Hartford CT’s airport is BDL, Bradley International Airport, in Windsor Locks. After BOS, Boston’s Logan International Airport, BDL is New England’s second busiest commercial airport. BDL was named after 24-year-old Lt. Eugene M. Bradley of Antlers OK, assigned to the 64th Pursuit Squadron, who died when his P-40 crashed during a dogfight training drill on August 21, 1941.
Antlers are unique to the deer family (cervidae). Antlers are different from horns of other mammals, in that they are made entirely of bone. Every member of the deer family grows antlers, and only among caribou do they regularly occur in females.
Besides being made entirely of bone, antlers are a single structure as part of the skull. They are shed and regrown each year and function primarily as objects of sexual attraction and as weapons in fights between males for control of harems.
Horns, on the other hand, are two-part structures made of bone interior and keratin exterior sheath covering.
The longest recorded total horn length for a Texas longhorn is 129.5 inches. The proud owner of this set of horns is the delightfully named M Arrow Cha-Ching, who resides on a ranch near Fayetteville, Texas.
Ossicones are the horn-like growths on the heads of giraffes and okapi. Ossicones are simliar to the horns of antelopes or cattle, though ossicones are made of ossified cartilage, rather than living bone, and are covered by skin and fur, rather than the keratin which covers most horns.
It is known that the male okapi’s tongue is so long that he can lick his own ears.
It is not known, however, how to tell if a female okapi is smiling.
Gene Simmons, bassist of the rock band KISS, is well-known for his long tongue, which he regularly sticks out and wiggles as part of his on-stage act.
When KISS first came to prominance in the 1970s, a frequently-circulated rumor was that Simmons had had a cow’s tongue grafted onto his own.
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The human genome contains an estimated 20,000–25,000 protein-coding genes. The first mapping of the human genome was completed in the early 2000s and announced in 2004 — complete, except for 341 gaps in the sequence representing highly-repetitive and other DNA that could not be sequenced with the technology available at the time.
Repetitive place names occur in about 30 countries, with Walla Walla being the only true example in th US. Technically. they are called “re-duplicative”, led by the
Philippines, with 23 of them. Chile and Papua have 7 each. Many are accidental, like Berber or Wawa, which were not intended reduplications. Paw Paw, in the US, is named after a tree, already a reduplication.
The Philippines consists of 7,107 islands, of which about 2,000 are inhabited. Only about 500 of the islands are larger than a square kilometer and 2,500 of them are not even named. The largest island in the Philippines is Luzon, which occupies an area of 42,458 square miles and is the 15th largest island on earth.
Of the ten largest islands on Earth (based on land area), three of them (New Guinea, Borneo, and Sumatra) are wholly or partially in Indonesia, and another three (Baffin Island, Victoria Island, and Ellesmere Island) are in Canada.
Thousand Islands NY USA, and Thousand Islands ON CAN, is an archipelago of 1,864 islands in the Saint Lawrence River as the river emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for about 50 miles downstream from Kingston ON CAN.
Comment: and a boat tour there is recommended! Beautiful.
One of baseball’s most unnoticed records is held by Jim Mason. He was a substitute Yankee infielder in 1976, wnen Cincinnati was sweeping the World Series. By the time Mason got his only batting appearane, the Reds were so far ahead, that Mason’s home run passed almost without notice and he was never mentioned again. It turned out to be Masons only WS batting turn in his career, and the homer gave him a career Series Slugging Average of four-thousand, the highest possible, and nobody else has ever done it.
John Landis Mason was an American tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for antique fruit jars that have come to be known as Mason jars. Many such jars were printed with the line “Mason’s Patent Nov 30th 1858”. He also invented the first screw top salt shaker in 1858.
After Mason’s patent expired in 1879, many companies began manufacturing glass jars using his design. One of the firms was the Ball Company, which began producing Mason jars in 1884.
Ball State University in Indiana is a public university founded by the Ball family.
British actor James Mason had no formal training as an actor – he attended Peterhouse (a constituent college of the University of Cambridge), where he received a degree in architecture. While he was in college, he started acting in stock theater in his spare time, for fun. After leaving school, he continued acting on the stage; within a few years, he had joined the Old Vic theater company, and began acting in films as well.
Currently headquartered in Denton TX, Peterbilt Trucks was created in 1953 in Oakland CA by T. A. (Theodore Alfred “Al”) Peterman after he had acquired the Fageol Truck and Coach Company in 1939. The first Peterbilt trucks were nearly identical in appearance to the former Fageol designs.
T. A. Peterman died in 1944, at the age of 51, from cancer.
Laurence Peter, a Canadian professor, became widely known in 1969 on the publication of The Peter Principle, in which he states: “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence… *n time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties… Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
Laurence Broze is a Belgian applied mathematician specializing in statistics and econometrics and particularly in the theory of rational expectations.
Broze is female. Images >> https://is.gd/BrP4J2
The prestigious Browning fire-arms were first developed by a small factory in Ogden, Utah, but the plant never grew, and most guns carrying the Browning mame were made in Belgiun. Hence the popular name “Belgian Browning”, especially shotguns with their famous gold trigger.