User:Furchild

My name is David Eisenstein, and I am from the midwest United States.

Here is my Fedora Project user page. Furchild 02:15, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Cover of Al-Asma'i, 1908

... that the magazine Al-Asma'i (pictured), one of the first publications to emerge in Ottoman Palestine in 1908, was opposed to Zionism and frequently criticized Jewish immigration?
... that One Chun, a Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand restaurant, has black-and-white televisions, transistor radios, and aged clocks on a wall?
... that Heike Heubach became the first deaf member of the German Bundestag?
... that larvae of the species Carabus japonicus prey on earthworms up to 400 times larger than themselves?
... that John Quincy Adams described Jonathan Elliot, his former printer, as "penurious and venal"?
... that an Irish comedy group wrote the film Apocalypse Clown?
... that scholars debate whether Anactoria, mentioned in Sappho's poems, was a real person, a pseudonym, or an invention of Sappho?
... that American Colossus, a history book that describes how a banker bailed out the U.S. government in 1895, was published around a time when the U.S. government bailed out banks?
... that football player Joe Gray was nicknamed the "Gray Ghost" because when running "it was like he wasn't there anymore"?