From technology to broccoli
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It was 20th-century Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch who defi ned technology as “the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.”
In the 1830s you could give someone a blizzard.
Back then, of course, the word wasn’t referring to a snowstorm; rather, that phrase meant to give someone a piece of one’s mind.
Men certainly aren’t lacking in the self-confi dence department. A survey found that 76 percent of men believe they are “somewhat” or “very attractive.”
Thanks to arrangements made by his very powerful family, Theophylactus of Tusculum became Pope Benedict IX in 1032, at the age of 20.
