Police in Uzbekistan arrested a group of people on suspicion of trying to sell a U.S.$1-million dollar bill for half price. There is no such denomination. The suspects told the potential buyer that they were prepared to sell the bill for $500,000 because they needed cash the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. It cited prosecutors in
SUZANNE SATALINE, The Wall Street Journal
(March 9) A few weeks ago, Hemant Mehta posted an unusual item for sale on eBay: a chance to save his soul.
Shoppers in Chicago were asked what would happen if an atomic bomb were to land on the city. Only 2% thought they would be among the dead. -L.A. Times Magazine, Dec. 2005
In February 1708 a previously unknown London astrologer named Isaac Bickerstaff published an almanac in which he predicted the death by fever of the famous rival astrologer John Partridge. According to Bickerstaff, Partridge would die on March 29 of that year. Partridge indignantly denied the prediction, but on March 30 Bickerstaff released a pamphlet announcing