A clever theme today...but
40 black squares! Too many! And "Magi" was THREEKINGS. A few weeks ago I commented on a "Three Kings" reference in a puzzle. The Bible says that wise men from the East brought three gifts to the Christ child. We don't know how many kings there were, only that there were at least two. Many eastern religions teach that there were seven.
And now, class, let's discuss that "binding promise." For several decades, many people have thought that the divorce rate is 50%. It's closer to 10%. In many years, the number of divorces was equal to half the number of marriages and some people misinterpreted those numbers to mean that half of all marriages end in divorce. The people who got divorced in a particular year did not all get
married in a single year. On good ol' Wikipedia there is a chart showing several years of divorce rates by state. The statistics are based on a percentage of population. Nevada's numbers are close to 100% because so many people from other states go to Nevada to get a quickie divorce. Let me ask all the people who think the divorce rate is 50%: Are 50% of your
friends divorced? Yeah, see? I rest my case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_in_the_United_States
