March 14, 2008 
Today’s factoids about the United States Congress come to us from the Facts section on Harper’s Magazine’s website. I must say some of these were extremely surprising to me.
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March 9, 2008 
Today’s Comedian is one of the newest citizens of the United States of America, Craig Ferguson.
Craig was born on May 17, 1962 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a drummer in a little known band called "The Bastards from Hell" and later renamed "Dreamboys." They performed in Glasgow from 1980-1982. Mr. Ferguson came to Los Angeles in 1994 and snagged his first role as a baker named Logan McDonough on the short-lived 1995 ABC comedy show "Maybe This Time". He starred alongside Betty White, and Marie Osmond.
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March 7, 2008
This weeks Friday Factoids come to us from the National Safety Council’s compilation of injury reports since the 1920s. They have compiled a list of the odds of dying, most recent version is 2004, we’ll cover some of the more colorful and odd ways to die.
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March 3, 2008 
Gary Leon Ridgway was raised in a seemingly stable household in Washington. Born in February 1949 to Mary Rita Steinman and Thomas Newton Ridgway, his mother was very controlling of him. His wife, says she has many fond memories “of the man I knew, not that man they took away.”
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February 29, 2008
The “quit smoking” crowd is everywhere, and it has infiltrated allscan.org now. I’ve been smoking cigarettes for six months, my wife much longer. While it has always been a choice to start, it seems that the choice to quit is much harder. I watched an episode of Modern Marvels on tobacco where a doctor mentioned that more people are addicted to nicotine than any other drug and that nicotine is the fastest addicting drug around.
Well I don’t know about all that, but here are some interesting facts about what happens to your body when you quit, along with a nice time line from HealthBolt.net.
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February 26, 2008 While doing some research for an upcoming Friday Factoid I needed to look up the gerund participle of the verb ‘to die.’ However, at that time I had no idea I needed the gerund participle, just that I wasn’t sure how to spell ‘dying.’ While searching for ‘verb conjugation’ I came across verb2verbe.com.
This site provides every possible conjugation of English and French verbs, great for anyone in school that needs to look up the proper imperative conjugation of the French verb reconnaître. verb2verbe has a very simple layout that lets your search for either English or French verbs and gives their conjugations in a fast and easy to print result page.
verb2verbe also allows you to browse through their database of English and French verbs. This is great, especially in French were many words can have the same beginning letters and have same meaning, allowing you to find just the right word.
To check out more of verb2verbe.com either click on the logo above or the link in this sentence.
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February 24, 2008
I absolutely love things that make me laugh. It really doesn’t matter what the situation is. I thought I would do a weekly “Sunday Comics” with a twist. I am going to profile one Comedian each Sunday. I will include quotes from that weeks comedian.
The first comedian I am profiling is Demetri Martin. I enjoy his comedy because he is so intelligent. He turns everything into puzzles, palindromes and every other intelligent thing you could possible think of. He started Law School at NYU, but dropped out because he was so bored with it. Instead, he started doing stand up comedy at a club across from NYU’s campus. His career exploded…like when the American’s Dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima. Here is why he is so absolutely hilarious…His Jokes…His Quotes…His Stand-up Comedy Specials. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 22, 2008
This weeks Friday Factoids come from an article by the ACLU, while their article only covers what to do if stopped in your car. I suggest reading the entire article, even for law-abiding citizens, it could be helpful. (source)
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February 18, 2008
Let me first start by saying, “Happy President’s Day.” However, for the Presidents on this list, it wasn’t such a happy day when they were assassinated. This weeks installment of Monday Maniacs will cover the four assassins who killed Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy.
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February 15, 2008 There is going to be a total lunar eclipse on February 20-21, 2008. Here is the time line of this event.
| Eclipse Event | PST | MST | CST | EST |
| Penumbra First Visible | —– | 6:05pm | 7:05pm | 8:05pm |
| Partial Eclipse Begins | 5:43pm | 6:43pm | 7:43pm | 8:43pm |
| Total Eclipse Begins | 7:00pm | 8:00pm | 9:00pm | 10:00pm |
| Mid-Eclipse | 7:26pm | 8:26pm | 9:26pm | 10:26pm |
| Total Eclipse Ends | 7:52pm | 8:52pm | 9:52pm | 10:52pm |
| Partial Eclipse Ends | 9:09pm | 10:09pm | 11:09pm | 12:09am |
| Penumbra Last Visible | 9:45pm | 10:45pm | 11:45pm | 12:45am |
I am posting a picture I found that shows all stages of the lunar eclipse. Happy Eclipse Watching!
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