Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Alan Rock's Trivia

Emily Dickinson wrote more than 900 poems. How many were published during her lifetime. A: Four

What was the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S.? A: 134 degrees, occurred in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913. Now that's hot. For a cowboy to make it through Death Valley in those days, he needed an air conditioned horse. But most people forget July 16, 1945, when Alamogordo, New Mexico, recorded 5,813 degrees -- during an atomic bomb explosion.

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