago to stringed instruments known as the ravanstron, the rebec, and the rabab.

In the 16th century the Medici family of Italy commissioned the famous lute maker, Andrea Amati, to build a small den stringed instrument that was as melodious as a lyre but was easy to carry around.

How interesting but not really sure if I can believe everything though!!!

Now, here is the world's most expensive Violins!!!

The violin is probably the most popular bowed and stringed musical instrument.
It comes from 16th century Italy and the oldest surviving violin dates to 1564.

Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), the well-known master luthier, is believed to have created 1,100 violins in Cremona, Italy, and 650 of those are believed to still exist.

One such violin, the Lady Tennant Stradivarius, was sold by Christie’s New York in April 2005 for US $2.03 million.
There have, however, been private sales of similar violins crafted by Stradivari that likely exceeded this costly figure.
This expensive violin was originally owned by Charles Lafont.
Its name comes from Sir Charles Tennant, who purchased it for his wife in 1900.

                    World’s most expensive violin

                              A del Gesù

                     

Even rarer than Stradivari instruments, however, are those created by Giuseppe Guarneri, del Gesù (1698-1744).
Guarneri also worked in Cremona and was considered Stradivari’s only rival.
He earned the title “del Gesù” (“of Jesus”), also used to refer to his violins, by using the nomina sacra, I. H. S. and a Roman Cross on his labels.

In 2008, Russian lawyer and violinist Maxim Viktorov purchased a 250-year-old del Gesù, once owned by Tsar Alexander II’s court violinist, at a Sotheby’s auction in New York for nearly US $4 million.
Viktorov only played it briefly before purchasing it. Afterwards, he refused to play it until Israeli virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman had performed with it.
Zukerman played two concerts with what was, at the time, the world’s most expensive violin—one before a private audience of Moscow’s social elite and one public performance at the Moscow Conservatory.

Another del Gesù became the world’s most expensive violin and the most expensive musical instrument in the world in 2010.
The Vieuxtemps Guarneri was created in 1741, just three years before Guarneri’s death.
It is named after Henri Vieuxtemps, a 19th century musician known for his violin concertos.

Chicago’s Bein & Fushi, dealers of rare and costly musical instruments, are offering the instrument for an astounding US $18 million.

I have always fascinated by Charles Dickens who was one of the greatest author and achiever...
If you study of Charles Dickens' life, it reveals that much of his life was mirrored in his written work, including events he experienced and people he met.
As one of England's most successful authors and lecturers, Dickens spent his life campaigning for social reform and bringing the trials of the poor and suffering to the public eye.

Charles Dickens was the first literary superstar - his popular works reached a wider audience than any writer before him. With classics like Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and David Copperfield, Dickens dominated the literary life of 19th-century England and the United States. But like many remarkable people, Dickens was a complex, multi-layered individual, full of peculiar quirks and odd habits.......



These are some some of odd facts which are very interesting.

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE.

Dickens was preoccupied with looking in the mirror and combing his hair - he did it hundreds of times a day.
He rearranged furniture in his home - if it wasn't in the exact "correct" position, he couldn't concentrate.
Obsessed with magnetic fields, Dickens made sure that every bed he slept in was aligned north-south.
He had to touch certain objects three times for luck.
He was obsessed with the need for tidiness, often cleaning other homes as well as his own.

NICKNAME-IAC.

Just as some of his most endearing characters had odd nicknames (like Pip in Great Expectations), Dickens gave every one of his ten children nicknames like "Skittles" and "Plorn."

EPILEPTIC.

Dickens suffered from epilepsy and made some of his characters - like Oliver Twist's brother - epileptics. Modern doctors are amazed at the medical accuracy of his descriptions of this malady.

PRACTICAL JOKER.

Dicken's study had a secret door designed to look like a bookcase.

The shelves were full of fake books with witty titles, such as Noah's Arkitecture and a nine-volume set titled Cat's Lives.
One of his favorites was a multi-volume series called The Wisdom of Our Ancestors, dealing with subjects like ignorance, superstition, disease, and instruments of torture, and a companion book titled The Virtues of Our Ancestors, which was so narrow that the title had to be printed vertically.

