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Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901 as a chemical company, by John Francis Queeny, a 30‑year veteran of the nascent pharmaceutical industry. He funded the firm with his own money and capital from a soft drink distributor, and gave the company his wife's maiden name. The company's first products were commodity food additives, such as the artificial sweetener saccharin, caffeine and vanillin.
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Bayer AG was founded in Barmen (today a part of Wuppertal), Germany in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and his partner, Johann Friedrich Weskott.
The company's corporate logo, the Bayer cross, was introduced in 1904. It consists of the horizontal word "BAYER" crossed with the vertical word "BAYER," both words sharing the "Y", and enclosed in a circle. An illuminated version of the logo is a landmark in Leverkusen, the location of Bayer AG's headquarters.
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Confused yet?
Being a fan a huge Dio fan and having many of his albums from many of his different bands, I already knew that one. So nope, not confused!
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Confused yet?Being a fan a huge Dio fan and having many of his albums from many of his different bands, I already knew that one. So nope, not confused!
I still love that pic in Halflings of Golarion of a jinxer halfling throwing horns.
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Everybody knows that Mark Hamill has appeared in four of the canon Star Wars films (A New Hope (AKA Star Wars), The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi, and The Force Awakens) as the character Luke Skywalker.
However, Hamill also portrayed a second character in the canon Star Wars universe, voicing the Force shade of Sith Lord Darth Bane in the sixth season episode "Sacrifice" of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series.
Hamill also portrayed Darth Bane in a deleted scene from the third season episode "Ghosts Of Mortis," alongside fan favorite Darth Revan, in what would have been the character's first canon appearance (well, first appearance in media now currently considered canon...).
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In Australia, a 24-pack carton of stubbies (375ml bottles) is known as a slab of beer (9 liters total). Aussie beer fans can buy refrigerators specially designed to be wide enough to have a special shelf into which you can just slide an entire slab.
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In Australia, a 24-pack carton of stubbies (375ml bottles) is known as a slab of beer (9 liters total). Aussie beer fans can buy refrigerators specially designed to be wide enough to have a special shelf into which you can just slide an entire slab.
Many of the cast and crew members of the 1979 film Mad Max were paid in "slabs."
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In Australia, a 24-pack carton of stubbies (375ml bottles) is known as a slab of beer (9 liters total). Aussie beer fans can buy refrigerators specially designed to be wide enough to have a special shelf into which you can just slide an entire slab.Many of the cast and crew members of the 1979 film Mad Max were paid in "slabs."
Cast and crew of Fury Road had ice cream delivered to them while filming :3
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Cary Grant and Clark Gable used to meet up once a year to exchange unwanted monogrammed gifts.
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Cary Grant and Clark Gable used to meet up once a year to exchange unwanted monogrammed gifts.
Even if it turns out not to be true, it should be.
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Cary Grant and Clark Gable used to meet up once a year to exchange unwanted monogrammed gifts.
This reminds me of the stories of how Redford and Newman used to prank each other.
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This reminds me of the stories of how Redford and Newman used to prank each other.
I liked hearing about how James Garner, who maintained a notoriously well-kept yard, kept finding beer cans all over it in the morning that someone was throwing over the fence. Turns out the culprit was his good friend and new neighbor, Steve McQueen.
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Many East Asian cultures (especially those of China and Japan) tend to ascribe special importance to the power of written characters, and the belief that special words can invoke control over supernatural power permeates their folklore and religion (namely Buddhism, Taoism, and Shinto).
Many traditional East Asian martial artists hold the belief that accompanying statements and/or vocal noises alongside execution build up their chi, thereby increasing the power and efficacy of their moves and techniques. In particular, Chinese Hung Gar grandmaster Huang Feihong (1847-1924) would loudly shout the traditional names of his attacks as he was making them in an attempt to disorient his opponents.
All of these things taken together could explain the prevalence of characters in East Asian animation, comics, and video games constantly yelling the names of their special moves during fights. FALCON... PUNCH!
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Actress Haley Atwell has portrayed the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Agent Peggy Carter more times than actor Chris Evans has played Steve Rogers (Captain America), to whom Carter is ostensibly a supporting character.
Atwell has portrayed Carter in four feature-length films, one short film, and two television series: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Marvel One-Shots: Agent Carter (2013), Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015), Ant-Man (2015), and Marvel's Agent Carter (2015-16).
Evans has portrayed Rogers in five feature-length films: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (AKA Marvel Avengers Assemble, 2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015), and Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Even after the release of 2018's Avengers: Infinity War Part I and 2019's Avengers: Infinity War Part II, Evans will still only be tied with Atwell for total number of appearances in the MCU.
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American singer Lance Bass of the pop group NSYNC sings, appropriately, in the bass range.
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The iconic "eagle scream" found in numerous films and TV shows, is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk. In reality, eagles make a wide variety of silly-sounding chirping and peeping noises.
The iconic "eagle scream" found in numerous films and TV shows, is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk. In reality, eagles make a wide variety of silly-sounding chirping and peeping noises.
