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...There is solid cocktail-party fodder among these volumes, such as this assessment of the election of 1828: "Jackson's supporters accused Adams of having premarital sex with his foreign-born wife, while Adams' supporters called Jackson's mother a whore." Consider bringing such trivia to an Independence Day barbecue as a sort of hostess gift. I think we've all attended get-togethers over the last few months where the conversation devolves into a round robin of each person's imagined death scenarios and everyone leaves early to go stock up on canned goods and gas masks. The amateur...
...touch of candle wax, the overly starched cotton of my surplice as I knelt before the sacred mystery of the Eucharist: in the words of the poet Philip Larkin, "a serious house on serious earth" this was, a refuge and a beacon, a rebuke to the chatter and trivia and destabilizing noise of the world outside and beyond. And the knowledge that these rituals, these words, these miracles, had been going on for centuries and centuries, reaching back to small groups of confused followers in the aftermath of the Resurrection, only intensified the awe I felt and still feel. Where...
INFO HUB The official website of the Department of Tourism both promises and delivers. Offering useful travel tips and an exhaustive list of places to go, it also has a fun trivia section perfect for predeparture dinner conversations. Example: the yo-yo, which means "come back" in Tagalog, is Philippine in origin...
...payload during a mission last year-but crash-test dummies, which sent back simulated heartbeats and voices. (Ordinary Chinese could relate, being familiar with the National People's Congress.) While in orbit, the craft also captured digital images of Earth that notebook hopes will answer the age-old trivia question: is the Great Wall really visible from space...
...bland, established fact. To call him a creative, engaging performer is better. To call the vocalist a singularly talented virtuoso still cannot completely capture the music that swirls once he takes the stage, but it’s pretty close. You could boil Bobby McFerrin down to trivia: collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Or cite numbers: a Billboard number one single, ten grammys, twenty million copies and seemingly infinite praise or genres: jazz, pop, classical, gospel. But even the sum total of these elements could not hope to sum up the anticipation or the result...