EGOMANIAC.

Dickens often referred to himself as "the Sparkler of Albion," favorably comparing himself to Shakespeare's nickname, "the Bard of Avon." (Albion is an archaic name for England.)

FAIR-WEATHER FRIEND.

Hans Christian Andersen was Dicken's close friend and mutual influence.
Andersen even dedicated his book Poet's Day Dream to Dickens in 1853.
But this didn't stop Dickens from letting Andersen know when he'd overstayed his welcome at Dickens's home.
He printed a sign and left it on Andersen's mirror in the guest room.
It read: "Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks, which seemed to the family like AGES."

MESMERIST.

Dickens was a devotee of mesmerism, a system of healing through hypnotism.
He practiced it on his hypochondriac wife and his children, and claimed to have healed several friends and associates.

Having just had a short bout of hiccups got me thinking....what's the longest hiccup fit in the world.

Aparently, the most common cause of hiccups is eating too fast.  That was definitely not the case for me as I've yet to eat tonight.

But back in 1922 Charles Osborne of Iowa got a case of the hiccups and his hiccups started while he was weighing a hog.

This was no ordinary case, it was a world record hiccup fit that lasted 68 years up until the hiccups stopped in 1990, hiccupping an estimated 430 million times. He died 1 year after his hiccups stopped.

In the beginning Charles Osborne hiccupped up to a whopping 40 times a minute, but in the later years this slowed to 20 times a minute which is still one every 3 seconds!

Charles Osborne, however, did manage an ordinary life - he was married twice and had 8 children.

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Blue~you know how much I love stories like this one and thanks so much for sharing it!
How interesting and unusual case!...not sure he was in agony behind his misforunate situation but surprisingly he lived a normal life-not sure what Normal life really is anyway -

Gosh...no matter how hard I try not to have too many trash bags filled each day but it seems impossible especially with my monkeys.
Makes me wonder.........

Most people don’t think twice about what they put in the garbage.
The average American produces from 3-5 pounds of trash per day, which adds up to 50 tons per year.
That means over 200 million tons of trash are produced by everyone in the U.S. every year! Up to 70% of this trash is buried in landfills. Holy Molly!!! Too scared to imagine if we combine every other countries~ amp;

The scary thing about this is that even though landfills are getting tons of new trash every day, more and more are closing down because they are too expensive to maintain.
This is becoming a widespread problem across the U.S. as states struggle to find alternative ways to reduce the amount of trash accumulation.

Only about one-tenth of U.S. garbage actually gets recycled every year, when in reality over half of it can be recycled into new products.
Recycling is one of the most important acts to follow in our daily lives because it can reduce the amount of waste in our landfills, sustain our natural resources and provide better air and water quality.

So...If It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times, how about other stuffs

Glass Bottle........................... 1 million years

Monofilament Fishing Line… 600 years

Plastic Beverage Bottles.…… 450 years

Disposable Diapers………… 450 years

Aluminum Canl...................... 80-200 years

Foamed Plastic Buoy……… 80 years

Foamed Plastic Cups……… 50 years

Rubber-Boot Sole............... 50-80 years

Tin Cans……………………. 50 years

Leather................................. 50 years

Nylon Fabric........................ 30-40 years

Plastic Film Container........ 20-30 years

Plastic Bag.......................... 10-20 years

Cigarette Butt...................... 1-5 years

Wool Sock............................ 1-5 years

Plywood…………………….. 1-3 years

Waxed Milk Carton………… 3 months

Apple Core…………………. 2 months

Newspaper………………….. 6 weeks

Orange or Banana Peel...... 2-5 weeks

Paper Towel……………….. 2-4 weeks

What can be recycled

* Glass Recycling – Clear glass soda bottles, packaged jars and anything with a “G” logo.
   
* Plastic Recycling – Plastic soda bottles and milk jugs, shampoo and motor oil containers and anything marked with a 1 or 2 code.
   
* Metal Recycling – Aluminum soda cans and scrap metal.
   
* Paper – Printer paper, newspaper, magazines and colored paper.

