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- Apple introduced the LaserWriter printer in March 1985. Guess how much it cost then, and how much it weighed.
- He served as a British colonial civil servant in what is now Sri Lanka, before returning to London and marrying a woman whose fame would far eclipse his own, though he outlived her by 28 years, dying in 1969. Who was he?
- President Trump had a small red button installed on his desk in the Oval Office. President Biden had the button removed. What did the button do?
- What was the Vegetable Lamb Of Tartary?
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- Apple introduced the LaserWriter printer in March 1985. Guess how much it cost then, and how much it weighed.
The first LaserWriter printer cost US$6,995 (equivalent to $16,832 in 2020) and weighed 77 lbs (35 kg). It was the first printer to ship with Adobe's PostScript page description language, sparking the desktop publishing revolution of the mid-1980s. In 1988 Apple launched a more "affordable" printer, the LaserWriter II, with a list price of $4,599 and a weight of 45 lbs. - He served as a British colonial civil servant in what is now Sri Lanka, before returning to London and marrying a woman whose fame would far eclipse his own, though he outlived her by 28 years, dying in 1969. Who was he?
He was Leonard Woolf, a prolific writer in his own right, mostly of political tracts, but best remembered as the husband of novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, who committed suicide in 1941. Together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which published, inter alia, the first edition of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. - President Trump had a small red button installed on his desk in the Oval Office. President Biden had the button removed. What did the button do?
The button signalled a White House aide to bring the President a Diet Coke on a silver platter. - What was the Vegetable Lamb Of Tartary?
The Vegetable Lamb Of Tartary was a mythical fruit (or animal) believed to grow on trees across the Russian steppe from the Caspian to the Pacific. According to some commentators, the fruit "perfectly resembled a lamb, with legs, hooves, ears and head". Others claimed that the Lamb was an actual animal, or perhaps a hybrid of animal and plant, which nonetheless grew on trees. Belief in the Tartary Lamb remains strong among Western scholars in the 16th and early 17th centuries, but crumbled in the late 17th century as travellers began crossing Siberia and failing to find it.
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