[Lady Sidhe]

Mae West's 1959 autobiography was titled "Goodness Had
Nothing to Do With It."


"Big cheese" and "big wheel" are Medieval terms of envious
respect for those who could afford to buy whole wheels of
cheese at a time, an expense few could enjoy. Both these
terms are often used sarcastically today.

"Little Miss Sure Shot," Annie Oakley, had all of her gold
shooting medals melted down, then sold the gold and gave
the money to charity.

Before filming the role of Iris, the teen prostitute in
the 1976 film Taxi Driver, actress Jodi Foster had to
undergo psychiatric evaluation by the California Labor
Board. Because she was a minor, the board had to determine
whether she was capable of handling the controversial role.

The eggplant was domesticated in Southeast Asia more than
4,000 years ago. It belongs to the same family as the
poisonous deadly nightshade (as do potatoes, tomatoes,
and petunias). In the Middle East and then in Europe,
doctors blamed it for all sorts of things, from epilepsy
to cancer. In the fifth century, Chinese women made a
black dye from the eggplant skins to stain and polish
their teeth. And some people in medieval Europe considered
eggplant an aphrodisiac.

Without using precision instruments, Eratosthenes measured
the radius of Earth in the third century B.C., and came
within 1 percent of the value determined by today's
technology.



Sidhe