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While it is usually stated that you have to have been born a US Citizen to be eligible to run for President, there is a (long since obsolete) clause allowing for the exception that you are also eligible if you were considered a US Citizen at the time of the Constitution's adoption.
The first president who was a natural born US Citizen was the eighth president, Martin Van Buren. He was also the first, and so far only, president, whose first language was not English. He grew up in a dutch community, and while his parents could speak English, they rarely did around the home, and Martin didn't learn much English until he went to school.
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Kēlen is a constructed language created by linguist Sylvia Sotomayor. It is an attempt to create a truly alien language by violating a key linguistic universal—namely that all human languages have verbs. In Kēlen, relationships between the noun phrases making up the sentence are expressed by one of four relationals. In its concultural setting, Kēlen is spoken by an alien species (the Kēleñi).
At the third Language Creation Conference, a Smiley Award was awarded to to Kēlen, describing it as "an engineered language with the soul of an artistic language". While its experimental structure is in many ways similar to an engineered language, the amount of linguistic and concultural detail given by Sotomayor (including inflection of the relationals, three different scripts, and information on Kēleñi culture and society such as a calendar and a method of divination) make it a fully fledged artistic project rather than a simple experiment. Kēlen also comes with its own writing system, which bears a superficial resemblance to Devanagari.
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While it is usually stated that you have to have been born a US Citizen to be eligible to run for President, there is a (long since obsolete) clause allowing for the exception that you are also eligible if you were considered a US Citizen at the time of the Constitution's adoption.
The first president who was a natural born US Citizen was the eighth president, Martin Van Buren. He was also the first, and so far only, president, whose first language was not English. He grew up in a dutch community, and while his parents could speak English, they rarely did around the home, and Martin didn't learn much English until he went to school.
A while back, there was a bit of a discussion about Van Buren and his eligibility in this very thread. The discussion also went further into the early Presidents of the United States, as well as the Presidents of Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
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A while back, there was a bit of a discussion about Van Buren and his eligibility in this very thread. The discussion also went further into the early Presidents of the United States, as well as the Presidents of Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
Huh, wasn't even that long ago. I hang my head in shame at repetition.
I shall attempt restitution through other facts:
Donald Trump refuses to drink alcohol, because his brother died due to alcoholism.
Data travels between continents through massive cables laid across the bottom of the ocean. Sharks have bitten these cables, so the internet has literally been a victim of shark attacks.
There are millions of Zero Rupee notes in India.
Baby elephants weight about 250lbs at birth.
Pixar has never had a commercial flop, or earned less than $150 million per film.
Humans are the only animals with chins. Other primates have jaws that slant inwards, not outwards.
The phrase "Put a sock in it," is believed to have started with early gramophones. Gramophones did not have volume controls, so to make the music quieter, you stuffed a sock in the speaker.
There is a vinyl record of one of Marcel Marceau's performances. It consists of sixty minutes of silence, followed by applause.
You would have to smoke 680Kg/1500lbs of Marijuana in 15 minutes to overdose and kill yourself.
We have only explored roughly 5% of the ocean floor. Maps of the ocean floor are less detailed than our maps of the Moon and Mars.
Mister Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Mister Rogers' brother taught Mechanical Drawing at Penn State.
Cats spend roughly 2/3 of their life asleep.
Despite its reputation for almost childish supervillains, Captain Planet was the first Children's show to deal with HIV and AIDS, as one episode dealt with an HIV+ student going to school.
The CEO of Children's Television Workshop was asked if Bert and Ernie are gay lovers. He responded: "They aren't gay. They aren't straight. They are puppets. They don't exist below the waist."
When Patrick Stewart was first asked to play Professor X for the X-Men movies, he did not know who the character was. When he was given an X-Men comic book, he asked what he was doing on the cover of a comic.
Night vision goggles display in green, as humans can differentiate more shades of green than any other colour.
Queen Elizabeth visited the set of Game of Thrones in Belfast. She was offered to sit in the iron throne, but declined because there is a law against her sitting on foreign thrones.
And, finally, more of a cute little bit of info instead of a fact:
A study was once done to determine the dangers of various drugs, including marijuana. Part of the study was to determine how much other drugs you had to take to be considered an impaired driver compared to a set amount of alcohol.
While they did find that significant marijuana use can make you as seriously impaired as if you were drunk, they had incredible difficulty getting the test subject to get out of his chair and behind the wheel of the vehicle at that level.
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Jonny Quest is a media franchise that revolves around a boy named Jonny Quest who accompanies his scientist father on extraordinary adventures. The franchise started with a 1964–1965 television series and has come to include two subsequent television series, two television films, and three computer games.
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Jonny Quest is a media franchise that revolves around a boy named Jonny Quest who accompanies his scientist father on extraordinary adventures. The franchise started with a 1964–1965 television series and has come to include two subsequent television series, two television films, and three computer games.
