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Bridge Burner?
While planning a campaign one day, one of Richelieu's officers, poring over a ma...
Sir Walter Raleigh: Smoking...
Having returned from the New World with the newly-discovered tobacco plant, Sir ...
Deep Thought
In a meeting during World War I, Germany's Wilhelm II and the Netherlands' Queen...
H2Woe?
Charles Spurgeon was frequently embroiled in religious controversies. "I hear yo...
Metaxas
While visiting a Greek air force base, General Metaxas was invited to test a new...
Pop Whizz
One evening before performing on "Saturday Night Live" each member of the Gratef...
Arnold Bennett: Proof
In 1931, the English writer and theater critic Arnold Bennett died in Paris. The...
Loony Poet
How did Li Po, generally considered China's finest poet, die? While attempting t...
Tall Order
During World War II, actor-to-be James Arness served as an infantryman in the Am...
H2OOO!
Austria's Heilbrunn castle boasts a curious water-garden incorporating an outdoo...
Just Cause For Divorce?
While having dinner one night, Milton Berle asked his wife for a glass of water....
Turnkey Solution?
Thomas Edison enjoyed showing visitors around his summer residence, pointing out...
Actor in Training
John Barrymore once played a father who strongly disapproved of his daughter's f...
Carol Christian Poell Fashi...
In 2003, New Yorker critic Judith Thurman visited a fashion show hosted b...
Albertans & Eskimos
In 1932, William "Bible Bill" Aberhart, the radio evangelist-turned-politician, ...
Ice Breaker?
Virgin Records' founder Richard Branson was once invited to an exclusive party a...
D-D-D-Dip
Charles Lamb was once advised by his doctor to take a course of "sea-bathing" at...
Chigi Move?
The wealhty Roman banker Agostino Chigi was famed for throwing indulgent al fres...
Houdini
Among his friends, Harry Houdini was as famed for "escaping" from paying his bil...
George V?
During World War II, in an effort to cut down on the use of fuel, England's King...
Syria's Condition?
In 1799, Napoleon's troops, traveling through the desert on route to Syria, made...
Deep Curtsey
The Queen Mother was fishing in Highland waters one afternoon and had waded some...
Skinny Dipper?
One summer day President Taft went for a swim in his coastal hometown, Beverly B...
Bridal Fountain
Shortly after Chicago's elegant Avalon Theatre (a faux Persian palace) opened it...
Waterton Cure
The aptly-named Charles Waterton once sprained his ankle while visiting the Unit...
Absent-minded Professor
The famously absent-minded Irwin Edman, a close friend of book publisher Bob Haa...
Teetotaler
An ardent supporter of the temperance movement, Rutherford B. Hayes' wife (aka "...
Dry Humor
Lord Beaverbrook's valet often referred to his master as "the Lord." Randolph Ch...
Heat of Romance
Though he came from a wealthy family (Joule's Stone Ales), the British physicist...
Pink Floyd Garden Party
Pink Floyd's concerts were not entirely devoid of Spinal Tap moments. In 1971, f...
X-Games Stunt
At the inaugural Moto X competition at the 1999 X Games in San Francisco, fiftee...
Baptism Scene
In 1965, Charlton Heston appeared as John the Baptist in George Stevens' biblica...
Michael Shermer: Virgin Mar...
In 2003, Skeptic magazine publisher Michael Shermer visited Clearwater, F...
Sounding
Lord Kelvin once worked out a method for measuring the depth of the sea using pi...
Watery Wonder
Though trained as a portrait artist, a trip in the 1750s to Italy - with its nat...
Poker on the Set?
One day during the filming of 1492: Conquest of Paradise, the cast was re...
Toilet Summit
At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, South Af...
H2Oh!
During the production of one of her films, Kim Basinger shocked producers with h...
Ice Breaker
In 2002, Wim Hof swam more than 188 feet beneath three feet of ice in sub-zero w...
Banana George
In June 2002, Sports Illustrated published its 2002 Women's Swimsuit Issu...
