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Recognize the differences between some human languages
Tell different ethnic groups apart by clothes
tell the difference between male and female voices, even if you mess with the pitch.
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Elevator company ThyssenKrupp has developed a "sideways elevator" known as MULTI.
Clearly they stole the idea from Star Trek. :-)
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Beignet synonymous with the English "fritter", is the French term for a pastry made from deep-fried choux pastry. Beignets may also be made from other types of dough, including yeast dough.
Beignets are commonly known in New Orleans as a breakfast served with powdered sugar on top. They are traditionally prepared right before consumption to be eaten fresh and hot. Variations of fried dough can be found across cuisines internationally; however, the origin of the term beignet is specifically French. In the United States, beignets have been popular within New Orleans Creole cuisine and are customarily served as a dessert or in some sweet variation. They were brought to New Orleans in the 18th century by French colonists, from "the old mother country", and became a large part of home-style Creole cooking, variations often including banana or plantain – popular fruits in the port city. Today, Café du Monde is a popular New Orleans food destination specializing in beignets with powdered sugar, coffee with chicory, and café au lait. Beignets were declared the official state doughnut of Louisiana in 1986.
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Beignets were declared the official state doughnut of Louisiana in 1986.
You could have just said, "States have official doughnuts," and, to my mind, that would be a wondrous enough entry for this thread!
P.S. Here's a list of official foods for my state:
State bread - Corn bread
State dish - Chili con carne
State nut - Native pecan
State pastries - Sopaipilla and Strudel
State cookie - Mexican wedding cookie
State pepper - Jalapeño
State native pepper - Chiltepin
State pie - Pecan pie
State snack - Tortilla chips and salsa
State vegetable - Sweet onion
One will note that we have both an "official pepper" AND and an "official native pepper!"
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Flyting, was basically epic rap battles that were part fight hyping and part insult contest.
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State Highway 99, also known as the Grand Parkway, is a highway in Texas, United States which opened its first section in 1994. When State Highway 99 is complete, it will be the longest beltway in the U.S., and the third (outer) loop within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area, with Interstate 610 being the first (inner) loop, and Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Tollway) being the second (middle) loop. The proposed 170-mile (270 km) loop has been divided into 11 separate segments for construction and funding purposes.
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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. is an American chain of combined restaurant and gift stores with a Southern country theme. The company was founded by Dan Evins in 1969; its first store was in Lebanon, Tennessee, which remains the company headquarters. The chain's stores were at first positioned near Interstate highway exits in the Southeastern and Midwestern US, but it has expanded across the country during the 1990s and 2000s. As of September 18, 2012, the chain operates 639 stores in 43 states.
Cracker Barrel's menu is based on traditional Southern cuisine, with appearance and decor designed to resemble an old-fashioned general store. Each restaurant features a front porch lined with wooden rocking chairs, a stone fireplace, and decorative artifacts from the local area. Cracker Barrel is known for its partnerships with country music performers. It has received attention for its charitable activities, such as its assistance of victims of Hurricane Katrina and injured war veterans. Employees there wear a choice of either white, yellow, blue or pink shirts.
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My friend's kid worked at a Cracker Barrel for a while. They paid him with a debit card instead of cash. The card was not accepted at several retailers, but every time the card was rejected, he still had to pay a transaction fee.
EDIT: I like their food, but after his experience, I refuse to eat there.
I worked for a video movie rental company that did the same thing. We had to transfer our paychecks from the card to our bank accounts so we could use them because no one would take the Movie Gallery card. When they went out of business I laughed and laughed and laughed...
I worked for a video movie rental company that did the same thing. We had to transfer our paychecks from the card to our bank accounts so we could use them because no one would take the Movie Gallery card.
Same thing when I worked (briefly) for Sears. I signed up for direct deposit, but they gave me a company debit card attached to a company account. It took six weeks to get the issue resolved, during which time I never got paid. Then, at the end, I got four weeks' back pay all at once. I never did get paid for the first two weeks. I got out of there as fast as was f**@ing possible and got a job working for a landscaper... who then promptly went out of business. Whatever.
