The expression “Karate” (空手) means “empty hand”.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
A trap for miser – Harry Houdini
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Among his closest friends, the escapologist Harry Houdini (1874-1926), was well known as a miser. He particularly loved to disappear from restaurants when he was supposed to pay the bill.
On one occasion, after lunch in some inn, Houdini’s friend, who was an actor, asked him whether he was willing to see a new trick he learned. Houdini immediately accepted.
- “Put your hands on the table and turn your palms toward the table,” - the actor ordered and Harry obeyed.
Then, he put two glasses, filled with water, on his hands.
- "I am leaving now, and you try to find a way to disappear from here, without paying the bill“ – his friend told him, coming out of the restaurant.
Zuma Fact: #100: Leeches in medicine!
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Use of leeches was in the past so common that in the mid-19 century, hospitals in Paris, for medical treatment, used nearly six million leeches and in London - seven million.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
No one like me – Artur Rodzinski
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New York Philharmonic Orchestra,
radio
While he rested on summer vacation, the conductor of New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski (1892-1958), listened to the radio. Classical music was on the program, and his favorite work, Shostakovich's “Symphony No. 5 in D minor 
".
".Rodzinski carefully listened to the performance...
"Well, well, this guy really knows how to lead the melody, " Rodzinski noted.
"But in any case, he is not very creative nor original as an artist, since he is trying to emulate some of my best interpretations of Shostakovich", angrily concluded the musician.
When the performance ended, he relaxed.
The announcer said that the audience had the opportunity to hear the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Rodzinski.
Zuma Fact: #99: Making bed (Men and Women)!
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About seventy-five percent of women make the bed every day.
Unlike women, men rarely do it: only 45 percent of men make their own bed in the morning.
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