Hydrant Party
"When I [Maxwell] was eleven, twelve, thirteen.. and growing up in East New York...
I Ching
In the early 1960s, E. L. Doctorow was offered a writing job in California. Hesi...
Slick Trick
Benjamin Franklin once took a stroll with friends along the banks of a small str...
Dry Wit
Robert Benchley, caught in a rain shower one afternoon, arrived home soaking wet...
Painting Buddha
Gautama Buddha left home at twenty-nine, renouncing his life of luxury to seek s...
Teahupoo (long)
In August 2000, surfer Laird Hamilton visited a break called Teahupoo (pronounce...
Seasic?
While visiting friends (the Guinnesses) on their new yacht one day, Lady Diana C...
Deep Concern
On a visit to Portsmouth with his wife Mary, the Prince of Wales was once invite...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Prac...
Among Arnold Schwarzenegger's practical jokes on the set? Accidentally 'spilling...
Baptism
In later life, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became an ardent spiritualist and gave man...
Moses in Egypt
Rossini once attended a concert at which several variations on an aria from his ...
Whewell
While visiting Cambridge one day, Queen Victoria was given a tour of Trinity Col...
Classical Education
In 1801, while fighting the French in Egypt, Sir George Murray and his men found...
Keith Richards: Trouble in ...
During a Rolling Stones concert in 1976, Keith Richards brought his young son ba...
Water Works
"Complaints were made to the Office of Works (known in the Admiralty as 'Works')...
Young Gardener
"When I was a child staying with my grandfather Lord Lamington," the actress Ste...
Spider-Man?
The English literary critic Peter Quennell once visited Ian Fleming and his wife...
Water Method
Beethoven often dipped his head in cold water before composing. He also regularl...
Environmental Perks
In 2002, Hypercar, Inc. chairman Amory Lovins un veiled an affordable five-seat ...
Mystic Madonna
"A hotel in Germany is having a hell of a time finding cases of Kabbalah water, ...
Damon Wayans: Supersoaker
"We had a water fight at my house," Damon Wayans once recalled. "My sons' friend...
Martian Venice?
American astronomer Percival Lowell is chiefly remembered for two seemingly outl...
Maxwell: Short Sighted?
"When I [the musician Maxwell] was eleven, twelve, thirteen.. and growing up in ...
Divine Blush
At London's Westminster School, John Dryden was a negligent student, rarely stud...
Pampered Players
"[Famed Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda's] standard reply when some ne...
Pilkington
Glass-maker Allistair Pilkington was washing dishes one day when he observed a f...
Heyday of Skateboarding
In the 1970s California skateboarders, with no skate parks to practice in, would...
Eureka Moment
The tyrant Hiero of Syracuse once approached Archimedes seeking a solution to an...
Swimming Lessons
In the early months of 1822, the Shelleys were visited by a young adventurer nam...
Absent-Minded Mahler
One day Gustav Mahler and his sister Justi visited a two-story cafe in Budapest'...
Fountain of Kindness
Born into the Coutts banking family, Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (the richest...
Wily Tactician
Shortly after the Russo-Japanese War, Admiral Togo, the brilliant tactician resp...
Green Promise
After her near drowning on the set of The Green Promise (in 1949), Natali...
Foreign Aid
"The medical authorities had great difficulty in persuading the Filipinos to saf...
Mid-Atlantic Globules
In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl fashioned a crude raft from twelve giant balsa logs, chr...
Inventive Chairman
Sony's inventive co-founder and chairman Akio Morita worked exceptionally hard p...
Super Serendipity
"In 1982, a nasa nuclear engineer named Lonnie Johnson was working at home on a ...
Winslow Homer
The artist Leon Kroll, endeavoring to paint a seascape one day, asked Winslow Ho...
Mike Myers: Personal Assistant
An aide to Mike Myers was once entrusted the task of hiring another assistant. "...
Devastatingly Logical
"My housemaster at Eton in 1917, A.W. Whitworth, disliked having to punish, and ...
Sir Philip Sidney
While fighting at Zutphen, Sir Philip Sidney was injured in the thigh. As he was...
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