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Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a French car manufacturer of high-performance automobiles, founded in 1909 in the then German city of Molsheim, Alsace by Italian-born Ettore Bugatti. Bugatti cars were known for their design beauty (Ettore Bugatti was from a family of artists and considered himself to be both an artist and constructor) and for their many race victories. Famous Bugattis include the Type 35 Grand Prix cars, the Type 41 "Royale", the Type 57 "Atlantic" and the Type 55 sports car.
The death of Ettore Bugatti in 1947 proved to be the end for the marque, and the death of his son Jean Bugatti in 1939 ensured there was not a successor to lead the factory. No more than about 8,000 cars were made. The company struggled financially, and released one last model in the 1950s, before eventually being purchased for its airplane parts business in the 1960s.
In the 1990s, an Italian entrepreneur revived it as a builder of limited production exclusive sports cars. Today, the name is owned by German automobile manufacturing group Volkswagen.
off the coast of Esperance... separates it from the blue Southern Ocean.
Are these even real places?
I worked for a video movie rental company that did the same thing. We had to transfer our paychecks from the card to our bank accounts so we could use them because no one would take the Movie Gallery card.Same thing when I worked (briefly) for Sears. I signed up for direct deposit, but they gave me a company debit card attached to a company account. It took six weeks to get the issue resolved, during which time I never got paid. Then, at the end, I got four weeks' back pay all at once. I never did get paid for the first two weeks. I got out of there as fast as was f~@~ing possible and got a job working for a landscaper... who then promptly went out of business. Whatever.
Man, talk about a string of bad luck.
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Minnie Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. She and Mickey Mouse were first drawn by Iwerks in 1928. The comic strip story "The Gleam" (published January 19–May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as Minerva Mouse, although this is seldom used.
The comic strip story "Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers" (published September 22–December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her unnamed mother, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of Minnie's uncle Milton Mouse with his family and her grandparents Marshal Mouse and Matilda Mouse. Her best-known relatives, however, remain her uncle Mortimer Mouse and her twin nieces, Millie and Melody Mouse, though most often a single niece, Melody, appears. In many appearances, Minnie is presented as the girlfriend of Mickey Mouse, a close friend of Daisy Duck,[4] and a friend to Clarabelle Cow.
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The Chevrolet Corvette, known colloquially as the Vette or Chevy Corvette, is a sports car manufactured by Chevrolet. The car has been produced through seven generations. The first model, a convertible, was introduced at the GM Motorama in 1953 as a concept show car. Myron Scott is credited for naming the car after the type of small, maneuverable warship called a corvette. Originally built in Flint, Michigan and St. Louis, Missouri, the Corvette is currently manufactured in Bowling Green, Kentucky and is the official sports car of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Étouffée or etouffee is a dish found in both Cajun and Creole cuisine typically served with shellfish over rice. The dish employs a technique known as smothering, a popular method of cooking in the Cajun areas of southwest Louisiana. Étouffée is most popular in New Orleans and in the Acadiana area of the southernmost half of Louisiana as well as the coastal counties of Mississippi, Alabama, and eastern Texas.
In French, the word "étouffée" (borrowed into English as "stuffed" or "stifled") means, literally, "smothered" or "suffocated", from the verb "étouffer".
Étouffée can be made with any shellfish such as crab or shrimp, though the most popular version of the dish is made with crawfish. A sauce is made from a light or blond roux, seasoned, and simmered with the seafood. Étouffée is typically served over rice.
Depending on who is making it and where it is being made it is flavored with either Creole or Cajun seasonings. Although Creole and Cajun cuisines are distinct, there are many similarities. In the case of the Creole version of crawfish étouffée, it is made with a blonde or brown roux and sometimes tomatoes are added. A blond roux is one that is cooked, stirring constantly, for approximately 5 minutes to remove the "raw" flavor of the flour and to add a slightly "nutty" flavor, while a brown roux is cooked longer (30 to 35 minutes) in order to deepen the color and flavor.