Okay...time to start recycling.

Quite scary when you look at the facts and figures Nan.

We recycle cardboard here too - it's not in your list?

blue

Fascinating Nan this is some fascinating facts. We all going to be run out of town by the invasion fo garbage. Never did like plastic bottles replacing glass. 1 million years for glass  I think i have a new appreciation for plastic.

Here is another fascinating fact!

Tea brick

Tea bricks or compressed tea are blocks of whole or finely ground black tea, green tea, or post-fermented tea leaves that have been packed in molds and pressed into block form.
This was the most commonly produced and used form of tea in ancient China prior to the Ming Dynasty.
Although tea bricks are less commonly produced in modern times, many post-fermented teas, such as pu-erh, are still commonly found in bricks, discs, and other pressed forms. Tea bricks can be made into beverages or eaten as food, and were also used in the past as a form of currency.

             

Due to the high value of tea in many parts of Asia, tea bricks were used as a form of currency throughout China, Tibet, Mongolia, and Central Asia.
This is quite similar to the use of salt bricks as currency in parts of Africa.
Tea bricks were in fact the preferred form of currency over metallic coins for the nomads of Mongolia and Siberia.
The tea could not only be used as money and eaten as food in times of hunger but also brewed as allegedly beneficial medicine for treating coughs and colds.
Up until World War II, tea bricks were still used as a form of edible currency in Siberia.

Tea bricks for Tibet were mainly produced in the area of Ya'an (formerly Yachou-fu) in Sichuan province.
The bricks were produced in five different qualities and valued accordingly. The kind of brick which was most commonly used as currency in the late 19th and early 20th century was that of the third quality which the Tibetans called "brgyad pa" ("eighth"), because at one time it was worth eight Tibetan tangkas (standard silver coin of Tibet which weighs about 5.4 grams) in Lhasa. Bricks of this standard were also exported by Tibet to Bhutan and Ladakh.


In Tibet pieces of tea are broken from tea bricks, and boiled overnight in water, sometimes with salt. The resulting concentrated tea infusion is then mixed with butter, cream or milk and a little salt to make butter tea, a staple of Tibetan cuisine.

The way I was taught to make food out of tea brick is soak them in the cold water over night and mix them with hot bean paste and yummmmm they are tasty.

I love tea! Would love to try it esp with the bean paste. Sound so unique. Thanks i found this very interesting!

Lips

Now, you probably already knew that most lipstick contains fish scales but I wanted to find out a bit more about the ingredients and what a surprise!

Lipstick

Lipstick is a cosmetic product containing pigments, oils, waxes, and emollients that applies color and texture to the lips. There are many varieties of lipstick.

Ancient Mesopotamian women were possibly the first women to invent and wear lipstick. They crushed semi precious jewels and used them to decorate their lips.
Women in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization applied lipstick to their lips for face decoration.
Ancient Egyptians extracted purplish-red dye from fucus-algin, 0.01% iodine, and some bromine mannite, which resulted in serious illness.
Cleopatra had her lipstick made from crushed carmine beetles, which gave a deep red pigment, and ants for a base.
Lipsticks with shimmering effects were initially made using a pearlescent substance found in fish scales.

Ingredients

Lipstick contains a variety of wax, oils, and emollients.
Wax helps the lipstick take a solid form and aids in ease of application.
Lipsticks may be made from several waxes such as beeswax, carnauba wax, and candelilla wax.
Different types of oils and fats are also used in lipsticks, such as olive oil, mineral oil, cocoa butter, lanolin, and petrolatum.
More than 50% of lipsticks made in the United States contain pig fat, castor oil, which gives them a shiny appearance.
Lipsticks get their colors from a variety of dyes including, but not limited to bromo acid, D&C Red No. 21, Calcium Lake such as D&C Red 7 and D&C Red 34, and D&C Orange No. 17. Pink lipsticks are made by mixing titanium dioxide and several red shades.

