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text[number++] = "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.<p align=right class=small>Harry Truman"
text[number++] = "More than 50,000 amputations were performed during the Civil War.  Either opium or chloroform were used as general anesthetics in 95% of surgeries."
text[number++] = "The country's first arsenal, the Springfield Armory, was founded by George Washington during the Revolutionary War, and officially designated in 1794."
text[number++] = "The most common consumer battery sizes are D, C, AA, and AAA.  B cells are still used in Europe, for a few devices, including bicycle headlights."
text[number++] = "Scientists in Singapore have developed a bio-degradable credit card-sized battery that uses human urine as the electrolyte solution.  Its voltage is about the same as a AA battery."
text[number++] = "In 2006, 160 AA sized Oxy Nickel Hydroxide cells provided the energy for the world's first manned flight.  The one-man aircraft flew for less than a minute and traveled about 428 yards."
text[number++] = "Current market trends indicate that by the year 2012, South Korea will account for half of the world's lithium-ion battery production."
text[number++] = "Miner Tracking Installed<br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lUaiOkQMw5o&rel=1\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lUaiOkQMw5o&rel=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object><br><center><span class=small><a class=over href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUaiOkQMw5o\">View Larger Screen</center></a><p align=left class=small>When miners go underground they'll take a tracking device just in case there's trouble inside the mine. The new mine rescue system was unveiled at the Southern West Virginia Resource Mine in Naugatuck."
text[number++] = "Nebula Images from the Hubble Telescope<br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/8x41n9thAU8&rel=1\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/8x41n9thAU8&rel=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object><br><center><span class=small><a class=over href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x41n9thAU8\">View Larger Screen</center></a><p align=left class=small>The Boomerang Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust blown away from a star, is the coldest place in the universe.  The cloud is 1 Kelvin, or -457.6 degrees Fahrenheit."
text[number++] = "Before October 14, 1978, there had been another kind of prohibition in America.  On that day, President Jimmy Carter signed a bill making it legal to brew beer in the home."
text[number++] = "In the mid-1980s, pieces of the head of the Statue of Liberty were cryogenically processed with liquid nitrogen.  This deep freeze treatment strengthened and extended the life of the century-old metal."
text[number++] = "In 1925, Prest Air Devices was the first company to produce commercial dry ice in the United States.  Today, the U.S. produces nearly two billion pounds of dry ice a year."
text[number++] = "The first F-35 Lightning II was unveiled in Fort Worth, Texas on July 7, 2006.  The stealth fighter was officially named Lightning II in honor of two historic aircraft; the Lockheed P-38 Lightning and the English Electric Lightning."
text[number++] = "Records from ancient Sumeria contain references to \"red beer\", \"white beer\", \"premium beer\", \"beer with a head\", and many others."
text[number++] = "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.<p align=right class=small>Barbara Tuchman"
text[number++] = "It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.<p align=right class=small>William Pollard"
text[number++] = "Everyone faces challenges and problems. Success lies in dealing with them promptly and thoroughly.<p align=right class=small>Anonymous"
text[number++] = "It is illegal to run out of gas on the Autobahn."
text[number++] = "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
text[number++] = "Life is what happens while you're making plans to do something else."
text[number++] = "The SS Sultana was a Mississippi River steamboat paddlewheeler destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865. This resulted in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. An estimated 1,800 of the 2,400 passengers were killed when three of the ship's four boilers exploded and the Sultana sank near Memphis.  This disaster received somewhat diminished attention, as it took place soon after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and during the closing weeks of the Civil War."
text[number++] = "On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum caught fire and burned to the waterline in New York's East River.  At the time of the accident she was on a chartered run carrying members of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church (German Americans from Little Germany, Manhattan) to a church picnic. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board were killed. The General Slocum disaster was the New York area's worst disaster in terms of loss of life until the September 11, 2001 attacks."
text[number++] = "80 out of every 100 accidents are someone's fault, usually the person involved in the incident.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unsafe acts cause four times as many accidents and injuries as unsafe conditions."

text[number++] = "In 2005, 7420 federal workers were making $150,000 or more per year. In 2010, a whopping 82,034 federal workers are making $150,000 or more per year. That is more than a tenfold increase in just five years."
text[number++] = "More than half of the members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires. The wealthiest member of Congress has a minimum net worth of $167.55 million.<br><br>Top 5 wealthiest Politicians<br><center><table class=small cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0><tr valign=top><td align=right>1.</td><td>Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>2.</td><td>Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>3.</td><td>Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>4.</td><td>Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>5.</td><td>Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)</td></tr></table>"
text[number++] = "Using a cell phone use while driving, whether it’s hand-held or hands-free, delays a driver's reactions as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of .08 percent. (Source: University of Utah)"
text[number++] = "Nationwide, those drivers observed visibly manipulating hand-held electronic devices increased from 0.7 percent to 1.0 percent."
text[number++] = "Some 1.7 percent of drivers 16 to 24 years old were observed visibly manipulating hand-held electronic devices, up from 1.0 percent the previous year."
text[number++] = "More drivers in Western States were observed manipulating hand-held electronic devices (2.1%) than in the other regions of the country (from 0.4% in the Northeast to 0.8% in the Midwest)."
text[number++] = "The use of hand-held devices increased the most in the West, from 0.6 percent in 2007 to 2.1 percent in 2008."
text[number++] = "The observed use rate of hand-held electronic devices was higher among females (1.2%) than among males (0.8%)."

text[number++] = "<b>The Inspector</b><br><center><iframe width=\"125\" height=\"112\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/9daSHQKqUG4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><br>A short outtake from an average MSHA inspection."

text[number++] = "The total compensation that the U.S. government workforce is going to take in this year is approximately $447 billion."
text[number++] = "In 2005, the U.S. Department of Defense had just nine civilians earning $170,000 or more. When Barack Obama took office, the U.S. Department of Defense had 214 civilians earning $170,000 or more. In June 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense had 994 civilians earning $170,000 or more."

text[number++] = "The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine on June 30, 1945 while sailing to the Philippines from Guam, after delivering components for the \"Little Boy\" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Of the 1,196 killed, 300 died on board and 317 were rescued. The others died from exposure and shark attacks, reported to be the largest number of shark attacks in human history."

text[number++] = "The highest barometric pressure ever recorded on Earth was 32.01 inches, measured in Agata, U.S.S.R., on December 31, 1968. Agata is located in northern Siberia. The weather was clear and very cold at the time, with temperatures between -40° and -58°."
text[number++] = "The lowest pressure ever measured was 25.69 inches, set on Oct. 12, 1979, during Typhoon Tip in the western Pacific Ocean. The measurement was based on an instrumental observation made from a reconnaissance aircraft."
text[number++] = "Using average sea level pressure of 29.92 inches of mercury as a point for comparison, the highest barometric pressure ever recorded in the USA was 31.85 inches in Northway, Alaska, in January 1989. The lowest barometric pressure ever recorded was associated with the landfall of the Labor Day hurricane in Key West, Florida in 1935, which registered a minimum pressure of 26.35 inches of mercury. Both are also records for North America."