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During the casting process for the American television series House (2004-2012), producers explained that they wanted a "quintessentially American actor" to portray the titular doctor, a role which eventually went to British actor Hugh Laurie (b. 1959). According to the show's casting director, Laurie's American accent on his audition tape was so convincing that no one realized he was British until he showed up for filming.
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Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta, is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies 80 km (50 mi) south of Italy, 284 km (176 mi) east of Tunisia, and 333 km (207 mi) north of Libya. The country covers just over 316 km2 (122 sq mi), with a population of just under 450,000, making it one of the world's smallest and most densely populated countries. The capital of Malta is Valletta, which at 0.8 km2, is the smallest national capital in the European Union by area. Malta has one national language, which is Maltese, and English as an official language.
Malta's location in the middle of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, and a succession of powers, including the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Moors, Normans, Sicilians, Spanish, Knights of St. John, French and British, have ruled the islands.
King George VI of the United Kingdom awarded the George Cross to Malta in 1942 for the country's bravery in the Second World War. The George Cross continues to appear on Malta's national flag. Under the Malta Independence Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1964, Malta gained independence from the United Kingdom as an independent sovereign Commonwealth realm, officially known from 1964 to 1974 as the State of Malta, with Elizabeth II as its head of state. The country became a republic in 1974, and although no longer a Commonwealth realm, remains a member state of the Commonwealth of Nations. Malta was admitted to the United Nations in 1964 and to the European Union in 2004; in 2008, it became part of the Eurozone.
Malta has a long Christian legacy and its Archdiocese of Malta is claimed to be an apostolic see because, according to Acts of the Apostles, St Paul was shipwrecked on "Melita", now widely taken to be Malta. Catholicism is the official religion in Malta.
Malta is a popular tourist destination with its warm climate, numerous recreational areas, and architectural and historical monuments, including three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, Valletta, and seven megalithic temples, which are some of the oldest free-standing structures in the world.
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In the 2017 video game Mass Effect Andromeda the alien Angara are all given Australian or New Zealand accents by the protagonist's universal translator. One of the major Angara cities is called Estraaja, which, when said in an Australian accent, sounds exactly like the Australian pronunciation of "Australia."
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My friend's kid worked at a Cracker Barrel for a while. They paid him with a debit card instead of cash. The card was not accepted at several retailers, but every time the card was rejected, he still had to pay a transaction fee.
EDIT: I like their food, but after his experience, I refuse to eat there.
I hate their food, and now I have even MORE reasons not to eat there.
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Man, talk about a string of bad luck.I worked for a video movie rental company that did the same thing. We had to transfer our paychecks from the card to our bank accounts so we could use them because no one would take the Movie Gallery card.Same thing when I worked (briefly) for Sears. I signed up for direct deposit, but they gave me a company debit card attached to a company account. It took six weeks to get the issue resolved, during which time I never got paid. Then, at the end, I got four weeks' back pay all at once. I never did get paid for the first two weeks. I got out of there as fast as was f~@~ing possible and got a job working for a landscaper... who then promptly went out of business. Whatever.
Getting "paid" with cards with huge ass fees for everything is sadly common around here.
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FRAM is a brand of aftermarket automotive products known primarily for their oil filters. Other products sold under the FRAM brandname include air filters, fuel filters, PCV valves, breather element filters, and similar products, almost all of which use the trademarked orange color. The majority of FRAM filters are sold in the aftermarket, however the filters are available in the OE markets where they are purchased by major auto manufacturers.
The brand is noted for its trademarked bright orange color, its black "SureGrip" coating on the filter dome, and for its famous marketing slogan, "You can pay me now, or pay me later", which is usually presented as being uttered in its advertising by an auto mechanic, who is explaining to his customer that he can either pay a small sum now for the replacement of oil and filter or a far larger sum later for the replacement of the vehicle's engine. Another popular slogan is "Before you slam it, FRAM it".
