Breitling is a Swiss (or, CHE) watch company that has been making watches since 1884. The company is named after Leon Breitling and is located in Grenchen CHE. Leon founded the company in Saint-Imier, Bernese Jura CHE, about 20 miles west of Grenchen.
When Leon died in 1914 the company was passed on to hiis son Gaston, and then when Gaston died in 1927 the company was passed on to his only son, Willy. In the 1950s when Willy was celebrating 25 years of company ownership he launced the new SuperOcean collection. The SuperOcean was introduced in 1957 and was then waterproof to 200 meters.
From the wiki picture it looks as though the current SuperOcean is still water resitant to 200m.
In 2002 when @Bullitt got married he received from his new wife a very generous wedding gift, a Breitling Aerospace (analog and digital). It has been on @Bullitt’s wrist every day for 20 years (you can see that it’s pretty dinged up).
Billy Ocean is the stage name of Leslie Sebastian Charles, a British R&B singer, who was born in Trinidad & Tobago.
Ocean began recording professionally in the 1970s, but was most successful in the latter half of the 1980s, with several songs that became international his, including “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run),” “Loverboy,” “Suddenly,” and “Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car.”
World Oceans Day is celebrated annually on June 8. It is a United Nations observation that started in the late 20th century.
According to the United Nations:
The ocean produces at least 50% of the planet’s oxygen
90% of big fish populations depleted
50% of coral reefs destroyed
Oceans absorb about 30% of carbon dioxide produced by humans
In 1992 — The concept was originally proposed in 1992 by Canada’s International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC) at the Earth Summit – UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In 2008 — “World Oceans Day" was officially recognized by the United Nations in 2008.
In 2009 — the inaugural celebration of the annual event
A ‘sidereal day’ is defined as how long it takes for a planet to make one complete rotation. On Earth, that is 23 hours and 56 minutes. On Venus, that is 5,832 hours; Mercury, 1,408 hours. Mars is 25 hours, while Jupiter is just 10 hours.
Very minor nitpick: a sidereal day is one rotation of a planet (or object) with respect to thefixed stars . To be even more precise, it is one rotation with respect to the March equinox . The March equinox is the vernal (or, spring) equinox in the northern hemisphere and the autumnal equinox in the southern hemisphere.
The March equinox is defined to be the zero point of sidereal time, which means it is also the zero point of right ascension.
Compared to a sidereal day, a solar day, or synodic day, for the earth is one rotation with respect to the sun . Because the earth’s orbit is eccentric, and also because of the earth’s axial tilt, the synodic day is not constant. But the longest solar day differs from the shortest solar day by about 51 seconds.
“The Eccentric” was a bistro-style restaurant in the River North area of downtown Chicago, co-owned by television personality Oprah Winfrey, and Chicago-based restauranteur Rich Melman’s company, Lettuce Entertain You. The restaurant, which featured an eclectic menu, opened in the late '80s, and closed in 1995.
The Ellipse is a park in Washington, D.C., south of the White House. It is the site of various public events, and is also truly an ellipse, with an eccentricity of 0.52.
In a republic, power is in the hands of individual
citizens. Laws are made by the elected representatives of the people.
In a democracy, laws are made by the majority. The will of the majority has the right to override the existing rights.
That’s my play but I will also play this…
In 1965, Fairchild Aircraft acquired the Republic Aviation Company. Republic is known for its WWII fighter plane, the P-47 Thunderbolt; and the day jet fighter, the F-84 Thunderjet; and the 1970s close air support A-10 Thunderbolt II.
In 1957, Sherman Fairchild, founder of Fairchild Aircraft and other companies bearing his name, agreed to provide the venture capital to launch a new division called Fairchild Semiconductor. He did this after being approached by eight engineers from the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, later dubbed the ‘traitorous eight’ by William Shockley, the inventor of the transistor. Along with Texas Instruments, Fairchild Semiconductor is credited with the invention of the integrated circuit.
Actress Morgan Fairchild’s first professional acting role was as a double for Faye Dunaway in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. As Dunaway did not know how to drive a car with a manual transmission, it was Fairchild who portrayed Bonnie Parker in scenes which required the character to be driving a car.
In the late 19th century, Hiram Morgan Hill was a prominent businessman in Santa Clara County of California. He has come from Missouri, and he married Diana Murphy, daughter of Daniel Murphy and Maria Fisher, who owned large land tracts in the county, Rancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche, and Rancho Laguna Seca. By 1898, a significant community had built around what was then known as Morgan Hill’s Ranch, and over the years the name was shortened to Morgan Hill. Today, Morgan Hill, California is a city of just under 50,000 people and about 20 miles southeast of San Jose, and about 70 miles southeast of San Francisco.
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek was a Preston Sturges comedy about a woman who gets pregnant, but doesn’t know the father’s name and tries to get a local schlub who has a crush on her to marry her.
The rules of the Hay’s Office did not allow for out-of-wedlock pregnancies, so it was written that she actually married the father first.
The Motion Picture Production Code, a.k.a. the Hays Code, was a set of self-censorship rules regarding depictions of sex, nudity, and violence, followed by the major U.S. motion picture studios from the 1930s through the late 1960s.
Enforcement of the Code began to weaken in the 1960s, and by 1968, the Code was abandoned entirely, as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) instituted a new film rating system.
The Ohio Revised Code, usually abbreviated to “ORC” or even more commonly “RC,” is the statewide compilation of the laws of the 17th state to join the Union, as passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by the Governor, or passed over his veto. The Code runs from Title I (State Government) to Title 63 (Workforce Development).
Although legally Ohio became the 17th state with the February 19, 1803 act of Congress, Ohio statehood is celebrated on March 1. The date of March 1, 1803 was when the Ohio legislature met for the first time. This was retroactively made the statehood date by a 1953 Resolution of the United States Congress.
Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States when Ohio became a state in 1803, and it was thought that the new state’s relatively few voters would be likely to favor his Democratic Republican Party in the election the next year, which they did, supporting his successful reelection with three Electoral College votes. Dwight D. Eisenhower was President in 1953, at the time of the sesquicentennial of statehood, and carried Ohio both times he ran, the year before and again four years later.
