Washington, D.C. is home to a lot of impressive architecture. Did you know that one of the gargoyles of the National Cathedral is Darth Vader?
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Scrabble is still an enormously popular game. Currently, it has been produced in 29 different languages, and not to mention the digital and app versions which are downloaded and played daily. In Great Britain, 53% of all homes have a Scrabble set!
The 13th century Franciscan friar Roger Bacon predicted the invention of the automobile, aircraft, and the submarine. He wrote, “cars can be made so that without animals they will move with unbelievable rapidity” and “flying machines can be constructed so that a man sits in the midst of the machine revolving some engine by which artificial wings are made to beat the air…like a flying bird.”
The roar of a lion can be heard up to 5 miles away. The incredible sound is caused by a ligament in the giant cat’s voice box. The ligament stretches, enabling more air to pass across the vocal chords. This ligament is found only in big cats, such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars.
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Scrabble is still an enormously popular game. Currently, it has been produced in 29 different languages, and not to mention the digital and app versions which are downloaded and played daily. In Great Britain, 53% of all homes have a Scrabble set!
The 13th century Franciscan friar Roger Bacon predicted the invention of the automobile, aircraft, and the submarine. He wrote, “cars can be made so that without animals they will move with unbelievable rapidity” and “flying machines can be constructed so that a man sits in the midst of the machine revolving some engine by which artificial wings are made to beat the air…like a flying bird.”
The roar of a lion can be heard up to 5 miles away. The incredible sound is caused by a ligament in the giant cat’s voice box. The ligament stretches, enabling more air to pass across the vocal chords. This ligament is found only in big cats, such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars.
‘The Life of Pi’, a novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel, was rejected by more than five publication houses before it was finally accepted. In 2001, it was finally published and won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. It also won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction. Over ten million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
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