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Getting "paid" with cards with huge ass fees for everything is sadly common around here.
It's almost like we're back to being paid with company scrip. The robber barons would be pleased.
IANAL, but IMO debit cards are not legal tender. Thus, an employee could refuse to accept a debit card in payment for work done for an employer and instead insist on cash. As I said, IANAL. You should consult one before trying this.
Of course, if they tell you up front they're going to pay you with a debit card, and you still accept the job, you're probably SOL. Me, I'd insist on at least two or three times minimum wage, if that's what they're offering. They won't give me that, but then I'm no farther behind than I would have been had I just said "hell, no!" :-)
Ok, I don't know what IANAL is an acronym for other than being unfortunate sounding.
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One of the wikipedia pages deemed too "hot-button topic" to allow open editing of, is for the font "Calibri," due to the year of it first being made publicly available has become important in a corruption scandal in Pakistan, involving the family of its prime minister, Nawaz Sharif.
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Ok, I don't know what IANAL is an acronym for other than being unfortunate sounding.
I'm guessing, "I Am Not A Lawyer," but have no idea about "SOL."
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Ok, I don't know what IANAL is an acronym for other than being unfortunate sounding.I'm guessing, "I Am Not A Lawyer," but have no idea about "SOL."
And the Swede figures out the acronym that the native English speaker cannot. I hang my head in shame. [Seriously, I was wondering about that one.]
"SOL" is the incredibly idiomatic "S!@+ Out of Luck" (or, as my high school biology teacher once said, "Sad and Out of Luck").
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Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, TI is one of the top ten semiconductor companies worldwide, based on sales volume. Texas Instruments's focus is on developing analog chips and embedded processors, which accounts for more than 85% of their revenue. TI also produces TI digital light processing (DLP) technology and education technology products including calculators, microcontrollers and multi-core processors. To date, TI has more than 43,000 patents worldwide.
Texas Instruments emerged in 1951 after a reorganization of Geophysical Service Incorporated, a company founded in 1930 that manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry, as well as defense electronics. TI produced the world's first commercial silicon transistor in 1950, and designed and manufactured the first transistor radio in 1954. Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at TI's Central Research Labs. TI also invented the hand-held calculator in 1967, and introduced the first single-chip microcontroller (MCU) in 1970, which combined all the elements of computing onto one piece of silicon.
In 1987, TI invented the digital light processing device (also known as the DLP chip), which serves as the foundation for the company's award-winning DLP technology and DLP Cinema. In 1990, TI came out with the popular TI-81 calculator which made them a leader in the graphing calculator industry. In 1997, its defense business was sold to Raytheon, which allowed TI to strengthen its focus on digital solutions. After the acquisition of National Semiconductor in 2011, the company had a combined portfolio of nearly 45,000 analog products and customer design tools, making it the world's largest maker of analog technology components.
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One of the wikipedia pages deemed too "hot-button topic" to allow open editing of, is for the font "Calibri"
At work, I refer to "Calibri" as "Apathy," because seeing it in a table means the person who produced it was too lazy to bother with either company-wide or project-specific standards, and would have accepted any default font that happened to come up.
You're not wrong.
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Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors....
I heard a story about TI and insider trading once. Back in the days when TI made personal computers (TI-99/4A), an employee in a TI warehouse noticed that lots and lots of the computers were coming into the warehouse, but very few were leaving. He concluded (correctly) that the TI-99/4A was a failure in the market, and began short-selling TI stock and encouraging his family to do the same. They all made quite a lot of money. Someone at the SEC noticed that several people with the same last name all profited from short-selling the same stock at the same time. The SEC investigated, and his family sang like canaries. The guy ended up spending some time in jail.
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During the casting process for the American television series House (2004-2012), producers explained that they wanted a "quintessentially American actor" to portray the titular doctor, a role which eventually went to British actor Hugh Laurie (b. 1959). According to the show's casting director, Laurie's American accent on his audition tape was so convincing that no one realized he was British until he showed up for filming.