text[number++] = "When American Football League founder Lamar Hunt watched his children playing with a Super Ball, he came up with a new name for the so-called \"AFL-NFL World Championship Game\" - the Super Bowl."
text[number++] = "In 1999, a man in Tennessee applied for a license to marry his Ford Mustang.  He listed his finac&#233;e's birthplace as Detroit, her father's name as \"Henry Ford,\" and her blood type as \"10W-40.\"  His application was rejected."
text[number++] = "The 9-volt battery was introduced in 1956 specifically to power portable transistor radios, which required a higher voltage than supplied by conventional 1.5 volt batteries of the time."
text[number++] = "Two U.S. states have three pairs of double letters - Tennessee and Mississippi."
text[number++] = "The Immigration and Naturalization Service estimates that not only do 400,000 torture victims live in the United States, but between 800 to 1,000 of their torturers do as well."
text[number++] = "The term torture was first used in 16th century France.  It comes from the Latin word <i>tortus</i>, which means \"twisted.\""
text[number++] = "The Inquisition, along with its use of torture devices, was not officially abolished by the Vatican until 1834."
text[number++] = "Nearly 15,000 Cambodians were incarcerated in Pol Pot's S-21 prison.  Only six survived the torture."
text[number++] = "In 1993, the largest mining shovel ever built, \"The Captain,\" was sold for scrap after a 1991 fire caused castostrophic damage."
text[number++] = "A P&H 4100 shovel is capable of digging more than 35 million cubic yards in a single year, a volume more than ten times that of Egypt's Great Pyramid."
text[number++] = "German Transrapid Maglev<br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hjdxC11lrds&rel=1\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hjdxC11lrds&rel=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object><br><center><span class=small><a class=over href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjdxC11lrds\">View Larger Screen</center></a><p align=left class=small>The magnetic field generated by the Transrapid Maglev exerts effects on its passengers that are only 10 percent as powerful as those received from using a typical hair dryer."
text[number++] = "At his record-breaking speed of 317.5 miles per hour, Ken Warby could traverse the length of Lake Superior in just over one hour."
text[number++] = "Timber cutting is one of the most lethal jobs in the United States, the annual on-the-job death rate for loggers is over 110 per 100,000 workers - or thirty times the national average."
text[number++] = "At a London brewery on October 16, 1814, a huge wooden storage vat burst open, flooding the streets with a 25-foot-high wave of beer.  Eight people drowned in the flood, while dozens of others ran to scoop up the free beer."
text[number++] = "Before flying into Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, F-117s based in Saudi Arabia were given nicknames, including <i>Unexpected Guest</i>, <i>Dark Angel</i>, and <i>Christine</i>.  The Saudis nicknamed the plane <i>Shaba</i>, for \"ghost\"."
text[number++] = "The B-2 is the most expensive plane ever built.  Estimates for the costs per plane range from $1.157 billion to $2.2 billion."
text[number++] ="On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10." 
text[number++] ="Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class." 
text[number++] ="The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia." 
text[number++] ="Lucy and Linus (who were brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun.&nbsp;&nbsp;He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team (when he could find it!)." 
text[number++] ="1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue."
text[number++] ="There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum)." 
text[number++] ="The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache." 
text[number++] ="Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry." 
text[number++] ="Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong.&nbsp;&nbsp;His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali." 
text[number++] ="The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley." 
text[number++] ="Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced." 
text[number++] ="Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump." 
text[number++] ="The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672." 
text[number++] ="According to Verisign statistics, on June 30, 2008 there were approximately 168 million domain names registered."
text[number++] ="World Tourist day is observed on September 27." 
text[number++] ="Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are." 
text[number++] ="The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m)." 
text[number++] ="Diet Coke was only invented in 1982." 
text[number++] ="There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible." 
text[number++] ="When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food." 
text[number++] ="American car horns beep in the tone of F." 
text[number++] ="Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism." 
text[number++] ="There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people.&nbsp;&nbsp;The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million." 
text[number++] ="The small baby corn sometimes seen in Asian cuisine and in salad bars is exactly what its name implies. \"Baby corn\" is picked days after pollenation.  If left on the stalk to grow, it would end up the same size of most sweet corn ears."
text[number++] ="From 1977 to 2007, corn crop yields grew by almost 60%, from an average of 91 bushels an acre to 149 bushels an acre."
text[number++] ="The oldest corn cob pipe manufacturer in the world is in Washington, Missouri.  It grows specially hybridized corn developed specifically for its large cob, and produces over 5,000 pipes a day."
text[number++] ="Ethanol manufacturers are required to \"denature\" their pure alcohol before it's shipped.  The denaturant can be anything that renders it unfit for human consumption, including gasoline."
text[number++] = "<center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/FUdt6ZSWUsI&hl=en&fs=1\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/FUdt6ZSWUsI&hl=en&fs=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object></center><br><center><span class=small><a class=over href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUdt6ZSWUsI\">View Larger Screen</center></a><br>The F-22A is the first fighter aircraft with the ability to \"supercruise.\"  That means it can fly at a velocity of one and a half time the speed of sound or greater without using its afterburners, increasing its flying range.<p align=right class=small><a class=over href=\"/youtube.asp?category=Military+Aircraft\">See more videos</a>"
text[number++] = "For hundreds of years, acceptable alcohol content, or proof, was measured when whiskey and gunpowder were mixed and ignited.  If the gunpowder flashed, the alcohol content was \"proved\"."
text[number++] = "The average-sized agave pi&#241;a will yield about nine bottles of 100% agave tequila."
text[number++] = "The highest wind speed ever recorded on the Mackinac Bridge was 117 miles per hour."
text[number++] = "The Mackinac Bridge has a capacity of 6,000 cars per hour."
text[number++] = "Almost five million rivets were used in the construction of the Mackinac Bridge."
text[number++] = "In the final year of his life, George Washington used his five pot stills to produce 11,000 gallons of whiskey."
text[number++] = "For a whiskey to be called straight bourbon, some of the requirements are that it be made in the U.S., contain at least 51 percent corn, and be aged for at least two years in charred, new oak barrels."
text[number++] = "The term \"camouflage\" comes from the French word \"camoufler\" meaning \"to blind or veil.\""
text[number++] = "Infrared photography, the basis for thermal and night imaging devices, was developed by Kodak in 1937."
text[number++] = "Most thermal imaging devices can sense Fahrenheit temperatures ranging from -4 degrees to 3,600 degrees and changes as negligible as four tenths of a degree."
text[number++] = "There are over 360 patterns of military camouflage worn by soldiers of all the world's nations."
text[number++] = "The famous ejector seat in James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 actually worked, and could throw a stuntman up to 40 feet."
text[number++] = "On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper of Motorola was the first person to talk on a cell phone.  He made the historic call on the streets of New York City as startled onlookers gawked in disbelief."
text[number++] = "In 1878, Rutherford B. Hayes was the first U.S. president to have a telephone installed in the White House.  The president placed his first call to Alexander Graham Bell, and his first words asked Bell to \"speak more slowly.\""
text[number++] = "When the 9-1-1 system was originally introduced, it was promoted as \"Nine-Eleven\" service.  After some panicked callers tried to find the \"eleven\" key on their telephones, it was changed to \"nine-one-one.\""
text[number++] = "In 2005, law enforcement authorities in the U.S. performed roughly 1800 wiretaps, not including taps made by intelligence gathering agencies."
text[number++] = "It paid to trap beavers in the 1800s.  Ine pelt was worth about $3 - almost $100 today.  It could've been traded for many goods including one pair of shoes, two pair of scissors, two small axes, or twenty fish hooks."
text[number++] = "Rome, Italy is famous for its trap-neuter-release program; traps target over 250,000 stray cats living in about 2,000 colonies."
text[number++] = "In 2006, workers at China's Three Gorges Dam laid 30,000 traps and 43 tons of rat poison to clear rodents from the empty reservoir before filling began."
text[number++] = "In 1883, fishermen trapped 43 million pounds of salmon on the Columbia - that's over 20 times the salmon trapped in the river today."
text[number++] = "According to the National Demolition Association, implosions make up about one percent of demolitions worldwide."
text[number++] = "Demolition crews completed the World Trade Center cleanup three months ahead of schedule at a cost of $750 million, about one-tenth of the initial estimate of $7 billion."
text[number++] = "The sound of a pneumatic jackhammer is rated at about 130 decibels, the sound at which most humans begin to experience pain."
text[number++] = "The \"Jackhammer\", a combat shotgun, is one of very few fully automatic shotguns. Although it never entered full scale production, the weapon is popular in action television programs, films, and computer games."
text[number++] = "Between 2000 and 2005, a NASA program sometimes called \"The Highway in the Sky\" developed navigation technologies for the projected future when personal air vehicles fill the skies."
text[number++] = "England's Queen Elizabeth employed four ceremonial swords during her coronation in 1953; the Sword of Mercy, the Sword of Spritual Justice, the Sword of Temporal Justice, and the Sword of State."
text[number++] = "The Grand Coulee Dam has enough concrete in it to lay a 16 foot highway from New York to Seattle to Los Angeles and back to New York."
text[number++] = "The Grand Coulee Dam was the first man-made structure to exceed, in volume, the Great Pyramid of Cheops."
text[number++] = "The DeLorean was originally called the DMC-12 because it was supposed to retail for $12,000.  However, inflation and higher production costs led to an eventual price of $25,000 and the new name."
text[number++] = "A surprising number of ancient swords are found in river beds.  No one knows exactly why."
text[number++] = "When Apple went public in 1980, it generated more money than any other IPO since 1956 - nearly $1.8 billion - and created more instant millionaires than any company in history."
text[number++] = "By the end of 1981, about 100,000 Pac-Man machines had been sold."
text[number++] = "Sony's first personal cassette player was known initially as the \"Walkman\" in Japan only.  It was originally called the \"Stowaway\" in England, the \"Freestyle\" in Australia, and the \"Soundabout\" in the U.S."
text[number++] = "Most people miss opportunity because it is usually dressed in overhauls and looks like work.<p align=right class=small>Thomas Alva Edison"
text[number++] = "Here's some off the wall trivia.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jean Vander Pyl played the radio role of Margaret Anderson in \"Father Knows Best\" and was the voice of Wilma in the '60s cartoon, \"The Flintstones\"."
text[number++] ="In common usage, humidity generally refers to relative humidity.&nbsp;&nbsp;However, <b>relative humidity</b> is just a ratio of how much water vapor is in a given volume of air compared with the amount of water vapor that would saturate the air at a given temperature and pressure.&nbsp;&nbsp;The measure of the water vapor content that is in the air is know as <b>absolute humidity</b>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Absolute humidity is typically given by grams of water vapor per cubic meter of air, while relative humidity is simply a percentage value."
text[number++] ="The Yule Marble deposit is among the largest in the world and, at 99.5% pure calcite, it is one of the purest marbles ever quarried.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yule Marble was declared the official Colorado state rock in 2004."
text[number++] ="If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19.&nbsp;&nbsp;You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar."
text[number++] ="The numbers 172 can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial." 
text[number++] ="In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator."
text[number++] ="In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, 'Well, are you there?'.&nbsp;&nbsp;It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase 'number please?'."
text[number++] ="The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared."
text[number++] ="The worst mining disaster in US history, Monongah, WV, is said to have provided the origins of the first Father's Day celebration.&nbsp;&nbsp;A woman named Grace Clayton asked her church to hold a Sunday memorial for the fathers lost in the mine.&nbsp;&nbsp;The commemoration was held in a church in Fairmont, West Virginia."
text[number++] ="If one of the Presidents were scaled to his head on Mount Rushmore, he would be 465 feet tall."
text[number++] ="The US government took the Black Hills from the Sioux Indians illegally in 1877.&nbsp;&nbsp;Though a settlement was awarded by the Supreme Court on 1980, the Sioux have refused the money, still hoping to regain their land."
text[number++] ="According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction." 
text[number++] ="The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.&nbsp;&nbsp;These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies." 
text[number++] ="The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence."
text[number++] ="The architect of the Empire State Building could not attend the dedication of the building.  Instead he sent a telegram from his ship en route to England.  \"One day out and I can still see the building.\""
text[number++] ="According to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 105,942,000 vehicles crossed the George Washington Bridge in 2003."
text[number++] ="The four main cables on the George Washington Bridge contain 107,000 miles of .196 inch diameter wire."
text[number++] ="In December of 1965, a private plane crashed on the upper deck of the George Washington Bridge.  Both the bridge and the pilot were unharmed."
text[number++] ="Kansas City's American Royal Barbeque contest is one of the largest cook-offs in the world.  Many of the judges eat more than seven pounds of meat in just over 24 hours to determine the winner."
text[number++] ="If laid end-to-end, the yearly output of briquettes from Kingsford's Springfield, Oregon plant would circle the earth 4.2 times."
text[number++] ="The hotness of peppers is measured in Scoville units.  Jalape&#241;os average 4,000 Scovilles, while haba&#241;eros can reach 350,000."
text[number++] ="The saying \"a flash in the pan\" derives from the use of early firearms, when gunpowder in the firing mechanism of a musket flared out but failed to launch the projectile."
text[number++] ="The symbols &#188;, &#189;, and &#190; can be produced in your mail messages by holding down the ALT key and typing either 0188, 0189, or 0190."
text[number++] ="There was a price to pay for rushing the construction of the Empire State Bulding:  fourteen men died.  The Chrysler Building, built more slowly, lost only one worker."
text[number++] ="There are 6500 windows in the Empire State Building.  All get cleaned twice a month.  Window washers qualify for \"combat pay\"."
text[number++] ="The Empire State Bulding is one of the greatest lightning rods ever built.  Allegedly, when conditions are right and the 86th floor is surrounded by static electricity, if you kiss someone, fire will fly from your lips."
text[number++] ="In the average bag of Milk Chocolate M&Ms, you'll find 24% blue, 20% orange, 16% green, 14% yellow, 13% red, and 13% brown colored candy shells."
text[number++] ="The theobromine in chocolate is toxic to dogs because they can't digest it as efficiently as humans.  It can cause heart rhythm abnormalities, muscle tremors, seizures, and in large quantities, even death."
text[number++] ="Alfred Hitchcock used Bosco chocolate syrup to simulate blood during the famous shower scene in his 1960 thriller, <i>Psycho</i>."
text[number++] ="According to Forbes magazine, the world's most expensive chocolate truffle, hand-rolled by Knipschildt of Norwalk, Connecticut, retails for $250 per piece."
text[number++] ="When John Milius was called in to punch up the script for the first \"Dirty Harry\" movie, Clint Eastwood had not yet been offered the lead part.&nbsp;&nbsp;The actor originally slated to play the role of Dirty Harry was Frank Sinatra."
text[number++] ="Ever wonder why your eyes water and burn around cut onions?&nbsp;&nbsp;Onions are high in sulfur and emit a gas that reacts with the moisture in your eyes, forming a solution of sulfuric acid.&nbsp;&nbsp;Tears help to dilute the acid."
text[number++] ="In antiquity, Romans mixed acetic acid in lead pots, creating a sweet drink known as \"Sugar of Lead.\"&nbsp;&nbsp;Consuming it resulted in lead poisoning."
text[number++] ="Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian." 
text[number++] ="The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic." 
text[number++] ="St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers." 
text[number++] ="The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year." 
text[number++] ="The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
text[number++] ="A wise man does not need advice and a fool won't take it."
text[number++] ="Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity."