Matte lipsticks contain heavy waxes, but do not have many emollients.
Creme lipsticks contain more waxes than oils.
Sheer and long lasting lipstick contain a lot of oil, while long lasting lipsticks also contain silicone oil, which seals the colors to the wearer's lips.
Glossy lipstick contain more oil to give a shiny finish to the lips.
Shimmery lipstick may contain mica, silica, fish scales, and synthetic pearl particles to give them a glittery or shimmering shine.

Lipstick is made from grinding and heating ingredients.
Then heated waxes are added to the mix for texture.
Oils and lanolin are added for specific formula requirements.
Afterwards, the hot liquid is poured onto a metal mold.
The mixture is chilled and kept cool so that the lipsticks harden.
Once they have hardened, they are heated in flame for half a second to create a shiny finish and to remove imperfections.

Phobias

Phobias are persistent, irrational fears of certain objects or situations. Phobias occur in several forms; the fear associated with a phobia can focus on a particular object (specific phobia) or be a fear of embarrassment in a public setting (social phobia).

People who have phobias often are so overwhelmed by their anxiety that they avoid the feared objects or situations. Specific phobias involve a fear of an object or situation, such as small animals, snakes, closed-in spaces or flying in an airplane...

Social phobia is the fear of being humiliated in a social setting, such as when meeting new people, giving a speech, or talking to the boss. Most people experience these fears with mild to moderate intensity, and the fear passes. For people with social phobia, however, the fear is extremely intrusive and can disrupt normal life, interfering with work or social relationships in varying degrees of severity.

Fortunately, through research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), effective treatments have been developed to help people with phobias.

There are just too many to list them all so I picked some unusual ones.

Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.--yup,that's me.
Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
Hodophobia- Fear of road travel.
Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor
Katsaridaphobia- Fear of cockroaches.
Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.
Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking.
Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment
Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.
Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.
Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.
Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at.
Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
Pocrescophobia- Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)
Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween.
Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law.
Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting.
Verminophobia- Fear of germs.
Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.
Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.

            Wnanhee, let's not forget the all important : Triskaidekaphobia.
  Thanks for all the time and research,  that must've taken quite a while.  It's funny in this day and age how superstitious many of us are. 

                Oh Yeah,  we're gamblers, of course we're superstitious!!!

Triskaidekaphobia...a good one that I missed.
I am from the place where number 4 is a taboo...when I was a kid and if I didn't like someone, I wrote that person's name in red ink-supposedly to curse him or her a bad luck and writing down number 4 in any area especially with RED ink was a taboo not to mention that given that number meant I was forever doomed...and here is why!

Lucky numbers

Two
The number 2(二) is a good number in Chinese culture. There is a Chinese saying "good things come in pairs". It is common to use double symbols in product brand names, e.g. double happiness, double coin, double elephants etc.

Three
The number 3 (三)sounds similar to the character for "birth" (生), and is thus considered a lucky number.

Five
The number 5 (五) is associated with the five elements-next time I will tell you all about what it is...Smiley (water, d, fire, earth and metal) in Chinese philosophy.

Six
The number 6 (六) represents happiness.  Shocked

Seven
The number 7 (七) symbolizes "togetherness". It is a lucky number for relationships. It is also recognized as the luckiest number in the West, and is one of the rare numbers that is great in both Chinese and many Western cultures. It is a lucky number in Chinese culture, because it sounds alike to the Chinese character 起, meaning arise.

Eight

The word for "eight" (八) sounds similar to the word which means "prosper" or "wealth".
There is also a visual resemblance between two digits, "88", and 囍,('double joy'), a popular decorative design composed of two stylized characters 喜, meaning 'joy' or 'happiness').

The number 8 is viewed as such an auspicious number that even being assigned a number with several eights is considered very lucky.

