Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), the 30th President of the United States, is the only president to have had his portrait on a coin during his lifetime, the Sesquicentennial of American Independence Half Dollar, minted in 1926.
Coolidge is also one of only two sitting presidents to visit the nation of Cuba, and was the only president to have done so for 88 years, until Barack Obama's official state visit in 2016.
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"Rapture" is a song by the American pop rock band Blondie from their fifth studio album, Autoamerican (1980).
In January 1981, "Rapture" was released as the second and final single from the album. The song reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it stayed for two weeks. It was the first No. 1 song in the U.S. to feature rap. The song peaked at No. 4 in Australia and No. 5 in the United Kingdom.
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In DC Comics, Black Mercy is a plant that creates a dream of a person's perfect life by tapping into the pleasure centers of a person's brain. They are harvested by Mongul, and have been seen to be used on Hal Jordan, Oliver Queen, Clark Kent, Kara Danvers, Bruce Wayne, and even Mongul himself.
When someone discovers the Black Mercy-created reality is fake (they notice something wrong, or otherwise realize their lives aren't this perfect), the Black Mercy will slowly lose its grip on its host, making it easier to detach from them.
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Thomas Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American television and film actor. He has appeared in a wide variety of roles since the early 1970s.
Harmon gained recognition for portraying Secret Service special agent Simon Donovan in The West Wing, receiving a 2002 Emmy Award nomination for his acting in the four-episode story arc.
Harmon was cast in a similar role a year later: Donald P. Bellisario—the creator of both JAG and NCIS for CBS—had seen Harmon in The West Wing and decided to cast him in NCIS. Harmon's character of NCIS special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was first introduced in a guest starring role in two episodes of JAG. Since 2003, Harmon has starred in NCIS as the same character.
As an effect of 90% of its surface waters becoming polluted, El Salvador has banned all metal mining in the country.
Down and Safe is a podcast in which the four science-fiction and fantasy professionals Scott Lynch (the cute one), Michael D Thomas (the troll), Liz Myles (the grumpy/Scottish one), and Amal "have you seen Hamilton?" el-Mohtar (the even cuter one) discuss each episode of the 1978-1982 British TV-series Blake's 7.
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During the Spanish Civil War, volunteers defending the University of Madrid against the fascists discovered that a book needs at least 350 pages to stop a bullet.
The pagan Anglo-Saxon months of the year went as follows (starting on the 25th of December):
guili - Yule
se aeftera geola - 'the latter Yule'
solmonath - 'month of offering' or 'dirt-month'
hredmonath - 'month of the goddess Rheda'
eastermonath - 'month of the goddess Eostre, goddess of spring and twilight'
thrimilce - 'month of the three daily milkings'
se aerra lida - 'gentle, before midsummer'
drilida - 'third midsummer'
aeftera lida - 'after midsummer'
weodmonath - 'month of the plants'
halegmonath - 'holy month'
winterfylleth - 'winter-filled'
blotmonath - 'month of sacrifices'
se aerra geola - 'before midwinter'
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The Glock pistol, sometimes referred to by the manufacturer as a Glock "Safe Action" pistol and colloquially as a Glock, is a series of polymer-framed, short recoil-operated, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols designed and produced by Glock Ges.m.b.H., located in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria. It entered Austrian military and police service by 1982 after it was the top performer on an exhaustive series of reliability and safety tests.
Despite initial resistance from the market to accept a perceived "plastic gun" due to unfounded durability and reliability concerns and fears that it might circumvent metal detectors in airports, Glock pistols have become the company's most profitable line of products, commanding 65% of the market share of handguns for United States law enforcement agencies, as well as supplying numerous national armed forces, security agencies, and police forces in at least 48 countries. Glocks are also popular firearms among civilians for recreational and competition shooting, home and self-defense, and concealed carry or open carry.
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Vitamin = Vital mineral
Vitamins are not good for you per se, they are mostly co-enzymes that facilitate nice things to occur!!
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Caterpillar Inc. is an American corporation which designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, markets and sells machinery, engines, financial products and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network. Caterpillar is a leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. With more than US$89 billion in assets, Caterpillar was ranked number one in its industry and number 44 overall in the 2009 Fortune 500. In 2016 Caterpillar was ranked #59 on the Fortune 500 list and #194 on the Global Fortune 500 list. Caterpillar stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Caterpillar Inc. traces its origins to the 1925 merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and the C. L. Best Tractor Company, creating a new entity, the California-based Caterpillar Tractor Company. In 1986, the company re-organized itself as a Delaware corporation under the current name, Caterpillar Inc. Caterpillar's headquarters are located in Peoria, Illinois; it announced in January 2017 that over the course of that year it would relocate its headquarters to Chicago.
