Yes. The “Bugs Bunny” character is based on a real animal.
The Tasmanian devil is a marsupial about 20-30 inches long that lives in Tasmania, an island near Australia. The mammal has black and dark brown hair, a bushy tail, a deep snarl, and a nasty expression. It eats small animals and carrion.
About Hans Christian Anderson:
Hans Christian Anderson wrote an alternate version to an old Spanish story.
It’s the Emperor’s New Clothes.
In the ORIGINAL Spanish version, the only people who could see the cloth were “sons of their fathers”…meaning anyone who couldn’t see the cloth was illegitimate.
And, considering most people’s ranks or stations depended on birth, they had to claim they saw the cloth to keep their job, rank, or title.
- Lisa C.
Hemophilia does not only affect males. The carriers of this disease can also exhibit many of the symptoms of hemophilia. The Symptomatic Carriers can also take medications to help them with their symptoms. Although most hemophiliacs have some clotting ability, there are three different levels of clotting factors: Mild, Moderate and Severe. Mild hemophiliacs have greater than 5% of the normal factor level. Moderate hemophiliacs have 1-5% and Severe hemophiliacs have less than 1%.
With the medications that are available today for the treatment of hemophilia, most hemophiliacs do live very normal lives. Unfortunately, the medications they take are derived from human blood products. Therefore, they are also subject to any new diseases that have the ability to travel in the blood system.
- Angie B. (Thanks Angie! We did further research and you’re right. Also, as most male hemophiliacs now survive to father children, there is increased possibility of having a female child with hemophilia.)
Most of the time, they don’t.
Squirrels really do work hard to hide and bury nuts and each may bury thousands of them per year.
Unfortunately, their memories are about as good as this writer’s memory and they forget what they buried twenty minutes after hiding it.
The nuts they do find later on are generally not their own and are located through their excellent sense of smell.
No.
Don’t let the kids scare you.
A person can hold his breath to the point of unconsciousness, but once he’s passed out, the lungs will start up again automatically.
Q: Why do most people not understand the saying… “The exception proves the rule” ?
A: Because when the saying first came into being around the 16th century, the word ‘prove’ meant “test”. As indeed in certain restricted usages it still does.
All is now clear?
- Brian R. T. (Thanks Brian!)
Both.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm gathered original oral tales primarily from the growing German middle class in the early nineteenth century.
The tales they published, however, were substantially altered, with significant changes in characters and meaning.
The tales, therefore, were not simply oral tales set down in print.
Nor were they original literary creations, such as the tales penned by Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen.
She probably can’t.
The reason this fairy tale princess has glass slippers is due to a translation error.
Hundreds of “Cinderella” stories exist, in many different cultures, dating back as far as the ninth century. However, not one of the tales featured glass slippers until Charles Perrault, in his 1697 anthology of fairy tales, confused an old french word for “fur” with a word meaning “glass.”
In most of the stories, the shoes are valuable and remarkable, but they’re usually fur or some other wearable material. Perrault’s version, however, is the one on which Disney based its Cinderella film and the one most of us remember.
Your skin.
Although most people do not think of the skin as an organ, it actually is.
- Thanks C.D.!
It comes from “tunnage” which was a TAX imposed by Henry the Fifth of England on all wine importers.
For every ‘tun’ (1 tun = 4 hogsheads = 252 old wine gallons) of wine an importer brought into England, they had to bring in a “sheaf” of logbow staves for Henry’s Army.
(A “sheaf” was 24, more normally applied to arrows)
- Thanks Brian!