n Go with the Reflow: There are more than two states on both banks of the Mississippi, despite our recent assertion. State borders weren’t altered when the Mississippi changed course, leading to slivers of Illinois being on its west bank, for example. Correspondent and cross-continental hiker Ken Powers of Pleasanton, Calif. (www.gottawalk.com), has seen some of these.
What noted wit is credited with this line: “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read”?
A) Mark Twain
B) Ogden Nash
C) Mel Brooks
D) David Letterman
Tuesday’s answer: “Big Cy” was a nickname for the thoroughbred racehorse Citation, winner of the Triple Crown in 1948.
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