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unusual facts about Digest


Paulus Castrensis

His most complete treatise is his readings on the Digest, and it appears from a passage in his readings on the Digestum Vetus that he delivered them at a time when he had been actively engaged for forty-five years as a teacher of civil law.


Alfred Balk

Among other prominent articles, for The Reader’s Digest he reported on nursing-home neglect, threats to public parkland, Great Lakes water problems, boating-boom safety hazards, and Thomas Edison remembered by a son; for The Reporter, the social significance of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson’s success; and for The New York Times Magazine, the “Dust Bowl” revisited.

Animerica

Termed "magalogs" by Viz, these digest versions are distributed freely at Borders and Waldenbooks.

Archie's Rival Reggie

The first issue of Archie's Rival Reggie were reprinted, along with Reggie's first appearance (in Jackpot Comics #5 (Spring 1942)), in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest #133.

Asilidae

The fly attacks its prey by stabbing it with its short, strong proboscis injecting the victim with saliva containing neurotoxic and proteolytic enzymes which very rapidly paralyze the victim and soon digest the insides; the fly then sucks the liquefied material through the proboscis.

Ava Jerome

In an interview with Soap Opera Digest, West revealed that her agent, Mamie Sparer was contacted by General Hospital casting director, Mark Teschner who had her come in to meet with executive producer, Frank Valentini and that the meeting prompted her to sign on to appear as Ava.

Baby-led weaning

Initial self-feeding attempts often result in very little food ingested as the baby explores textures and tastes through play, but the baby will soon start to swallow and digest what is offered.

Bay Harbor, Michigan

Bay Harbor is a four-season luxury resort community and has a world-class deep water harbor, the Olympic caliber Bay Harbor Equestrian Club, and the 27-hole Bay Harbor Golf Club, designed by Arthur Hills and hailed by Golf Digest as "The Pebble Beach of the Midwest."

Bird Watcher's Digest

Many well-known individuals in the birding community have written for Bird Watcher’s Digest, such as former President Jimmy Carter, Roger Tory Peterson, David Allen Sibley, Kenn Kaufman, Betty White, Eirik A. T. Blom, Julie Zickefoose, Dr. David Bird and Scott Shalaway.

Brown rot

Wood-decay fungus, fungi that digest moist wood, causing rot, includes various species that infect living trees and cured wood

Bunny McBride

Her articles appeared in various US newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, International Wildlife, Travel & Leisure, Sierra, Yankee Magazine, Downeast, and Reader's Digest. From 1981 onwards, she was also actively involved in oral history and community development projects with Micmac Indians in Maine.

Chris Giarrusso

Mini Marvels: Secret Invasion digest collection (96 pages, February 2009, Marvel Comics)

David Nakayama

Marvel Adventures: Spider-man Digest vol.2, 'Fiercest Foes' (Marvel, April 2008)

DNA methylation

The Restriction enzyme DpnI can recognize 5'-GmeATC-3'sites and digest the methylated DNA.

Donald C. MacDonald

He later became editor of Canadian Digest, a magazine published by the military that provided a cross section of articles from Canadian periodicals and newspapers, and was the host of Serviceman's Forum, a regular series of broadcasts on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that were also aired by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Furtum

It is thought that this was the case during classical Rome, as well: an example of Gaius is quoted in the Digest, and implies so; Sabinus is quoted by Gellius as including such a condition.

Gener Pedrina

He worked with Psicom creating lay-outs for the magazine section of DC Kids Philippines, the official digest-sized reprints of the TV tie-ins- Teen Titans Go!, The Batman Strikes! and Justice League Unlimited.

Golf Digest

In 2009, Golf Digest was nominated for a National Magazine Awards by the American Society of Magazine Editorsin the Magazine Section in recognition of the excellence of a regular section of a magazine based on voice, originality and unified presentation.

John Jerome

After teaching in West Texas, Jerome went to work in 1959 as an editor for Sports Car Digest in Odessa, Texas.

Jughead's Double Digest

Following the success of Betty & Veronica Double Digests attempt at a new look in 2007 with "Bad Boy Trouble", Jughead's Double Digest #139 (2008) begins a 4-part story entitled "The Matchmakers" using the same new character designs, in which Jughead is 'set up' with a girl.

