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Leslie Elman

Leslie’s Trivia Bits
05/21/2018 - 6:42am
Leslie Elman
LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: May 18, 2018 As of 2017, there were 300 authorized translations of “Le Petit Prince” (“The Little Prince”), the 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. They include Ancient Egyptian, Nepalese, Pennsylvania German and both the Tosk and Gheg dialects of Albanian. Frustrated by second-place finishes, Ugo Sivocci, a driver for the Alfa Romeo...
Leslie’s Trivia Bits
Leslie Elman 05/14/2018 - 11:27am
LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: May 14, 2018 Created to mark Lithuania’s 100th anniversary as an independent nation, Signato is a new computer font derived from Lithuania’s Act of Independence. All told, the font includes more than 450 Latin, Lithuanian and German characters elegantly adapted from the 1918 handwritten document to reflect...
Leslie’s Trivia Bits
Leslie Elman 05/07/2018 - 7:04am
LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: May 7, 2018 Mattel’s Hot Wheels cars debuted in 1968 with 16 models, including sporty versions of real-life cars from the Plymouth Barracuda to a souped-up VW Beetle and replicas of one-of-a-kind custom cars like the Hot Heap Model T and (my personal favorite) the bubble-top Beatnik Bandit. This year, to mark the...
Leslie’s Trivia Bits
Leslie Elman 04/30/2018 - 10:25am
LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: April 30, 2018 You probably don’t give much thought to chicken manure, but some chemists and engineers are up to their elbows in the stuff working on ways to repurpose it. It can be fine fertilizer, but its runoff is loaded with phosphorus, which can throw off the chemical balance of adjacent waterways. So the...
Leslie’s Trivia Bits
Leslie Elman 04/23/2018 - 2:27pm
LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: April 23, 2018 When she wasn’t drawing Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and her other beloved storybook characters, Beatrix Potter was drawing fungi and beetles. Her lifelong devotion to nature studies (she was a great fan of mushrooms) is one reason that her illustrations, while inevitably charming, are also...
Leslie’s Trivia Bits
Leslie Elman 04/16/2018 - 8:35am
LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: April 16, 2018 The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer didn’t much care for people in general and women in particular. He was, however, a great fan of poodles and owned several of them throughout his adult life — all males, all named Atma (from the Sanskrit word for soul). There are no species of bear...
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