House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, used to be an exterminator.

The electronic games are referred to as “eight-liners” because a player has eight ways to win.

Scythia is an ancient region of Europe and Asia located between the Danube River and China. The Scythians were a nomadic tribe of horse-riding conquerors famous for their archers. According to the historian Herodotus, they also smoked marijuana.

They’ve got hermaphrodite polar bears in Norway.

A review by a Harvard team of more than 240 scientific studies shows that today’s temperatures are not the warmest of this millennium. The findings show that the world experienced a period between the ninth and 14th centuries with global temperatures significantly higher than today.

This article appears in May 9 • 2003.

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