The American animated comedy-drama television series The Venture Brothers (2004-present) was conceived as a referential parody of the Jonny Quest series, with the main characters (Dr. Rusty Venture, his sons Hank and Dean, and their bodyguard Brock Samson) being rough analogues to the Jonny Quest cast. Dr. Venture himself is modeled after what a child such as Jonny Quest might have grown up to be like after having lived through a childhood filled with bizarre, life-threatening events.
During production on the second season of The Venture Brothers, show creators Christopher "Jackson Publick" McCulloch and Eric "Doc" Hammer realized that the show's carrier, Cartoon Network (under their Adult Swim brand lineup) actually owned the rights to Jonny Quest, and introduced aged versions (since the show is set in the present day) of the Jonny Quest characters into the show, albeit with their names slightly altered to avoid potentially unforeseen copyright issues (Jonny Quest = "Action Johnny," Race Bannon = "Red Bannon," Hadji = "Radji," Dr. Zin = "Dr. Z").
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Jonny Quest is a media franchise that revolves around a boy named Jonny Quest who accompanies his scientist father on extraordinary adventures. The franchise started with a 1964–1965 television series and has come to include two subsequent television series, two television films, and three computer games.
The first episode of "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" was a custody lawsuit filed by Race Bannon against Dr. Quest for custody of Johnny and Hadji. Turned out that "Race" was a robot controlled by Dr. Zin while the real Race had gone off on vacation.
Race Bannon was also named the best mother on cartoons.
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The Dothraki language is a constructed fictional language in George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones (2011-present), where it is spoken by the Dothraki, nomadic inhabitants of the Dothraki Sea. The language was developed in advance for the TV series by the linguist David J. Peterson, based on the Dothraki words and phrases in Martin's novels. As of September 2011, the language comprised 3163 words, not all of which have been made public.
Inspiration was drawn from George R. R. Martin’s description of the language, as well as from such languages as Turkish, Russian, Estonian, Inuktitut and Swahili. The Dothraki language was developed under two significant constraints. First, the language had to match the uses already put down in the books. Secondly, it had to be easily pronounceable or learnable by the actors. These two constraints influenced the grammar and phonology of the language: for instance, as in English, there is no contrast between aspirated and unaspirated stops.
Though prepositions are also sometimes employed in Dothraki, the language is foremost inflectional. Prefixes, suffixes and circumfixes are all used. Verbs conjugate in infinitive, past, present, future, two imperatives and (archaic) participle; they also agree with person, number and polarity. Nouns divide into two classes, inanimate and animate. They decline in five cases, nominative, accusative, genitive, allative and ablative. Animate nouns also decline according to number. Basic word order is subject-verb-object, and, as in English, when only a subject is present, the subject precedes the verb.
In noun phrases, the order is as follows: demonstrative, noun, adverb, adjective, genitive noun, prepositional phrase. Prepositions always precede their noun complements, but adjectives, possessor and prepositional phrases all follow the noun. Adverbs normally are sentence final, but they can also immediately follow the verb. Modal particles precede the verb.
In the 2012 episode "Andy's Ancestry" from the American television series The Office, the character Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) created the Dothraki phrase "throat rip" by placing "throat" in front to make it the accusative. David J. Peterson adapted that language technique and called it the "Schrutean compound."
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Kēlen is a constructed language created by linguist Sylvia Sotomayor. It is an attempt to create a truly alien language by violating a key linguistic universal—namely that all human languages have verbs. In Kēlen, relationships between the noun phrases making up the sentence are expressed by one of four relationals. In its concultural setting, Kēlen is spoken by an alien species (the Kēleñi).
At the third Language Creation Conference, a Smiley Award was awarded to to Kēlen, describing it as "an engineered language with the soul of an artistic language". While its experimental structure is in many ways similar to an engineered language, the amount of linguistic and concultural detail given by Sotomayor (including inflection of the relationals, three different scripts, and information on Kēleñi culture and society such as a calendar and a method of divination) make it a fully fledged artistic project rather than a simple experiment. Kēlen also comes with its own writing system, which bears a superficial resemblance to Devanagari.
David, have you ever read a novella by Water Jon Williams called Surfacing? The colonist humpback whales can relate to the indigenous deep sea species because both share a relational language. The human xeno-linguistic expert's life is a mess; he just wants to hang out on his yacht, but that's not a realistic possibility.
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Look, I would rather have posted this to a books thread, but we are we are, okay?
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Exposé is an American Freestyle vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado and Gioia Bruno, the group achieved much of their success between 1984 and 1989, becoming the first group to have four top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from its debut album, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change".
The group was popular in dance clubs, mainstream Top 40 and adult contemporary charts in the United States. The group actively toured and recorded music from 1985 to 1995, then retired from recording and public performances until 2003, and currently tour today.