text[number++] ="A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take up the woe of the people. There are few good men so foolish, hence the erratic qualities of leadership in the world.<p align=right class=small>Albert Einstein" 
text[number++] ="Discovery of a solution consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.<p align=right class=small>Albert Szent-Gyorgyi"

text[number++] ="There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.<p align=right class=small>Colin Powell"
text[number++] ="There is more than one way to skin a cat, but, given the limited market for cat skins, one way is enough for practical purposes."
text[number++] ="The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.<p align=right class=small>William Arthur Ward"
text[number++] ="Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.&nbsp;&nbsp;But without it we go nowhere.<p align=right class=small>Carl Sagan"
text[number++] ="One of the signs of excellence in a manager is the ability to anticipate problems, not just react to them.<p align=right class=small>Sir Liam Donaldson"
text[number++] ="Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.<p align=right class=small>Don Wilder"
text[number++] ="One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.<p align=right class=small>Marie Curie"
text[number++] ="There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.<p align=right class=small>Niccolo Machiavelli"
text[number++] ="Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.<p align=right class=small>Peter T. McIntyre"
text[number++] ="Be like a postage stamp: stick to one thing until you get there.<p align=right class=small>Margaret Carty"
text[number++] ="Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere.<p align=right class=small>Albert Einstein"
text[number++] ="Do it! Move it! Make it happen! No one ever sat their way to success.<p align=right class=small>Rocky"
text[number++] ="Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.<p align=right class=small>Albert Schweitzer"
text[number++] ="None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.<p align=right class=small>Benjamin Whichcot"
text[number++] ="Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.<p align=right class=small>Jean-Paul Sartre"
text[number++] ="Don't ask, \"What if I train my employees and they leave?\"&nbsp;&nbsp;Ask, \"What if I don't and they stay?\""
text[number++] ="One should not expect to solve a problem with the same level of intelligence that caused it.<p align=right class=small>Albert Einstein"
text[number++] ="Your actions speak so loudly, I can't hear what you are saying<p align=right class=small>Ralph Waldo Emerson"

text[number++] ="You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.<p align=right class=small>Denzel Washington"



