Encyclopedia of Trivia

The name " Texas " comes from "tejas", a Native American word meaning "friends" or "allies". The cha...

Truman Capote was born on September 30, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana. A novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, he is especially famed f...

Jerome of Stridon, commonly known as Saint Jerome , was a Latin priest, theologian, and historian. His feast day is September 30. In 405, Je...

A Boston dentist called William T.G. Morton (1819-68) is attributed with the initial discovering of general anesthesia for use in the medic...

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