Strange But True: March 29, 2018

* The unknown soul who made the following sage observation must have been a keen observer of events: “A politician can appear to have his nose to the grindstone while straddling a fence and keeping both ears to the ground.”

* Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, famed inventor of dynamite and originator of the Nobel Prizes, could speak five languages fluently by the time he was 17 years old.

* Most languages change dramatically over time. If we in modern America were to try to read, say, “Beowulf” (which was written in Old English), only those who have spent time studying the language wo...