Trivia For October 1, 2026

One common explanation for the nickname is that it originated from a 19th-century reporter's jabs at Chicago politicians being "full of hot air".

As a colony, Indonesia was called the Dutch East Indies. It would remain under Dutch control until it was invaded by Japan in 1941. Following the war the Dutch attempted to regain control over the colony until they were forced to the bargaining table under international pressure.

The Sinbad cycle is set in the reign of the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786–809). They are a relatively late addition to One Thousand and One Nights, as they do not feature in the earliest 14th-century manuscripts, and would not be added until the 18th century.

Typically the five layers have these altitude ranges: exosphere: 700–10,000 km, thermosphere: 80–700 km, mesosphere: 50–80 km, stratosphere: 12–50 km and troposphere: 0–12 km.

Founded in 1602 by Sir Thomas Bodley, it is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and with over 13 million printed items, it is the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library.