There are 800 million bicycles in the world today, of which 300 million are in China.
Reggae artist Bob Marley’s mother was an 18-year-old black woman named Cedella Booker; his father was Capt. Norval Marley, a 50-year-old white quartermaster attached to the British West Indian Regiment.
The design movement known as “Art Deco” got its name from the 1925 “Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes” in Paris.
Skull and Bones has its own special calendar that numbers years by adding 322.
The FBI maintained records on Playboy magazine and Publisher Hugh Hefner from 1955 to 1980. They characterized the magazine as carrying “on a campaign of snide innuendoes against the FBI.” In 1963, Hefner rewarded J. Edgar Hoover with a special celebrity key to the New York Playboy Club.
This article appears in May 23 • 2003.