That sounds a bit like the casting for the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". For the role of Eddie Valiant, the director wanted "an American Bob Hoskins".
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Monopoly is a board game that originated in the United States in 1903 as a way to demonstrate that an economy which rewards wealth creation is better than one in which monopolists work under few constraints and to promote the economic theories of Henry George and in particular his ideas about taxation.
Monopoly was first published by Parker Brothers in 1935. Currently subtitled "The Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game", the game is named after the economic concept of monopoly—the domination of a market by a single entity. It is now owned and produced by the American game and toy company Hasbro. Players move around the game-board buying, trading, or selling properties, developing their properties with houses and hotels, and collecting rent from their opponents, with the goal being to drive them all into bankruptcy, leaving one monopolist in control of the economy. Since the board game was first commercially sold in the 1930s, it has become a part of popular world culture, having been locally licensed in more than 103 countries and printed in more than thirty-seven languages.
During the Cold War, meetings between the leaders of Finland and the Soviet Union frequently involved both parties taking their clothes off and walking into a small hut for about an hour.
It was known as "Sauna-diplomacy."
During the Cold War, meetings between the leaders of Finland and the Soviet Union frequently involved both parties taking their clothes off and walking into a small hut for about an hour.
That would be a very smart way for the Finns in particular to conduct business. A person accustomed to public nudity can remain focused on what their more flustered companions reveal of their actual thoughts (while they're worried about revealing their bodies).
I think that was the idea, yes. The heat probably helped too.
Otelo Burning is a 2011 South African surfing film, shot for a period of 7 years, set against the backdrop of the end of apartheid and the simultaneous violence between Inkatha and United Democratic Front supporters.
At the 2012 African Movie Academy Awards, it became the most nominated picture in the history of those awards (which was started in 2005), with 14 nominations, including best actor, best director, achievement in cinematography, best screenplay, and best editing.
The Japanese word "ninja" is an on'yomi (Early Middle Chinese-influenced) reading of the two kanji "忍者". In the native kun'yomi kanji reading, it is pronounced shinobi, a shortened form of the transcription shinobi-no-mono (忍の者), meaning roughly "one who hides."
Historically, the word ninja was not in common use, and a variety of regional colloquialisms evolved to describe what would later be dubbed ninja. Along with shinobi, some examples include monomi ("one who sees"), nokizaru ("monkey on the roof"), and Iga-mono ("one from Iga"). In historical documents, shinobi is almost always used.
In the West, the word "ninja" became more prevalent than "shinobi" in the post-World War II culture, possibly because it was more comfortable for Western speakers. In English, the plural of "ninja" can be either unchanged as ninja, reflecting the Japanese language's lack of grammatical number, or the regular English plural ninjas.
The Japanese video game franchise Ninja Gaiden (NINJA 外伝), first released as an arcade title in 1988, was originally known in Japan as Ninja Ryūkenden (忍者龍剣伝 "Legend of the Ninja Dragon Sword"). "Ninja Gaiden" can be translated into English as "Ninja Spin-Off Story," or more colloquially, "Ninja Tales."
I'd pay real money to not see that.During the Cold War, meetings between the leaders of Finland and the Soviet Union frequently involved both parties taking their clothes off and walking into a small hut for about an hour.
It was known as "Sauna-diplomacy."
I'd pay fake money to see that.
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Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year. As of January 2009, 350 million cubes had been sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy.
On a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colours: white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow. In currently sold models, white is opposite yellow, blue is opposite green, and orange is opposite red, and the red, white and blue are arranged in that order in a clockwise arrangement. On early cubes, the position of the colours varied from cube to cube. An internal pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be returned to have only one colour. Similar puzzles have now been produced with various numbers of sides, dimensions, and stickers, not all of them by Rubik.
