Trivia

What was the original purpose of the bride’s veil? Pose that query, get various replies. One claim is it was designed in an arranged marriage to prevent the groom from seeing what his bride looked like. Another is that in such a marriage it concealed the bride’s horror. Theories abound.

Q. What was the only NFL football team to win a national championship without a head coach?

A. Chicago Bears. In 1943. Coach George Halas joined the Navy. Two assistants, neither named to the top job, held it together.

The British writer Beverly Nichols noted: “Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”

If you get around to riding Amtrak, count the number of wheel clicks in 20 seconds. That should give the train’s miles per hour.