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• In 1944, the newspaper in Durham, S.C. reported that a local man had been taken to traffic court for parking his car in front of a sign that said, “No Stoping.” The man pleaded not guilty. The sign should have said, “No Stopping” (with two P’s). He argued that “stoping” meant to extract ore, and he certainly had not been extracting ore. He moved that the case be dismissed. The judge agreed, and the spelling on the sign presumably was corrected.
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1. What percent of land in a typical American town is paved? 2. How many million miles of roads and streets are there in the U.S.? 3. What state has more miles of highway than any other state? 4. What percent of accidents happen less than 25 miles from home? 5. What percent of accidents happen at less than 25 m.p.h.?
On Highway 89 a cop stopped a man who had been speeding along at nearly 90 miles an hour. “Didn’t you see the speed limit posted back there?” “Sure I did,” replied the man. “I thought it said 89 miles per hour.” “Boy,” said the cop, “I’m sure glad I caught you before you turned onto Highway 200!”
1. On average, how often is a typical driver involved in an accident? 2. What time of the week do more accidents happen than any other time of the week? “Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.” -Marshall McLuhan
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The first auto fatality happened in London in 1896 when Bridget Martha Stewart 8/3/1941 Driscoll froze in fear at the sight of Billy Bob Thornton an oncoming car, which knocked her 8/4/1955 STRANGE BUT TRUE Neil Armstrong 8/5/1930 1. 40% of a typical town is paved. In large cities it’s 50%, down (while travelling only 4 m.p.h.) and in L.A. it’s 66%. Lucille Ball 8/6/1911 by Samantha Weaver and killed her. The first speeding ticket 2. There are 4 million miles of roads and streets in the U.S. Mata Hari 8/7/1876 3. Texas has around 80,000 miles of highway, enough to was issued to Walter Arnold in 1896 Dustin Hoffman 8/8/1937 circle the earth about 3 times. 4. 75% of accidents happen less than 25 miles from home. Melanie Griffith 8/9/1957 for travelling 8 m.p.h. through Wood, ● It was ancient Greek philosopher Plato who made the ● Every May, horse lovers flock happen to Churchill 5. 80% of accidents at less than 25Downs m.p.h. England, thus exhibiting “shocking following sage observation: “Good people do not need in Louisville, Kentucky, to see the world’s finest disregard for health and civility.”
laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
thoroughbreds race in the Kentucky Derby. While there, spectators will collectively consume more than 1,800 gallons of mint juleps.
• In 1751 George II of England erased a debt he owed to George Deakins by telling him he could have 600 acres of land in Maryland. Deakins was determined to get the best 600 acres he could, so he hired two sets of surveyors to look over the land and tell him what they thought. Neither team knew about the other team, so Deakins was amazed when each group recommended the same plot. Deakins considered this an accident of fate and dubbed the land “The Accidental Tract.” Today the town that grew up there is known as Accident, Maryland. They have trouble preventing their interstate signs from being stolen. The signs say, “Accident Ahead.”
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● How would you like to brush your teeth with salt, chalk or ground brick? The first tooth powders that were with buy about 62 million Every used day, Americans newspapers and throw out around 44 million 8/3/1492 Columbus Spain toothbrushes wereleft made of just such materials. 3rdsuffer Quarter of them. If we recycled ● just half ourwho newsprint 8/4/1892 Lizzie Borden took an axe People sustain brain injuries can from2014 a variety 8/5/1620 Mayflower leaves England every year, we would need 3,200 fewer garbage Week 32 8/6/1945 Nuke dropped on Hiroshima trucks to collect our trash.of maladies. One of the stranger ones is anosognosia. ● When you think of hibernating bears, you typically 8/7/2007 Barry Bonds hits his 756th The victim suffers from some sort of disability, such as home run some cozy cave in the woods, right? Well, the imagine 8/8/1974 President Nixon resigns next timeSistine you’reChapel out for a winter hike, you’d better pay losing the ability to move a limb, but that’s not unusual; 8/9/1483 opens to cut into thin strips, like, well, french fries. R.I.P. close attention to exactly where you’re going; some bears what makes anosognosia so fascinating is that the person (And yes, that’s how the finger-friendly po• On 1983, folks Caldwell, spend the cold season curled up on the ground in large suffering from the limitation seems completely unable tatoNovember dish took 16, its name.) Green in beans are Idaho “Red-Eyed nests made of branches. to believe that any limitation exists, despite voluminous another removed item commonly preparedPete,” in thisthe last traffic light on Interstate 80. After manner. evidence to the contrary. 