On the morning of
October 8, 1997, Cornell students, faculty and staff strolling by McGraw Tower noted an unusual sight: a 60 pound
pumpkin impaled on the spire 173 feet (52.7 meters) up. To this day, no one is really sure how this was accomplished without anyone noticing. Below is the pumpkin atop the tower, as seen by a surprised alumnus, November 21, 1997.
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'Funk' was originally a Tudor word for the stale smell of tobacco smoke.
A good swimmer, the first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne had a marble pool at his Aachen palace and even as an old man beat young men in races.
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