The company also licenses and markets a line of clothing and workwear boots under its Cat/Caterpillar name. Caterpillar machinery is recognizable by its trademark "Caterpillar Yellow" livery and the "CAT" logo.
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Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt Jr. (November 29, 1920 – January 2, 2000) was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in U.S. military history, especially during the Vietnam War. A decorated war veteran, Zumwalt reformed U.S. Navy personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32-year Navy career, he launched an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate.
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WrestleMania (also known informally as Mania) is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and WWE Network event, produced annually between mid-March to early April by WWE, an American professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. WWE first produced the event in 1985 and has since produced 32 editions, with the thirty-third to be held in Orlando, Florida on April 2, 2017 and thirty-fourth to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 8, 2018. WrestleMania, WWE's flagship event, is the most successful and longest-running professional wrestling event in history. It contributes to the worldwide commercial success of WWE through media, merchandise, and shows. WrestleMania was conceptualized by WWE owner Vince McMahon and long time WWE ring announcer and Hall of Famer Howard Finkel is credited with devising the name "WrestleMania" in 1984.
WrestleMania's widespread success helped transform professional wrestling. The event has facilitated the rise to stardom of several top WWE wrestlers. Celebrities such as Aretha Franklin, Cyndi Lauper, Muhammad Ali, Mr. T, Alice Cooper, Lawrence Taylor, Pamela Anderson, Mike Tyson, Donald Trump, Floyd Mayweather, Pete Rose, Burt Reynolds, Mickey Rourke, Snoop Dogg, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Kid Rock, Fred Durst, Ozzy Osbourne, Ronda Rousey, and Shaquille O'Neal have participated or made special appearances within the events.
The first WrestleMania was held in Madison Square Garden in New York City; the 10th and 20th editions were also held there. WrestleMania III in the Detroit suburb of Pontiac, Michigan was the highest-attended indoor sports event in the world, with 93,173 fans in attendance. The record stood until February 14, 2010, when the 2010 NBA All-Star Game broke the indoor sporting event record with an attendance of 108,713 at Cowboys Stadium, since renamed AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. In 2016, WrestleMania 32 surpassed WrestleMania III as the highest-attended professional wrestling event ever held in America, with 101,763 fans in attendance at AT&T Stadium. All editions of the event have been hosted in North American cities, with 30 in the United States and two in Canada.
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Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport.
Tetris was the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US, where it was published by Spectrum HoloByte for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four-element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb in 1953. However, even the enumeration of pentominoes is dated to antiquity.
The game (or one of its many variants) is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs, Network music players and even as an Easter egg on non-media products like oscilloscopes. It has even inspired Tetris serving dishes and been played on the sides of various buildings.
While versions of Tetris were sold for a range of 1980s home computer platforms as well as arcades, it was the hugely successful handheld version for the Game Boy launched in 1989 that established the game as one of the most popular ever. Electronic Gaming Monthly's 100th issue had Tetris in first place as "Greatest Game of All Time". In 2007, Tetris came in second place in IGN's "100 Greatest Video Games of All Time". In January 2010, it was announced that the Tetris franchise had sold more than 170 million copies, approximately 70 million physical copies and over 100 million copies for cell phones, making it the best selling paid-downloaded game of all time. On 14 March 2014, The Tetris Company announced a deal to bring Tetris to two of the latest hardware platforms, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, in partnership with Ubisoft (publishing) and SoMa Play (development), to coincide with the franchise's 30th anniversary.
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Sailor Steve Costigan is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. He is a merchant sailor on the Sea Girl and is also its champion boxer. His only true companion is a bulldog named Mike (after his brother and fellow boxer, "Iron" Mike Costigan).
Costigan, one of Howard's humorous boxing pulp heroes, roamed the Asiatic seas with fists of steel, a will of iron, and a head of wood. A striking contrast between Howard’s barbarians and swordsmen, Costigan was a modern-day character, written in a humorous, Texas tall tale style. The Sailor Steve Costigan stories were very popular in the pages of Fight Stories, Action Stories, and the short-lived Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine. In a career that was made up largely from writing short stories about recurring characters, Howard wrote more completed stories about Costigan and his pugilistic ilk than about any of his fantasy heroes except Conan the Barbarian.