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Get your tea and crumpets, 'cause now it's time for some facts about The Queen and Great Britain.
Queen Elizabeth does not need to carry a passport. As British Passports are issued in her name, granting permission from the Queen to travel across Britain's borders, she simply needs to state who she is whenever she travels. For practical purposes, though, her entourage goes ahead of her during any international travels and arranges things, since any visit is by her very nature a Diplomatic visit, and thus bypasses most of the standard international travel requirements. Note, however, that the rest of the Royal Family is required to carry passports.
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For similar reasons, she does not need to carry a driver's license, or indeed possess any sort of picture ID, given that these are also issued in her name.
While the Queen may not need a driver's license for both the above reason and because she's usually chauffeured, she is not only a proficient driver, but a skilled mechanic. During World War II, when she was a princess, she begged her father to allow her to assist the War Effort. She registered to serve at 16, but King George wouldn't allow her to leave until she was 18. She served as a mechanic and driver with the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service. By all accounts, she took her position incredibly seriously, becoming a competent mechanic and driver, trained to fix and drive a host of military and suburban vehicles.
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In 1998, The Queen was visited at her estate in Balmoral, Scotland by the then Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The Queen was aware of the prince's view of women rights, as well as how Women aren't allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.
Knowing this, the Queen decided to play a prank on the Prince, displaying classic British passive-aggressiveness.
You are not supposed to repeat what the Queen says in private conversation. But the story she told me on that occasion was one that I was also to hear later from its subject - Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - and it is too funny not to repeat. Five years earlier, in September 1998, Abdullah had been invited up to Balmoral, for lunch with the Queen. Following his brother King Fahd's stroke in 1995, Abdullah was already the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. After lunch, the Queen had asked her royal guest whether he would like a tour of the estate. Prompted by his Foreign Minister, the urbane Prince Saud, an initially hesitant Abdullah agreed. The royal Land Rovers were drawn up in front of the castle. As instructed, the Crown Prince climbed into the front seat of the front Land Rover, with his interpreter in the seat behind. To his surprise, the Queen climbed into the driving seat, turned the ignition and drove off. Women are not - yet - allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, and Abdullah was not used to being driven by a woman, let alone a queen. His nervousness only increased as the Queen, an Army driver in wartime, accelerated the Land Rover along the narrow Scottish estate roads, talking all the time. Through his interpreter, the Crown Prince implored the Queen to slow down and concentrate on the road ahead
While the Queen is usually chauffeured, she does occasionally drive for pleasure across her estate.
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Before 1917, members of the British royal family did not have last names, usually going by their first names, and the land they presided over, or the dynasty.
George V was of House Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, when he decided to officially adopt a surname. This was done partially to remove the Germanic origins of his name, as anti-German sentiment was high due to World War 1. He changed it to Windsor, as both a house/dynasty name, and an official last name.
In 1960, the Queen wanted to make her direct line distinct from the rest of the Royal Family, without changing the house name, so they declared that direct descendents would carry the name Mountbatten-Windsor. This is not a legally binding decree, however.
Indeed, for the most part, most members of the Royal Family do not use, and have no real need for, a last name, and often simply sign with their first name and title.
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By the British rules of succession, bastard children (And Catholics) are ineligible for the crown. The term used for such people is the delightful "Naturally Dead."
The rule that states that males are first in line for succession is Male Primogeniture. That is, eldest son gets the crown, and the daughter will only get the crown if there are no living sons. In 2013, this was changed, so now it is eldest child, regardless of gender.
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The cost to maintain the Royal Family is roughly 40 million pounds per year. However, there are several factors to note before thinking of abolishing the House of Windsor.
Because of the deal King George III (Ruler during the United States Revolution) made with British Parliament, (Due to mounting debts) he would surrender the profits from all of his holdings in exchange for a living allowance. Today, the income the UK earns from royal lands is roughly 200 million pounds.
The deal King George made was only for his life, but every monarch since then has voluntarily upheld the deal, surrendering all income in exchange for a living allowance. As they still own the land, the British Government cannot simply 'reclaim' it (Without a lot of ugly legal problems), and not giving the monarchy a living allowance would break the deal, and allow the monarchy to resume claiming income from their lands.
Beyond that, the UK rakes in considerable income from tourists. 7 billion pounds, to be precise. (Many of that from Americans.) While they aren't all coming to see the icons of the Royal Family, the existence of the House of Windsor is a huge draw, being a modern day royal family living in maintained castles and estates. Removing the royal family could put a lot of that money in jeopardy.
I will note that there is disagreement on how much the Royal Family actually costs the UK per year, as well as mention that France, which does not have a monarchy, rakes in more tourist dollars. (Though that's possibly due to France being a nice, sunny, beautiful country. Britain is rain and the cold North.) Either way, while the costs of the British royal family living on taxpayer money is debated, there's complications beyond simply saying how much the UK spends on housing them.
