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My name is David Eisenstein, and I am from the midwest United States.
Here is my Fedora Project user page. Furchild 02:15, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Did you know...
Cover of Al-Asma'i, 1908
- ... that the magazine Al-Asma'i (pictured), one of the first publications to emerge in Ottoman Palestine in 1908, was opposed to Zionism and frequently criticized Jewish immigration?
- ... that One Chun, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios, and aged clocks on a wall?
- ... that Heike Heubach became the first deaf member of the German Bundestag?
- ... that larvae of the species Carabus japonicus prey on earthworms up to 400 times larger than themselves?
- ... that John Quincy Adams described Jonathan Elliot, his former printer, as "penurious and venal"?
- ... that an Irish comedy group wrote the film Apocalypse Clown?
- ... that scholars debate whether Anactoria, mentioned in Sappho's poems, was a real person, a pseudonym, or an invention of Sappho?
- ... that American Colossus, a history book that describes how a banker bailed out the U.S. government in 1895, was published around a time when the U.S. government bailed out banks?
- ... that football player Joe Gray was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost" because when running "it was like he wasn't there anymore"?
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