Top Items About Explanations
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Monosyllables | Leonhard Euler was once invited by Frederick the Great to join his Academy in Berlin. Euler accepted and promptly left... | Anonymous | 570 | |
| Anecdotes | Woody Allen Jewish? | Woody Allen was once asked if he was Jewish. "Yes," he replied, "but with an explanation." | root | 321 | |
| Anecdotes | Richard Feynman & the O-ring Debate | After the space shuttle Challenger exploded, a distinguished panel of scientists, government officials, and... | root | 290 | |
| Anecdotes | Ernest Hemingway: Just `Cause? | In 1926, Ernest Hemingway left his first wife (Hadley Richardson) and their small son for a wealthy writer named Pauline... | Anonymous | 286 | |
| Anecdotes | Ronald Reagan: Hollywood President | Secretary of State James Baker once gave Ronald Reagan a briefing book to study before the next day`s World Economic... | Anonymous | 122 | |
| Anecdotes | Soulful Explanation | Erasmus was once reproached for having failed to observe the Lenten fast. His reply? "I have a Catholic soul, but a... | Anonymous | 113 | |
| Anecdotes | Greatest Living Actor | While testifying in a trial one day, George Arliss described himself as "the world`s greatest living actor." Some time... | Anonymous | 112 | |
| Jokes | Star Jones weight loss joke | "Star Jones has announced after years of secrecy, the way she lost all her weight was having gastric bypass surgery. She... | root | 81 | |
| Anecdotes | Kylie Minogue's advent calendars | In late 2002, Britain`s Woolworths chain was forced to repackage 250,000 advent calendars - featuring 31 windows which... | Anonymous | 79 | |
| Anecdotes | 141 and a half socks | Captain Alexander Stewart (of the Cameronians) was once asked to account for the number of pairs of socks his company had.... | root | 76 |
