In the 200 meters, Owens won gold with a time of 20.7 seconds. Coming in second, and winning Silver, with a time of 21.1 seconds, was another Black American, Mack Robinson.
If you haven’t heard of Mack Robinson, I bet you’ve heard of his younger brother, Jack Roosevelt Robinson, who went by the nickname Jackie.
It sounds weird at first, but it’s obvious with a couple of details
You physically cannot exceed the weight limit on a USPS small flat rate box.
That sounds strange until you find out that USPS has the same weight limit for all of their flat rate boxes, which is 70 pounds.
The small box is about the size of a trade paperback. If you imagine a trade paperback that weighs 70 pounds, it becomes fairly obvious that you’re not going to find anything dense enough (at least on earth) to tip the scales.
For reference, the small box is 8 11⁄16" x 5 7⁄16" x 1 ¾
We had a relevant thread: that size brick of solid iridium would be a bit over 67 pounds, which is darn close.
That much iridium would cost over 5.5 million dollars.
A tungsten brick that size would cost only a couple of hundred dollars but it would only weigh about 57 pounds.
Osmium is very slightly denser, and also a little more affordable, at a little under a quarter the cost of iridium, but the brick would still only weigh a couple ounces more.
Dammit. I need to ship somebody some neutron star pieces. What do I do now?
That’s easy: Just take them out of the box. Unboxing them will also deliver them to your destination (and to everywhere else on Earth, all at once). Same-minute delivery.
Send me the box. If you have a way to safely package active neutronium, I want to study that. I mean, the neutronium itself is interesting, but the box even moreso.
Hollywood was named such by the developers for a plant called Toyon that grows in the area. It’s called “California holly” because of the red berries that grow on it, but it’s not part of that family.
I think that is an urban legend. Wikipedia has a different explanation of the origin of the name:
Daeida Wilcox, who donated land to help in the development of Hollywood, learned of the name Hollywood from an acquaintance who owned an estate by that name in Illinois. Wilcox is quoted as saying, “I chose the name Hollywood simply because it sounds nice and because I’m superstitious and holly brings good luck.”
It cites an article by the Natural History Museum which says
In Nancy Dale’s 1986 epic tome of Southern California native plants, Flowering Plants, she has this to say about Toyon — aka California Holly, Christmas Berry, or, if you’re a botanist, Heteromeles arbutifolia: “It is thought that masses of this native shrub growing on the hills above Hollywood gave the community its name.”
This idea of floral origins for Hollywood is romantic. It’s also not true. Hollywood got its name for a much more mundane reason: someone wealthy liked the sound of it.
and goes on to relate the story that Wilcox named it based on the name of the Illinois estate.
Interesting. I read what I posted in Michael Caine’s autobiography.
I’m a California native, from a family of educated gardeners, who has never heard of Toyon being called California Holly. Or Christmas Berry for that matter. Although the California Native Plant Society quotes both as alternative names.
The church bell tower at Yarpole in Herefordshire (England) is made of four wooden corner-posts, from trees felled around the year 1195 - and they had been growing for about 200 years then.
This is about 5 miles from me and a very lovely church with some interesting graves. The timbers have been dated to either 845 or 1053, so either way it would have been standing when the trees for Yarpole were mere saplings.
I’ll smack my wrist: I forgot all about Greensted, and I’ve been there, bought the jam, etc…
(Mind you, there’s not much of the original church left, by contrast with Yarpole)
Damnit! I missed it again this year….
I told my Mom about this important holiday and she thought I said “Gorilla Soup”. 
An interesting article from the BBC about that lost fashion accessory that I know everyone misses: the codpiece. Imagine someone pulling money out of there in a store?
He looks so bored in that clip, and he’s NOT taking the “rock and roll star” stuff seriously. He gets a bit silly just to amuse himself. No surprise that he ended up on a comedy show.
I saw Creed perform at a little music club. It was talking about his life from his music days through The Office interspersed with playing music. We all sang Live for Today together at the end.