Berghoff Beer is one of the few traditionas breweries that ha not (yet) been swallowed up by Miller or inBev. It was made since 1845 in Monroe, Wisconsin, by Hober, which now markets most of its product as Huber’s. Beerghoff was once the top selling beer in Chicago.
As we move to Christmas season it is time to start ordering Swiss Colony cheese and sausages for those family members you’re obligated to send gifts to. Swiss Colony is headquartered in Monroe, WI.
Swiss cheese is any variety of cheese that resembles Emmental cheese, a yellow, medium-hard cheese that originated in the area around Emmental, Switzerland. Some types of Swiss cheese have a distinctive appearance, as the blocks or rounds of the cheese are riddled with holes known as "eyes”.
Minnesota, with10 electoral votes, was indeed the only state to vote for Mondale. The other 3 Mondale votes in 1984 came from the District of Columbia.
In play: Denmark leads the world in cheese consumption per capita per year. The Danes consume 28.1 kilograms per person per year (that’s almost 62 pounds). Iceland is second, followed by Finland, France, and, interestingly, Cyprus.
Danish nuclear physicist Niels Bohr won the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his work on atomic particles. Bohr went to the United States in 1942 and worked on the Atomic Bomb project. Bohr’s son Aage also won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975.
Ahhh, Huber Beer. I drank a lot of Huber in college, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1980s. A case of Huber was cheaper than a case of soda. 
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Five members of the Curie family were Nobel laureates:
- Pierre and Marie Curie were co-winners of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Henri Becquerel (Marie also won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- Their daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, and her husband, Frederic Joliot-Curie, were co-winners of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Henry Labouisse, husband of Marie and Pierre’s other daughter, Eve, won the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize, on behalf of UNICEF, of which he was the director
Frédéric Joliot-Curie was part of the French Resistance, particularly during the struggle for Paris in 1944:
A ‘Molotov cocktail’ refers to an incendiary device, usually a bottle filled with gasoline or other flammable liquid, with a rag or paper stuffed into the mouth which acts as the fuse. The fuse is lit, the container is thrown, and an explosion results upon impact.
The name was coined by the Finns during the Winter War of 1939 against the Soviet Union. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov declared that bombing missions over Finland were actually humanitarian food deliveries. The Finns dubbed the bombs ‘Molotov bread baskets’, and, when using the hand-held firebombs to attack Soviet tanks, called them ‘cocktails to go with his food parcels.’
Spaniards were the first to use Molotov cocktails, in the mid- to late-1930s, although of course they were not called by that name. They were used against the Soviets, just like the Finns did in late 1939. The Spaniards used them against Soviet T-26 tanks (image below), specifically, to burn the rubber on the wheels on which the track runs.
Molotov cocktails are not foolproof. One thrown into my office by Quebec separatists juct went through a window without breaking, and lay on the floor while the fuse burned out. Later, a friend who trained with the IRA explained that it was probably an old green Coke bottle, which are hard to break. On the other hand. brown beer bottles broke too easily, would not break a window, and would just start a fire out in the street.
Coca-Cola was invented in 1886. It was sold exclusively at soda fountains until 1899, when it became available in glass bottles with metal stoppers. In 1928, for the first time, more Coke was sold in bottles than through soda fountains.
The familiar Coke ‘contour’ bottle appeared on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1950, becoming the first product to do so.
Princess Elizabeth, then the daughter of HRH the Duke of York who was seven years later to become King George VI, appeared on the cover of Time magazine at the tender age of three in April 1929: Elizabeth II - Wikipedia
HRH Princess Elizabeth appeared on the $20 banknote issued by the Bank of Canada in 1935:
HM Queen Elizabeth II continues to appear on the current $20 banknote:
Serbian actress Jelisaveta Orašanin is 32 years old and was born in Belgrade. She is an actress of television and theater performances. She is married to NBA basketball player Miloš Teodosić. Jelisaveta is the Serbian name for Elizabeth.
In much of the Commonwealth, “theater” is a misspelling.
The legal names of four U.S. states include the word “commonwealth”: Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky.
The song lyrics for “Happy Birthday to You” has been traditionally attributed to sisters Patty and Mildred Hill for writing it in 1893. The tune comes from the song “Good Morning to All.” Patty and Mildred Hill hail from Kentucky. They are buried in Louisville KY.
“Happy Birthday to You” has an interesting copyright history. It started with Mildred & Patty Hill’s “Good Morning to All” (heard in Laurel & Hardy’s ‘Pardon Us’). The words to “Happy Birthday to You” of unknown origin but established history were cobbled together with the Hill’s melody to create the song we know today and was copyrighted by the Summy Company in 1935. How could they get copyright on music and lyrics* they didn’t write? Good question as Warner/Chappel who bought the rights found out. They weaponized the copyright as trolls. Jennifer Nelson, who was making a documentary on the song, paid to license the song but based on her work realized the copyright claim was probably not valid and filed suit. The judge agreed, ruled the copyright was never valid (except a specific arrangement of it) and “Happy Birthday to You” was in the public domain.
*Set up for trivia on the Hugh Grant/Drew Barrymore movie
Ernest Chappell was the radio announcer who was associated with the advertising line “Pall Mall famous cigarettes --outstanding, and they are mild”. His soothing baritone may have single-handedly been responsible for the brand’s success.
Pall Mall cigarettes are named for Pall Mall, a street in Central London, which was known (particularly in the 18th and 19th Centuries) for grand homes, upscale stores, and gentlemen’s clubs (private social clubs for upper-class men). The name was chosen for the cigarette brand by its original manufacturer, the Black Butler Company, to appeal to upscale consumers.