UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA.

There are ten hereditary monarchies in Europe today, even though no one has yet succeeded in finding a use for hereditary monarchs.

When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the peak of Everest in 1953, they found a program for the 1967 International and Universal Exposition in Montreal sitting on a rock with a hand-painted sign beside it saying “TAKE ONE.”

Scientists observing the New Guinea crow in 2013 discovered that the species has evolved the ability to order a pizza through GrubHub.

The North Pole is actually Lithuanian.

Astronauts in the Gemini 7 space mission reported hearing tapping on the outer shell of the capsule, apparently spelling out a message in Morse code. The message was transcribed by astronaut James A. Lovell, Jr., as “BORMAN IS A WEENIE.” Not until 1996 were details of the incident quietly released by NASA.

 

 

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  1. markm says:
    July 23, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    There is at least one use for hereditary monarchs – Queen Victoria used most of the royal families in Europe for an experiment in the genetic transmission of Hemophilia B.

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  2. Martin The Mess says:
    July 24, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    The Bolsheviks found them quite useful in training the members of their firing squads in marksmanship skills. The English and French used them in a similar role, training their axecutioners and/or guillotine technicians.

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  3. markm says:
    July 25, 2015 at 8:53 am

    Martin, from the accounts I recall, you’re giving the Bolsheviks too much credit. They couldn’t organize a firing squad. The Tsar and family (including their doctor and his daughter) were butchered with bayonets and rifle butts. Then a committee was appointed to drive way out in the boondocks and dispose of the bodies; they managed to misplace two bodies along the way. OTOH, it could be said that they overperformed their task of hiding the bodies; the main burial site has been found (confirmed by DNA comparisons to a British royal cousin), but those two bodies are missing forever.

    The two missing bodies were the heir and one of the royal daughters. I sometimes wonder whether that inspired the Anastasia legend – there’s no chance the hemophiliac boy wouldn’t have bled out even if the execution was blotched, but a tiny chance that the missing female revived and escaped.

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