interesting trivia
Nov. 24th, 2005 01:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenkLately I've been getting into online crossword puzzles. Why online?
...Antigone was Oedipus' daughter/sister. (I read Oedipus in high school, but not Antigone.)
...Winston Churchill escaped from a POW camp during the second Anglo-Boer war.
..."All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill
...Arleen Sorkin does the voice of Harly Quinn.
...Prince Charles referred to the Chinese bigwigs as "waxworks" in his diary during the Hong Kong handoff ceremonies.
...It's believed that Rembrandt based "Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicholeas Tulp" on real a real, public dissection/anatomy lesson. (These were supposed to have been social events in the 17th century.)
...The Mississippi River has the world's 3rd-largest drainage basin in the world. Only the Amazon and the Congo have bigger watersheds.
An organized method of self-improvement it's not, but it's interesting.
- Usually I can confirm the answers as I go.
- IMDB, Wikipedia, and Google are online.
- If I'm really stuck, I can cheat. By the letter or word. :)
- It can be convenient to have a puzzle as a background task while I'm waiting for a build or eating lunch.
...Antigone was Oedipus' daughter/sister. (I read Oedipus in high school, but not Antigone.)
...Winston Churchill escaped from a POW camp during the second Anglo-Boer war.
..."All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." - Winston Churchill
...Arleen Sorkin does the voice of Harly Quinn.
...Prince Charles referred to the Chinese bigwigs as "waxworks" in his diary during the Hong Kong handoff ceremonies.
...It's believed that Rembrandt based "Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicholeas Tulp" on real a real, public dissection/anatomy lesson. (These were supposed to have been social events in the 17th century.)
...The Mississippi River has the world's 3rd-largest drainage basin in the world. Only the Amazon and the Congo have bigger watersheds.
An organized method of self-improvement it's not, but it's interesting.