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In Athens, Georgia, there is a Tree that Owns Itself, located on South Finley Street.
Back in the 1800's, a man had many fond childhood memories of a particular tree. To prevent the tree from being cut down in the future, he deeded the property the tree was on to the tree itself, and everyone went with it.
In 1942, a massive windstorm knocked the tree down. Fortunately, someone had kept an acorn from the tree, and so planted it there. As the new tree is the Son of the original Tree that Owns Itself, it is considered to have legally inherited the land.
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Betty Crocker is a fictional character used in advertising campaigns for food and recipes, originally by the Washburn-Crosby Company, today General Mills, an American Fortune 500 corporation which owns the brand name and trademark. Betty epitomizes a motherly, caring and knowledgeable homemaker offering cooking and housekeeping advice. A portrait of Betty Crocker, first commissioned in 1936 and revised several times since, appears on printed advertisements and product packaging. On television and radio broadcasts, Betty Crocker was acted by several actresses, most notably by Adelaide Hawley Cumming between 1949 and 1964.
The character was first developed by Marjorie Husted in 1921 as a way to give a personalized response to consumer product questions. The name Betty was selected because it was viewed as a cheery, all-American name. It was paired with the last name Crocker, in honor of William Crocker, a Washburn Crosby Company director.
Described as an American cultural icon, image of Betty Crocker has endured several generations, adapting to changing social, political and economic currents. Apart from advertising campaigns in printed, broadcast and digital media, she received a number of cultural references in film, literature, music and comics.
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There are millions of Zero Rupee notes in India.
Stating it like that is somewhat misleading. India doesn't print zero-rupee notes; they're counterfeits made by people who are tired of paying bribes to officials.
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The comic strip characters Lois Flagstaff (Hi and Lois) and Beetle Bailey (Beetle Bailey) are siblings.
The movie characters Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs) and Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction) are brothers. Originally, Mr. Blonde actor Michael Madsen was slated to play both roles, but he was unable to get free from his obligations in filming Wyatt Earp (a movie he disliked), and the part of Vincent Vega went to John Travolta -- re-starting Travolta's career. Madsen was later cast in the role of Budd, in the Kill Bill movies -- no relation to the Vega brothers.
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Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician and producer. His hit singles include "She Blinded Me with Science" from 1982, and 1984 single "Hyperactive!". He has also worked in production and as a session musician, as a technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and as the Music Director for the TED Conference. He is a Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.
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He did "synthesizer texturing" on the Foreigner 4 LP, as I recall from the album credits.
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Sears, Roebuck & Company, also known simply as Sears, is an American department store chain founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1886. Formerly based at the Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, it began as a mail ordering catalog company and began opening retail locations in 1925. The company was bought by the American big box chain Kmart in 2005, which had just emerged from bankruptcy at the time and renamed itself Sears Holdings upon completion of the merger. In terms of domestic revenue, Sears was the largest retailer in the United States until October 1989, when Walmart surpassed the record. It is currently the fifth-largest American department store company by sales as of October 2013 (behind Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and The Home Depot), and the twelfth-largest retailer in the country overall. Sears operates divisions in Canada and Mexico, as well as several other subsidiaries within its brand.
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The Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Joseph Samachson and designed by artist Joe Certa, the character first appeared in Detective Comics #225 "The Manhunter From Mars" in November 1955. He is one of the seven original members of the Justice League of America.
J'onn J'onzz has featured in other DC Comics-endorsed products, such as video games, television series, animated films, and merchandise like action figures and trading cards. He was ranked #43 on IGN's greatest comic book hero list. David Harewood portrays a human form of Martian Manhunter on Supergirl.
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Oona Castilla Chaplin (born 4 June 1986) is a Spanish actress. She is the daughter of Geraldine Chaplin, the granddaughter of English film star Charlie Chaplin, and the great-granddaughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill. She is known for playing Marnie Madden in The Hour, Talisa Maegyr in the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, Kitty Trevelyan in The Crimson Field and Zilpha Geary in Taboo.
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Iron Fist (Daniel "Danny" Rand) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, Iron Fist first appeared in Marvel Premiere #15 (May 1974). The character is a practitioner of martial arts and the wielder of a mystical force known as the Iron Fist, which allows him to summon and focus his chi. He starred in his own solo series in the 1970s, and shared the title Power Man and Iron Fist for several years with Luke Cage, partnering with Cage to form the superhero team Heroes for Hire. The character has starred in numerous solo titles since, including The Immortal Iron Fist, which expanded on his origin story and the history of the Iron Fist.
Iron Fist has been adapted to appear in several animated television series and video games. Finn Jones portrays the character in the live-action television series Iron Fist developed for Netflix and is set to reprise the role in The Defenders.
