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COMICS - STRANGE BUT TRUE - MOMENTS IN TIME

by Lucie Winborne

Artist Salvador Dali had a unique way of occasionally avoiding the bill for drinks and meals -- he would draw on the checks, making them priceless works of art and, therefore, uncashable.
The governor of China's Hunan Province banned Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" because he believed that animals should not be given the power to use the language of humans, and to put animals and humans on the same level would be "disastrous."
When the ancient Greeks staged plays, their costumes enabled audiences to identify characters. Tragic actors wore raised platform shoes called buskins to symbolize their superiority over comic actors, who would wear plain socks.
A researcher in Madagascar was so interested in sand flea development that she let one of the bugs live inside her foot for two months.
George Washington died after his doctors removed 40% of his blood (80 ounces) over a 12-hour period to cure a throat infection. While critics have claimed for decades that he was bled to death, the exact cause of his demise is still debated among scholars.
The longest time between the births of twin siblings is 87 days. Amy Ann Elliot debuted prematurely on June 1, 2012, and Kate Marie Elliot followed on Aug. 27, at Waterford Regional Hospital in County Waterford, Ireland.
When the mummy of Ramses II was sent to France in the mid-1970s, it was issued a passport. Ramses' occupation? "King (deceased)"!
In the early stage version of "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy's faithful companion, Toto, was replaced by a cow named Imogene.
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Thought for the Day:

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense." -- Mark Overby

On April 23, 1564, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the son of a leather trader and the town bailiff. At age 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years his senior.
On April 21, 1918, in the skies over France, Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as "The Red Baron," is killed by Allied fire. Richthofen was the top ace on both sides of the Western front, downing 80 enemy aircraft.
On April 24, 1945, President Harry Truman learns the full details of the Manhattan Project, in which scientists are attempting to create the first atomic bomb. The project was so secret that the former vice president only learned of it after President Franklin Roosevelt's death.
On April 26, 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin in McLean, Virginia. A year later, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective, and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America.
On April 22, 1970, Earth Day, an event to increase public awareness of the world's environmental problems, is first celebrated in the U.S. Millions of Americans, including students from thousands of universities, participated in rallies, marches and educational programs.
On April 20, 1980, the Castro regime announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel west of Havana, launching the Mariel Boatlift. The first of 125,000 Cuban refugees from Mariel reached Florida the next day in about 1,700 boats, overwhelming the U.S. Coast Guard.
On April 25, 1990, the crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope, a space-based observatory about the size of a bus, into a low orbit around Earth. The solar-powered telescope remains in operation to this day.