The Mexican party scene has fully embraced ridiculously long pointy boots. Known as “botas picudas,” the Mexican fashion of pointy boots has started with the tribal music. In the beginning, people were using regular boots. Then they started making them pointier and pointier, until it got out of control.
Students in Karasjok, north in Norway don`t get to stay home from school until it`s -50°C (-58°F). The school bus stops driving when it`s -38°C (-36°F).
A former Khmer Rouge member in Cambodia named Aki Ra has been spending the last 20+ years disarming landmines all over the country, with no pay, and no armor.
If you’re selling a property in California and within the past 3 years someone’s died on it, it’s considered a material defect and must be disclosed by the seller, unless the death was due to AIDS because that’s discrimination.
The most complex character in the Chinese language takes 57 strokes to write. It is a noodle dish.
Couples that cuddle can become addicted to one another. Symptoms of withdraw can occur when apart as a result of the hormone oxytocin, “the cuddling drug.”
1874 - Battle between jobless and police in NYC, 100s injuried
1943 - Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov
1962 - "Do Re Mi" closes at St James Theater NYC after 400 performances
1963 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-20
1967 - Coup in Togo
2009 - Global shipping experiences a drop in trade, as exports from South Korea dropping an annualised 30%, with Taiwan and Japan experiencing a 42% and 27% drop respectively
1635 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
1824 - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer
1924 - Philip Rawson, artist/teacher
1926 - Michael Bond, British writer
1933 - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, US, sci-fi author (Deadwalk, Plunder)
1972 - Richard Woodley, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1151 - Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
1599 - Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46
1894 - Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
1960 - Sibilla Aleramo, [Rina Faccio], Ital poet (Una Donna), dies at 83
1989 - Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51
2007 - Danny Oakes, racecar driver (b. 1911)
