"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. "
- Russell Lynes

A camel can lose up to 30% of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12% of body weight.

pulchritudinous
Pronunciation: /pul-kri-TOOD-in-us/
v : pretty, beautiful
"She is not only brilliant, she's pulchritudinous."

Goldie Hawn [Jean]
Actress
b: 1945 -

Did you ever wonder? Did Thomas Edison really invent the light bulb?

November 21, 1783
The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon when Frenchmen Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes above Paris for a distance of some 5 1/2 miles.