When I was a kid (late 1960s, early 70s) army surplus carbon arc searchlight beams showed up at night to advertise sales, grand openings, carnivals, etc. K-mart used them often. Sometimes dad and I would just go follow the beams to see what was going on. This was in central Indiana- were they used this way elsewhere?
Sure. It was common in popular culture when portraying these events, too.
Still turns up on consciously retro shows like The Simpsons. I remember them from Arizona, although I didn’t remember that they were arc lights (although that makes sense). I also (more recently) remember seeing a continuous ring of incandescent globes around the inside edge – was that original WWII surplus, or a more recent version?
The sailing events for the Olympics have been held in fresh water only once - 1976 on/near Lake Ontario in Kingston, Ontario, as part of the Montreal Olympics.
The Laurentian Divide is a continental divide. I suspect you are thinking that the Great Divide is the only continental divide on the continent, but there are actually several of them.
The Paris Olympics featured Pigeon Shooting. Using Passenger Pigeons. “Clay Pigeon Shooting” became a sport when the pigeon shooters ran out of Passenger Pigeons.
I think most Americans, at least those who are aware of the concept of a continental divide, probably are only aware of the Great Divide. In fact, if you cross it, the signs only name it as “continental divide,” like this sign in Colorado.
I live in Michigan and my road trips regularly take me across the St. Lawrence Divide, but I don’t recall ever seeing signs for it.
The P.F. stood for Posture Foundation.
The rubber base’s triangular wedge shifted weight to the outside of the foot, thus taking strain off the leg muscles. Besides giving these puppies their acronym, “Posture Foundation” set the shoes apart in the market, particularly within sports, as it allowed athletes to wear them with ease for longer periods of time.
Many interesting tidbits in the article. Wikipedia says:
PF Flyers is an American brand of lifestyle shoes that were manufactured by New Balance. Founded in 1937 by B.F. Goodrich,[1] it is one of the original American sneaker brands. On January 12, 2021, New Balance confirmed that the PF Flyers brand has been phased out.[2]
I haven’t seen any in a long time.
News to me. Thanks
I remember the animated TV commercials for them, which called “the rubber base’s triangular wedge” the “Action Wedge!” (you could tell there was an exclamation point in there).
Bruce Springsteen originally wrote his song “Hungry Heart” for the Ramones, at the request of Joey Ramone. His manager convinced him that giving away his best material was not a good financial move, and so he recorded it himself.
It’s a shame. I would love to see how they approach the material, but apparently they never recorded a version. Ramones style covers exist on YouTube, but don’t really capture it.
The fraction 355/113 approximates Pi accurately enough that it would only overestimate the circumference of a circle 10 kilometers in diameter by about 2 ⅔ millimeters.
The chemical formula for the average mammal - not that any of us are merely average - is:
H375000000, O132000000, N64300000, Ca1500000, P1020000, S206000, Na183000, K177000, Cl127000, Mg40000, Si38600, Fe2680, Zn2110, Cu76, I14, Mn13, F13, Cr7, Se4, Mo3, Co1.
That fraction also has a name:
How is that pronounced? Mi-loo or Mi-luh?
Further fun fact: it was not until the 19th century that a physical disk or circle could be sized exactly enough that the error was less than that of the Milü ratio.
Dunno if this is accurate, but here (click on the speaker).
mee-loo. Thanks.
I hadn’t heard that about aspirin, but I’ve heard the same thing about acetaminophen (Tylenol). The problem with acetaminophen is that the difference between an effective dose and an overdose is quite small, so it’s easy to accidentally take too much. And taking too much can cause severe liver damage.
That kind of depends on whether you define a car solely by it’s name, or it’s actual design. Note that your Wikipedia source says the Corolla is the best selling nameplate of all time, as opposed to bestselling car. Is a 2021 Corolla really the same car as a 1968 Corolla? Besides the name, do those two cars have anything at all in common? Whereas while the Beetle was gradually improved over the years, a 2003 Mexican-built Beetle is still pretty much the same basic design as a 1939 Beetle.
I missed the edit window, but another interesting fact about the Corolla – it first went on sale in the US in 1968, and by circa 1970 or 71 it was already the second best selling import car in the US (With the Beetle still #1 at that time). But just a few years later by about 1973 or so it knocked the Beetle off it’s throne as America’s most popular import. I might be slightly off on the years, but it was a very rapid rise from first going on sale to surpassing the Beetle in US sales.
There seems to be a transcription error. Calcium, Chlorine, Copper, Chromium and Cobalt are there, but not Carbon.
That’s the recipe for someone trying to eat inorganic.