– Fashion designer Ralph Lauren launched his Polo brand in 1967, after he purchased the name from Brooks Brothers, his employer at the time.

– In 1914, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II purchased one of every item in that year’s Hammacher Schlemmer catalog.

The technical term for a cluster of bananas is also the name of a part of the body. That term is:

A) Leg

B) Heart

C) Hand

D) Neck

Wednesday’s answer: Anna Escobedo Cabral is the current treasurer of the United States; her signature appears on all newly printed U.S. currency.