Heh. That was something that threw me in Shadow Gate by Kate Elliot (I, unfortunately, have only read the middle book of the series, something I'd like to correct some time).
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The iconic "eagle scream" found in numerous films and TV shows, is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk. In reality, eagles make a wide variety of silly-sounding chirping and peeping noises.
OMG that's adorable!
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In reality, eagles make a wide variety of silly-sounding chirping and peeping noises.
This is why, like, we cats chitter and chirp at our befeathered friends. We're just like trying to say hello, man. {takes another hit from catnip bong}
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"Seven Sisters" was a term coined in the 1950s by businessman Enrico Mattei, then-head of the Italian state oil company Eni, to describe the seven oil companies which formed the "Consortium for Iran" cartel and dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. The group comprised Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP); Gulf Oil, Standard Oil of California (now Chevron), Texaco (later merged with Chevron); Royal Dutch Shell; Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso/Exxon) and Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony) (trading as Mobil now part of ExxonMobil).
Prior to the oil crisis of 1973, the members of the Seven Sisters controlled around 85 percent of the world's petroleum reserves; but since then, industry dominance has shifted to the OPEC cartel and state-owned oil companies in emerging-market economies, such as Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia), China National Petroleum Corporation (China), Gazprom (Russia), National Iranian Oil Company (Iran), Petrobras (Brazil), PDVSA (Venezuela), and Petronas (Malaysia).
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In the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian, Conan's response to the Mongol General is an abbreviation of a real quote attributed to Genghis Khan: "The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters." Subotai (or Subedei Baghadur) was the name of Great Khan's general. The fact that Conan is not only chased but to some extent orphaned by dogs also recalls Genghis Khan's well-documented fear of that particular animal. Finally, the writers' preoccupation with steel seems oddly coincidental, given that Genghis Khan's birth name, Temujin, is frequently translated as "finest steel."
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The unincorporated community of Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, United States (pop. ~200), and its closest official settlement, Elaine, AR (pop. ~900), are the hometown of three highly influential American musicians: Delta blues guitarist Robert Lockwood Jr. (the only known student of the legendary Robert Johnson), steel guitar player John Hughey (known for his collaborations with Vince Gill and Conway Twitty), and drummer & singer Mark "Levon" Helm (first known for his work with folk icon Bob Dylan, and later with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Band).
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American actor Robert Stack, now most famous for his role in the 1980 spoof/comedy film Airplane!, spent many years as a Hollywood leading man, especially in westerns during the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1940s, he starred in war films, and served as a gunnery instructor in the United States Navy.
During filming of Bullfighter And The Lady (1951), produced by his friend Marion "John Wayne" Morrison, Stack was asked by some Mexican crew members what he had done during the Second World War. His response, "I taught machine guns," was interpreted by the Spanish-speaking crew as "I taught some chingas (prostitutes)," leading to great popularity among the locals.*
In 1952, Stack made film history as the star of Bwana Devil, the first 3-D movie released in theaters.
Aside from his role as Rex Kramer in Airplane!, Stack may be known to modern enthusiasts of more esoteric films as the inspiration for actor Brian Lewis' performance as the character "Brother Silence" in the 2008 film The Gamers II: Dorkness Rising.
*Apocryphal, but hilarious.
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*Apocryphal, but hilarious.
I would pay money to watch you in an Apocryphal But Hilarious web-series (or TV show on the History Channel).
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*Apocryphal, but hilarious.I would pay money to watch you in an Apocryphal But Hilarious web-series (or TV show on the History Channel).
On the History Channel, the title would have to be changed to Absolutely Totally 100% True, with no change in content, other than a possible higher level of focus on a) Nazis, b) aliens, and c) Nazi aliens.
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Wombats poop cubes
It's illegal to drive blindfolded in Alabama
Ohio is the only state that doesn't share letters with the word mackeral.
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The first Kohl's store was a supermarket founded by Maxwell Kohl in Milwaukee in 1946. The company's first department store opened in September 1962. British-American Tobacco Company took a controlling interest in the company in 1972 and in 1979 the Kohl family left the management of the company. A group of investors purchased the company in 1986 from British-American Tobacco and took it public in 1992. Kohl's is the second largest department store by retail sales in the United States.
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The most used letters of english have traditionally been said to be ETAOINSHRDLU, in order. Mackerel has both E and A. The result comes as no surprise.
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Actress Haley Atwell has portrayed the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Agent Peggy Carter more times than actor Chris Evans has played Steve Rogers (Captain America), to whom Carter is ostensibly a supporting character.
When you get your own titled series, you're no longer "just a supporting character".
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Bald Eagles can swim using the breast stoke.
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The iconic "eagle scream" found in numerous films and TV shows, is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk. In reality, eagles make a wide variety of silly-sounding chirping and peeping noises.
The New Hampshire state legislature went out of their way to humiliate a bunch of 4th graders who had submitted a bill to make the Red Tailed Hawk the state raptor as illustrated in this video from Jon Oliver's Last Week Tongight.