    * A telephone number with all digits being eights was sold for USD$270,723 in Chengdu, China.
    * The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing began on 8/8/08 at 8 seconds and 8 minutes past 8 pm (local time).
    * A man in Hangzhou offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 for RMB 1.12 million (roughly USD164,000).
    * The Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia has 88 Floors.
    * Dragon Fish Industry in Singapore, a breeder of rare Asian Arowanas (which are "lucky fish" themselves, and, being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particular numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g. 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.
    * The value of eight could also be linked with Buddhism and the meaning of Lotus flower (eight petals).
    * As part of grand opening promotions, a Commerce Bank branch in New York's Chinatown raffled off safety deposit box No. 888.
    * An "auspicious" numbering system was adopted by the developers of 39 Conduit Road Hong Kong, where the top floor was "88" – Chinese for double fortune. It is already common in Hong Kong for ~4th floors not to exist; there is no requirement by the Buildings Department for numbering other than that it being "made in a logical order."A total of 43 intermediate floor numbers are omitted from 39 Conduit Road: those missing include 14, 24, 34, 64, all floors between 40 and 59; the floor number which follows 68 is 88.


Nine
The number 9 (九), being the greatest of single-digit numbers, was historically associated with the Emperor of China; the Emperor's robes often had nine dragons, and Chinese mythology held that the dragon has nine children.
Moreover, the number 9 is a homophone of the word for "longlasting", and as such is often used in weddings.

Unlucky numbers

Four
Number 4 (四) is considered an unlucky number in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death" (死). Due to that, many numbered product lines skip the "4": e.g. Nokia cell phones (there is no series beginning with a 4), Palm[citation needed] PDAs, Canon PowerShot G's series (after G3 goes G5), etc.
In East Asia, some buildings do not have a 4th floor. (Compare with the Western practice of some buildings not having a 13th floor because 13 is considered unlucky.) In these cultures, some high-rise residential buildings literally miss all floor numbers with "4", e.g. 4, 14, 24, 34 and all 40–49 floors. As a result, a building whose highest floor is number 50 may actually have only 36 physical floors.

Number 14 is considered to be one of the unluckiest numbers. Although 14 is usually said in Mandarin as 十四 which sounds like 十死-death- "ten die", it can also be said as 一四, literally "one four". Thus, 14 can also be said as "yāo sì," literally "one four," but it also sounds like "want to die" (要死). In Cantonese, 14, meaning "certainly die" (實死).

Seven
Seven is considered spiritist or ghostly. The seventh month of the Chinese calendar is also called the "Ghost Month". During this month, the gates of hell are said to be open so ghosts and spirits are permitted to visit the living realm. However, the Chinese lunar calendar also has July 7 as Chinese

            Wow, that's pretty cool.  I didn't know that.  I will say I have to agree about many of the numbers being lucky.  As far as 2/double,  point well taken.  Example:  All wins double when ____ is in a winning combination.  Another example:  (My favorite 3 words)  During free spins
All wins tripled.  .  The number 6 is supposed to be my lucky number.  I'm a Cancerian (late June).

Wish everyone a safe and happy Easter!



Going for an egg hunt? Dis you know, Easter bunny to decorating and hunting for eggs...this cherished traditions have been around for centuries?

Easter Bunny

The Bible makes no mention of a long-eared, short-tailed creature who delivers decorated eggs to well-behaved children on Easter Sunday; nevertheless, the Easter bunny has become a prominent symbol of Christianity's most important holiday.
The exact origins of this mythical mammal are unclear, but rabbits, known to be prolific procreators, are an ancient symbol of fertility and new life.
According to some sources, the Easter bunny first arrived in America in the 1700s with German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and transported their tradition of an egg-laying hare called "Osterhase" or "Oschter Haws."
Their children made nests in which this creature could lay its colored eggs. Eventually, the custom spread across the U.S. and the fabled rabbit's Easter morning deliveries expanded to include chocolate and other types of candy and gifts, while decorated baskets replaced nests.
Additionally, children often left out carrots for the bunny in case he got hungry from all his hopping.

Easter Eggs

Easter is a religious holiday, but some of its customs, such as Easter eggs, are likely linked to pagan traditions.
The egg, an ancient symbol of new life, has been associated with pagan festivals celebrating spring.
From a Christian perspective, Easter eggs are said to represent Jesus' emergence from the tomb and resurrection. Decorating eggs for Easter is a tradition that dates back to at least the 13th century, according to some sources.
One explanation for this custom is that eggs were formerly a forbidden food during the Lenten season, so people would paint and decorate them to mark the end of the period of penance and fasting, then eat them on Easter as a celebration.