text[number++] ="Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'<p align=right class=small>Lillian Carter<br>Mother of Jimmy Carter"
text[number++] ="I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'<p align=right class=small>Eleanor Roosevelt"
text[number++] ="Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.<p align=right class=small>Mark Twain"
text[number++] ="The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.<p align=right class=small>George Burns"
text[number++] ="Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.<p align=right class=small>Victor Borge"
text[number++] ="Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.<p align=right class=small>Mark Twain"
text[number++] ="I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.<p align=right class=small>Groucho Marx"
text[number++] ="My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.<p align=right class=small>Jimmy Durante"
text[number++] ="I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.<p align=right class=small>Zsa Zsa Gabor"
text[number++] ="Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.<p align=right class=small>Alex Levine"
text[number++] ="My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.<p align=right class=small>Rodney Dangerfield"
text[number++] ="Money can't buy you happiness .... But it does bring you a much more pleasant form of misery.<p align=right class=small>Spike Milligan"
text[number++] ="Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP.<p align=right class=small>Joe Namath"
text[number++] ="I don't really feel old. As a matter of fact, I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.<p align=right class=small>Bob Hope"
text[number++] ="I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.<p align=right class=small>W. C. Fields"
text[number++] ="We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.<p align=right class=small>Will Rogers"
text[number++] ="Don't worry about avoiding temptation.   As you grow older, it will avoid you.<p align=right class=small>Winston Churchill"
text[number++] ="Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.<p align=right class=small>Phyllis Diller"
text[number++] ="By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.<p align=right class=small>Billy Crystal"
text[number++] ="By all means, marry. If you're fortunate enough to get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a safety director for a coal company.<p align=right class=small>Trainin Troy"
text[number++] ="There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.<p align=right class=small>Liu Shao-chi"
text[number++] ="Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water every ship has a good captain.<p align=right class=small>Swedish proverb"
text[number++] ="Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds.<p align=right class=small>Tenzin Gyatso"
text[number++] ="One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.<p align=right class=small>Arnold Glasow"
text[number++] ="To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.<p align=right class=small>Ronald Reagan"
text[number++] ="One leader had a sign on her door: \"Ignore me as needed to get your job done\". She told new staff members, \"Yes, there will be a few times when I get agitated because I would have done it differently, but I'll get over it. I'd rather you trust your judgment, keep moving, and get the job done\"."
text[number++] ="His greatest value was not his intelligence, but how he invested his intelligence in others."
text[number++] ="<i>Did you know</i> that in April 5, 2010, 115 Chinese miners were rescued from the flooded <a href=\"http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MineRescue/message/7594\" class=over target=\"_blank\">Wangjialing Coal Mine</a> after being trapped for 8 days."
text[number++] = "<b>Respect Machinery</b><br><br>If you put something in a machine's way, it will crush it, pinch it or cut it. Make sure all guards are in place and remember to de-energize the power first before placing your hands in a point of operation."
text[number++] = "<b>Use your own Initiative for Safety Protection</b><br><br>You are in the best position to see problems when they arise. Ask for the personal protective equipment or additional guidance you need."
text[number++] = "<b>Ask Questions</b><br><br>If you are uncertain, ask. Do not accept answers that contain, \"I think, I assume, I guess.\""
text[number++] = "<b>Use Care and Caution when Lifting</b><br><br>Most muscle and spinal injuries are from overstraining. Know your limits and do not attempt to exceed them. The few minutes it takes to get help can save you from a serious back injury."
text[number++] = "<b>Keep up with the Housekeeping</b><br><br>Disorganized work areas are the breeding grounds for accidents and you are not the only one at risk."
text[number++] = "<b>Wear Proper and Sensible Work Clothes</b><br><br>Wear sturdy and appropriate footwear and replace boots/shoes as needed. Avoid loose clothing, dangling jewelry and be sure that long hair is tied back and cannot become entangled in any machinery."
text[number++] = "<b>Use Good Hygiene Practices</b><br><br>Avoid touching eyes, face and mouth with gloves or hands that are dirty. Wash up before breaks and at the end of your shift to reduce the potential for exposure."
text[number++] = "<b>Be a Positive Part of Safety Efforts</b><br><br>Willingly accept and follow safety rules. Then encourage others to do so. Your attitude can play a major role in the prevention of accidents and injuries."
text[number++] = "Considered England's first great poet, the 14th century writer Geoffrey Chaucer was employed by the king to keep track of the country's scrap metal."
text[number++] = "The auto salvage business is the 16th largest industry in the United States, with over $5 billion in annual sales."
text[number++] = "The U.S. Air Force runs one of the largest reclamation yards in the world.  Its Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center in Tuscon, Arizona stores nearly 4600 aircraft in 2600 acres of land."
text[number++] = "With 114 people killed, the Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster was the worst single-structure collapse in terms of loss of life in United States history."
text[number++] = "According to the National Safety Council, your odds of being killed by an electrical transmission line during one calendar year are approximately 3,000,000 to 1.  Over the course of your lifetime, the odds diminish to about 40,000 to 1."
text[number++] = "Since 1946, nearly two dozen New York City transit workers have been electrocuted by contact with the third rail across the city's 842 miles of subway system."
text[number++] = "Ninety-five percent of cognac is exported from France and marketed to over 155 countries."
text[number++] = "Besides \"white lightning,\" other slang for moonshine are \"hooch,\" \"mountain dew,\" stumphole water,\" \"liquid stumpblaster,\" \"mulekick,\" and \"white mule.\""
text[number++] = "B&#233;n&#233;dictine is believed to be the oldest liqueur in production today.  Developed in 1510, by French monks, its recipe is still a trade secret."
text[number++] = "In addition to devising his own recipe for gunpowder, Leonardo Da Vinci designed cannon shells that exploded on impact or divided into smaller explosives while still in flight."
text[number++] = "In 1901, a 12-year-old Russian boy saw DaVinci's mechanical drawings and they changed his life.  Igor Sikorsky later built one of the first working helicopters in history."
text[number++] = "In 2003, a sausage factory in Northern Denmark created the world's longest salami.  If laid end to end it would stretch nearly 500 feet, surpassing the height of the Statue of Liberty by almost 200 feet."
text[number++] = "Headcheese is not only a chewy cold cut made from parts of a pig's head, it was also the original working title for the horror film, <i>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre</i>."
text[number++] = "In 1920, U.S. turkey producers raised one turkey for every 29 people in the country.  Today, the figure is one turkey for nearly every person in the country."
text[number++] = "About 200,000 pounds of copper are used for each Triton-Class nuclear submarine.  It is used primarily in the electrical generation and storage system."
text[number++] = "We're in no danger of running out of copper.  Known resources are estimated at nearly 8.1 trillion pounds, of which only about .75 trillion pounds, or less than 10%, have been mined."
text[number++] = "Some asphalt roofing shingles contain copper oxide granules.  The biostatic properties of the copper inhibit the growth of unsightly algae."
text[number++] = "When the square root of 3 is calculated to the first 3 decimal places, the result is the same as George Washington's year of birth, 1732."
text[number++] = "In 1982, the U.S. mint changed the composition of a penny from 95% copper to just 2.6% copper and 97.4% zinc, to keep production costs under one cent per coin."
text[number++] = "There are .72 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled on the Autobahn, compared to .84 on the U.S. Interstate."
text[number++] ="The oxygen that fish breathe is not the oxygen in H<sub>2</sub>O. Instead, the fish are breathing O<sub>2</sub> (oxygen gas) that is dissolved in the water.  Many different gases dissolve in liquids, and we see an example all the time in carbonated beverages. In these beverages, there is so much carbon dioxide gas dissolved in water that it rushes out in the form of bubbles."
text[number++] ="One thing about chemicals is that, once they react in certain ways, they form compounds that are nothing like the original elements. For example, if you react carbon, hydrogen and oxygen together one way you get glucose (C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>12</sub>O<sub>6</sub>).  If you react them together another way you get vinegar (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>O<sub>2</sub>).  If you react them another way you get fat.  If you react them another way you get ethanol (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>5</sub>OH).  Glucose, fat, ethanol and vinegar are nothing like each other, but they are all made from the same elements."
text[number++] ="In China, between January 2001 to October 2004, there were 188 accidents that had a death toll of more than 10, about one such accident every 7.4 days."
text[number++] ="It's good to be clever, but not to show it."
text[number++] ="God is clever, but not dishonest."
text[number++] ="A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
text[number++] ="To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
text[number++] ="They have to be clever, cunning, imaginative, dogged and wily, whereas society merely has to lean its weight a little."
text[number++] ="To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."
text[number++] ="Copying from a single source is called plagiarism, copying from multiple sources is called research."
text[number++] ="Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
text[number++] ="If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory."
text[number++] ="Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
text[number++] ="Patience is not a virtue, it is a waste of time."
text[number++] ="Fish and visitors smell in three days."
text[number++] ="Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
text[number++] ="A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns."
text[number++] ="Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."
text[number++] ="I should keep my words soft and sweet in case I have to eat them."
text[number++] ="Between thought and expression lies a lifetime."
text[number++] ="The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
text[number++] ="You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
text[number++] ="Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
text[number++] ="Life is like a dream, sometimes it is good and somtimes it is bad, but in the end it is over."
text[number++] ="One thing I can give and still keep: my word."


text[number++] ="He who can, does. He who can't, teaches."
text[number++] ="Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies."
text[number++] ="It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
text[number++] ="Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself."
text[number++] ="Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid all together."
text[number++] ="If you don't know where you're going, how do you expect to get there?"
text[number++] ="Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
text[number++] ="Being cool is not trying to be cool."
text[number++] ="A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart."
text[number++] ="That's the secret to life - replace one worry with another."
text[number++] ="It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."
text[number++] ="A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have."
text[number++] ="The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
text[number++] ="The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool."
text[number++] ="Wisdom begins in wonder."
text[number++] ="Bacteria is sometimes the only culture some people have."
text[number++] ="To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give."
text[number++] ="Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee."
text[number++] ="Being yourself is being the person everyone else wants you to be."
text[number++] ="The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
text[number++] ="If you want to truly to understand something, try to change it."
text[number++] ="Be of use, but don't be used."
text[number++] ="Winners never quit and quitters never win."
text[number++] ="Why is abbreviation such a long word?"
text[number++] ="In 1963. in the first successful attempt of drilling to enable rescue, two miners were pulled from the Sheppton Mine in the PA anthracite coal region.&nbsp;&nbsp;The miners were rescued after being trapped in the mine for 2 weeks."
text[number++] ="The Torrey Canyon was the first of the big supertankers, capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, and was wrecked off the western coast of Cornwall  in 1967 causing an environmental disaster."
text[number++] ="In the New London, TX school esplosion in 1937, estimates of the number dead vary from 296 to 319, but that number could be much higher, as many of the residents of New London at the time were transient oilfield workers."
text[number++] ="As a result of the New London, TX school explosion in 1937, regulations requiring the odorization of natural gas were enacted.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mercaptan is the additive giving odor to this otherwise odorless gas."
text[number++] ="Ability is what you are capable of doing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Motivation determines what you do.&nbsp;&nbsp;Attitude determines how well you will do it.<p align=right class=small>Lou Holtz"
text[number++] ="Over 56,000 bird strikes to civil aircraft in the United States were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from 1990-2004, a mere 20% of the number that likely occurred."
text[number++] ="Every morning is the dawn of a new error."
text[number++] ="A world without string is chaos." 
text[number++] ="In 1967, one of the X-15s set a speed record for manned flight in a winged aircraft, exceeded only by the space shuttle."
text[number++] ="In 1974, an SR-71 Blackbird flew from New York to London in a record 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56 seconds."
text[number++] ="In Operation Enduring Freedom, a B-52 flew a 44 hour mission, with mid-air refueling, from Missouri to Afghanistan to an airbase at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean."
text[number++] ="The F-15 Eagle can climb at more than 40,000 feet per minute.&nbsp;&nbsp;That's sea level to the top of Mount Everest in 45 seconds."
text[number++] ="It took nealy 150 years to discover what happened to the guns Samuel Walker gave away when he died.  They were eventually returned to his family and today are housed in a private gun collection."
text[number++] ="Roosevelt's safari of 1909 was a major media event.&nbsp;&nbsp;Besides 100 staff members, two dozen journalists traveled with the former president to chronicle the event."
text[number++] ="During the first half of the 20th century, the Smith and Wesson .44 handgun and later the .44 Magnum handgun were among the company's worst selling weapons."
text[number++] ="Acid rain is a combination of nitric and sulfuric acid and has roughly the same pH as tomato juice."

text[number++] ="Don't buy a putter until you've had a chance to throw it."

text[number++] ="Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind during your swing."

text[number++] ="When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls."

text[number++] ="If you're afraid a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out, you have two options: you can immediately shank a lay-up or you can wait until the green is clear and top a ball halfway there."

text[number++] ="No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse."

text[number++] ="The inevitable result of any golf lesson is the instant elimination of the one critical unconscious motion that allowed you to compensate for all of your many other errors."

text[number++] ="A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponents' luck."

text[number++] ="Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a rule is like expecting him to make fun of his own haircut."

text[number++] ="Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts."

text[number++] ="It's not a gimme if you're still away."

text[number++] ="The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree."

text[number++] ="You can hit a two acre fairway 10% of the time and a two inch branch 90% of the time."

text[number++] ="Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three."

text[number++] ="Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe."

text[number++] ="If you want to hit a 7 iron as far as Tiger Woods does, simply try to lay up just short of a water hazard."

text[number++] ="There are two things you can learn by stopping your back-swing at the top and checking the position of your hands: how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove."

text[number++] ="Hazards attract; fairways repel."

text[number++] ="A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours."

text[number++] ="If there is a ball on the fringe and a ball in the bunker, your ball is in the bunker.  If both balls are in the bunker, yours is in the footprint."

text[number++] ="It's easier to get up at 6:00 AM to play golf than at 10:00 to mow the yard."

text[number++] ="A good golf partner is one who's always slightly worse than you are . . that's why I get so many calls to play with friends."