1. The average driver is involved in a car accident M I S S Ihave S Sbetter I P Pvision I than any other breed of demise, people were able to drive ● Greyhounds • its Maltese: These tiny spaniels are easy to every ten years. (c) 2014 King once Features Synd., happen Inc. between 6:00 p.m. coast-to-coast nonstop. Three morticians 2. More auto accidents dog. identify thanks to their long, silky coats. The and midnight on Saturday nights than any other were on duty Red-Eyed Pete was American Kennelwhen Club groups time period during the week. dismantled, laid out them with other “Toy in a horse-drawn Dogs” like Pugs and a mile to his grave. hearse, and carried Yorkshire The mayorTerriers. delivered a eulogy as the Feline aficionados casket was lowered into the ground. His When humans first settled the eastern seaboard, jays were common there. As more and more people began moving in, jays disappeared from the cities also use the term and were found only in the country. Country hicks who lived where the jays lived came to be known as jays. When they came to the city, they were headstone read, “Here lies Red-Eyed Pete, too ignorant to follow the traffic laws. They crossed in the middle of the streets. This became known as jay-walking. Maltese to describe the one red light you need no longer beat.” cats that have a si-
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1. What percent of land in a typical American On Highway 89 a cop stopped a man who had been town is paved? speeding along at nearly 90 miles an hour. “Didn’t 2. How many million miles of roads and streets wart 8/3/1941 are there in the U.S.? you see the speed limit posted back there?” “Sure I hornton MOMENTS IN TIME 3. What state has more miles of highway than did,” replied the man. “I thought it said 89 miles per The History Channel any other state? rong 8/5/1930 hour.” “Boy,” said the cop, “I’m sure glad I caught 1. 40% of a typical town is paved. In large cities it’s 50%, What percent of accidents happen less than in L.A. it’s4.66%. 8/6/1911 ● On Aug.and 16, 1920, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray you before you turned onto12, Highway 200!” less than a year after the United ● On Aug. 1953, 2. There are 4 million miles of roads and streets in the U.S. 8/7/1876 miles frommiles home? Chapman 3.isTexas struck in25the temple by a ball enough pitched has around 80,000 of highway, to by Carl States tested its first hydrogen bomb, the Soviets fman 8/8/1937 circle the earth 3 percent times. of accidents 5.about What happen less later. Mays of the New York Yankees. He died 12 athours detonate a 400-kiloton device in Kazakhstan. Known 4. 75% of accidents happen less than 25 miles from home. iffith 8/9/1957 After Chapman’s injury, it m.p.h.? wasat less mandated that scuffed or than 25 5. 80% of accidents happen than 25 m.p.h.
discolored balls be replaced with new white ones, making average, how often is a typical driver them easier to see. ved in an accident? at time of the week do more On Aug. 17, 1933, New York Yankees first baseman Lou dents happen than● any other time of Gehrig plays in his 1,308th consecutive game, breaking week? former Yankee Everett Scott’s record for consecutive
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● On Aug. 15, 1969, the Woodstock Music Festival opens on a patch of farmland in White Lake, New York. By the time the gates opened, more than 400,000 people were clamoring to get in. Those without tickets simply walked through gaps in the fences, and the organizers were eventually forced to make the event free of charge.
games played. Gehrig would go on to play in 2,130 games in a row, setting a record that would stand for over half a about 62 million century. “Mass transportation is doomed to failure round 44 million 3rd Quarterbecause 2014 half our newsprint a person’s ● On Aug. 13, 1948, U.S.in North and America British planes airliftcara isrecord 200 fewer garbage Week 32 amount of supplies into sections Berlin ● On Aug. 11, 1973, “American Graffiti,” a nostalgic the only placeofwhere he canunder be aloneAmerican and and British control. Despitethink.” terrible weather, crowded coming-of-age This word means: This state has tale steeped in the car-centric culture -Marshall McLuhan airspace and exhaustion of the pilots and crews, more thanthe highest rate of traffic fatalities. of suburban California, is released in theaters. The 700 British and American planes brought in nearly 5,000(Massachusetts has the lowest.) film went on to become a sleeper hit. (c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc. tons of supplies.
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