Nine Things I Learned From Reading Last Month
Ethan Cassidy
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In 1896 in England the world’s first motor vehicle fatality occurred. A middle aged woman was struck by a vehicle, travelling at 4mph (6.4km/h), and died from her injuries. At the inquest, the coroner said “I hope this will be the last time such a thing happens.”
Franz Kafka, the famous Czech writer, never married but was engaged numerous times. He would write to his first fiancee, Felice, 2, 3 or 4 letters daily when he was working in Prague and she was living in Berlin. By Kafka’s own reckoning, he wrote to her perhaps 500 letters.
“Marry your mistress and you create a job vacancy.” I forget who wrote this.
Think of a number. Add 10. Double the result. Subtract 6. Divide by 2. Take away the number you first thought of. The answer is 7.
In 1820, in the USA, James Monroe won his second presidential term in the only uncontested election ever. The Democratic-Republican party was the only party (it split in 1824).
In 1500 a person could literally know everything. A person could read every book in the world’s biggest library if they read one book a week for 4 years.
“Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences” – R. L. Stevenson
Shortly before his death, German poet Heine Heinrich changed his will, leaving everything to his wife with the proviso that she re-marry. His explanation was that he knew that at least one person would regret his death.
Early colonial governor Lachlan Macquarie introduced the law that all traffic in the colony (later to be named Australia) would move on the left side of the roadway. Up until then horses, carriages and carts were free to use any part of the road.
Thank you Jeffrey for your teachings! If you also have something you’d like to share – please send it through!
In 1896 in England the world’s first motor vehicle fatality occurred. A middle aged woman was struck by a vehicle, travelling at 4mph (6.4km/h), and died from her injuries. At the inquest, the coroner said “I hope this will be the last time such a thing happens.”
Franz Kafka, the famous Czech writer, never married but was engaged numerous times. He would write to his first fiancee, Felice, 2, 3 or 4 letters daily when he was working in Prague and she was living in Berlin. By Kafka’s own reckoning, he wrote to her perhaps 500 letters.
“Marry your mistress and you create a job vacancy.” I forget who wrote this.
Think of a number. Add 10. Double the result. Subtract 6. Divide by 2. Take away the number you first thought of. The answer is 7.
In 1820, in the USA, James Monroe won his second presidential term in the only uncontested election ever. The Democratic-Republican party was the only party (it split in 1824).
In 1500 a person could literally know everything. A person could read every book in the world’s biggest library if they read one book a week for 4 years.
“Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences” – R. L. Stevenson
Shortly before his death, German poet Heine Heinrich changed his will, leaving everything to his wife with the proviso that she re-marry. His explanation was that he knew that at least one person would regret his death.
Early colonial governor Lachlan Macquarie introduced the law that all traffic in the colony (later to be named Australia) would move on the left side of the roadway. Up until then horses, carriages and carts were free to use any part of the road.
Thank you Jeffrey for your teachings! If you also have something you’d like to share – please send it through!
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