text[number++] ="If there's a storm rolling in, you'll be having the game of your life."

text[number++] ="Golf balls are like eggs.  They're white.  They're sold by the dozen.  And you need to buy fresh ones each week."

text[number++] ="It's amazing how a golfer who never helps out around the house will replace his divots, repair his ball marks, and rake his sand traps."

text[number++] ="If your opponent has trouble remembering whether he shot a six or a seven, he probably shot an eight (or worse)."

text[number++] ="It takes longer to learn to be a good golfer than it does to become a brain surgeon.  On the other hand, you don't get to ride around on a cart, drink beer, & eat hot dogs."


text[number++] ="The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile, and it smiles, too.<p align=right class=small>Herbert Samuel, English political leader (1870-1963)."
text[number++] ="Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf star, known as BPM 37093, composed entirely of crystalized carbon: diamond.  With roughly the same mass as our sun, the star forms a diamond of 10 billion trillion trillion carats."
text[number++] ="Planting 300,000 new trees and allowing them a full life would offset the CO<sub>2</sub> emissions of one 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant operating for little more than one week."
text[number++] ="Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing, but none of them serious.<p align=right class=small>Alan Minter, boxer"
text[number++] ="If you hire the wrong people, for whatever reason, all the fancy management techniques in the world won’t bail you out. <p align=right class=small>Red Auerbach" 
text[number++] ="Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs."
text[number++] ="<b>When is LYING a felony?</b><br><br>Answer:&nbsp;&nbsp;When you've received gifts from individuals or companies yet you check \"none\" on a Financial Disclosure Statement.&nbsp;&nbsp;State and federal government employees are required to annually submit a statement of this kind."
text[number++] ="Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.<p align=right class=small>Benjamin Franklin"

text[number++] ="Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.<p align=right class=small>Dwight D. Eisenhower"
text[number++] ="The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.<p align=right class=small>Henry Kissinger"

text[number++] ="Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.<p align=right class=small>Elizabeth Cady Stanton"

text[number++] ="Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken.<p align=right class=small>Mark Twain"
text[number++] ="It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.<p align=right class=small>Babe Ruth"
text[number++] ="The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.<p align=right class=small>Ralph Nader"

text[number++] ="There are three kinds of people: Commonplace Men, Remarkable Men, and Lunatics.<p align=right class=small>Mark Twain"
text[number++] ="Supposing is good, but finding out is better.<p align=right class=small>Mark Twain"
text[number++] ="A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.<p align=right class=small>Mark Twain"
text[number++] ="Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan \"press on\" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.<p align=right class=small>President Calvin Coolidge"

text[number++] ="Although commonly confused and misused in colloquial English, e.g. (exempli gratia) and i.e. (id est), both from Latin, are not equivalents. Exempli gratia, means \"for example\", and is used before giving examples of something (\"I have lots of favorite colors, e.g., blue, green, and hot pink\"). The latter, id est, means \"that is\" or \"in other words\", and is used before clarifying the meaning of something, when elaborating, specifying, or explaining rather than when giving examples (\"I can't decide on just one favorite color, i.e., I have lots of favorite colors\")."

text[number++] ="Every year, 400,000 workers are disabled due to falls. Approximately 20% of workplace injuries are caused by falling."
text[number++] ="When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.<p align=right class=small>Helen Keller"
text[number++] ="Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
text[number++] ="Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
text[number++] ="A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking."
text[number++] ="Be nice to your kids for they'll be the ones choosing your nursing home."
text[number++] ="Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far."
text[number++] ="I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
text[number++] ="Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards." 
text[number++] ="If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium." 
text[number++] ="Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old." 
text[number++] ="Charlie Brown's father was a barber." 
text[number++] ="On March 9, 2004, Yule Marble became the official state rock of Colorado.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bill, introduced by Girl Scout Troop 357 of Lakewood, Colorado and signed by Governor Bill Owens (R), rekindled some interest in the quarry and the area."
text[number++] ="For 2006, Barrick produced 8.64 million troy ounces of gold at a cash cost of US $282/ounce.&nbsp;&nbsp;As of December 31, 2004, its proven and probable gold mineral reserves stand at 123 million troy ounces."
text[number++] ="One city that could benefit from rooftop wind turbines is Milton, Massachusetts.  With average annual winds of 15.4 mph, Milton is the breeziest city in the US."
text[number++] ="Producing enough power for all the households in the US would require 620 solar towers the size of <a class=over href='http://www.enviromission.com.au/'>Enviro Mission's design</a>.  Of these, California would need 65 and Wyoming just 2."
text[number++] ="The EPA has identified nearly 1600 contaminated sites.  Of these, 1400 have polluted groundwater.  Currently, one in four Americans lives within three miles of a superfund site."
text[number++] ="A \"piece of eight\" was legal tender in the American colonies, and later, in the United States.  Worth one dollar, it was demonetized in 1857."
text[number++] ="Early cannon shot was made of stone that was hand cut by skilled artisans.  By the 1600s, iron shot was mass produced cheaper and faster, and thus became the preferred projectile for maritime artillerists."
text[number++] ="Many pirates were superstitious and considered the compass to have magical properties.  To ease their fears, they housed the compass in a small wooded box called a binnacle - a term still in use today."
text[number++] ="4.8 billion gallons of water are flushed down toilets every day in the United States.  This accounts for 38% of household water usage."
text[number++] ="Some historians believe that the fall of the Roman Empire was hastened by lead poisoning from plumbing pipes, which caused widespread illness, dementia, and death."
text[number++] ="A two-story outhouse built in Crested Butte, Colorado, still stands today.  The upstairs was used when deep snow made the lower level inaccessible."
text[number++] ="In 1829, Boston's Tremont Hotel became America's first hotel with indoor plumbing.  Water was drained from a rooftop storage tank fed by the newly invented steam pump."
text[number++] ="The National Football League, first known as the American Professional Football Association, was founded in downtown Canton, Ohio on September 17, 1920."


text[number++] ="There is nothing so annoying as a good example!<p align=right class=small>Mark Twain"

text[number++] ="The person who invented HTML was not a computer programmer, but a physicist working at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland.  HTML's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, wanted a way for researchers to be able to use the internet to collaborate and share information."

text[number++] ="China, which has the world's largest graphite deposits, has become the world's most prolific pencil manufacturer, turning out about 9 billion pencils per year."
text[number++] ="In the late 20th Century, coconut shells were the common source of activated charcoal, including use in gas masks.  During World War II, Japanese control of the coconut supply in the Pacific forced American activated carbon makers to switch to coal."
text[number++] ="The first electric moto-driven appliance in the U.S. was an electric pen invented by Thomas Edison.  It punched through the paper as it wrote, creating a stencil from which copies could be made."
text[number++] ="The sharpest cutting tool in the world is a diamond blade.  Its finest cutting edge can measure less than 10 nanometers across &#151; 500 times thinner than a human hair."
text[number++] ="When someone shares something of value with you, you have an obligation to share it with others."
text[number++] ="According to Internet World Stats, there are 1,802,330,457 Internet users in the world as of July 15, 2010."
text[number++] ="Total online consumer spending for 2005 reached $143.2 billion, a whopping 22% percent increase over 2004. In fact, that amount has increased annually 20%+ each year for the last 4 years - with no end in sight!"
text[number++] ="Rich consumers are more likely to shop online. Overall, 34 percent of respondents said they made an online purchase during the past year while 50 percent of mass affluent respondents and 57 percent of the highly affluent used e-commerce."
text[number++] ="According to Internet World Stats, there are 259,561,000 North American Internet users or 76.2% of the population."
text[number++] ="Some people are like slinkies. They don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs."
text[number++] ="Statistics can often muddy the waters of reality.  For example: 59% percent of those killed in auto accidents were not wearing a seat belt.  What's this say about the other 41%?  Perhaps in time we'll read that 100% of people killed in auto accidents were wearing a seat belt."
text[number++] ="<b>Political Correctness</b> is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
text[number++] ="Producing new aluminum from recycled aluminum scrap requires just 5% of the energy needed to create it from raw materials."
text[number++] ="In 1973, a car on the road in America contained an average of 81 pounds of aluminum &#151; by 2006, the average was 319 pounds."
text[number++] ="At the point of contact, an aluminum bat generates up to four tons of force on a baseball thrown at 90 miles per hour."
text[number++] ="In 1954, Col. John Stapp rode a rocket sled called the Sonic Wind, to speeds over 600 mph.  These sled tests paved the way for modern auto race safety research."
text[number++] ="Race fuels for Indy cars, dragsters and sprint cars burns invisibly, so in a fire, the driver can't always see the flames, even as temperatures in the cockpit reach 2,000 degrees."
text[number++] ="One cylinder in a dragster's engine produces more horsepower than an entire stockcar engine."
text[number++] = "The acronym \"Taser\" comes from <a class=over href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift\">Thomas A. Swift's</a> Electric Rifle."
text[number++] = "<b><a class=over href=\"/saxsewell/monongah.htm\">Monongah Mine Explosion</a></b><br><br>About the time of the explosion, a trip of loaded cars had reached the knuckle of No. 6 slope, when part of the trip broke away and ran to the bottom of the slope, piling up and blocking the entry.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is thought that the dust cloud resulting in the intake air current was ignited by an arc from electric wires torn down by the wreck or by open lights of men in the vicinity."
text[number++] = "Tap the F5 key to refresh your web browser window."
text[number++] = "In a record setting 2004 test, an Australian inventor's bullet resistant glass withstood the explosion of a five ton bomb."
text[number++] = "The human population of North Carolina's Duplin County is nearly fifty thousand.  The pig population is near two million, making it one of the most populous pig counties in America."
text[number++] = "During the War of 1812, a New York packer named Uncle Sam Wilson shipped several hundred barrels of salt pork to American troops.  Each barrel was stamped \"U.S.\".  This was how \"Uncle Sam\" came to represent the United States government."
text[number++] = "In 1995, one of the worst pig waste disasters occurred in North Carolina when a lagoon dike holding 25 million gallons of liquid pig waste collapsed and found its way into the New River.  This even greatly influenced ongoing environmental reform in the pork industry."
text[number++] = "In 1992, doctors at Duke University were the first to successfully attach a pig liver to a dying patient to buy time until a human liver was available.  A series of five pig livers lasted three days until a human liver transplant saved the patient's life."
text[number++] = "During supersonic flight, air friction heated parts of the Concorde's fuselage to well over 200&#176;F, causing it to expand as much as 10 inches in length."
text[number++] = "In 1952, expendable 3-D glasses made by Polaroid enabled filmgoers to watch the first American 3-D movie shot in color, \"Bwana Devil\"."
text[number++] = "The Front Fell Off<br><center><embed style = \"height:112px !important; width:125px !important;\"  src=\"http://xml.truveo.com/eb/i/3323591820/a/58ef677afb89fc040e3dec6de7dd6c26/p/1\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"  flashvars=\"a=1\"></embed></center>"

