Why do humans kiss? What’s the latest fad in Japanese weddings? Why do Darren and Sue from South Yorkshire have a rather bizarre marriage? What happened when Sun Meng from China got caught out by his lover’s husband?

I came across this story and was absolutely mortified. I looked at my five-year-old daughter….then looked down at my pregnant stomach and couldn’t fathom how a five-year-old could possibly carry a child or survive childbirth.

The oddities of life and we’re the oddest.

A strong presence of red, for instance, indicates a willful personality; it may signify selfishness, physical strength, or powers of leadership. Green is the color of nature and healing, but may reveal a deceitful character. Orange is an indicator of physical health. A strong yellow presence reveals intellectual abilities. Blue refers to a person’s religious or spiritual state: the deeper the blue, the more enlightened the individual. Black is the color of death, malice or melancholy personality.

Circumstantial Evidence? …English politician and justice of the peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was found murdered on October 17, 1678. His body had been left in a ditch on Greenberry Hill in London. Three men were arrested and tried for the crime. Their names were Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill.

In September 1927 dancer Isadora Duncan happened to express her admiration for a Bugatti sports car owned by Benoit Falchetto, a garage owner in Nice. Anticipating that Isadora’s interest might extend to purchasing it, Falchetto offered to take her for a test drive. Since Isadora was lightly dressed, with only a silk scarf around her shoulders, Falchetto offered her his leather driving coat. But she declined. “Good-bye, my friends, I am off to glory,” she called out, theatrically throwing her scarf behind her as the Bugatti pulled away. Seconds later the trailing scarf became entangled in one wheel of the car, and Isadora was strangled.

The countess survived the malarial attack. According to legend, she took the miracle cure with her when she returned to Europe in the 1640’s. Whether or not the story is true, the 18th century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus certainly believed it; he named the fever-bark tree for countess, calling it – in slightly misspelled form – cinchona.

Always plan everything without question.

“No reader interest,” was the judgment of the London publisher W.H. Allen on Frederick Forsyth’s first novel, The Day of the Jackal. To date it has sold eight million copies…Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic Dune was rejected by 13 publishers before the Chilton Book Company accepted it. Today sales top 10 million.

At first 29 Navajo recruits worked out the code that, by the end of the war, some 420 of their fellow tribesmen would use. The code’s vocabulary – 411 terms – was based on association: dive-bomber became chickenhawk; fighter-plane, humming-bird; battleship, whale; submarine, iron fish. The Navajos used imagination and humor too. They called ammunition “all sorts of shells,” and antitank missiles “tortoise shooters”; Australia was “rolled hat.” and China, “braided hair”.