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Isabelle Haak is a Swedish volleyball player.
3 years ago she made her first appearance for the Swedish national team.
2 years ago she became the top point-scorer in the Swedish league as her team won the championship.
1 year ago she became the top point-scorer in the Swedish league as her team won the championship.
This year she became the top point-scorer in the French league by a margin of almost 100 points as her team finished 3rd.
She's 17 years old.
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Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer.
The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with complex themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Dune itself is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and the series is widely considered to be among the classics of the genre.
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By EU law, Cheese made in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, is not allowed to be called Stilton cheese.
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By EU law, Cheese made in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, is not allowed to be called Stilton cheese.
WhyinHell not?
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer.
The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with complex themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Dune itself is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and the series is widely considered to be among the classics of the genre.
I read the original Dune trilogy so many times as a kid.
By EU law, Cheese made in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, is not allowed to be called Stilton cheese.WhyinHell not?
Same reason sparkling wine not made in Champagne can't be called champagne - protected designation of origin. Stilton cheese didn't actually originate in Stilton, but in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire is all.
Same reason sparkling wine not made in Champagne can't be called champagne - protected designation of origin. Stilton cheese didn't actually originate in Stilton, but in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire is all.By EU law, Cheese made in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, is not allowed to be called Stilton cheese.WhyinHell not?
The champagne example is analogous, but 180 degrees backwards, though -- only wines made using the methode champenoise, from grapes grown in Champagne, can be called "Champagne." Sparkling wines made outside the region using the method cannot (although they can still reference the method, if applicable). The U.S. specifically allows some exceptions, but those aren't recognized by pretty much anyone else.
In the case of Stilton cheese, paradoxically, cheese made using the Stilton method in Stilton cannot be called "Stilton cheese." Only cheeses made elsewhere (specifically, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire) using the Stilton method can be called "Stilton"
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Donald Jay "Don" Rickles (May 8, 1926 – April 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Although he became well known as an insult comic, his pudgy, balding appearance and pugnacious style led to few leading roles in film or television; his prominent film roles included Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) and Kelly's Heroes (1970), and beginning in 1976 he enjoyed a two-year run starring in the sitcom C.P.O. Sharkey.
He received widespread exposure as a popular guest on numerous talk shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Show with David Letterman, and later voiced Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story films. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for the 2007 documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project.
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Same reason sparkling wine not made in Champagne can't be called champagne - protected designation of origin. Stilton cheese didn't actually originate in Stilton, but in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire is all.By EU law, Cheese made in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, is not allowed to be called Stilton cheese.WhyinHell not?The champagne example is analogous, but 180 degrees backwards, though -- only wines made using the methode champenoise, from grapes grown in Champagne, can be called "Champagne." Sparkling wines made outside the region using the method cannot (although they can still reference the method, if applicable). The U.S. specifically allows some exceptions, but those aren't recognized by pretty much anyone else.
In the case of Stilton cheese, paradoxically, cheese made using the Stilton method in Stilton cannot be called "Stilton cheese." Only cheeses made elsewhere (specifically, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire) using the Stilton method can be called "Stilton"
The law is an ass.
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Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker created the character in 1939. Captain Marvel first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (1940), published by Fawcett Comics. He is the alter ego of Billy Batson, a boy who, by speaking the magic word "SHAZAM", can transform himself into a costumed adult with the powers of superhuman strength, speed, flight, invulnerability, and spellcasting.
Captain Marvel is also the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Most of these versions exist in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe. Following a trial in which DC Comics sued Fawcett Comics for breach of copyright, claiming Fawcett's Captain Marvel was too similar to Superman, the latter stopped publishing Captain Marvel. In the late sixties Marvel gained the trademark "Captain Marvel" with their first series, forcing DC to call their Captain Marvel comic book Shazam! when they gained the rights to publish the vintage hero starting in the early 1970s.
To retain their trademark, Marvel has had to publish a Captain Marvel title every year or two since, leading to a number of ongoing series, limited series, and one-shots featuring a range of characters using the Captain Marvel alias. The current Captain Marvel is the former Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers, who has the powers of superhuman strength, durability, and speed, as well as flight and energy manipulation.
Both Captain Marvels have feature films scheduled for release in 2019, the former, titled Shazam!, will be released by Warner Bros. / DC Entertainment in April 2019, while the latter, titled Captain Marvel, will be released by Disney / Marvel Studios in March 2019.
