Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Astor Place in New York’s Greenwich Village was a meeting place of Canarsie, Sapohannikan, and Manhattan tribes. They also played lacrosse there.

According to Norm MacDonald, he once played Scrabble against Harold Delaney, the proprietor of a bed and breakfast. MacDonald played first with the word “rabbit.” Delaney then incorrectly played “hat” on the triple word square – not playing off of rabbit.

Legend has it that 30 bullets were fired in 30 seconds at the OK Corral on Oct. 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Ariz.

Every year on the Sunday before the first Monday in October, the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle hosts the Red Mass, an unofficial spiritual prelude to the Supreme Court term. The name stems from the red vestments worn by the clergy, a tradition that began in the Middle Ages.

A schwa is an unstressed vowel sound such as the “e” in “problem.”