Cardiff Giant? Today in 1990, the largest known leatherback turtle went on exhibit at the Cardiff National Museum & Gallery in Wales, after washing up on the Harlech beach a year earlier. Over 2000 pounds, 8 feet long, it was estimated to be at least 100.
birthdate of Ernst Haeckel, who came up with evolution theory of recapitulation, though it was later mostly discredited; ventriloquist Edgar Bergen; Lisa Loring, otherwise known as Wednesday; and Ice-T.
Addams Family: 1969 Mexican Trading Cards
death date of Russian actress Vera Kholodnaya and Olympic hurdler Morgan Taylor. In 1923, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened King Tut's tomb. Carter lived to see another 16 years, but Carnarvon was dead by April, of blood poisoning. Legend says his dog, in England, howled and dropped dead at the same time, and this my friends is what is known as the Curse of Tutankhamun.
16 is the atomic number of sulphur. When a cell divides in half every half hour, it would take two hours to get sixteen cells. Sixteen is also the number of band members in the German symphonic death metal group Haggard. They could probably tell you a thing or two about curses.
www.haggard.de
