Lee Harvey Oswald lived in the 3300 block of Magazine
Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

According to Sir Peter Ustinov, Beethoven borrowed the last movement of his
Pastoral Symphony from a “hymn to agriculture” written by the French composer
Lefebvre.

The Campbell Soup label became red and white in 1898.

According to one British TV program, some larger dinosaurs had two brains –one
in their head and one in their hip. The hip brain was used to coordinate the
dinosaur’s movement and was larger than the one in the head.

The first fictional description of a nuclear weapon is included in Robert
Cromie’s novel The Crack of Doom (1895).

This article appears in June 28 • 1996 and June 28 • 1996 (Cover).

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