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The green anaconda exhibits the greatest sexual dimorphism of any land based vertebrate
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Journey is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1973, composed of former members of Santana and Frumious Bandersnatch. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between 1978 and 1987. During that period, the band released a series of hit songs, including "Don't Stop Believin'" (1981), which in 2009 became the top-selling track in iTunes history among songs not released in the 21st century. Its parent studio album, Escape, the band's eighth and most successful, reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and yielded another of their most popular singles, "Open Arms". Its 1983 follow-up album, Frontiers, was almost as successful in the United States, reaching No. 2 and spawning several successful singles; it broadened the band's appeal in the United Kingdom, where it reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart. Journey enjoyed a successful reunion in the mid-1990s and later regrouped with a series of lead singers.
Sales have resulted in two Gold albums, eight Multi-Platinum albums, and one Diamond album (including seven consecutive multi-platinum albums between 1978 and 1987). They have had eighteen Top 40 singles in the U.S. (the second most without a Billboard Hot 100 number one single behind Electric Light Orchestra with 20), six of which reached the Top 10 of the US chart and two of which reached No. 1 on other Billboard charts, and a No. 6 hit on the UK Singles Chart in "Don't Stop Believin'". In 2005, "Don't Stop Believin'" reached No. 3 on iTunes downloads. Originally a progressive rock band, Journey was described by AllMusic as having cemented a reputation as "one of America's most beloved (and sometimes hated) commercial rock/pop bands" by 1978, when they redefined their sound by embracing pop arrangements on their fourth album, Infinity.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Journey has sold 48 million albums in the U.S., making them the 25th best-selling band. Their worldwide sales have reached close to 90 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling bands of all time. A 2005 USA Today opinion poll named Journey the fifth-best American rock band in history. Their songs have become arena rock staples and are still played on rock radio stations across the world. Journey ranks No. 96 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Journey will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017.
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The Ginko tree is a living fossil, apparently unchanged for 270 million years. It is the only member of its genus, family, order, class, and division. It hasn't just been around since the time of the dinosaurs, it predates dinosaurs.
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Rowlf the Dog is a Muppet character, a scruffy brown dog of indeterminate breed, though part Corgi, with a rounded black nose and long floppy ears. He was created and originally performed by Jim Henson. Rowlf is the Muppet Theatre's resident pianist, as well as one of the show's main cast members. Calm and wisecracking, his humor is characterized as deadpan and as such, is one of few Muppets who is rarely flustered by the show's prevalent mayhem. He is very easy going and a fan of classical music (particularly Beethoven) and musicals.
Despite Kermit the Frog often being credited as the iconic Muppet, Rowlf was actually the first known Muppet "star" as a recurring character on The Jimmy Dean Show, first appearing in a telecast on September 19, 1963.
Taken together, the fifteen editions of MECC's video game The Oregon Trail (1971-2012) have sold more copies than the thirteen games included in Bungie & Microsoft's Halo series of video games (2001-present) combined.
"[With] a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally.
The most likely origin of the phrase comes from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, regarding the discovery of a recipe for an antidote to a poison in which one of the ingredients was a grain of salt. Threats involving the poison were thus to be taken "with a grain of salt", i.e. less seriously.
The Latin phrase cum grano salis ("with a grain of salt") is not what Pliny wrote, and is instead constructed according to the grammar of modern European languages rather than Classical Latin (though it is technically grammatically correct due to Latin's free word order). Pliny's actual words were addito salis grano ("after having added a grain of salt").
As the Latin word salis means both "salt" and "wit", the Anglicized Latin phrase "cum grano salis" forms a play-on-words, and is able to be translated as both "with a grain of salt" and "with a grain (small amount) of wit."
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A pretzel is a type of baked bread product made from dough most commonly shaped into a twisted knot. Pretzels originated in Europe, possibly among monks in the Early Middle Ages. The traditional pretzel shape is a distinctive nonsymmetrical form, with the ends of a long strip of dough intertwined and then twisted back into itself in a certain way ("a pretzel loop"). In the 2010s, pretzels come in a range of different shapes. Salt is the most common seasoning for pretzels, complementing the washing soda or lye treatment that gives pretzels their traditional "skin" and flavor through the Maillard reaction; other seasonings include sugars, chocolate, glazes, seeds, and/or nuts. There are several varieties of pretzels, including soft pretzels, which must be eaten shortly after preparation and hard-baked pretzels, which have a long shelf life.
