Trivia

Among women, there’s more depression, more fear. Among men, there’s more anger, more liquor trouble. Or so say those who study what’s wrong with people. Sizable study, that one.

You tell me: Of what significance, if any, is the fact that the historical home of George Washington - Mount Vernon - now needs as many people to maintain it as it needed when George and Martha lived there?

Q. Skyscrapers of New York City’s Manhattan are said to owe their existence to three things: 1. Steel skeletons. 2. Elevators. And …. What’s the third?

A. A solid rock bed to anchor them.

Written by an anonymous medical researcher: “A baby learns to smile in the womb, but it does not learn to pout until about six months after it’s exposed to the real world.”

Japanese Kabuki actors three centuries ago fought deadly duels over Japanese actresses. So “for the good of the acting troupes,” the powers banned women, instead of duels. Military units worldwide have banned women, too, “for the good of the units.” They’ve said women distract men in dangerous duties. No doubt women have been banned “for their own good” by various groups, but that has not been history’s most common explanation.