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Live Science says that scientists finally say that the egg came first. Cool. NOw I can definitively answer this question for my children! Egg first! Chickens cluck and peep. Roosters crow. (Right, Lois?)


Funiculi-funicula is the name of a couple of songs. The original song was written to commenerate the opening of a funicular railroad on Mt. Vesuvius. This is a sort of cable-pulled car on rails. Then, there was a version in an opera, then the English version. Listen, listen, echoes, sounds of love!


A Frisbee is a flying disk. No, not an alien spacecraft! It is just a plastic dish which people throw for fun. You can play catch, you can have it boomerang back, you can play games with it. Some Frisbees are made to whistle when they reach a certain speed.

Here are some versions of Funiculi-Funicula.


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(Yeah, for some reason, I think Italian folk music is just so beautiful. Even though, Funiculi Funicula isn't really Italian folk music, it sounds enough like it to be classified as such. I'm not in such bad company to be thinking so.

In fact, according to Wikipedia: "Funiculì, Funiculà" is a famous song written by Italian journalist Peppino Turco and set to music by Italian composer Luigi Denza in 1880. Edward Oxenford, an English songwriter and translator of libretti, published a version which became somewhat traditional in English-speaking countries. Six years after Funiculì, Funiculà was composed, German composer Richard Strauss heard the song while on a tour of Italy. Thinking that it was a traditional Italian folk song, he later incorporated it into his Aus Italien symphony. To his great embarrassment, Strauss realised his mistake when an angry Denza filed a lawsuit against him. Denza won the lawsuit, and Strauss was forced to pay him a royalty fee every time the Aus Italien was performed in public.")