Ethiopian Airlines flies between the two cities - via Addis Ababa - a 12-hour trip. But you can do the non-stop trip on a couple of flights a week. Prices for both flights are the same (about $450 return). This video shows that you’re in the air for less than 10 minutes. The World Shortest International Flight KINSHASA BRAZZAVILLE (youtube.com)
Anybody remember George Wallace? He was the governor of Alabama who famously stood in front of the university in 1963 to prevent integration by black students. He preached “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” and was later shot in 1972, although he lived to 1998.
Anyway, the other day I found out that his first wife, Lurleen, died of cancer in 1968.
Except she had been diagnosed in 1961, and as was custom at the time, the doctor only told George, and not her. And George Wallace kept it a secret from his wife!
She didn’t know she had cancer until a doctor told her in 1965! And she might have been able to get better treatment if she had known.
Even worse, George rode her to exhaustion in the months leading up to her death.
He was term limited as governor, so, in another completely weird practice of the time, he had his (cancer stricken) wife run instead. She won, although sick, and with a husband publicly denying her illness.
By the time of her death, he was busy traveling for his own 1968 presidential campaign. After the funeral, he didn’t take their kids to live with him.
Just a real horrible human.
He was horrible at the time. The story takes a turn later on.
Boo, boo, boo!
The first line of “Another One Bites the Dust” is
“Steve walks warily down the street”
I always heard the first line as “Steamboat [something unitelligible] down the street”
I still wanna know why Freddie yells out, “I’m adopted!” partway through the song?
I thought it was “Maladaptive!”
That was supposed to be a reply to NotherYinzer
I had probably heard this before, but the comments above got me to exploring Africa and came to discover that Tunisia’s southern governate, which borders on both Algeria and Libya, is named Tataouine. Not seeing names that evoke any wretched hives of scum and villany, though.
Ummmm…Washington dc is ,I think, also a province and capital named after a US president. 
My favorite unit of measure is the Therblig.
Invented by a man named Gilbreth, who named it after himself when he created the science of motion engineering.
“Washington” is the city. AIUI, it does not occupy the entire district, though I could be wrong. But the district is not called Washington (there is an entire state called Washington), it is called the District of Columbia.
Minimize your therbligs!
When it comes to obscure units of measurement, I’m partial to the smoot.
We’ve been watching episodes of Dr. Kildare once a week lately. We got to season 5 last night to find out that the episodes were now half hour long. (And in color!) They’d air an episode on Monday and Tuesday night’s as a 2, or even 4, parter a la Batman. They were competing with Peyton Place apparently. (The first 4 episodes of this season have the great James Mason.)
So I dove into the history of the Kildare franchise. Lew Ayres played Kildare in the movies. But at the start of WWII he declared himself a CO and “poof” he was gone. Not even mentioned in the ensuing films where were now based on Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) paired up with other random young doctors.
All was apparently forgiven as Ayers did Kildare on the post war radio series.
The creator of Dr. Kildare was Frederick Schiller Faust aka “Max Brand”. (Sounds like a Simpsons TV character.) He became a war correspondent and was killed in Italy.
WWII changed people’s lives, in case this was news to anybody.
I believe that Washington is now coterminous with the District. Arlington was the city on the Virginia side but that was handed back to Virginia in 1846. Georgetown was made part of Washington in 1871.
The province (district) name is Columbia.
Anyone who wears shoes should be more interested in the barleycorn.
Today I learned how most of the fentanyl is being transported into the U.S. Contrary to conservative talking points, it’s not carried over the border by people entering the country illegally. According to this article, it’s being transported in cars - from Mexico to the U.S. via the border crossings - by U.S. citizens.
Strictly speaking, while therbligs can be used as units of measure, they are used to define the elements involved in accomplishing a task. So while you can “minimize your therbligs” (as @silenus noted), doing so is a matter of making each therblig more efficient. Or eliminating unnecessary ones.
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Max Brand was also a prolific writer of Western novels, forming the great majority of his over 120 books.