Friday, November 22, 2019
St. Lawrence River
The St. Lawrence River connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Jacques Cartier arrived there on St. Lawrence's feast day, thus the name.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Domestique in biking
In bike racing, a domestique is a rider who rides for the benefit of a team rather than trying to win the race. The most typical example is a someone who rides ahead of the leader to reduce wind resistance.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Oscar de la Renta
Born on July 22, 1932, fashion designer Oscar de la Renta was raised alongside six sisters in a middle-class household in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Patrice Lumumba of the Congo
Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese politician and independence
leader who served as the first Prime Minister of the independent
Democratic Republic of the Congo from June until September 1960. He
played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a
colony of Belgium into an independent republic. He was assassinated in a CIA plot in 1961.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Shaggy's real name
The rapper Shaggy (not Norville Rogers) was born Orville Richard Burrell in Kingston, Jamaica in 1968. He was a U.S. Marine!
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