Al Nofi's CIC
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Issue #82, June 9, 2002 |
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This Issue...
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Infinite Wisdom
"Violence is more moral than compromise."
La Triviata
- During World War II the U.S. heavy bomber program produced 3,760 B-29s, 18,188 B-24s, and 12,677 B-17s, not to mention a handful of B-32s.
- During the 1890s cadets at West Point spent 213,495 minutes of classroom and preparation time studying mathematics, and 239,720 minutes on everything else.
- To conceal the battleships of the Yamato Class during construction, each was covered by enormous nets weighing some 400 tons, which consumed so much sisal that Japan's fishermen were for a time unable to make new nets or mend old ones.
- After the bloody Russo-Romanian siege of the Turkish fortress of Plevna in 1877 about 30,000 skeletons were shipped to England to be processed into fertilizer.
- During World War I, a pro-German physician living in Washington created a supply of anthrax and glanders toxin, with which he attempted to infect animals being shipped to Europe for the war against Germany, with no success.
- British Maj. Gen. Sir Rowland Hill, who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War, was so easy going that he was once described as a man "with whom it was impossible to fall out."
- By mid-1943, over 80,000 French women had filed claims for children's benefits with the German occupation authorities.
- Col. Yevgeni Djugashvili, a former Soviet Army officer who is the head of a coalition of leftist and neo-communist parties in the Republic of Georgia, is the grandson of Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, who for a time resided in the Kremlin.
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