Solutions For Demanding Applications
Volume 3
Issue 2
February/March 2004

Just For Fun
10 Fun Facts: Answers

1. False

2. Ireland forever

3. Boston, Massachusetts, in 1737

4. Green
Symbolic of the lush green landscape of the Emerald Isle

5. Roman Alphabet
He also introduced Latin literature to the Irish

6. True
Nineteen Presidents of the United States of America
Claim to be of Irish Decent

7. 33.7 Million (15.6% of the American population)
This number is almost nine times the
population of Ireland itself (3.8 million).

8. Four (4)
Mount Gay-Shamrock, W.Virginia- population 2623
Shamrock, Texas -
population 2,029
Shamrock Lakes, Indiana -
population 168
Shamrock, Oklahoma -
population 125

9. Twenty Two (22) gallons
Some establishments offer beer dyed green in
honor of St. Patrick's Day

10. New York City on March 17, 1762.
Irish soldiers serving in the British colonial army staged
a parade celebrating their heritage.


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