Top Items About Etiquette
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| Trivia | Alexander Graham Bell vs Thomas Edison - telephone greetings | When the telephone appeared in the 1870s, people worried about receiving calls from people to whom they had not been properly... | root | 168 | |
| Anecdotes | Pink: Natural Rebel | Four months after signing with LaFace in 1996, Pink (who often hung out with street people and once lived in a... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Anecdotes | Deep Respect | Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who rarely lost a match, was in the habit of taking off his watch at the start of a... | Anonymous | 28 | |
| Anecdotes | Stop and Go | The pianist Oscar Levant was playing one evening when a woman arrived late and proceeded to distract the audience by... | Anonymous | 22 | |
| Anecdotes | H2OOO! | Austria`s Heilbrunn castle boasts a curious water-garden incorporating an outdoor banqueting table where Salzberg... | Anonymous | 22 | |
| Anecdotes | God Exists! | The famed encylopedist Denis Diderot was once invited to visit the Russian Court by the empress, Catherine the Great. To... | Anonymous | 20 | |
| Anecdotes | Check Mate | During his stay in France, Benjamin Franklin frequently played chess with the elderly Duchess of Bourbon. On one... | Anonymous | 18 | |
| Anecdotes | Anecdote about Theatre, Etiquette and Interruptions | During a performance of `The Producers` one night, Nathan Lane berated some people in the audience. `There was a couple... | Anonymous | 17 | |
| Anecdotes | Britannic Majesty | "In 1946, the magazine publisher and arts patron Floyd S. Chalmers attended a meeting of Commonwealth news executives... | Anonymous | 16 | |
| Anecdotes | Bad Protocall? | Caninius Revilus had the distinction of serving as consul for a single day. When Cicero was reproached for his failure... | Anonymous | 16 |
