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King of Denmark dead. Murder?
The King of Denmark died suddenly in his castle in Helsingör at the Danish coast, supposedly bitten by a venomous snake. Now his son, the Prince of Denmark, is convinced that his father was murdered. He suspects his mother and his uncle because allegedly the ghost of the dead king had said so. "To be or not to be: that is the question," the Prince of Denmark told the press. A thorough investigation is under way.
Who dunnit?
Elementary school boy does 100 additions in a few seconds
To keep his pupils quiet a teacher in a German school asked them to add up all the numbers from 1 to 100. He hoped to keep them busy for at least one hour. But only seconds later one young boy said, he had the answer.
Who dunnit?
Greek scientist slaughtered in Sicily
While working on a geometrical problem a well known Greek mathematician, who also had invented some machinery of military interest, was slaughtered by a soldier, against the express orders of his hierarchy. Allegedly the scientist was drawing diagrams and too busy solving his problem to obey the orders of the soldier. His last words were: "Noli turbare circulos meos!"
Who dunnit?
Terrible drama in German forest
Because they did not get any funds from Social Security a cruel stepmother convinced her husband to abandon his children in the middle of the forest so they did not have to feed them any more. And so they did. They even had to try twice as the clever boy found the way home the first time.
But next day the desperate parents succeeded. The boy and his little sister, hungry, thirsty, afraid of the dark and the animals of the forest, tried to find their way home. In vain...
Who dunnit?
No butter today
In 1869 Napoleon III offered a prize for the formulation of a synthetic edible fat - to anyone who could make a satisfactory substitute for butter, suitable for use by the armed forces and the lower classes. Why? Because Western Europe was running low on fats and oils; petroleum hydrocarbons were as yet unexploited. The growing industrial need for lubricants and the popular demand for soap (caused by a rising standard of living and interest in hygiene) were cutting into into available sources.
Who got the prize for what?
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