Although the Rubik's Cube reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1980s, it is still widely known and used. Many speedcubers continue to practice it and other twisty puzzles and compete for the fastest times in various categories. Since 2003, The World Cube Association, the Rubik's Cube's international governing body, has organised competitions worldwide and kept the official world records.
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A treadmill is a device generally for walking or running or climbing while staying in the same place. Treadmills were introduced before the development of powered machines, to harness the power of animals or humans to do work, often a type of mill that was operated by a person or animal treading steps of a treadwheel to grind grain. In later times, treadmills were used as punishment devices for people sentenced to hard labour in prisons. The terms treadmill and treadwheel were used interchangeably for the power and punishment mechanisms.
More recently, treadmills are not used to harness power, but as exercise machines for running or walking in one place. Rather than the user powering the mill, the machine provides a moving platform with a wide conveyor belt driven by an electric motor or a flywheel. The belt moves to the rear, requiring the user to walk or run at a speed matching that of the belt. The rate at which the belt moves is the rate of walking or running. Thus, the speed of running may be controlled and measured. The more expensive, heavy-duty versions are motor-driven (usually by an electric motor). The simpler, lighter, and less expensive versions passively resist the motion, moving only when walkers push the belt with their feet. The latter are known as manual treadmills.
According to Sports & Fitness Industry Association, treadmills continue to be the largest selling exercise equipment category by a large margin. As a result, the treadmill industry counts with hundreds of manufacturers throughout the World.
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Oreo is a cookie consisting of two chocolate wafers with a sweet creme filling in between, and (as of 1974) are marketed as "Chocolate Sandwich Cookies" on the package. The version currently sold in the United States is made by the Nabisco division of Mondelēz International. Oreo has become the best-selling cookie in the United States since its introduction in 1912.
The origin of the name Oreo is unknown, but there are many hypotheses, including derivations from the French word 'Or', meaning gold (as early packaging was gold), or the Greek word 'Oreo', meaning beautiful, nice or well done. Others believe that the cookie was named Oreo because it was short and easy to pronounce.
The "Oreo Biscuit" was first developed and produced by the National Biscuit Company (today known as Nabisco) in 1912 at its Chelsea, Manhattan factory in the current-day Chelsea Market complex, located on Ninth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets. Today, this same block of Ninth Avenue is known as "Oreo Way." The name Oreo was first trademarked on March 14, 1912. It was launched as an imitation of the Hydrox cookie manufactured by Sunshine company, introduced in 1908.
The original design of the cookie featured a wreath around the edge of the cookie and the name "OREO" in the center. In the United States, they were sold for 25 cents a pound (453 g) in novelty cans with clear glass tops. The first Oreo was sold on March 6, 1912, to a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey.
The Oreo Biscuit was renamed in 1921, to "Oreo Sandwich." A new design for the cookie was introduced in 1924. A lemon-filled variety was available briefly during the 1920s, but was discontinued. In 1948, the Oreo Sandwich was renamed the "Oreo Creme' Sandwich"; it was changed in 1974 to the Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookie. The modern-day Oreo design was developed in 1952 by William A. Turnier, to include the Nabisco logo.
The modern Oreo cookie filling was developed by Nabisco's principal food scientist, Sam Porcello. Porcello held five patents directly related to his work on the Oreo. He also created a line of Oreo cookies covered in dark chocolate and white chocolate. Porcello retired from Nabisco in 1993. In the early 1990s, health concerns prompted Nabisco to replace the lard in the filling with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Oreo cookies are popular with certain dietary restrictions, like vegans, because the cream inside the cookie is not made from any animal products, however, there is a risk of cross-contamination from other dairy-containing products made in the same production areas.
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The SRT Demon is a more powerful wide body version of the Dodge Challenger, and also the most extreme. To hype up the Demon, Dodge had been releasing videos about its performance, power, aerodynamics, etc. It later debuted during the 2017 New York Auto Show in April.