Kendall Harmon

Harmon is editor of The Anglican Digest, and his writings have appeared in The Living Church, The Church Times, the Church of England Newspaper, Episcopal Life, and other periodicals.

Lawrence E. Spivak

Spivak published inexpensive digest-sized paperback editions, often abridged, of works by authors including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon, Rex Stout and Cornell Woolrich.

Live in Stockholm 1994

It was released exclusively by the Breeders fan club, Breeders Digest, and comprises eight tracks from a concert recorded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1994.

Loree Jon Jones

--> At the time of her 2002 induction into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame, she held over 50 titles, and over the course of her career was recognized five times as "Player of the Year" by Pool & Billiards Magazine and Billiards Digest.

Mercury Publications

Mercury Publications (aka Mercury Press) was a magazine publishing company, owned and operated by Lawrence E. Spivak, which mainly published genre fiction in digest-sized formats.

Michael Alan

He's also been featured in well over 200 group shows, including "10 x 10 Decade End" at Whitebox, Art Basel Miami, "Exhibitionists Both" at Jonathan Schorr, "Object Affection" at BOFFO Arts, and the Auction for Art World Digest at Rare Gallery.

Milk allergy

Lactose intolerance is a non-allergic food sensitivity, and comes from a lack of production of the enzyme lactase, required to digest the predominant sugar in milk.

Misteriosa Buenos Aires

The book is ultimately a digest of civilized life on the site of the Great City and one of the prime examples of a key theme in Argentine literature, first invoked by Sarmiento: the dualistic struggle between Civilization and Barbarism.

Miyuki Tanobe

Her work can be found in corporate collections, including Lavalin, Pratt & Whitney, Shell Canada, and Selection du Reader’s Digest.

Nunley's Happyland

According to Mechanical Music Digest Archives, the organ was built by A. Ruth & Sohn of Waldkirch, Germany in 1910, and was the only one of its kind.

Port Clyde, Maine

There he worked regularly at his studio and owned a home with his wife, Paige Rense, Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Digest.

Protein turnover

Cytoplasmic complexes, called proteasomes, digest older or abnormal proteins that have been tagged with ubiquitin for destruction.

Reader's Digest Association

Hoping to tap into the vast audience for his book The Purpose Driven Life, they aimed to create a Christian membership organization, anchored by the magazine The Purpose Driven Connection published by Reader's Digest and built on Warren’s call to faith and charitable work.

Robert D. Crane

From the time of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 until the beginning of Richard Nixon’s victorious campaign for the presidency in 1967, Dr. Crane was a foreign policy adviser, responsible for preparing a “reader's digest” of professional articles for him on the key foreign policy issues.

Rosicrucian Digest

Rosicrucian Digest is a publication of AMORC, published continuously from 1915.

Soap Opera Digest Awards

The first Soap Opera Digest Award show aired in 1984, and was featured on national syndicated television and hosted by then husband and wife Catherine Hickland and David Hasselhoff.

Stropharia rugosoannulata

A 2006 study, published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, found the king stropharia to have the ability to attack the nematode Panagrellus redivivus; the fungus produces unique spiny cells called acanthocytes which are able to immobilise and digest the nematodes.

Super Jrs.

At Kenner's request, first appeared in José Luis García-López' 1982 DC Comics Style Guide and had their first and only adventure in Super Jrs. Holiday Special: Best of Blue Ribbon Digest Series #58 (1984); however, there was a considerable amount of merchandise (toys, wallpapers, bed sheets and covers, furniture, flash cards, coloring books, etc.) based on them.

Tales from Riverdale

Sabrina the Teenage Witch stories were also present in this digest, but in the format of the animated series and Sabrina: Friends Forever.

The Members Club at Four Streams

The Director of Instruction at The Members Club at Four Streams, Steve Bosdosh, PGA, has been named one of the Top 100 instructors in the United States by Golf Magazine for the past twelve years and the “#1 Teacher in Maryland” by Golf Digest.

The Negro Digest

The Negro Digest (later renamed Black World) was a popular African-American magazine founded in November 1942 by John H. Johnson.

The Pale King

In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that “The Pale King feels less like an incomplete manuscript than a rough-edged digest of the themes, preoccupations and narrative techniques that have distinguished Wallace’s work from the beginning.”


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