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madknits for a while now to restructure my blogging with certain days of the week having specific themes/content as his blog does. He has a delightful weekly post entitled Thursday Randomocity and I have decided I will follow suit. Mine is likely to contain less random things about me than his does about him but the spirit is the same. However, I have been at a lost for coming up with an equally snazzy title. Suggestions?
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Number of federal safety standards that apply to the manufacture of teddy bears: 4
Number of federal safety standards that apply to the manufacture of firearms: 0
Income tax in Canada was instituted in 1919, as a way to repay the state debt accumulated as a result of “World”* War "I". Canadians will quickly note it never went away.
*Qualifying the war as wordly has been called into question given that none of the war sites were outside of Europe. Recognizing this forces the 1 to be reconcidered, although neither "world" wars saw the inclusion of contigents of all armies of all countries, nevermind on all continents.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsy, Sheriff of Turky, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
Maternity leave pay for working parents became legally required in Canada in 1971. That same year, families with a (multiple) working parent(s) began to get tax breaks for enrolling kids in child care programs.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
madknits for a while now to restructure my blogging with certain days of the week having specific themes/content as his blog does. He has a delightful weekly post entitled Thursday Randomocity and I have decided I will follow suit. Mine is likely to contain less random things about me than his does about him but the spirit is the same. However, I have been at a lost for coming up with an equally snazzy title. Suggestions?Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but a failure to accurately translate this from Japanese to English resulted in a decision to change his name to Mario to honor the landlord of Nintendo of America's office, Mario Segali.
My favourite herb is thyme. I add it to a myriad of dishes.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Number of federal safety standards that apply to the manufacture of teddy bears: 4
Number of federal safety standards that apply to the manufacture of firearms: 0
Income tax in Canada was instituted in 1919, as a way to repay the state debt accumulated as a result of “World”* War "I". Canadians will quickly note it never went away.
*Qualifying the war as wordly has been called into question given that none of the war sites were outside of Europe. Recognizing this forces the 1 to be reconcidered, although neither "world" wars saw the inclusion of contigents of all armies of all countries, nevermind on all continents.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsy, Sheriff of Turky, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
Maternity leave pay for working parents became legally required in Canada in 1971. That same year, families with a (multiple) working parent(s) began to get tax breaks for enrolling kids in child care programs.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