The constitution of San Marino was written during the 16th century, and is considered the oldest national constitution that's still in effect. (Since it's written in Latin, I personally wonder how many other countries has a constitution written in a different language than the one spoken there.)
The Red Forest of Chernobyl has shown almost no signs of decay. While interesting it is also concerning; if it where to catch fire it would spread the radiation again over the countryside of Russia.
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The law is an ass.
If you want to encourage substandard foreign rip-offs, sure. Do you happen to be a big fan of Harry Potter and the Leopard-Walk-Up-to Dragon?
Roughly 33.3 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, according to the 2013 American Community Survey. The island of Ireland (currently comprising the Republic of Ireland and the Country of Northern Ireland) has a population of roughly 6.4 million (as of 2011).
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Though most associate the United States state of New York with its eponymous city, the vast majority of the state's territory is made up of wilderness and agricultural areas. New York ranks among the top five states for agricultural products including maple syrup, apples, cherries, dairy products, onions, and potatoes. New York State is the largest producer of cabbage in the United States.
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The Möbius strip or Möbius band, Mobius or Moebius, is a surface with only one side (when embedded in 3-dimensional Euclidean space) and only one boundary. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.
An example of a Möbius strip can be created by taking a paper strip and giving it a half-twist, and then joining the ends of the strip to form a loop. However, the Möbius strip is not a surface of only one exact size and shape, such as the half-twisted paper strip depicted in the illustration. Rather, mathematicians refer to the closed Möbius band as any surface that is homeomorphic to this strip. Its boundary is a simple closed curve, i.e., homeomorphic to a circle. This allows for a very wide variety of geometric versions of the Möbius band as surfaces each having a definite size and shape. For example, any rectangle can be glued to itself (by identifying one edge with the opposite edge after a reversal of orientation) to make a Möbius band. Some of these can be smoothly modeled in Euclidean space, and others cannot.
A half-twist clockwise gives an embedding of the Möbius strip different from that of a half-twist counterclockwise – that is, as an embedded object in Euclidean space the Möbius strip is a chiral object with right- or left-handedness. However, the underlying topological spaces within the Möbius strip are homeomorphic in each case. There are an infinite number of topologically different embeddings of the same topological space into three-dimensional space, as the Möbius strip can also be formed by twisting the strip an odd number of times greater than one, or by knotting and twisting the strip, before joining its ends. The complete open Möbius band is an example of a topological surface that is closely related to the standard Möbius strip but that is not homeomorphic to it.
It is straightforward to find algebraic equations, the solutions of which have the topology of a Möbius strip, but in general these equations do not describe the same geometric shape that one gets from the twisted paper model described above. In particular, the twisted paper model is a developable surface, having zero Gaussian curvature. A system of differential-algebraic equations that describes models of this type was published in 2007 together with its numerical solution.
The Euler characteristic of the Möbius strip is zero.
Though most associate the United States state of New York with its eponymous city, the vast majority of the state's territory is made up of wilderness and agricultural areas. New York ranks among the top five states for agricultural products including maple syrup, apples, cherries, dairy products, onions, and potatoes. New York State is the largest producer of cabbage in the United States.
Second largest wine producer, too -- the whites are excellent, BTW -- except they drink them all themselves!
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The only people to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar are Bob Dylan and George Bernard Shaw.
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Ghost Story is a 1981 American horror film directed by John Irvin and based on the 1979 book of the same name by Peter Straub. It stars Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman and Craig Wasson (in a dual role). It was the last film to feature Astaire, Fairbanks, and Douglas (who died four months before the film's release), and the first film to feature Michael O'Neill. The film was shot in Woodstock, Vermont, Saratoga Springs, New York and at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
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The National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors is composed of chief boiler and pressure vessel inspectors representing states, cities, and provinces enforcing pressure equipment laws and regulations. Created to prevent death, injury and destruction, these laws and regulations represent the collective input of National Board members.
During the past ten years, over six million pressure equipment inspections were performed in North America. Of that total, there were more than 556,000 violations, or more than 556,000 potential accidents that were prevented: almost one out of every ten pieces of equipment inspected. For the general public, the importance of thoroughly trained and specially commissioned inspectors is of critical significance: every person in the civilized world comes within close proximity of pressure equipment several times each day.