Easter egg hunts and egg rolling are two popular egg-related traditions.
In the U.S., the White House Easter Egg Roll, a race in which children push decorated, hard-boiled eggs across the White House lawn, is an annual event held the Monday after Easter.
The first official White House egg roll occurred in 1878, when Rutherford B. Hayes was president.
The event has no religious significance, although some people have considered egg rolling symbolic of the stone blocking Jesus' tomb being rolled away, leading to his resurrection.

Easter Candy

Easter is the second best-selling candy holiday in America, after Halloween.
Among the most popular sweet treats associated with this day are chocolate eggs, which date back to early 19th century Europe.
Eggs have long been associated with Easter as a symbol of new life and Jesus' resurrection. Another egg-shaped candy, the jelly bean, became associated with Easter in the 1930s (although the jelly bean's origins reportedly date all the way back to a Biblical-era concoction called a Turkish Delight).
According to the National Confectioners Association, over 16 billion jelly beans are made in the U.S. each year for Easter, enough to fill a giant egg measuring 89 feet high and 60 feet wide.
For the past decade, the top-selling non-chocolate Easter candy has been the marshmallow Peep, a sugary, pastel-colored confection.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based candy manufacturer Just Born (founded by Russian immigrant Sam Born in 1923) began selling Peeps in the 1950s.
The original Peeps were handmade, marshmallow-flavored yellow chicks, but other shapes and flavors were later introduced, including chocolate mousse bunnies.

Easter Parade

In New York City, the Easter Parade tradition dates back to the mid-1800s, when the upper crust of society would attend Easter services at various Fifth Avenue churches then stroll outside afterward, showing off their new spring outfits and hats.
Average citizens started showing up along Fifth Avenue to check out the action.
The tradition reached its peak by the mid-20th century, and in 1948, the popular film Easter Parade was released, starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland and featuring the music of Irving Berlin.

The title song includes the lyrics: "In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it/You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade."

The Easter Parade tradition lives on in Manhattan, with Fifth Avenue from 49th Street to 57th Street being shut down during the day to traffic.
Participants often sport elaborately decorated bonnets and hats.
The event has no religious significance, but sources note that Easter processions have been a part of Christianity since its earliest days.
Today, other cities across America also have their own parades.

Mother’s Day... is near so I thought it would be interesting to know some of the fascinating facts.

Muttertag, La Festa della Mamma, Mothering Sunday, Fête des Mères, Día de las Madres...
it goes by many different names, but however you say it, the expression of love and appreciation is the same.

The Origins of Mother's Day

Motherhood has always been celebrated. In prehistoric tribes the mother Goddess was worshiped as the creator of life. Female goddess figures are found in many archeological digs.

In ancient Egypt, Isis was the Queen of Heaven who ruled over all matters concerning mothering. In ancient Greece Rhea was revered as the mother goddess and in ancient Rome it was Hera, the jealous wife of Zeus, and another mother goddess known as Cybele.

Most mothering festivals in early history were in the springtime to celebrate the rebirth of the land and the beginning of the most fertile time of the year. These festivities honored the goddess in all women.

The modern version of Mother's Day with families bringing Mother's Day flowers and gifts to their moms can be traced back to seventeenth century England.
Mothering Sunday was the fourth Sunday in Lent...a special day when all the strict rules about fasting and penance were put aside.
Older children who were away from home learning a trade or working as servants were allowed to return home for Mothering Sunday.
The family gathered for a mid-Lenten feast with Mother as the special guest.
Along with a rare visit from her children, mothers were given treats of cakes and wildflower bouquets.
While ‘Mothering Sunday’ is still celebrated, most now know it as Mother’s Day.

When did Mother's day start being celebrated on Sundays?

In 1914, President Wilson declared Mother's Day a national holiday. Years before, women's groups had celebrated various days to commerate mothers and promote peace during times of war. President Wilson declared Mother's day to be celebrated the second Sunday of May.

The history of Mother's Day in the rest of the world is a bit different. In the USA, the early English settlers often disapproved of the more secular holidays and the Mothering Sunday tradition never really took hold.
Early attempts to have a day to honor mother's were mixed with woman's suffrage and peace movements and were not very popular.

Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, suggested the idea of an International Mother's day to celebrate peace and motherhood in 1872.
There were many other women who were active with local groups holding annual Mother's Day remembrances, but most were more religious gatherings and not the holiday that we know today.

===>Julia Ward Howe
first championed a day to
celebrate peace and
motherhood in 1872.

One of the women, who was working on establishing Mother's Day as a national celebration was the mother of Anna Jarvis. Mrs. Jarvis held an annual gathering, Mother’s Friendship Day, to heal the pain of the Civil War.
After she died in 1905, Anna campaigned for the establishment of an official Mother’s Day to commemorate her mother.

"Miss Anna Jarvis was as good as her word.
She devoted her entire life to the struggle to have Mother's Day declared a national holiday. In the spring of 1908, Anna wrote to the Superintendent of Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, where her mother had taught Sunday School classes for over 20 years.
She requested that a Mother's Day service be held in honor of her mother.

Thus, the first official Mother's Day celebration was held at Andrew's Methodist Church on May 10, 1908, with 407 persons in attendance.
Anna Jarvis sent 500 white carnations to the church in Grafton.
One was to be worn by each son and daughter and two by each mother in attendance.

Another service was held in Philadelphia later that afternoon where Anna resided with her brother.
Anna had requested that the first official service be held in Grafton, where the Jarvis family had lived so much of their lives and where her mother had served for so long as a teacher and public servant." ( Mother's Day Shrine.org)

Anna Jarvis' campaign is the reason we have a formal holiday.
In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared that Mother’s Day should be celebrated as a national holiday on the second Sunday in May.

It didn't take very long for Mother's Day to change from a semi-religious occasion of prayers for peace and appreciation of the work and love of mothers around the world to a gifts, flowers, candy and dining out extravaganza.
Anna Jarvis was actually arrested at a Mother’s Day festival while trying to stop women from selling flowers. Jarvis said “I wanted it to be a day of sentiment not profit.”

Mother's Day may not have turned out to be the holiday that Julia Ward Howe, Anna Jarvis and countless other women around the world imagined, but it is a celebration of mothers...dedicated to honoring the women who give so much to their families without asking for anything in return. Perhaps every day should be Mother's Day, but most families are too busy with everyday business to say thank you for every meal or every good night kiss.

Once every year, the world stops being busy and says thank you.
Flowers, cards and gifts are just the outward signs.
What mothers love most is the fact that their families really do notice all that they do and for one day every mom is queen for a day...

Happy Mother's day!

                    Fun facts on 7 up

                       


Can you imagine walking up to a store clerk and asking for a "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda?" Well, apparently no one else could imagine doing it either because the name of this soda was quickly changed to 7UP.
Charles Leiper Grigg of the Howdy Corporation invented 7UP, or Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda, in October of 1929.
The name didn't go over very well, and was changed to 7Up Lithiated Lemon Soda, and then to just 7UP in 1936.

Just in case you where wondering, 7UP did contain Lithium, a light-weight medal, now used in treating mental illness (and making long lasting batteries).
The lithium was removed from 7UP over 50 years ago, but at the time it appeared in several companies lemon-lime sodas.
When soft drinks were first invented they often had minerals added that were found in natural springs and springs with lithium were very popular.( )

Initially 7UP was available in the St.Louis area, but Mr. Grigg and the Howdy Corp. worked aggressively to make 7UP a national drink.
This was no easy feat, as there were no large supermarket chains, but just little Mom & Pop markets that had to be convinced on an individual basis to carry 7UP. Now remember, 7UP was not only trying to become a successful nationwide soft drink, but it was also trying to do this during the Great Depression.
One of the techniques Mr. Grigg used to help him accomplish his goal of making 7UP successful, was to sell his product to the underground speakeasies. Like dry ginger ale, 7UP was a very popular mixer.
In fact, once prohibition was repealed, Mr. Grigg started openly marketing his soda as a mixer. By the end of the 1930's, Mr. Grigg had made 7UP one of the nations most popular sodas.