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When the giant letters of the famous "HOLLYWOOD" sign had to be replaced with new letters in 1978, a fundraising party was held, with the old letters being auctioned off at around $28,000 each. Hugh M. Hefner hosted the event and bought the "H", while Warner Brothers bought the "W". Alice Cooper bought an "O" in memory of the late Groucho Marx, with whom he had been very good friends. The check was painted on a big piece of the old sign and endorsed by Alice.
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Hooters, Inc. is the trade name of two privately held American restaurant chains: Hooters of America, Incorporated, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hooters, Incorporated, based in Clearwater, Florida. The Hooters name is a double entendre referring to both its owl logo, a bird known for its "hooting" calls, and an American slang term for human breasts popularized by comedian Steve Martin on the hit comedy series Saturday Night Live.
The waiting staff at Hooters restaurants are primarily attractive young women, usually referred to simply as "Hooter Girls", whose revealing outfits and sex appeal are played up and are a primary component of the company's image. The company employs other men and women as cooks, hosts (at some franchises), busboys, and managers. The menu includes hamburgers and other sandwiches, steaks, seafood entrees, appetizers, and the restaurant's specialty, chicken wings. Almost all Hooters restaurants hold alcoholic beverage licenses to sell beer and wine, and where local permits allow, a full liquor bar. Hooters T-shirts, sweatshirts, and various souvenirs and curios are also sold.
As of 2016 there were more than 430 Hooters locations and franchises around the world and Hooters of America LLC. owns 160 units. There are Hooters locations in 44 U.S. states, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, and in 28 other countries. The company's first overseas location was in Singapore, and there are Hooters restaurants in Aruba, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Russia, and one in the United Kingdom, following the closure of the remaining UK franchises. The three largest Hooters restaurants are in Singapore, Tokyo, and São Paulo. In 2015 Hooters announced that it is planning to open more than 30 restaurants in Southeast Asia over the next six years.
In January 2011 Chanticleer Holdings LLC of Charlotte, North Carolina and others completed the purchase of Hooters of America Inc. from the Brooks family.
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Seiko Epson Corporation, or simply Epson, is a Japanese electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer printers, and information and imaging related equipment. Headquartered in Suwa, Nagano, Japan, the company has numerous subsidiaries worldwide and manufactures inkjet, dot matrix and laser printers, scanners, desktop computers, business, multimedia and home theatre projectors, large home theatre televisions, robots and industrial automation equipment, point of sale docket printers and cash registers, laptops, integrated circuits, LCD components and other associated electronic components. It is one of three core companies of the Seiko Group, a name traditionally known for manufacturing Seiko timepieces since its founding. In 1968 the company moved its UK headquarters to Audenshaw, Manchester, after acquiring the Jones Sewing Machine Company, a long established British sewing machine maker.
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Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels (born October 28, 1936) is an American multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, and singer, known for his contributions to country, bluegrass, and Southern rock music. He is perhaps best known for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has written and performed. Daniels has been active as a singer and musician since the 1950s. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008 and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009. Daniels was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016.
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The Hooters name is a double entendre referring to both its owl logo, a bird known for its "hooting" calls, and an American slang term for human breasts popularized by comedian Steve Martin on the hit comedy series Saturday Night Live.
Ironically, the typical outfit is designed to almost perfectly de-emphasize and outright conceal that portion of the anatomy.
the restaurant's specialty, chicken wings.
If the wings are the specialty, that should make it abundantly clear that the focus of the business is not food!
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Romania is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It has an area of 238,391 square kilometers (92,043 sq mi) and a temperate-continental climate. With 19.94 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh-most-populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city, Bucharest, is the sixth-largest city in the EU, with 1,883,425 inhabitants as of 2011.
The River Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany and flows in a general southeast direction for 2,857 km (1775 mi), coursing through ten countries before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Romania from the north to the southwest are marked by one of their tallest peaks, Moldoveanu, at 2,544 m (8,346 ft).
Modern Romania emerged within the territories of the ancient Roman province of Dacia, and was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. At the end of World War I, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia united with the sovereign Kingdom of Romania. During World War II, Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, fighting side by side with the Wehrmacht until 1944, when it joined the Allied powers and faced occupation by the Red Army forces. Romania lost several territories, of which Northern Transylvania was regained after the war. Following the war, Romania became a socialist republic and member of the Warsaw Pact. After the 1989 Revolution, Romania began a transition back towards democracy and a capitalist market economy.
Following rapid economic growth in the early 2000s, Romania has an economy predominantly based on services, and is a producer and net exporter of machines and electric energy, featuring companies like Automobile Dacia and OMV Petrom. It has been a member of NATO since 2004, and part of the European Union since 2007. A strong majority of the population identify themselves as Eastern Orthodox Christians and are native speakers of Romanian, a Romance language. The cultural history of Romania is often referred to when dealing with influential artists, musicians, inventors and sportspeople. For similar reasons, Romania has been the subject of notable tourist attractions.
