As I promised, Fridays are going be filled with facts accumulated throughout the week. I did not accumulate as many this week as I expected, but here are a couple to tickle your gray mater:
“In the mid-19th century, horses struck and killed pedestrians in New York City more often than car accidents kill people today”
Found in the August edition of Discover Magazine page 74, a blurb regarding the book Traffic: Why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us) by Tom Vanderbilt
Halloween is second only to Christmas in consumer spending. The average American spends $98.00 per year.
Sorry to be a little early on this one – I am writing an article for the local paper. http://www.albany.edu/~ca3975/halloween.html
Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband, Franklin, were fifth cousins, once removed.
According to Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
To answer my daughter’s question this week:
The five rings of the Olympic symbol represent the 5 significant continents (their comment not mine – I can see getting rid of Antarctica, but who else is getting ditched?) and are interconnected to represent the friendship between the continents. The colors were chosen because every flag in the world bore at least one.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/greateventsofthecentury/a/olympicfacts.htm
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