Trivia

Early fur traders sought beaver but rejected mink.

In that matter of clothing, some fashion experts advise women, when they put on separates, to wear light colors above the waist, dark colors below. More visually appealing, it said. Note, the advice is for women, not men.

Spaniards say, “If I die, I forgive you. If I live, we’ll see.”

Q. Before Craig T. Nelson got the lead in TV’s “Coach,” what other actors were considered for it?

A. Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Tom Skerritt, James Farentino, Rob Leibman and Richard Crenna. That’s called common knowledge on the sets.

Clearly, Alfred Lord Tennyson was not one of the more impetuous poets. He was engaged to Emily Sellwood for 14 years before they finally married. Nothing wrong with that, maybe. For his era. However, it’s a matter of record in our Love and War man’s files that very long engagements produce no more happy marriages than very short engagements.

First thing a bird does in the morning is try to regain the weight it lost overnight.

What do you collect? Chinese Emperor Li Yuan, founder of the T’ang Dynasty in the seventh century, collected concubines, more than 3,000 of them.