There’s a part of Appalachia where people speak Elizabethan English.

Due to snow-related issues, it’s legal to save your parking place in Chicago, be it with an orange road cone, a piece of furniture, or whatever you happen to have.

Harry Houdini was the first person to fly an airplane in Australia.

In his book The Devil in the Machine, Reverend Jim Peasboro of Savannah, Ga., says one in 10 American computers houses an evil spirit. However, technicians can fix the problem by replacing the hard drive and reinstalling the software.

An isotherm is a line drawn on a weather map linking all points of equal or constant temperature.

This article appears in June 29 • 2001.

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