Trivia

Most U.S. physicians earned more respect than money until about 50 years ago, historians say. Medical cash flowed in, they say, when higher technologies moved life’s major milestones - birth, pain, aging and death - from homes to hospitals.

In Haiti, it’s against the law for a voodoo priest to create a zombie, and it’s certainly no joke to the deep believers.

Q. Where did the Japanese find their red jungle fowl with tail feathers 35 feet long?

A. They bred them to that end.

Wynette Pugh was the name Tammy Wynette started out with.

Q. When was China’s “Middle Kingdom”?

A. It wasn’t an era, but a location - the geographically central area where leaderships held power, education advanced, cultures thrived, commerce flourished and military adventures began. Outlying provinces, ever visited by floods and fires, droughts and quakes, languished in poverty. Betterments are abuilding, reporters say, but the poorest of the provincial poor still look longingly toward the “Middle Kingdom,” which is what “China” means.