The Demon uses an all-new 6.2-liter V8 engine equipped with a 2.7-liter supercharger, which puts out 808 hp (603 kW; 819 PS) with 91 octane gasoline and 840 hp (626 kW; 852 PS) with 100 octane fuel or higher (both outputs are with the red key). Torque stands at 770 lb·ft (1,044 N·m) on 100 octane fuel. The car weighs 98 kg (215 lb) less than the Hellcat, the total being 1,930 kg (4,254 lb). The car will be using a set of road tires by Nitto Tire, called the NT05R. The tires are the 315/40R18 variations at both front and rear. The tires are targeted for the drag strip, but have enough footprint to make it legal for the road. This tire, although an NT05R consumer tire, is a variation built specifically to withstand the power output of the Demon. This makes the Challenger SRT Demon the first production car to contain a set of drag radial road tires. The SRT Demon contains a system that is used specifically for drag racing called transbrake, which is a mechanism that puts the transmission in 1st gear and the reverse gear simultaneously, holding the Demon stationary. This is used along with the car's torque converter to build up hydraulic pressure before launch. This makes the Challenger SRT Demon the first ever production car to contain a trans brake.
The power-to-weight ratio of the SRT Demon is 418 hp (312 kW; 424 PS) per ton on 91 octane gasoline and 435 hp (324 kW; 441 PS) per ton on 100 octane or higher.
It reaches 0–30 mph (0–48 km/h) in 1.0 second, 0–60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 2.3 seconds (2.0s with a rollout), 0–100 mph (0–161 km/h) in 5.1 seconds, and the quarter mile (400 m) in only 9.65 seconds at 140.09 mph (225.45 km/h). This makes the Demon the fastest non-electric production car to reach 0-60 mph (0–100 km/h) and to complete a straight-line quarter mile at its time of announcement. The SRT Demon is also capable of accelerating at 1.8 G's of force at launch, making this the hardest launching production car ever. The Demon can also push the boost to 14.5 psi and redline up to 6500 rpm. With this extreme power, and hard accelerating, the SRT Demon is the first production car to ever perform a wheelie.
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The SRT Demon is a more powerful wide body version of the Dodge Challenger, and also the most extreme. To hype up the Demon, Dodge had been releasing videos about its performance, power, aerodynamics, etc. It later debuted during the 2017 New York Auto Show in April.
The Demon uses an all-new 6.2-liter V8 engine equipped with a 2.7-liter supercharger, which puts out 808 hp (603 kW; 819 PS) with 91 octane gasoline and 840 hp (626 kW; 852 PS) with 100 octane fuel or higher (both outputs are with the red key). Torque stands at 770 lb·ft (1,044 N·m) on 100 octane fuel. The car weighs 98 kg (215 lb) less than the Hellcat, the total being 1,930 kg (4,254 lb). The car will be using a set of road tires by Nitto Tire, called the NT05R. The tires are the 315/40R18 variations at both front and rear. The tires are targeted for the drag strip, but have enough footprint to make it legal for the road. This tire, although an NT05R consumer tire, is a variation built specifically to withstand the power output of the Demon. This makes the Challenger SRT Demon the first production car to contain a set of drag radial road tires. The SRT Demon contains a system that is used specifically for drag racing called transbrake, which is a mechanism that puts the transmission in 1st gear and the reverse gear simultaneously, holding the Demon stationary. This is used along with the car's torque converter to build up hydraulic pressure before launch. This makes the Challenger SRT Demon the first ever production car to contain a trans brake.
The power-to-weight ratio of the SRT Demon is 418 hp (312 kW; 424 PS) per ton on 91 octane gasoline and 435 hp (324 kW; 441 PS) per ton on 100 octane or higher.
It reaches 0–30 mph (0–48 km/h) in 1.0 second, 0–60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 2.3 seconds (2.0s with a rollout), 0–100 mph (0–161 km/h) in 5.1 seconds, and the quarter mile (400 m) in only 9.65 seconds at 140.09 mph (225.45 km/h). This makes the Demon the fastest non-electric production car to reach 0-60 mph (0–100 km/h) and to complete a...
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