http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman My Gagazine Journal Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:47:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/kind-words/ "It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/to-be-cheated/ Test your American English - see what part of the US is in you. http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html  Do not change your answers as it will alter your score.  It's actually fun. I'm a borderline Dixie at 53%.  What's yours?  Leave your score in the comments below! http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/yankee-or-dixie/ 1. Orange 2. Apple 3. Banana 4. Coconut 5. Pineapple 6. Papaya 7. Mango 8. Cherry 9. Black Grapes 10. Peach 11. Custard Apple 12. Pear Which did you pick?  Read below to see what type of person you are: ORANGE - If orange is your favorite fruit, it speaks of a person who has enduring patience and willpower. You like to do ... http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/pick-a-fruit-any-fruit/ Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the atomic bomb, was born. http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/april-22-1904-robert-oppenheimer/ Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission, lands on the Moon. http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/april-21-1972-apollo-17/ Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, was born. http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/april-20-1889-adolf-hitler/ Three students picked 65 oranges in total.  They picked the same number of apples at the first tree.  At the second tree, they picked 3 times as many as the first tree.  At the third tree, the students had 5 times as many oranges as when they started picking at ... http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/picking-oranges/ The San Francisco Giants faced the Los Angeles Dodgers for the first time in major league baseball. http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/april-19-1958-sf-giants-and-la-dodgers/ An 8.3 magnitude earthquake hit SF at 5:12 am on April 18, 1906.  This quake left over 3,000 people dead and many others homeless.  Businesses were temporarily relocated to Oakland.  However, two years later, San Francisco was rapidly recovering as reconstruction was being done at a furious rate. http://journals.gagazine.com/teaserman/april-18-1906-san-francisco-earthquake/