text[number++] = "The Tweel<br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/pcdmH_hVWBY&rel=1\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/pcdmH_hVWBY&rel=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object><br><center><span class=small><a class=over href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcdmH_hVWBY\">View Larger Screen</center></a>"
text[number++] = "AA-12 - World's deadliest shotgun!<br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/p4ebtj1jR7c&rel=1\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/p4ebtj1jR7c&rel=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object><br><center><span class=small><a class=over href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ebtj1jR7c\">View Larger Screen</center></a>"
text[number++] = "If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball."
text[number++] = "Golf is a game in which you yell \"fore,\" shoot six, and write down five."
text[number++] = "<img src=\"/triviapics/generalsherman_120x232.jpg\" width=120 height=232 style=\"padding-bottom: 3px;\"><br>General Sherman is the name of a Giant Sequoia. It is the largest tree in the world, and generally considered the largest organism, as measured by the volume of its trunk (1487 cubic metres as of 2002). The tree is located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in the United States, east of Visalia, California. The tree is believed to be approximately 2200 years old."
text[number++] = "The use of teleportation as a means of transport for humans still has considerable unresolved technical and philosophical issues, such as exactly how to record the human body sufficiently accurately and also be able to reconstruct it, and whether destroying a human in one place and recreating a copy elsewhere would provide a sufficient experience of continuity of existence. Believers of supernatural, such as religious people, might wonder if the soul is recopied or destroyed, and might even consider it murder."
text[number++] = "If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of your nose.<p align=right class=small>Jack Handey"
text[number++] = "If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.<p align=right class=small>Jack Handey"
text[number++] = "The practical difference between Lithium batteries and Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries is that most Lithium batteries are not rechargeable but Li-ion batteries are rechargeable. From a chemical standpoint Lithium batteries use lithium in it's pure metallic form. Li-ion batteries use lithium compounds which are much more stable than the elemental lithium used in lithium batteries. A lithium battery should never be recharged while lithium-ion batteries are designed to be recharged hundreds of times."
text[number++] = "A group of pigs is called a herd."
text[number++] = "Pigs were introduced to North America in 1539 by Hernando de Soto."
text[number++] = "Pigs have a well developed sense of smell. They can find things underground and have been used to find truffles, a French delicacy, or to sniff out drugs in service to policemen."
text[number++] = "Pigs would rather stay clean if given the opportunity. They frequently wallow in mud because they have no sweat glands, and the mud helps to keep them cool and to avoid insects."
text[number++] = "Pigs are very intelligent animals. They are often regarded by scientists as being the most intelligent of livestock."
text[number++] = "Smart Car Crash Test<br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ju6t-yyoU8s&rel=1\"></param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ju6t-yyoU8s&rel=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object><br><center><span class=small><a class=over href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s\">View Larger Screen</center></a>"
text[number++] = "Kings Firecrackers<br><center><embed src=\"http://blip.tv/play/AfvIYgI\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed><br><center><span class=small><a class=over href=\"/aolvideo_play.asp?code=882\">View Larger Screen</center></a>"
text[number++] = "<b>Set your Own Standards</b><br><br>Don't be influenced by others around you who are negative. Remember, if you fail to wear safety glasses because others don't, the blindness you may suffer will be yours alone to live with."
text[number++] = "<b>Operate Equipment only if Qualified</b><br><br>Your supervisor may not realize you have never done the job before. Let him know if this is the case, so the necessary training can be provided."
text[number++] = "The Top Ten US States producing visitors to the USMRA web site in 2010:<br><center><table class=small cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0><tr valign=top><td align=right>1.</td><td>Pennsylvania</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>2.</td><td>California</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>3.</td><td>New York</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>4.</td><td>Texas</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>5.</td><td>West Virginia</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>6.</td><td>Ohio</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>7.</td><td>Kentucky</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>8.</td><td>Virginia</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>9.</td><td>Illinois</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>10.</td><td>Florida</td></tr></table></center>"
text[number++] = "The Top Ten Countries producing visitors to the USMRA web site in 2010:<br><center><table class=small cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0><tr valign=top><td align=right>1.</td><td>United States</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>2.</td><td>Canada</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>3.</td><td>Australia</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>4.</td><td>United Kingdom</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>5.</td><td>India</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>6.</td><td>New Zealand</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>7.</td><td>China</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>8.</td><td>Saudi Arabia</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>9.</td><td>South Africa</td></tr><tr valign=top><td align=right>10.</td><td>Chile</td></tr></table></center>"
text[number++] = "Leap and a net will appear.<p align=right class=small>John Burroughs"
text[number++] = "You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.<p align=right class=small>Benjamin Franklin"
text[number++] = "Discovery of a solution consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.<p align=right class=small>Albert Szent-Gyorgyi"
text[number++] = "Never let the word \"impossible\" stop you from pursuing what your heart and spirit urge you to do.  Impossible things come true every day.<p align=right class=small>Robert K. Cooper"
text[number++] = "Success without honor is an unseasoned dish.  It will satisfy your hunger but it won't taste good.<p align=right class=small>Joe Paterno"
text[number++] = "I realize that a sense of humor isn't for everyone.  It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life and feel alive.<p align=right class=small>Anne Wilson Schaef"
text[number++] = "The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres (41.1 million square miles), it covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface and holds 17 quadrillion gallons of water. The Pacific Ocean holds 187 quintillion gallons." 
text[number++] = "The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.<p align=right class=small>William Shakespeare"
text[number++] = "The hope is that you can stay at our web site to take in all the resources we have to offer.  But if you must leave, please do so by visiting one or more of our advertised sites."
text[number++] = "<b>Kung Fu Hillbilly</b><br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GuigcXvcy1A&hl=en_US&fs=1&\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GuigcXvcy1A&hl=en_US&fs=1&\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object></center><br>Thought of the Day: Don't go ninjain' nobody don't need ninjain'."
text[number++] = "Safety Comes In Cans: I Can; You Can; We Can<p align=right class=small>Mary Clark<br>daughter of a Blacksville No. 2 miner"
text[number++] = "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong, because someday in life you will have been all of these.<p align=right class=small>George Washington Carver"
text[number++] = "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.<p align=right class=small>Albert Einstein"
text[number++] = "Life is something like this trumpet.  If you don't put anything in it you don't get anything out.  And that's the truth.<p align=right class=small>W.C. Handy<br>American Blues Musician"
text[number++] = "He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.<p align=right class=small>Tryon Edwards"
text[number++] = "The Xinhua news agency employs more than 10,000 people - as compared to about 1,300 for Reuters; has 107 bureaus worldwide both collecting information on other countries and dispensing information about China; and maintains 31 bureaus in China - one for each province plus a military bureau."
text[number++] = "The Lakagigar volcanic eruption in Iceland on June 8, 1783 has been estimated to have killed over two million people globally, making it the deadliest volcanic eruption in the history of mankind. The drop in temperatures, due to the sulfuric dioxide gases spewed into the northern hemisphere, caused crop failures in Europe, droughts in India, and Japan experienced its worst famine."
text[number++] = "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.<p align=right class=small>Billy Graham"
text[number++] = "Alcohol does not make you FAT.  It makes you LEAN . . . against tables, chairs, floors, walls, and ugly people!!  Be careful!"
text[number++] = "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.<p align=right class=small>Ray Kroc"
text[number++] = "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.  But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.<p align=right class=small>George Bernard Shaw"
text[number++] = "The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.<p align=right class=small>Raul Armesto"
text[number++] = "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.<p align=right class=small>Albert Einstein"
text[number++] = "As you go through life,<br>Two rules will never bend.<br>Never whittle towards yourself,<br>Or pee against the wind.<p align=right class=small>Renfro Valley, KY"
text[number++] = "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.<p align=right class=small>Chinese proverb"
text[number++] = "Overall online consumer spending for 2006 in the United States totalled $170.8 billion."
text[number++] = "Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.<p align=right class=small>Jack Benny"
text[number++] = "To me, boxing is like a ballet - except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.<p align=right class=small>Jack Handy"
text[number++] = "If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.<p align=right class=small>Randall \"Tex\" Cobb"
text[number++] = "Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.<p align=right class=small>Joe Frazier"
text[number++] = "Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.<p align=right class=small>Gene Tunney"
text[number++] = "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.<p align=right class=small>Sir Winston Churchill"
text[number++] = "Tsunami (pronounced soo-NAH-mee) is a Japanese word. Tsunamis are fairly common in Japan and many thousands of Japanese have been killed by them in recent centuries."
text[number++] = "An earthquake generates a tsunami if it is of sufficient force and there is violent movement of the earth causing substantial and sudden displacement of a massive amount of water."
text[number++] = "A tsunami is not a single wave but a series of waves, also known as a wave train. The first wave in a tsunami is not necessarily the most destructive. Tsunamis are not tidal waves."
text[number++] = "Tsunami waves can be very long (as much as 60 miles, or 100 kilometers) and be as far as one hour apart. They are able to cross entire oceans without great loss of energy. The Indian Ocean tsunami traveled as much as 3,000 miles to Africa, arriving with sufficient force to kill people and destroy property."
text[number++] = "Scientists say that a great earthquake of magnitude 9 struck the Pacific Northwest in 1700, and created a tsunami that caused flooding and damage on the Pacific coast of Japan."
text[number++] = "On August 27, 1883, one of the largest volcano eruptions in history, set off a devastating series of tsunamis. The sound of the volcanic explosions were felt over two and a half thousand miles away, and is the loudest documented sound in recorded history."
text[number++] = "The Krakatau event registered a 6 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), which is a scale devised to measure the relative size of an explosive eruption. A VEI 6 is described as \"colossal,\" having a plume height less than approximately fifteen miles, and ejecting a volume less than two hundred and thirty-eight miles (ten kilometers to the third power) of tephra, i.e., airborne volcanic debris."
text[number++] = "When a caldera on Krakatau Island measuring 4.3 miles, collapsed during the 1883 eruption, it created tsunamis that crashed into the Sumatra and Java coastlines of Indonesia. Some waves reached as high as one hundred and forty feet, and were felt over four thousand miles away. One hundred and sixty-five villages were wiped out, killing over thirty-six thousand people."
text[number++] = "<b>The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755</b><br>At 9:30, on the morning of All Saints Day, the Portuguese city of Lisbon was rocked with an estimated 9 magnitude earthquake. The epicenter was west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent, located in the Atlantic Ocean. Three earthquake jolts which lasted a combined time of ten minutes, created large cracks in the earth up to 16 feet apart, tearing open the heart of Lisbon."
text[number++] = "Nearly 30 minutes after the earthquake, a destructive tsunami hit the shores of Portugal, and rushed up the Tagus River. Two more tsunami waves followed, as people were swept out to sea, laying the land bare. In some places, the waves reached as high as 98 feet.  In Lisbon, eighty-five percent of its buildings had been destroyed, with fires that continued to rage for days. Over 100,000 people perished, forever changing the history of Europe... and the rest of the world."
text[number++] = "On the early morning of December 28, 1908, the Italian city of Messina awoke to the deadliest earthquake in European history. Striking just days after Christmas in the Straits of Messina, the 7.2 magnitude quake shook for nearly 30 seconds, toppling several story buildings and burying alive it's occupants. Minutes later, the tsunami came, measuring somewhere between 20 to 40 feet high. The waves were gradually followed by smaller ones, until the water finally subsided."
text[number++] = "When the Messina, Italy quake of Dec. 28, 1908 was over, the city of Messina, which only had a population of 150,000, had been entirely destroyed, along with the nearby city of Reggio di Calabria, and other outlying areas. It is estimated that the combined earthquake and tsunami killed almost 100,000 people, that fateful December morning."
text[number++] = "On May 22, 1960, the strongest magnitude earthquake in recorded history, occurred off the coast of South Central Chile. Measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale, it triggered a tsunami 30 feet high. To give the respect a 9.5 deserves, consider this: the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb released energy equlivent to a 5.7 earthquake on the Richter scale. The Chilean quake was 9.5."
text[number++] = "Nearly fifteen minutes after the Chilean earthquake of 1960, the tsunami first hit land, flooding more than 500 miles of the Chilean coast. With the combined earthquake, tsunami, and mudslide damages, it was estimated that one in every three houses in the earthquake zone had been lost. The estimated cost was more than $550 million (1960 dollars), and loss of life was estimated at 2,000."
text[number++] = "Tsunami waves from the Chilean earthquake hit Hilo, Hawaii, 15 hours later, killing 61 people and badly injuring 282 others. Because of a confusion over the warning siren, people returned to their homes after the first wave, only to be later caught in the deafening 20 foot wave that followed.  22 hours after the 9.5 earthquake, the tsunami radiated from the Chilean epicenter and reached Japan. For hours, the populace endured waves as high as 14 feet. After the destruction was over, 122 Japanese people lost their lives to the torrential water."
text[number++] = "By the time the Pacific-wide tsunami stemming from the Chilean quake of 1960 had subsided, the total fatalities is thought to have been as high as 3,000 lives lost. Even though the 9.5 earthquake was the largest in recorded history, more people died from the ensuing tsunami, than from the quake itself."
text[number++] = "While other tsunami have taken more lives, and did more destruction to land, the Chilean Tsunami of 1960 is thought of as the 5th worst in history, because of the magnitude of the earthquake that started it. Another event that could be No. 5 is The South China Sea Tsunami of 1782, that killed an estimated 40,000 people."
text[number++] = "An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.<p align=right class=small>John Baker"
text[number++] = "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.<p align=right class=small>John Dewey"
text[number++] = "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.<p align=right class=small>Robert Frost"
text[number++] = "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.<p align=right class=small>B. F. Skinner"
text[number++] = "Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.<p align=right class=small>Ambrose Bierce"
text[number++] = "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.<p align=right class=small>Michel de Montaigne" 
text[number++] = "I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.<p align=right class=small>Tallulah Bankhead"
text[number++] = "I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.<p align=right class=small>Al McGuire"
text[number++] = "If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.<p align=right class=small>Heinrich Heine"
text[number++] = "It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.<p align=right class=small>Robert Green Ingersoll"
text[number++] = "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.<p align=right class=small>Aristotle"
text[number++] = "Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.<p align=right class=small>John W. Gardner"
text[number++] = "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.<p align=right class=small>Ezra Pound"
text[number++] = "The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.<p align=right class=small>Will Rogers"
text[number++] = "<b><i>Monongah 1907</i> DVD is available to purchase</b><br><br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"108\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/8Nq2ryRSdpk&hl=en_US&fs=1&\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/8Nq2ryRSdpk&hl=en_US&fs=1&\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"125\" height=\"108\"></embed></object></center><br><br>The entire video, rich with detail about this disaster also traces the development of mine safety laws in the US. Monongah 1907 is now available on DVD for $14.95.  <a href=\"saxsewell/monongah_dvd.htm\" class=over>See details</a>."
text[number++] = "Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."
text[number++] = "Today I found the cure for Apathy - but nobody cared.<p align=right class=small>Anonymous"
text[number++] = "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.<p align=right class=small>Will Rogers"

