11 July 2018
95% of all corn squeezin’s—aka—bourbon, is distilled in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Stand under them if you like, but mistletoe and holly berries are toxic, if ingested. Fat is one of three energies necessary to fuel the human body. Today in 1796, The United States took possession of Fort Detroit from Britain. Cinderella never wanted a prince. What she asked for was a pretty dress and a night off. In Days of Yore, doctors believed the heart ruled the body: cold-hearted, hard-hearted and half-hearted were once medical terms. Kentucky is one of twelve jurisdictions in America’s Corn Belt. There are 166 days until Christmas. Today is Free Slurpee Day in North America’s 8,784—count ‘em— 7-11 stores. Some knights in shining armour turn out to be knaves clad in tinfoil. As WWII wound down, ten million Germans fled Poland in advance of the Red Army. 340 million hectares of the planet’s forest land went up in flames last year....