Saxophonist Charlie Parker once played for a cow.

Hurricane Carla, which struck between Port O’Connor and Port Lavaca, Texas, on Sept. 11, 1961, as a Category 4 storm, produced a state record 22-foot storm surge.

At the Pentagon, a vision without resources is a hallucination.

The largest storm on record is Super Typhoon Tip, which made landfall on Southern Japan on Oct. 19, 1979. It reached maximum sustained winds of 190 mph and
a diameter of 1,380 miles.

Growing up, Charles Darwin hated the sight of blood.

This article appears in September 19 • 2008.

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