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Penelope, Texas is a small town, population 198, about 125 miles north of Austin. According to the United States Census Bureau, Penelope has a total area of 1.0 square mile. Penelope is near Carl’s Corner, Texas, named after Carl Cornelius, a truck stop owner and long-time friend of singer Willie Nelson.
Penelope is 1,000 miles southwest of Cary, Indiana.
Cary, Indiana is 75 miles from Gary, Indiana.
Gary, Indiana is named for lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation.
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uS states contain the name if a foreign country in the spelling of their name: Georgia, New Mexico, Indiana and Rhode Island. “Island” is the Icelandic spelling of Iceland.
The Icelandic Phallological Museum, located in Reykjavík, Iceland, houses the world’s largest display of penises and penile parts. The collection of 280 specimens from 93 species of animals includes 55 penises taken from whales, 36 from seals and 118 from land mammals.
Iceland produces 85 percent of its energy from renewable energy sources. Usage of hydroelectric and geothermal power has made Iceland the world’s largest electricity producer per capita.
Iceland’s per capita vonsumption of Coca–Cola is higher than in any other country.
And, beer remained illegal in Iceland until 1989.
On June 27th, 2016, Iceland’s football (soccer) team played against England in the “round of 16” in the UEFA Euro tournament; in a stunning upset, Iceland defeated England, 2-1.
The match, held in Nice, France, was attended by more than 27,000 Icelanders, or about 8% of the nation’s entire population. TV ratings estimated that 99.8% of all Icelanders who were watching television that night were watching the match.
With an estimated current United States population of 328.2 million, if the US soccer team were to play England and about 8% of Americans attended, there would be 26.26 million Americans there.
The 1954 Chicago Whiye Sox had three former league bbatting champions play first base for them. They started the season with Ferris Fain playing first, and at midseason traded him for George Kell. Both had previously won American league battting titles, while with Philadelphia and Detroit… The also used Phil Cavaretta at first for a quarter of their games, closing out a career in which the former Cub had led the National league in batting.
The team which became the Chicago White Sox originated in the early 1890s as the Sioux City Cornhuskers, a team in the minor Western League. In 1894, Charles Comiskey bought the Cornhuskers, and moved them to St. Paul, Minnesota, where they were nicknamed the Saints.
In 1900, Comiskey moved the franchise to Chicago, where they adopted the nickname “White Stockings,” a name which had previously been applied to the city’s National League team – by then, the National League team was known as the Orphans, but would soon become the Cubs. The Western League became the American League, and the nickname “White Stockings” was soon shortened to “White Sox.”
The University of Kansas and the University of Nebraska played their first football game on November 12, 1892. The two teams continued to play each other each year until the 2011 season. The last game was November 13, 2010.
In that first game, the Kansas team was called the Jayhawks. However, the Nebraska team was called the Bugeaters. The name was not changed to Cornhuskers until the 1899 season.
Minneapolis and St. Paul had two separate teams in baseballl’s minor leagues, continuously, from the 1880s to 1960, when the market was awarded the old Washington Senators franchise. Through the early 1900s, they were the Minneapolis Millers and the St. Paul Saints. The American Association was destroyed when the Major leagues expanded into Minneapolis/St. Paul. Milwaukee, Kansas City, Houston. Dallas and Denver. (averting ninja)
St. Paul was originally called Pig’s Eye.
Pierre Parrant was the first person of European descent to live within the borders of what would eventually become Saint Paul. Parrant, a fur trapper, was blind in one eye and was therefore known by the nickname, “Pig’s Eye”. Parrant became a bootlegger when the fur trapping business fell off in the early 19th century. He opened a tavern that became wildly popular with the surrounding community. The bar was known as “Pig’s Eye” or “Pig’s Eye Pandemonium”, and as a result the growing community around the bar became known as Pig’s Eye.
The name was changed after the first log chapel built there.
You can still buy Pig’s Eye beer, with a picture of the one-eyed Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant on the label. Image >> https://is.gd/qX8qsa.
The name Pandemonium (or Pandæmonium) was coined by author John Milton in his epic poem, Paradise Lost. In the poem, Pandæmonium is the capital city of Hell; it is built by the fallen angels at the suggestion of Mammon, at the end of Book 1 of the poem.
Milton coined the word from the Greek words for “all” and “little daemon” (or “demon”). Translated from Greek, it means “all demons” or “all-demon-place.”
The word has passed into common English use, meaning “chaos,” “lawless violence,” or “uproar.”
In Genesis, the snake is introduced as “more cunning than any of the creatures of the field that the Lord God had made”, but is not identified as Satan; the ancient Israelites did not develop a concept of the evil until centuries later. In Paradise LostMilton gives a long description of the fallen Lucifer entering into various animal’s bodies before deciding on the serpent.
There are about 3,600 species of snakes, of which about 600 are considered to be venomous. The snake that is believed to be the most venomous to humans is the inland taipan, which is endemic to semi-arid regions of central and east Australia.
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In Genesis, the snake is introduced as “more cunning than any of the creatures of the field that the Lord God had made”, but is not identified as Satan; the ancient Israelites did not develop a concept of the embodied Evil One until centuries later. In Paradise Lost, Milton gives a long description of the fallen Lucifer entering into various animals’ bodies before deciding on the serpent.
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There are about 3,600 species of snakes, of which about 600 are considered to be venomous. The snake that is believed to be the most venomous to humans is the inland taipan, which is endemic to semi-arid regions of central and east Australia.
Though the terms “venomous” and “poisonous” are used interchangeably by many laymen, biologists use the two terms in specific, different ways:
- A venomous organism delivers a toxin (venom) to other organisms through biting or stinging the other organism.
- A poisonous organism delivers a toxin (poison) to other organisms when they (the poisonous organisms) are eaten.
In tthe USA, there are six kinds of venomous animals: Coral snake, Rattlers, Cottonmouth, Copperhead, Brown recluse spiders and Black widows. Missouri is the only state where all six normally occur. Beside Missouri being the epicenter of both ticks and chiggers, which are impossible to escape on a summer country outing.
Lyme Disease, a bacteriological disease spread by deer ticks, has been around for literally centuries; however, it wasn’t known by that name until a cluster of cases (originally thought to be juvenile rheumatoid arthritis) was identified in three towns in southeastern Connecticut in 1975, including the towns of Lyme and Old Lyme.
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