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The Hooters name is a double entendre referring to both its owl logo, a bird known for its "hooting" calls, and an American slang term for human breasts popularized by comedian Steve Martin on the hit comedy series Saturday Night Live.Ironically, the typical outfit is designed to almost perfectly de-emphasize and outright conceal that portion of the anatomy.
the restaurant's specialty, chicken wings.If the wings are the specialty, that should make it abundantly clear that the focus of the business is not food!
I mean, if by de-emphasize you mean covered with a tight form-fitting shirt then yes. Though I've only been to the one.
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I mean, if by de-emphasize you mean covered with a tight form-fitting shirt then yes. Though I've only been to the one.
I've also only been to one, probably 20 years ago, come to think of it. Tight-fitting shirt, yes, but it looked like anything underneath had been taped down beneath several layers of duct tape first. And not low-cut or anything; high neck. They might have relaxed the standards a bit since then.
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Mead is an alcoholic beverage created by fermenting honey with water, sometimes with various fruits, spices, grains, or hops. The alcoholic content ranges from about 8% ABV to more than 20%. The defining characteristic of mead is that the majority of the beverage's fermentable sugar is derived from honey. It may be still, carbonated, or naturally sparkling; dry, semi-sweet, or sweet.
Mead was produced in ancient history throughout Europe, Africa and Asia.
Mead has played an important role in the beliefs and mythology of some peoples. One such example is the Mead of Poetry, a mead of Norse mythology crafted from the blood of the wise being Kvasir which turns the drinker into a poet or scholar.
The terms "mead" and "honey-wine" often are used synonymously. Some cultures, though, differentiate honey-wine from mead. For example, Hungarians hold that while mead is made of honey, water and beer-yeast (barm), honey-wine is watered honey fermented by recrement of grapes or other fruits.
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Teriyaki is a cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are broiled or grilled with a glaze of soy sauce, mirin, and sugar.
Fish – yellowtail, marlin, skipjack tuna, salmon, trout, and mackerel – is mainly used in Japan, while white and red meat – chicken, pork, lamb, and beef – is more often used in the West. Other ingredients sometimes used in Japan include squid, hamburger steak, and meatballs.
The word teriyaki derives from the noun teri, which refers to a shine or luster given by the sugar content in the tare, and yaki, which refers to the cooking method of grilling or broiling. Traditionally the meat is dipped in or brushed with sauce several times during cooking. This popular dish was originally created by Japanese cooks of the seventeenth century, when urbanization, changes in agricultural methods and exposure to new ingredients from abroad gave rise to new, innovative cooking styles.
The tare is traditionally made by mixing and heating soy sauce and sake (or mirin) and sugar (or honey). The sauce is boiled and reduced to the desired thickness, then used to marinate meat, which is then grilled or broiled. Sometimes ginger is added and the final dish may be garnished with spring onions.
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Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams are both born on November 5th.
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Ryan Adams
Former Orioles 2nd baseman (2011), then suspended for amphetamines?
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The one that's famous outside North America.
Ah, you mean David R. Adams, who decided to go by "Ryan Adams" as soon as he became a singer. Lame move, that.
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Both Marie Curie and her daughter Lisa Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in radioactivity, the mother for the discovery of radium, the daughter for the discovery of radioactive elements that could not be produced in nature.
Both were refused membership in the French Academy of Science on the grounds that they were women.
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Both were refused membership in the French Academy of Science on the grounds that they were women.
On a similar note:
Mary Anning (1799–1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds of Southwest England. Her discoveries included the first ichthyosaur skeleton correctly identified, the first two complete plesiosaur skeletons found, and the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany.
Anning did not fully participate in the scientific community of 19th-century Britain, who were mostly Anglican gentlemen. She struggled financially for much of her life, but became well known in geological circles in Britain, Europe, and America, and was consulted on issues of anatomy as well as about collecting fossils. However, as a woman, she was not eligible to join the Geological Society of London and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions.
After her death in 1847, Anning's unusual life story attracted increasing interest, and in 2010, one hundred and sixty-three years after her death, the Royal Society included Anning in a list of the ten British women who have most influenced the history of science.
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Augusta National Golf Club, located in Augusta, Georgia, is one of the most famous golf clubs in the world. Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts on the site of the former Fruitland (later Fruitlands) Nursery, the course was designed by Jones and Alister MacKenzie and opened for play in January 1933. Since 1934, it has played host to the annual Masters Tournament, one of the four major championships in professional golf, and the only major played each year at the same course. It was the number one ranked course in Golf Digest's 2009 list of America's 100 greatest courses and is currently the number ten ranked course on Golfweek Magazine's 2011 list of best classic courses in the United States, in terms of course architecture.
