Chesmac running on a Telmac-1800 computer
- ... that as the 1979 computer chess game Chesmac (pictured) could not display a chessboard on screen, players had to replicate the game on a physical chessboard?
- ... that Samuel Barber said that he could not adequately play his own Piano Sonata?
- ... that geographer Michael Chisholm and contemporaries became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", in reference to their teacher Gus Caesar?
- ... that Anne Morrow Lindbergh tried to warn her husband Charles Lindbergh of the backlash that his antisemitic Des Moines speech would receive?
- ... that Rose Betts wrote the song "Driving Myself Home" as a joke after a blind date, only for it to go viral on TikTok?
- ... that an art critic felt that Rooms by the Sea was one of Edward Hopper's "strangest" works?
- ... that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State, she said that she did not really know about the schools' rivalry?
- ... that John Passmore Edwards erected a library in memory of his mother?
- ... that researchers want Hymenophyllum axsmithii rhizomes so that they can tell whether the filmy fern was up a tree?
“
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~
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