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Johnny Depp, Errol Flynn, and Robert Louis Stevenson may have imbued the image of the pirate with intensity and legend, but what this unassuming little book adds—historical relevance—is what ultimately cements pirates as some of the coolest, most colorful characters in (actual) history...
...Rider.) Chávez is fond of calling Bush "Mister Danger," a reference to a quintessential Ugly American in Venezuela's best-known novel, Doña Bárbara, a torrid story set not far from where Chávez was raised. And the "devil" barb, he points out, stems from a legend about a llanero who beats Satan in a singing contest. But at some point even cowboys have to learn a more diplomatic tune...
...record has stood for 35 years.Despite three tests in the last 15 years, no one has ever come within 50 yards of Cornell legend Ed Marinaro’s all-time Ivy career rushing record of 4,715.This year a fourth player will make a run at the top of the list.Senior tailback Clifton Dawson’s numbers are projected not only to approach, but to surpass Marinaro’s.The back entered the 2006 campaign with 3,628 career yards, needing just 1,087 to break the 1971 record. With 170 yards in the team?...
...town-wide 54-hr. trivia marathon. He hits trivia night in a Boston bar and kibitzes at a college quiz-bowl championship. He exhumes such trivia titans of yesteryear as John Timbs, the author of the 1856 best seller Things Not Generally Known, and Ruth Horowitz, the rebus-solving legend who dominated 20 straight episodes of Concentration in 1966. And of course Jennings gives us all the nerd-on-nerd action from his Jeopardy! stint, which he graciously chalks up to luck and good buzzer technique...
...mosque which in the past 20 years has been designated as the spot the Mahdi went into concealment. Pious Iranians, with government help, have transformed the site into a massive devotional center for the Mahdi, and on weekends tens of thousands of Iranian pilgrims peer down the well where legend says he is hiding. Some visitors claim to have seen the Mahdi there, and report things he allegedly said to them. More commonly, people write him letters asking for blessing, and drop them down the well (on the male or female side). Caretakers fish the letters out regularly, and burn...