Hopper, a border collie owned by Pauline Alligood and Mitch Bynum of West, Texas, retrieved a meteorite in March 2009.
E.B. White, Frank Herbert, and Tom Robbins were writers for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, whose last print edition was March 17.
According to the Urban Dictionary, to “prank” means to ring someone’s cell phone to let
them know you’ve arrived or to signal something, as in, “When I get there, I’ll prank you.”
According to one Houston rocket scientist, the astronauts on the space shuttle once received a prank fax of a fish chasing its tail. The fax machine, which had a roll of paper instead of individual sheets, ran out of all its paper because of the prank, so the astronauts couldn’t receive faxes for the rest of the mission.
A book of maps is called an “atlas” because the earliest ones had a picture of Atlas holding the world on his back on the cover.
This article appears in March 27 • 2009.