Whether you are a registered guest or not, you can get free hula lessons every Friday at 10am at Honolulu’s Prince Kuhio Hotel.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Lloyd’s of London said member firms estimate the series of devastating hurricanes in the U.S. in 2005 caused £2.92 billion ($5.02 billion) in losses. This exceeds the £2 billion in losses for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

According to cartoon artist Gilbert Shelton (then a writer for The Texas Ranger), when Bob Dylan came to Austin on tour in 1965, he checked in at the Villa Capri as “Chuck U. Farley.”

There are 69 master chefs in the world, and 13 of them are teachers at the Culinary Institute of America.

Ben Franklin invented the rocking chair circa 1760.

This article appears in January 27 • 2006.

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