World War II also helped 7UP grow even further. Most soft drink companies were struggling to survive during the war because sugar rations greatly reduced the amount of product that they could produce.
7UP on the other hand, required less sugar for their soft drink than other companies, and this gave them a huge advantage.
7UP was also pretty smart as they used their new found profits to start a national advertising campaign.
In the past advertising campaigns had been directed to the local communities.
Now, 7UP started advertising in national magazines such as Life, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's.
By the end of the War, 7 UP was the third most popular soft drink in the country.

7Up released "Like," a diet lemon-lime drink, in 1963 (seven years later it was reformulated and renamed Diet 7 UP).
In 1987 they released Cherry 7 UP and Diet 7 UP.
They were one of the first U.S. soft drink companies (maybe the first?) to use one-liter bottles, and they accompanied the bottles with the slogan "Follow the Liter," and it is now obvious that all the other soft drink companies did just that.

The biggest change to 7up, since they removed the lithium, is happening right now. Once the third most popular soft drink in the nation, 7up has fallen in the standings over the last few years and had even fallen behind Sprite (last year they were ranked 8th, and Sprite was 4th). Lemon and limes provide 7up with its flavor -- no secret formula here. In an effort to get 7up back to the top again, the company has changed the way the lemon and lime flavor is extracted from the fruit. A new modern technique is now being employed that produces a very crisp, clear refreshing taste. They didn't change the sweetness or the carbonation -- they just intensified the flavor (in my opinion a very acceptable change).

In 1988, the Dr Pepper Company merged with the Seven Up Company.
In 1995 the Dr Pepper/7up company was bought by Cabury Schweppes.
They are now the third-largest soft drink company in the world.

I love a Diet 7up on occasion. It's a refreshing break to my usual Diet Pepsi.

Ya know it's so strange that I love coke and sprite but never really liked 7 up and pepsi.
I wonder if it is only me...

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909). 

He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity.
He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912.
Before becoming President, he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government.
Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.

Here is some Interesting Facts About Theodore Roosevelt beside Theodore Roosevelt had more pets at the White House than any other president, including cats, dogs, ponies, guinea pigs, lizards, and kangaroos.

*First to leave the country-Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside of the continental United States while in office. In 1906, he traveled to Panama.

*Church and State-Although Roosevelt had been a Sunday school teacher, he believed strongly in the separation of Church and State.
While taking the oath of office during his inauguration after McKinley’s assassination, he did not swear on the Bible.
When the $20 gold coin was designed in 1907, the words “In God We Trust” were not present.
In a letter written by Roosevelt, he said it was irreverent to have the words printed on the coins because the money was used to buy worldly goods and services.
After public outcry, Congress passed legislation requiring “In God We Trust” be restored to all U.S. coins which it had been previously printed on.

*Nobel Peace Prize-In 1906, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role of negotiator in the Russo-Japanese War.
He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize.

*A multitasking homeschooler-Roosevelt’s education was mostly homeschooling by his parents and tutors.
He was an avid reader and developed a photographic memory.
It is said he was a great multitasker, able to dictate letters and memos to two separate secretaries while browsing through a book at the same time.

*Just call me TR-President Roosevelt was the first president to be commonly known by his initials.

*Boxing injury-Roosevelt was blind in his left eye, the result of a boxing injury he sustained while in office.

*Skinny-dipper-Roosevelt was known to go skinny-dipping in the Potomac River during the wintertime.

*Youngest President-Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president, assuming the office at the age of 42 after President McKinley was assassinated.
John F. Kennedy was the youngest president to be elected to office.
He was 43 when he became president.

*You can’t kill a Bull Moose-On October 14, 1912, Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when a local saloon-keeper shot him.
The bullet lodged in his chest after passing through a jacket pocket containing his steel eyeglass case and a copy of his 50 page speech which had been folded in half.
Being an anatomist, Roosevelt concluded that since he wasn’t coughing blood the bullet had not penetrated the chest wall into his lung.
He declined immediate treatment and gave his 90 minute speech with blood seeping from the wound into his shirt. “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot,” Roosevelt said, “but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”