Trivia

Q. Is English the official language of the Internet?

A. Unofficial maybe. The Net has little official anything.

Grand Canyon guides say they get interesting questions. Such as: “Is the mule train air-conditioned?”

Pioneer filmmaker Thomas Ince cranked out silent westerns with real Sioux Indians. He imported them around 1910, along with an entire Wild West show, and set them up near his Los Angeles studio in a village that bore his name. They were called the Inceville Sioux. No doubt you’ve seen them on film repeatedly.

The kiwi bird growls like a dog.

Any female character who broke up a marriage in a film was required to die before the picture’s end. That was Adolf Hitler’s decree to Nazi Germany’s filmmakers.

Under England’s flag in the Crimean War of 1854-56, the First Baron Raglan and the Seventh Earl of Cardigan suffered some disgrace - Raglan in the siege of Sebastopol, Cardigan in the deadly charge of the Light Brigade. But though the names of those two titled fellows were muddied in combat, they survived in fashion. - with the Raglan sleeve and the Cardigan sweater.