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Other fun Faroese trivia: the Islands has no legal drinking age. “I have a natural relationship with alcohol,” Mikkelsen acknowledges. Luckily, he is 21, and conducts himself age-appropriately. The three-year age gap between him and the majority of the freshman class is due to the 13-grade Faroe Islands education system, which enrolls seven-year-old first-graders, and to the year off Mikkelsen took in order to survey the electorate, perform political analyses and take courses at the University of Copenhagen. Despite his interest in politics, he intends to concentrate...
...name-dropping enthusiasts, there are still plenty of students who go in an entirely opposite direction: They lie. “It attracts too much attention,” says Whitney Welshimer, who has been quizzed by men in bars on U.S. presidential trivia after revealing she was a Harvard student. “And if I don’t think it’s going anywhere with a guy, I’ll just...
...charlotte, a simple, rustic concoction that pairs the crunch of buttered, sugar-dipped French bread with the melt-in-your-mouth softness of simmered apricots. And if you've missed the apricot's glorious, but short, season, the recipe also works well with peaches. Those with a weakness for trivia will find gems throughout the text, which, again, is an addition to the original Pomona. Did you know that currants have a patron saint, John the Baptist? (His feast day, June 24, is around the time of the harvest.) Or that gooseberries have a literary pedigree stretching back to 13th...
...course, Payne wouldn’t mind if his ultimate impact on the program went beyond that bit of trivia. Despite the pressure of patching up a revamped line on a team that hopes to repeat as Ivy League champions, Payne saw that challenge as one of the most attractive things about Harvard when he considered applying...
...testament to Elvis's appeal that none of the less-than-glamorous trivia of his final years and death has marred his sheen. If anything, in fact, it's the excruciatingly human details of Elvis's sad last days that has endeared him to so many fans. It makes him more like one of us: life-size, even vulnerable. It even enhances the pleasure of listening to his music, reminding us that the voice that brought us all those heartbreakingly beautiful tunes belonged to a person who ached and longed and lost...