ms@dvamc.UUCP (08/02/83)
Volleyball was invented in a Holyoke, Mass. YMCA in 1895. Its inventor was William George Morgan. The game was first called "mintonette" and was played by hitting a basketball over a rope. A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It is a phenomenon that can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees of less above the horizon. The term "cocktail" was invented in Elmsford, NY. A barmaid named Betsy Flanagan decorated her establishment with the tail feathers of cocks. One day a patron asked for "one of those cocktails". She served him a drink with a feather in it. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew Canabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations. Well, enough for today...
ms@dvamc.UUCP (08/09/83)
More trivia strikes again!!! What do the following towns all have in common? Dayton, Atlanta, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Norfolk, Bangor, Hartford, New Haven, Phoenix, Stamford, Urbana, and Newark???? They are all located in New York State. _____________________________________________________________ Dr. Friedrich Mesmer, Austrian physician and the inventor of mesmerism, a forerunner of hypnosis, introduced the harmonica to France.
zsb@maxvax.UUCP (z berman) (08/10/83)
are you forgetting Florida, N.Y.? Zev S. Berman
klein@houxt.UUCP (N.KLEIN) (08/12/83)
Did anyone know there was a Brooklyn in Maryland.
wombat@uicsl.UUCP (08/14/83)
#R:dvamc:-107500:uicsl:7500026:000:134 uicsl!wombat Aug 13 12:48:00 1983 How about the San Jose in Illinois? (pronounced "San Joz", with the "J" as in "jump") Wombat pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat