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FAST FACTS – Fascinating trivia to educate and entertain.
While there are currently no female players in Major League Baseball, there have been plenty of women in professional men’s leagues. The first was Lizzie Arlington, who pitched during the ninth inning for the Reading Coal Heavers in 1898 and won her team the game. A little over 30 years later, an African-American woman, Jackie Mitchell, pitched against the Yankees during an exhibition game, striking out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
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Quote of the week
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
IMAGE: WIKIPEDIA.ORG Dolphins were used by the US and Soviet Union during the Vietnam War and the Cold War. Both countries studied the creatures for their sonar capabilities, but also trained them to detect mines, bring equipment to divers, find lost equipment, and guard submarines, among other nifty tricks.
By the numbers
The number of Simpsons episodes that have aired to t date. It is the longest running animated sitcom ever.
The height of the world’s largest pet dog, a Great Dane named Zeus. The number of years Dr Jane Goodall has been researching primates in Tanzania giving her the title of the longest-running field study of primates.
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Though it didn’t make the first digital music players on the market, Apple revolutionised them in 2001 when it released the first iPod. Bulky portable CD players were replaced by a tiny device that could hold up to 1000 songs. But even the iPod isn’t a device for the ages. Apple is discontinuing its only remaining iPod model, the iPod Touch. It will be available only while supplies last.
Today in history – June 2
1847 – Felix Mendelssohn’s Wedding March is used at a wedding for the first time. Dorothy Carew and Tom Daniel were the first to use the iconic piece for their wedding ceremony. 1946 – Italy becomes a parliamentary republic. The transition from a monarchy to today’s Italian Republic was effected by the favourable outcome of a referendum, in which 89 per cent of Italians, also including women for the first time, took part. 1953– Queen Elizabeth II is crowned. The coronation in London’s Westminster Abbey was the first televised major international event. Elizabeth’s accession to the throne followed the death of her father, King George VI, 16 months before. 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit a communist country. Millions of spectators lined the streets of Warsaw as the Pope began his nine-day tour of his native Poland.
Word of the day
Mercurial
Characterised by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood.
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