text[number++] = "If you cut Mount Everest off at sea level and put it on the ocean bottom in the Challenger Deep, there would still be over a mile of water over the top of it!" 
text[number++] = "Challenger Deep got its name from the British survey ship Challenger II, which pinpointed the deep water off the Marianas Islands in 1951. Then in 1960, the US Navy sent the Trieste (a submersible - a mini-submarine designed to go really deep) down into the depths of the Marianas trench. They touched bottom at 35,838 ft." 
text[number++] = "As of 2008, the deepest mine in the world is TauTona in Carletonville, South Africa at 3.9 kilometers, replacing Savuka Mine in the North West Province of South Africa at 3,774 meters. East Rand Mine in Boksburg, South Africa briefly held the record at 3,585 meters, and the first mine declared the deepest in the world was also TauTona when it was at 3,581 meters. The deepest mine in Europe is Pyhäsalmi Mine in Pyhäjärvi, Finland at 1,444 meters. The second deepest mine in Europe is Boulby Mine, England at 1,400 meters (shaft depth 1,100 meters)."
text[number++] = "The deepest open pit mine in the world is Bingham Canyon Mine in Bingham Canyon, Utah, United States at over 1,200 meters. The largest and second deepest open pit copper mine in the world is Chuquicamata in Chuquicamata, Chile at 900 meters, 940,600 tons of copper and 17,700 tons of molybdenum produced annually."
text[number++] = "The deepest open pit mine with respect to sea level is Tagebau Hambach in Germany, the ground of the pit is 293 meters below sea level."
text[number++] = "The largest underground mine: El Teniente, in Rancagua, Chile, 2,400 kilometers of underground drifts, 418,000 tons of copper yearly. The deepest borehole in the world is Kola Superdeep Borehole at 12,262 meters. This, however, is not a matter of mining but rather related to scientific drilling."
text[number++] = "Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.<p align=right class=small>Thomas L. Holdcroft"
text[number++] = "When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.<p align=right class=small>Leo Burnett (1891-1971)<br>Advertising Executive"
text[number++] = "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain."
text[number++] = "Don't tell your problems to others.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eighty percent don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.<p align=right class=small>Lou Holtz" 
text[number++] = "The only people you should get even with are those who have helped you.<p align=right class=small>John E. Southard"
text[number++] = "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.<p align=right class=small>E. Joseph Cossman"
text[number++] = "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.<p align=right class=small>Ursula K. Le Guin<br>American author"
text[number++] = "A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.<p align=right class=small>John Maxwell"
text[number++] = "Using a cell phone use while driving, whether it's hand-held or hands-free, delays a driver's reactions as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of .08 percent. (Source: University of Utah)"
text[number++] = "Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37 percent. (Source: Carnegie Mellon)"
text[number++] = "80 percent of all crashes and 65 percent of near crashes involve some type of distraction. (Source: Virginia Tech 100-car study for NHTSA)"
text[number++] = "Nearly 6,000 people died in 2008 in crashes involving a distracted or inattentive driver, and more than half a million were injured. (NHTSA)"
text[number++] = "Drivers who use hand-held devices are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves. (Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)"
text[number++] = "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
text[number++] = "Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.<p align=right class=small>Peter Drucker"
text[number++] = "Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.<p align=right class=small>©  Del 'Abe' Jones 1984"
text[number++] = "Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.<p align=right class=small>Madame Virginie de Rieux<br>16th-century French writer"
text[number++] = "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.<p align=right class=small>Charles Kettering"
text[number++] = "An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.<p align=right class=small>Russell Baker"
text[number++] = "There were nearly 6,420,000 auto accidents in the United States in 2005. The financial cost of these crashes is more than 230 Billion dollars. 2.9 million people were injured and 42,636 people killed. About 115 people die every day in vehicle crashes in the United States -- one death every 13 minutes."
text[number++] = "The number of photos on this site have grown to the point where I've lost count, but well over 10,000.  For pics not related to mining, make sure to check out the <a class=over href=\"/photo_list.htm\">Miscellaneous categories</a> for both USA and International."
text[number++] = "Here's one for you trivia fans.  The TV series \"Maverick\" featured 3 Maverick brothers: Bret (James Garner); Bart (Jack Kelly); and Brent (Robert Colbert).  Roger Moore appeared in 17 episodes as their cousin Beauregarde.  Pappy Maverick appeared in one episode, aptly titled \"Pappy\", and was played by James Garner."
text[number++] = "All Facebook users are invited to add me to your friends list.  I'm listed there as <a class=over href=\"http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1278885430&hiq=rob%2Cmcgee\">Rob McGee</a>."
text[number++] = "Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.<p align=right class=small>H. L. Mencken"
text[number++] = "Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal."
text[number++] = "Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.<p align=right class=small>Will Rogers"
text[number++] = "<a class=over href='https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mz.html'><b>Mozambique</b></a><p align=center><img src='/graphics/Mozambique.jpg' width=122 height=76></p>Their national flag bears an image of the Russian made AK-47.  Talk about sending a message!"
text[number++] = "Flattery should be used like perfume - Smell and enjoy it, but don't swallow it!"
text[number++] = "<center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/cL9Wu2kWwSY&hl=en&fs=1\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/cL9Wu2kWwSY&hl=en&fs=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object></center><br><center><span class=small><a class=over href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY\">View Larger Screen</center></a><br>Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman."
text[number++] = "<b>Dancing Inmates are Dangerous</b><br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ibsm_k8akyE&hl=en&fs=1&\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/ibsm_k8akyE&hl=en&fs=1&\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object></center><br>Here's another Michael Jackson routine, our second since Thriller. Performed to the public on July 25, 2009. 1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines."
text[number++] = "<b>Sorry, Sorry</b><br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/_43TO_OPj-8&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_profilepage&fs=1\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/_43TO_OPj-8&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_profilepage&fs=1\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></center></object><br>CPDRC Dancing Inmate's featured dance for June, 2009."
text[number++] = "<b>Kings Firecrackers</b><br><center><embed src='http://blip.tv/play/AYGe5W4C' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width=\"125\" height=\"112\" allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true'></embed></center>"
text[number++] = "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.<p align=right class=small>Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf"
text[number++] = "An estimated 28,300 residential building electrical fires occur annually and cause 360 civilian deaths, 1,000 civilian injuries, and $995 million in direct loss according to the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA)."
text[number++] = "Electrical fires occur most often during the months of December and January. Most electrical fires result from problems with faulty electrical outlets and old wiring. Problems with cords and plugs, such as extension and appliance cords, also cause many home electrical fires."
text[number++] = "During the 2nd half of 2009, the USMRA web site received 370 visitors from the Peoples Republic of China."
text[number++] = "During the first 4 months of 2010, the USMRA web site received 2 visitors from the Peoples Republic of China (Beijing and Shenzhen).  The USMRA is <a class=over href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China\">banned in China</a> because of our <a class=over href=\"/chinatable.htm\">disaster watch</a> pages."
text[number++] = "The biggest safety hazard you'll probably ever have to deal with watches you shave his face in the mirror every morning."
text[number++] = "<b>Coal Fireball</b><br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/XM2TbddOhN0&hl=en&fs=1&\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/XM2TbddOhN0&hl=en&fs=1&\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object><br><span class=small><a class=over href=\"/repository/category/blasting/fireballs.htm\">View Larger</a></center>"
text[number++] = "The ultimate measure of people is not where they stand in moments of comfort, but where they stand in times of great challenge."
text[number++] = "The Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench) is the deepest known part of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has a mean width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a maximum depth of about 11,034 metres (36,200 ft) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end."
text[number++] = "<b>Greensails</b><br><center><object width=\"125\" height=\"112\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lPvOY-RgNew&hl=en&fs=1&\"></param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"></param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"></param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/lPvOY-RgNew&hl=en&fs=1&\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\"></embed></object>"
text[number++] = "Women, like phones, love to be held and talked too, but if you press the wrong button, expect to be disconnected!"
text[number++] = "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.<p align=right class=small>Edward Everett"
text[number++] = "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.<p align=right class=small>Will Durant"
text[number++] = "Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.<p align=right class=small>John Dewey"
text[number++] = "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.<p align=right class=small>Oscar Wilde"
text[number++] = "Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.<p align=right class=small>Aristotle"
text[number++] = "Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.<p align=right class=small>Daniel J. Boorstin"
text[number++] = "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.<p align=right class=small>John Dewey"
text[number++] = "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.<p align=right class=small>William Butler Yeats"
text[number++] = "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.<p align=right class=small>Gilbert K. Chesterton"
text[number++] = "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.<p align=right class=small>Robert Frost"
text[number++] = "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.<p align=right class=small>George Washington Carver"
text[number++] = "Education is the transmission of civilization.<p align=right class=small>Will Durant"
text[number++] = "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.<p align=right class=small>B. F. Skinner"
text[number++] = "The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think."
text[number++] = "The fourth leading cause of death in the United States, COPD is a serious lung disease affecting an estimated 24 million Americans. More than 12 million people are currently diagnosed with COPD and another 12 million may have COPD but remain undiagnosed despite recognizable symptoms."
text[number++] = "When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car."
text[number++] = "There is no \"off\" position on the genius switch."
text[number++] = "The cerebral cortex is about 85% of the brain. The cerebral cortex is a structure within the brain that plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness."
text[number++] = "Percentage of total cerebral cortex volume = frontal lobe 41%, temporal lobe 22%, parietal lobe 19%, occipital lobe 18%."
text[number++] = "There are about 100 billion neurons in the human brain, the same number of stars in our galaxy."
text[number++] = "He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.<p align=right class=small>Mickey Mantle"
text[number++] = "If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.<p align=right class=small>Horace G. Hutchinson"
text[number++] = "It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.<p align=right class=small>Jackie Joyner-Kersee"
text[number++] = "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.<p align=right class=small>Goethe"
text[number++] = "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. <p align=right class=small>Samuel Butler"
text[number++] = "Interstate 30 in Dallas, Texas is high on the list of \"most dangerous\" highways in America. Over five years, 33 pedestrians died on this highway."
text[number++] = "With labor in short supply during WWII, the Germans used prisoners of war and forced labor to construct Autobahn extensions in Poland and Eastern Europe."
text[number++] = "A national speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour (about 63 mph) was imposed on the Autobahn on November 24, 1973, during the oil crisis.  It lasted less than four months."
text[number++] ="It is better to be careful 100 times than to get killed once.<p align=right class=small>Mark Twain"
text[number++] ="The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.<p align=right class=small>Joseph Addison"
text[number++] ="Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done.  God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.<p align=right class=small>John Andrew Holmes"
text[number++] ="Flatter me, and I may not believe you.  Criticize me, and I may not like you.  Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.  Encourage me, and I may not forget you.<p align=right class=small> William Arthur Ward"

