Mr. Smarty Pants
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., April 5, 2002
A woman in South Africa is four times as likely to be raped as a woman in the United States.
Between June 10 and Sept. 22, 1692, 20 men and women and two dogs in Salem, Mass. were found guilty and sentenced to death for witchcraft. In 1711, the General Assembly of Massachusetts pardoned all but six of those executed, but neither of the dogs.
Bands in Volgograd, Russia, sometimes have trouble making ends meet and may play just for "karasi" or "fish."
"Sasheen Littlefeather," who accepted Marlon Brando's Best Actor award in 1973, wasn't a Native American as she represented herself. Her real name was Maria Cruz, and in 1970 she won the Miss American Vampire contest.
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