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New York State Route 74 (NY 74) and Vermont Route 74 (VT 74) are adjoining state highways in the northeastern United States, connected by one of the last remaining cable ferries in North America. Together, they extend for 34 miles through Essex County, NY, and Addison County, VT. NY 74 begins at exit 28 off Interstate 87 (I-87) in the hamlet of Severance in the Adirondack Mountains region of New York's North Country.
It extends roughly 20 miles to the western shore of Lake Champlain in Ticonderoga. There, the seasonal Fort Ticonderoga–Larrabees Point Ferry carries cars across the state border into Vermont, where VT 74 starts at the lake's eastern shore and terminates roughly 13 miles later at a junction with VT 30 in the town of Cornwall.
The Fort Ticonderoga–Larrabees Point Ferry is the oldest and southernmost ferry on Lake Champlain. Its cable system consists of two 1.1-inch steel cables in parallel alignment. The current ferry barge, in operation since 1959, is powered by a sixteen-ton tugboat built in 1979 that can hold up to 18 cars. The seasonal ferry is half a mile long and operates from May through October. The seven-minute passage operates during daylight hours.
The parking lot of the Fort Ticonderoga–Larrabees Point Ferry straddles the local Amtrak line, and is best enjoyed during sunset or sunrise when accompanied by a 30-count case of Molson Canadian Light or Labatt Blue Lager (supplemental intoxicants are optional).
Ticonderoga is a town located in the southeastern corner of Essex County, New York, USA.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 88.5 square miles, of which 81.4 square miles is land and 7 square miles is water. The town encompasses both the north end of Lake George and a portion of Lake Champlain near its southern end. The two lakes are connected by the La Chute River. The east town line is the border between New York and Vermont, and the south town line is the county line of Essex County and Washington County.
According to the USA City Facts website, Ticonderoga has a population of 3,382. Ticonderoga has an unemployment rate of 11.5% and a median income of US $20,613.00 annually, with a poverty rate of 14.3%
With roughly 600 employees, the largest employer in Ticonderoga is the International Paper Company's Ticonderoga Mill, which is one of the company's major producers of high-quality printer & copy paper, including opaques, color copy, laser, and ink jet-grade papers under the brands Hammermill, Accent, and Springhill.
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Margaret Atwood's daughter was nine years old when The Handmaid's Tale was published. By the time she graduated high school, the book had become required reading in the school's literature curriculum.
Zooey Deschanel plays the piano and the baritone ukulele.
And she can rock a hula-hoop like it's nobody's business.
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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.is an American manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The company owns a diverse portfolio of brands, distributed internationally through retail channels and digital commerce, and has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
The company began in 1946 when Estée Lauder and her husband Joseph Lauder began producing cosmetics in New York City. They first carried only four products: Cleansing Oil, Skin Lotion, Super Rich All purpose Creme, and Creme Pack. Two years later, in 1948 they established their first department store account with Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.
Over the next 15 years, they expanded the range and continued to sell their products in the United States. In 1960, the company started its first international account in the London department store Harrods. The following year it opened an office in Hong Kong.
In 1964, they introduced Aramis, a line of fragrance and grooming products for men named after an exotic Turkish root originally used as an aphrodisiac. In 1967, Estée Lauder herself was named one of ten Outstanding Women in Business in the United States by business and financial editors. This was followed by a Spirit of Achievement Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in 1968. In that year, the company expanded again, opening Clinique Laboratories, Inc. Clinique was the first dermatologist guided (Dr. Norman Orentreich), allergy tested, fragrance-free cosmetic brand created by Estée Lauder.
Estée Lauder's Clinique brand became the first women's cosmetic company to introduce a second line for men when, in 1976, they began a separate line called "Skin Supplies for Men", which continues to be sold at Clinique counters worldwide. In 1981, the company's products became available in the Soviet Union.
In the 1990s, brand acquisitions and licensing agreements contributed to explosive growth as the Company transformed from a family-owned business to a publicly-traded, family-controlled organization. The decade opened with the creation of Origins — the first wellness brand in U.S. department stores. The first licensing agreement for fragrances was with fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger in 1993, followed by Kiton, an Italian fashion house (1995), and with American fashion designer Donna Karan (1997).
The character of Ignacio "Nacho" Varga, a Mexican-American career criminal on the AMC series Better Call Saul (2015-present) is portrayed by actor Michael Mando (b. 1981). Though Mando is of Spanish descent and is a fluent speaker of both Spanish and English, he was born in Quebec City, Quebec (Canada), and grew up speaking French at home.