Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!mcnc!dvamc!ms From: ms@dvamc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: more trivia Message-ID: <1073@dvamc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 13:21:02 EDT Article-I.D.: dvamc.1073 Posted: Tue Aug 2 13:21:02 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Aug-83 20:10:21 EDT Lines: 19 Volleyball was invented in a Holyoke, Mass. YMCA in 1895. Its inventor was William George Morgan. The game was first called "mintonette" and was played by hitting a basketball over a rope. A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It is a phenomenon that can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees of less above the horizon. The term "cocktail" was invented in Elmsford, NY. A barmaid named Betsy Flanagan decorated her establishment with the tail feathers of cocks. One day a patron asked for "one of those cocktails". She served him a drink with a feather in it. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew Canabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations. Well, enough for today...