The golf club's exclusive membership policies have drawn criticism, particularly because there were no African-American members admitted until 1990, as well as a former policy requiring all caddies to be black, which was omitted from the club's bylaws in 1959. The club began granting membership to women in August 2012. Prior to the acceptance of female members, Augusta National defended its position by citing that in 2011, more than 15% of the non-tournament rounds were played by female players who were member guests or spouses of active members. In August 2012, it admitted its first two female members, Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore. The golf club has defended the membership policies, stressing that it is a private organization.
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Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes three species: sativa, indica, and ruderalis, as well as dozens of cultivars that are used for diverse applications, from recreational drugs to building material.
The word cannabis comes from the Greek kánnabis, a Scythian or Thracian loanword meaning "hemp" (a variety of C. sativa that has been harvested for its fibrous stalks for thousands of years). In English, the words "canvas" and "hemp" (disputed) are both derived from cannabis (the latter via Old English hænep, cognate of modern Dutch hennep).
The several cultivars of C. sativa and C. indica grown for their psychoactive compounds are known by many cultural and slang terms, including "marijuana" (and its English cognate "Mary Jane"), "pot," "weed," "skunk," "reefer," and others. The term "pot" is derived from the Spanish potiguaya, a drink consisting of wine or brandy in which cannabis buds have been steeped.
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BatDad, real name Blake Wilson, is a father of 4 children from Roswell, Georgia who has popular parenting-themed vines. They star him as raspy-voiced "BatDad" often with his children in the background. Wilson's wife is named JEN, and his children are named Ben, Sienna, Kaya and Taylor. Ben and Sienna are twins. BatDad has 3.6 million followers on Vine as of 2016, and one video with his son Ben exceeded 20 million views within four days of uploading.
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In the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, Lin Carter was named "Purple Druid of the Gibbering Horde of the Slime Pits of Zugthakya," L. Sprague de Camp "Supreme Sadist of the Reptile Men of Yag," and John Jakes "Ambassador-without-Portfolio to the Partly Squamous, Partly Rugose Vegetable Things of the South Polar City of Nugyubb-Glaa.". Michael Moorcock was the "Veiled Thaumaturge of the Mauve Barbarians of Ning".
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The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located adjacent to South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. In French, Notre Dame du Lac means "Our Lady of the Lake" and refers to the university's patron saint, the Virgin Mary. The main campus covers 1,250 acres in a suburban setting and it contains a number of recognizable landmarks, such as the Golden Dome, the "Word of Life" mural (commonly known as Touchdown Jesus), and the Basilica. The school was founded on November 26, 1842, by Father Edward Sorin, CSC, who was also its first president, as an all-male institution on land donated by the Bishop of Vincennes (Indiana). Today, many Holy Cross priests continue to work for the university, including the president of the university.
Notre Dame is a large, four-year, highly residential research university. It is consistently ranked among the top twenty universities in the United States and as a major global university and is highly regarded for its undergraduate education. Notre Dame is also ranked as one of the top research universities and it has one of the largest endowments in the nation with over $10 billion. Undergraduate students are organized into four colleges (Arts and Letters, Science, Engineering, Business), and the Architecture School. The latter is known for teaching New Classical Architecture and for awarding the globally renowned annual Driehaus Architecture Prize.
The university offers over 50 foreign study abroad yearlong programs and over 15 summer programs. Notre Dame's graduate program has more than 50 master, doctoral and professional degree programs offered by the five schools, with the addition of the Notre Dame Law School and a MD-PhD program offered in combination with IU medical School. It maintains a system of libraries, cultural venues, artistic and scientific museums, including the Hesburgh Library and the Snite Museum of Art. The university boasts one of the largest Navy ROTC programs in the nation. Over 80% of the university's 8,000 undergraduates live on campus in one of 29 single-sex residence halls, each with its own traditions, legacies, events, and intramural sports teams. The university counts approximately 120,000 alumni, considered among the strongest alumni networks among U.S. colleges.
Notre Dame rose to national prominence in the early 1900s for its Fighting Irish football team under the guidance of legendary coach Knute Rockne. The university's athletic teams are members of the NCAA Division I and are known collectively as the Fighting Irish. The football team, an Independent with no conference affiliation, has accumulated eleven consensus national championships, seven Heisman Trophy winners, 62 members in the College Football Hall of Fame, 13 members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and is one of the most famed and successful college football teams in history. Other ND sport teams, chiefly in the Atlantic Coast Conference, have accumulated 16 national championships. The Notre Dame Victory March is often regarded as the most famous and recognizable collegiate fight song.
Started as a small all-male institution in 1842 and charter in 1844, Notre Dame reached international fame at the beginning of the 20th century. Major improvements to the university occurred during the administration of the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh between 1952 and 1987 as Hesburgh's administration greatly increased the university's resources, academic programs, and reputation and first enrolled women undergraduates in 1972. Ever since, the University has seen steady growth, and under the leadership of the next two presidents, Rev. Malloy and Rev. Jenkins, many infrastructure and research expansions have been completed.
