Monday, January 19, 2009

Unnamed Hero

The New York Times mentioned another vignette regarding Flight 1549 on January 15, 2009. The plane which crash landed into the Hudson with an impact so harsh that both engine were ripped off the plane, was evacuated in such an orderly atmosphere that one lady was trying to get her luggage out of the overhead bins. Fortunately one of the other passengers picked her up and threw her into a life raft.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

There are no black cats

There are no black (domestic small) cats. You may think so, but if you
check carefully your cats coat, you will find at least a few white
hairs. According to Desmond Morris, a leading zoologist, this fact,
of no black cats, is because of the witchcraft trials of a few
centuries ago. They put cats to death, but only if the cat was all
black, did these Renaissance prosecutors consider the cat a
participant in witchcraft.