[SpikeMon] Cerf and Kahn given medals, Walk out of jail, Christmas Facts 50/49/48

Here in the UK when you do wonderous service for Queen and Country, (or some sort of back hand favour for the Government) you are awarded with a KBE (knighthood).  America doesn't have a knighthood to give out, so they have their Presidential Medal of Freedom.  This Wednesday, President Bush will be handing out medals to Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn for services to the Internet.  A deserving honor for two great pioneers.

• http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051103-5.html

For whatever reason, you find yourself locked up in a cell in Texas.  As if thats not enough, you find yourself on deathrow with no hope of parole.  What do you do?  Well, you could take a leaf out of Charles Victor Thompson's book, and simply shred the fashionable orange suit, and walk straight out.  No fancy equipment, no tunnels, no climbing high walls and not a single file in any cake to be found.  Fortunately he was picked up in the following state, for drinking in public!  DOH!

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4413228.stm

Count down to Christmas Fact#50/49/48:
A Mongolian wild ass can run 8 mph faster than a reindeer. On Christmas Eve in 2001, the Bethlehem Hotel had 208 of its 210 rooms free. Based on a 1999 estimated population count of North America and Europe, on Christmas Eve of that year Santa Claus had to visit 42,466,666 homes in a 12-hour period -- that's 983 homes per second.
Courtesy of http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/104644.html

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