An ice cream barge was a vessel employed by the United States Navy in the Pacific Theatre of World War II to produce ice cream in large quantities to be provisioned to sailors and Marines. The craft, a concrete barge acquired from the U.S. Army and worth $1 million, was able to create 10 gallons of ice cream every seven minutes, or approximately 500 gallons per shift, and could store 2,000 gallons. It was deployed in the Navy’s Western Pacific area of operations, at one point anchored at Ulithi atoll.
I don’t recall ever getting ice cream served to me out in the desert. But then again I never saw combat. My ass was never shot at. Those guys (and ladies!) deserved every scoop of that ice cream!
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The last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven in at 9.22 am on November 7, 1885.
After a few comments, the conductor called out, “All aboard for the Pacific!”, the first time a trainman from eastern Canada ever said that.
“Canadian bacon” is the American term for what Canadians typically call “back bacon” – cured and smoked pork from the pork loin, often cut into circular medallions. It is typically much leaner, and more ham-like, than what Americans simply call “bacon,” which comes from the fattier pork belly.
In the UK, American-style bacon is called “streaky bacon”.
Today, bacon can be found in ice cream, coffee, cupcakes, and even chewing gum. There are bacon-scented candles, bacon lip balm, and even a bacon deodorant.
In the U.S., the terms “anti-perspirant” and “deodorant” (for underarms) are often used interchangeably, but legally, they are two different terms.
An anti-perspirant is regulated as an over-the-counter drug in the U.S., as it affects a bodily function (inhibiting perspiration); any product labeled and sold as an anti-perspirant must contain an active ingredient (one or more of a short list of aluminum salts). On the other hand, a deodorant is simply a product which covers or masks underarm odor, and as this simply a cosmetic application, it is not regulated as a drug.
All anti-perspirant products in the U.S. are also deodorants, but some deodorants (particularly those marketed specifically to men) are not also anti-perspirants.
(Disclosure: I started my career as a market researcher at a personal-care products company, and I was the researcher on two major anti-perspirant/deodorant brands for several years. Oh, the stories I can tell… 
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In the first federal election in Canada in 1867, Nova Scotia elected a slate of 17 anti-Confederation Members of Parliament, who wanted out, and one sole Confederation supporter, Charles Tupper. Tupper eventually went on to be Canada’s shortest term Prime Minister, in office for only 69 days.
The first practical use of the material later called “Tupperware” was in World War Two gas masks. Earl Tupper then got the snap-ol lid idea from a method used on paint cans.
Scottish physician John Haldane invented one of the first gas masks of World War I, the Black Veil Respirator. In the late 1890s, he introduced the use white mice or canaries for miners to detect dangerous levels of carbon monoxide underground. He was also known for his fearlessness in experimenting on himself and on his son, J.B.S. Haldane, who gained fame as a geneticist and was also noted for using himself as a human guinea pig.
Richard Haldane, brother of John Haldane, was a notable lawyer and politician. As Lord Chancellor, he gave several decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which weakened the authority of the federal government of Canada and strengthened provincial jurisdiction.
Some have described him as the “wicked step-father of Confederation.”
Television journalist John Chancellor spent the majority of his career working for NBC News. Chancellor, who focused on political journalism, served as anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 until 1982. One of his enduring contributions to television political reporting was suggesting the use of a color-coded map for coverage of the 1976 U.S. election night; though that original map used the reverse of the now-familiar color assignments for the parties (Democrats were assigned red, and Republicans were assigned blue), the idea has become an industry standard.
As there were as yet no Federal judges, George Washington was sworn in as President of the United States for his first term by Robert Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York, the state’s highest judicial officer. The ceremony took place at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City on April 30, 1789. There’s a good recreation of the ceremony in the HBO miniseries John Adams.
David Livingstone, missionary and explorer, is remembered for his disappearance in East Africa and for journalist Henry Stanley’s question “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” He was possibly a distant relative of Robert Livingston; both of them had family origins in southern Scotland.
Actor Stanley Livingston (whose name echoes the meeting between Henry Stanley and David Livingstone) portayed Chip Douglas, the youngest of widower Steve Douglas’s sons, on the TV situation comedy My Three Sons. Livingston and Fred MacMurray (who played Steve Douglas) were the only actors to appear throughout the show’s 12-season run.
William O. Douglas was a noted outdoorsman as well as the longest-serving Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (over 36 years, from 1939-75). He wrote the most opinions of any of the Court’s members in history, and his jurisprudence on conservation and environmentalism was extensive.
Clan Douglas was one of the strongest medieval Scottish clans, divided into two groups, led by the Black Douglas and the Red Douglas.
The Black Douglas had such a ferocious reputation as a raider into northern England, that English mothers are said to have sung a lullaby to their children:
In one folk tale, a mother singing the song is interrupted when a strong hand falls on her shoulder and a man says to her from behind: “Nae be so sure of that.”
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, along with DW Griffin and Charlie Chaplin, formed United Artists in 1919. It was at that same time Fairbanks and Pickford divorced their spouses and married each other, after a fairly long affair.
For the next few years, Fairbanks made a string of adventure films: The Mark of Zorro and The Three Musketeers in 1921, Robin Hood in 1922, The Thief of Baghdad in 1924 and The Black Pirate in 1926. These films were extremely expensive, beautiful, and smashing successes.
MGM, Metro Goldwyn Mayer was formed in 1924 by Marcus Loew. He merged Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions. In 1981 United Artists (UA) joined the MGM family.
Leo the Lion was the mascot for Goldwyn Pictures, and he became the mascot for MGM. Since 1916 there have been seven lions used for the MGM logo. Although MGM has referred to all of the lions used in their trademark as “Leo the Lion”, only the current lion, in use since 1957 (a total of 63 years), was actually named “Leo”.
Pope Leo I was given the titles “The Great” and “Doctor of the Church”