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Holy Cross School is a high school and middle school founded in 1849 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in New Orleans, Louisiana. The main founder of Holy Cross is Blessed Father Basil Moreau, who was beatified on September 15, 2007. Holy Cross High was originally named St. Isidore's College. Holy Cross School is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans.
In 1849 the Brothers, Priests and Sisters of Holy Cross arrived in New Orleans, after having established the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and took over an orphanage for the boys and girls who survived a plague. This orphanage, along with the first Ursuline School for Girls (the oldest Catholic School in America), was destroyed to make room for the 1923 Industrial Canal (the same Industrial Canal which experienced levee failures that flooded large parts of New Orleans twice, with Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005).
In 1871 Holy Cross moved to its historic site, which then was a farm named St. Isidore's farm, 4950 Dauphine Street, and built a renowned "collegiate-styled campus" and established in 1879 its current school, bordered by the high Mississippi River levee. This area has since become a Federal Historic District known as the "Holy Cross Historic District".
First chartered by the State of Louisiana in 1890, the name was changed to Holy Cross in 1895 when the present Administration Building was dedicated. A boarding program, which continued until 1973, attracted as many as 150 students annually from across the South as well as from Central and South America.
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Jägermeister is a German digestif made with 56 herbs and spices at a strength of 35% alcohol by volume. It is the flagship product of Mast-Jägermeister SE, headquartered in Wolfenbüttel, south of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany.
The term Jägermeister (literally translated as "Hunting Master," a title for a high-ranking official in charge of matters related to hunting and gamekeeping) had existed as a job title for many centuries. It was redefined in 1934 in the new Reichsjagdgesetz (Imperial Hunting Law), which applied the term to senior foresters, game wardens, and gamekeepers in the German civil service. Future Vice-Chancellor of Germany Hermann Göring was appointed Reichsjägermeister (Imperial Gamekeeper) when the new hunting law was introduced. Thus, when Jägermeister was introduced in 1935, its name was already familiar to Germans, and was sometimes referred to as "Göring-Schnaps."
Jägermeister came to greater international attention particularly through the work of Sidney Frank, who ran an American liquor import company. He promoted the drink at the youth and student market, as a drink for parties, a quite different niche to its traditional conservative brand position in its native market. New York magazine quoted a market research firm as describing him as a "promotional genius" for making "a liqueur with an unpronounceable name...drunk by older, blue-collar Germans as an after-dinner digestive aid...synonymous with ‘party’." The Mast-Jägermeister company ultimately purchased Sidney Frank Importing in 2015.
The label on Jägermeister bottles features a glowing Christian cross seen between the antlers of a stag, a reference to the two Christian patron saints of hunters, Saint Hubertus and Saint Eustace, both of whom converted to Christianity after experiencing a vision in which they saw the Cross between a stag's antlers while hunting.
The label contains the following verse from the poem Weidmannsheil, by the forester, hunter, and ornithologist Oskar von Riesenthal (1830–1898). Von Riesenthal is not credited on the label.
Das ist des Jägers Ehrenschild,
daß er beschützt und hegt sein Wild,
weidmännisch jagt, wie sich’s gehört,
den Schöpfer im Geschöpfe ehrt.
According to Mast-Jägermeister SE, the translation is:
It is the hunter’s honour that he
Protects and preserves his game,
Hunts sportsmanlike, honours the
Creator in His creatures.
A loose translation which preserves the rhyme and meter is:
This is the hunter’s badge of glory,
That he protect and tend his quarry,
Hunt with honour, as is due,
And through the beast to God is true.
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Upon her death in 2005, American civil rights activist Rosa Parks was the first woman and third non-US government official to lie in honor at the United States Capitol Rotunda.
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American punk rock guitarist Ken Inouye, of the early hardcore punk band Marginal Man, is the son of WWII Medal of Honor recipient and distinguished United States Senator Daniel Inouye (1924-2012). The elder Inouye was known among the 1980s DC hardcore scene for occasionally attending Marginal Man's shows in support of his son.
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Augusta, Georgia
My father worked at the International Paper plant in Augusta between 2009 and 2013. On a visit in 2012, we both ate lunch at the Denny's diner on Washington Road. While at Denny's, my father ordered a ginger ale. The waitress explained that they didn't normally stock ginger ale, but could "make some" by mixing equal portions of Coca Cola and Sprite.
A friend of mine from my years at Syracuse University spent part of her formative years in Augusta, Georgia. According to her, a certain section of the local population refer to the city as "Disgusta," a designation likely due in part to the large number of foul-smelling Bradford Pear trees planted throughout the metropolitan area, as well as the surrounding swampland and numerous factories.