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Are poinsettias poisonous?
Despite rumors that the slightest nibble on the Christmas flower poinsettias will result in death, poinsettias are not poisonous to humans.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission determined in 1975 that the toxicity of poinsettias is a myth, though the flower is a nonfood substance and, if eaten, could cause some discomfort.
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Leave a commentWhen was the last time you could have taken part in a bacchanalia?
The last legal bacchanalia was in the second century B.C. before the Roman senate banned this festival honoring Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.
Originally a religious rite celebrated only by women, it eventually included men and became an excuse for drunken orgies.
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Leave a commentWhat is Ragnarok in Norse mythology?
Ragnarok is the day of doom in Norse mythology and corresponds to Gotterdammerung, the Teutonic Twilight of the Gods.
On Ragnarok, a battle between good and evil results in the world's being consumed by fire.
Later, a new world, new humans, and new gods spring up around the core of a few survivors.
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Leave a commentWho was Quetzalcoatl the Aztec god?
Quetzalcoatl was the Aztec god of the atmosphere and of civilizing influences.
Besides ruling the wind and sun, he invented agriculture, the calendar, and many arts and crafts.
Sometimes represented as a feathered serpent, sometimes as a bearded man, he was also identified as a priest-king who had sailed away, promising to return.
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Leave a commentWho was Ishtar the goddess?
Ishtar was the great mother goddess of the Babylonians and Assyrians.
Her concerns included fertility, healing, sexuality, and lust.
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Leave a commentWhat does Tammuz mean to Jews?
In the Jewish calendar, Tammuz is the name of the month that falls during June and July.
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Leave a commentWho was Tammuz and what does he have to do with Adonis the Greek God?
The Greek Adonis, the Babylonian Tammuz, the Sumerian Dumuzi, and the Egyptian Osiris are all forms of the same god.
After being carried off to the underworld, Tammuz, god of crops and vegetation, was rescued by his lover Ishtar.
All life on earth withered between his dying (in winter) and his rising (in spring).
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Leave a commentOn how many mattresses did the princess in “The Princess and the Pea” sleep?
The Princess slept on 20 mattresses and 20 eiderdowns (fluffy featherbeds), between 2 of which was placed a single pea.
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