A blonde is watching the news with her husband when the newscaster announces that six Brazilian men died in a skydiving accident.
The blonde starts sobbing uncontrollably.
Confused, her husband says: "It is sad, but they were skydiving. There were risks involved."
"I know," the blonde says. "But how many is a Brazilian?"
Louis AgassizBorn 28 May 1807; died 14 Dec 1873 at age 66. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-American naturalist and geologist who made revolutionary contributions to the study of natural science with landmark work on glacier activity and extinct fishes. Agassiz began his work in Europe, having studied at the University of Munich and then as chair in natural history in Neuchatel in Switzerland. While there he published his landmark multi-volume description and classification of fossil fish. In 1846 Agassiz came to the U.S. to lecture before Boston's Lowell Institute. Offered a professorship of Zoology and Geology at Harvard in 1848, he decided to stay, becoming a citizen in 1861. His innovative teaching methods altered the character of natural science education in the U.S. |
