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Thursday, 20 March 2014

Brain Teaser 3/20/2014

Solve the 10 clues. Take each initial letter, to form a new 10 letter word.

1. Polite greeting

2. Opposite of begin

3. It comes from a bulb

4. Eskimo's home

5. Another name for an axe (or ax)

6. Black Sabbath front man

7. Where a child may play

8. Large vessel for liquids

9. To change something

10. Neither left, nor wrong

Solution

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Today in History for 20th March 2014

Historical Events

1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings

1897 - France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia

1952 - US senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan

1982 - France performs nuclear test

1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.

1996 - "Love Thy Neighbor" opens at Booth Theater NYC

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Famous Birthdays

1469 - Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)

1830 - Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910

1831 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)

1954 - Jim Seales, Hamilton Ala, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)

1970 - Todd Burger, NFL guard (Chic Bears)

1984 - Markus Niemelä, Finnish racing driver

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Famous Deaths

687 - St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).

1757 - Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60

1887 - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73

1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)

1951 - Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74

1983 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)

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Back when NYC subways ran on tokens people would jam the slots with paper so they could suck the tokens out with their mouths. This was referred to as “Token Sucking” and some token booth attendants even tried to deter this crime by sprinkling chili powder in the slots.

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