"New Hampshire, Where Live Free or Die is truly a difficult choice.
-Jon Oliver
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When you get your own titled series, you're no longer "just a supporting character".Actress Haley Atwell has portrayed the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Agent Peggy Carter more times than actor Chris Evans has played Steve Rogers (Captain America), to whom Carter is ostensibly a supporting character.
My point exactly.
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Italian exploitation film director Bruno Mattei (AKA Vincent Dawn, Jordan B. Matthews, and many other pseudonyms), famous for directing such classics as Hell Of The Living Dead (1980), Strike Commando (1987), and Robowar (1988), once stated that he didn't like the way his movies had turned out and would re-shoot every single one if given the opportunity.
Despite his misgivings about his own work, he once said that his favorite of his own films was Rats: Night Of Terror (1984), co-directed and co-written with fellow Italian filmmaker Claudio Fragasso, who would make cinematic history a few years later with the debut of his magnum opus, Troll 2 (1990).
Rats: Night Of Terror was filmed in Rome, Italy, on sets that had been built for Sergio Leone's film Once Upon A Time In America (1984), which had been filmed the year prior. In interviews, Mattei had stated that the rats used in the film "were actually guinea pigs," though anyone who has seen the film can tell that they are clearly real rats.
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In his currently ongoing run of Black Panther, Ta-Nehisi Coates tried to base T'Challa's sister, Shuri, on the D&D Bard class and the Griot tradition.
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The word "lightsaber" is only used once in the original Star Wars (1977).
Mr Creosote's favourite beer was Mann's Brown Ale
2% abv of sheer pleasure.
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Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones (2002) is the longest Star Wars film to date, clocking in at 142 minutes. The shortest film in the series is Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), with a running time of 127 minutes.
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USS Makin Island (LHD-8), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Makin Island, target of the Marine Raiders' Makin Island raid early on in the United States' involvement in World War II.
Makin Island is the eighth ship of the Wasp class, but features noteworthy technological advances. Changes from the previous LHD design include: gas turbine main propulsion engines, all-electric auxiliaries, an advanced machinery control system including throttle control from the bridge, water mist fire protection systems, and the navy’s most advanced command and control and combat systems equipment.
Makin Island was laid down on 14 February 2004 at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi. The vessel has a light displacement of 28,176 long tons (28,628 t) and a full load displacement of 41,684 long tons (42,353 t) with a dead weight is 13,508 long tons (13,725 t). She has an overall length of 847 feet (258 m) and a waterline length of 778 feet (237 m). The extreme beam is 118 feet (36 m) with the beam at the waterline being 106 feet (32 m) and the draft is 28 feet (8.5 m). The maximum speed is 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph).
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The Atchafalaya Basin, or Atchafalaya Swamp, is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States. Located in south central Louisiana, it is a combination of wetlands and river delta area where the Atchafalaya River and the Gulf of Mexico converge. The river stretches from near Simmesport in the north through parts of eight parishes to the Morgan City area in the south.
The Atchafalaya is unique among Louisiana basins because it has a growing delta system with nearly stable wetlands. The basin contains about 70% forest habitat and about 30% marsh and open water. It contains the largest contiguous block of forested wetlands remaining (about 35%) in the lower Mississippi River valley and the largest block of floodplain forest in the United States. Best known for its iconic cypress-tupelo swamps, at 260,000 acres (110,000 ha), this block of forest represents the largest remaining contiguous tract of coastal cypress in the US.
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Billy Ray Cyrus' multi-platinum hit single "Achy Breaky Heart" was originally written by Nashville songwriter Don Von Tress 1990 as a single for The Oak Ridge Boys. However, Oak Ridge Boys lead singer Duane Allen thought that the lyrics were too silly and passed the song off to California country band The Marcy Brothers, who changed a few lyrics (for example, "achy breaky" became "achy breakin'") and released it in 1991 as "Don't Tell My Heart."
That same year, Billy Ray Cyrus heard Von Tress's original version of the song, and chose to include it on his debut album Some Gave All in 1992. "Achy Breaky Heart" is written in the key of A major and possesses only two chords: A and E. The song is considered by some as one of the worst songs of all time, featuring at number two in VH1 and Blender's list of the "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever."
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Though "Colonel" Harland D. Sanders (1890-1980), founder and mascot of the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food franchise, served in the United States Army from 1906 to 1907, he never rose above the rank of private. Sanders' appellation of "Colonel," however, is legitimate, being derived from Sanders' award of the title of Kentucky colonel by Kentucky governor Lawrence Wetherby in 1950.
Interestingly enough, in a 2016 advertisement for Kentucky Fried Chicken, Sanders was portrayed by actor and comedian Rob Riggle, who served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve for 23 years and saw combat in Liberia, Kosovo, Albania, and Afghanistan. Riggle retired in 2013 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones (2002) is the longest Star Wars film to date, clocking in at 142 minutes. The shortest film in the series is Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), with a running time of 127 minutes.
Oh...
I thought Attack of the Clones just seemed like the longest film. Ever.