I also heard a truly great answer to the question "What was the colonial power of Angola?"

Answer: Cuba!!!

Their only downfall was using Ukrainian planes.....

And something to think about when you crazy coffee drinkers make your next cup:

Coffee historians have recounted a story in which coffee was "brought to earth by the Angel Gabriel in order to revive Mohammed's flagging energies. Mohammed himself was suppose to have declared that, when he had drunk this magic potion, he felt strong enough to unhorse forty men and to posses forty women."

(As told by Sir Thomas Herbert in the early 1600s; reprinted in The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug, page 9)

(Blogger hit a strange server error so I couldn't post this until now-- It's actually designed to follow the last post directly)