Interesting things

Sir Winston Churchill had a parrot (among other pets) that is still alive! It's 108 years old and still repeats the phrases he taught it including "F*** the Nazis!"

tergiversation \tuhr-jiv-uhr-SAY-shuhn\, noun:
1. The act of practicing evasion or of being deliberately ambiguous.
2. The act of abandoning a party or cause.

"Doodlebug" in addition to being the larva of an insect was the nickname given to V1 bombs that fell on London (most heavily in July/Aug 1944). The bombs' engine would cut out just before it would hit, so people would hear it coming and then nervously wait until they heard it hit, knowing that it had missed them. You can hear it about half way down the page under V1 'Doodlebug'