text[number++] ="You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.<p align=right class=small>Charles Franklin Kettering"
text[number++] ="Men accounted for 64 percent of injuries and illnesses and had an incidence rate of 134 per 10,000 workers, 22 percent higher than the rate for women (105 per 10,000 workers)."
text[number++] ="Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers experienced the highest number of days-away-from-work injuries and illnesses, with 79,000 in 2007."
text[number++] ="In 2007, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) with days away from work declined by 23,400 cases from 2006."
text[number++] ="Both the rate and the number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work decreased from 2006 to 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department Labor.  The 2007 rate was 122 per 10,000 full-time workers, a decrease of 4 percent from 2006."
text[number++] ="The rate of fatal injury for U.S. workers in 2007 was 3.7 fatal work injuries per 100,000 workers, down from the final rate of 4.0 per 100,000 workers in 2006, and the lowest annual fatality rate ever reported by the fatality census."
text[number++] ="Using the Wingdings font, the uppercase letters \"J\", \"K\", and \"L\" will produce these smiley faces - <font face=Wingdings>J K L</font>"


text[number++] ="It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.<p align=right class=small>Mark Twain"
text[number++] ="There are two ways of meeting difficulties:  Alter the difficulties or alter yourself to meet them.<p align=right class=small>Phyllis Bottome"
text[number++] ="The ultimate measure of people is not where they stand in moments of comfort, but where they stand in times of great challenge."
text[number++] ="A one ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut."
text[number++] ="The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience, and truth over popularity...these are the choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.<p align=right class=small>Anonymous"
text[number++] ="A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.<p align=right class=small>Leroy Elmes"
text[number++] ="I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.<p align=right class=small>Woodrow Wilson"
text[number++] ="Show class, have pride, and display character.  If you do, winning takes care of itself.<p align=right class=small>Paul \"Bear\" Bryant"
text[number++] ="Experience is the hardest teacher.  It gives the test first, and the lesson after."
text[number++] ="Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.<p align=right class=small>Theodore Roosevelt"

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