Eleven Things I Learned From Reading Last Month
Ethan Cassidy
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Here are eleven things I learned from reading last month.
I read in the newspaper that three-times Melbourne Cup winning mare Makybe Diva died, aged 27. Spookily, the same age as Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimmie Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse when they died. The Diva however was the only one of the six to have died of colic.
More from Don Quixote: “Nothing is so reasonable and cheap as good manners”.
Champion ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”.
The surface area of an adult human lung is about 100 square metres.
“It is the job that’s never started that takes longest to finish” – Tolkien.
Stand in the middle of a flat paddock. If you drop a bullet from your hand at shoulder height at the same instant the someone alongside you fires a rifle, which of the two bullets hits the ground first? The answer is they do so at the same time. The bullet’s rate of fall (ie force of gravity) is independent of its horizontal motion.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Remember to dig the well long before you get thirsty” – Chinese proverb.
Thucidides paraphrased: “Of all the manifestations of power, the most admired is restraint.”
What we commonly refer to as a “spiral staircase” is not a spiral. It is a cylindrical helix. A true spiral has radius of curvature with every revolution. Eg. A snail shell and many sea shells.
What is the only number, when written in English, has all its letters in alphabetical order? As an incorrect example, THREE is not because T comes after H. Write to About Time to find out the answer…
Here are eleven things I learned from reading last month.
I read in the newspaper that three-times Melbourne Cup winning mare Makybe Diva died, aged 27. Spookily, the same age as Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimmie Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse when they died. The Diva however was the only one of the six to have died of colic.
More from Don Quixote: “Nothing is so reasonable and cheap as good manners”.
Champion ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”.
The surface area of an adult human lung is about 100 square metres.
“It is the job that’s never started that takes longest to finish” – Tolkien.
Stand in the middle of a flat paddock. If you drop a bullet from your hand at shoulder height at the same instant the someone alongside you fires a rifle, which of the two bullets hits the ground first? The answer is they do so at the same time. The bullet’s rate of fall (ie force of gravity) is independent of its horizontal motion.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Remember to dig the well long before you get thirsty” – Chinese proverb.
Thucidides paraphrased: “Of all the manifestations of power, the most admired is restraint.”
What we commonly refer to as a “spiral staircase” is not a spiral. It is a cylindrical helix. A true spiral has radius of curvature with every revolution. Eg. A snail shell and many sea shells.
What is the only number, when written in English, has all its letters in alphabetical order? As an incorrect example, THREE is not because T comes after H. Write to About Time to find out the answer…
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If I could interview someone dead or alive, I would like to interview Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime (WWII) leader.
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Nine Things I Picked Up From Reading
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Nine Things I Learned From Reading Last Month
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Franz Kafka, the famous Czech writer, never married but was engaged numerous times. He would write to his first fiancee, Felice, 2, 3 or 4 letters daily when he was working in Prague and she was living in Berlin. By Kafka’s own reckoning, he wrote to her perhaps 500 letters.
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Humans have five traditional senses: sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. We go about the world using these senses to guide us, and we are heavily reliant on vision as our primary and dominant sense.
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