Where did sauerkraut originate?
penelope Wrote:In China
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About 2000 years ago, when cabbage fermented in rice wine was eaten by workers building the Great Wall.
How did U.S. Army lieutenant Myron S. Crissy make aviation history in 1911?
I suspect he was the first fighter pilot to take to the air
He dropped the first live bomb from an aircraft.
Toktokkie Wrote:He dropped the first live bomb from an aircraft.
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He did it duting a civilian air show near San Francisco.
As a young man, what famous mystery writer served as a navy yeoman, aboardr President Theodore Roosevelt's yacht?
Toktokkie Wrote:Rex Stout.
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From 1906 to 1908. Stout went on to create corpulent orchid-raising detective Nero Wolfe. TR's yacht was the
Mayflower.
How did Russian composer-pianist Sergei Rachmanioff keep his perpetually cold fingers warm when he was recording music?