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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Trivia

L.M. Boyd Crown Syndicate

Q. Is there a word in English that contains all six vowels?

A. Unquestionably.

Q. In which month are the fewest couples divorced?

A. Same month the fewest couples are married: January.

Claim is that more than half of all Christmas shopping is done on office time.

Q. Isn’t there some earthly place called “Kingdom Come”?

A. At least one. A state park in southwestern Kentucky is so named.

Q. Isn’t there a blind golfer who made a hole in one twice on the same hole on consecutive days?

A. Mrs. Margaret Waldon, 74, reportedly did so on April 23, 1990, at Fernandina Beach, Fla., then did it again likewise on the seventh hole the next day. So it was reported to then by the golf editors.

Most of a loon’s legs are inside its body.

At last report there were 491,848,883 stars and galaxies catalogued on 388 CD-ROMs in the U.S. Naval Observatory.

What do most great men of history have in common with many lunatics? One characteristic in particular, said the English sage Bertrand Russell: “Megalomania,” that compulsion to exercise power.