When air hits the Alps, it sometimes drops its moisture on the windward side and descends into the land beyond as a warm, dry wind.
When this happens, headache and depression increase in Central Europe. The “murder winds” have even been blamed for heart attacks and suicide.
No one has explained the effect.
A player at blind-man’s-buff, and Sympathy,
In common, have one striking feature:
Each is, you see,
A fellow feeling for a fellow creature.
— John Augustus Miles, Poems and Chess Problems, 1882
eccedentesiast
n. one who fakes a smile
In 1858 Mark Twain had a vivid dream in which he saw his brother Henry lying in a metal burial case. On Henry’s chest lay a bouquet of white flowers with a red rose at its center.
A month later, Henry lost his life when his steamboat’s boiler exploded. A grieving Twain arrived to discover his brother’s body in a metal case—the other victims had been given wooden coffins, but the ladies of Memphis had taken up a fund for Henry, touched by his youth and good looks.
As Twain stood there, an elderly woman approached and placed a bouquet of white flowers on Henry’s chest. At its center was a single red rose.
See also A Premonition.
Here is the longest correct sentence of ‘thats’ which we have yet seen:
‘I assert that that, that that “that,” that that that that person told me contained, implied, has been misunderstood.’
It is a string of nine ‘thats’ which may be easily ‘parsed’ by a bright pupil.
— Boston Journal of Education, cited in Bizarre Notes & Queries, November 1887
In June 1768, bedridden tailor Owen Parfitt was put into a chair at the door of his Somerset cottage while his sister made his bed. She emerged after 15 minutes to find only the empty chair.
A search continued throughout the rural village through the night and all the following day. No trace of him was ever found.
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” — Shirley Temple
Virginia Centurione Bracelli died in 1651, but her body was found largely uncorrupted when her grave was opened 150 years later.
She was canonized in 2003.
