Schoolhood chum Robert Bateman says that the late Scott Weiland always played a Chaotic-Neutral Elven Thief in Dungeons & Dragons.
Transgender actress Holly Woodlawn, immortalized by Lou Reed in “Walk on the Wild Side,” came from Miami, and got her start as a teen prostitute in NYC under the supervision of a guy named Porky.
Space.com explains that when you are born under a particular sign, that constellation is not visible at night. Instead, the sun is passing through it at that time of year, making it a daytime constellation that can’t be seen.
A recent study by Johns Hopkins University reveals since 1981, the number of bike-owning households in the world has decreased by half.
A top that later evolved into the dreidel was brought from Ireland (or perhaps England) to Germany in the late Roman period. Men gambled with a top known as a “teetotum” in bars and inns: The letters on it corresponded to the first letters of the Latin words for “nothing,” “half,” “everything,” and “put in.”
This article appears in December 18 • 2015.