The word sapphic is a synonym of lesbian. Sapphic derives from Sapphos, a Greek female poet who wrote amorously of other women. Sapphos - she was from the Greek island of Lesbos.
All My Children’s legendary character Erica Kane’s daughter Bianca Montgomery is considered the first major soap character to come out as a lesbian.
For a few years now I’ve been using goat’s milk soap, from a Prince Edward Island company called the Great Canadian Soap Company. A recipe for goat’s milk soap found on the internet requires the following ingredients:
Olive Oil = 26.5 Ounces (50% of total oils)
Palm Kernel Oil = 5.3 Ounces (10% of total oils)
Rice Bran Oil = 5.3 Ounces (10% of total oils)
Coconut Oil (76 degrees) = 5.3 Ounces (10% of total oils)
Shea Butter (Unrefined) = 5.3 Ounces (10% of total oils)
Palm Oil (RBD) = 2.65 Ounces (5% of total oils)
Castor Oil = 2.65 Ounces (5% of total oils)
Eucalyptus Essential Oil = 28 Grams (.988 Ounces)
Spearmint Essential Oil = 52 Grams (1.834 Ounces)
Goat’s Milk = 20 ounces
lye = 7.185 ounces (203 grams)
So it’s basically oils & butter, goat’s milk and lye.
The Province of Prince Edward Island (pop. 145,000) has 4 MPs and 4 Senators in Parliament.
The City of Regina (pop. 232,000) has 3 MPs and currently 2 Senators in Parliament.
Regina is the capital of Saskatchewan. The city’s name rhymes with vagina. The city’s site, years ago and before it was called Regina, was called Pile of Bones because the native Cree indians piled the bones of their hunted buffaloes into a large pile. This round pile of bones was about 6 feet high and about 35-40 feet in diameter. The Cree believed other buffalo would come back to visit the pile of bones.
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Regina is the capital of Saskatchewan. The city’s name rhymes with vagina. The city’s site, years ago and before it was called Regina, was called Pile of Bones because the native Cree indians piled the bones of their hunted buffaloes into a large pile. This round pile of bones was about 6 feet high and about 35-40 feet in diameter. The Cree believed other buffalo would come back to visit the pile of bones.
ETA: The Cree hunters named the area Oskana-Ka-asateki or “the place where bones are piled.”
Lake Superior was named after the French lac supérieur, meaning “upper lake.” It is the only great lake not named after a Native American word or phrase, though Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Gordon Lightfoot had insured that the Ojibwa name Gitche Gumme (meaninf"be a great sea") is remembered.
The other Great Lake names derivations are from Native American words:
Lake Erie is from Erie tribe, a shortened form of the Iroquoian word erielhonan (long tail)
[42]Lake Huronnamed was named by French explorers for inhabitants in the area, Wyandot or “Hurons”
Lake Michigan is from the Ojibwa word mishigami (great water or large lake)
Lake Ontario: Wyandot (Huron) word ontarío (lake of shining waters)
Sun Lakes - Dry Falls State Park in east-central Washington state shows fascinating rock formations carved from the catastrophic floods from Glacial Lake Missoula during the last ice age. These floods carved out the landscapes of western Montana, the Idaho panhandle, and parts of Washington and Oregon including the Grand Coulee, the Columbia River Gorge, and the Willamette Valley among others.
The floods happened when an ice dam, over 2,000 feet high and holding back Glacial Lake Missoula, had a catastrophic failure and the waters equal in volume to Lakes Erie and Ontario combined, drained quickly westward to the Pacific Ocean.
Large glacial erratic boulders are scattered in eastern Washington state, including Yeager Rock near Mansfield WA and 30 miles away from Sun Lakes - Dry Falls State Park. The state park has a nice interpretive center showing an overview of the effect of the flooding.
Map: Google Maps
Picture, Mansfield Plateau (and glacial erratics including Yeager Rock): http://hugefloods.com/Mansfield-Plateau.jpg
Picture, Yeager Rock: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Yeager-Rock-Erractic-PB110039.JPG
It is a fascinating place to see and one of my favorites.
Jeana Yeager (no relation to Chuck) was Dick Rutan’s relief pilot for his un-refueled, nonstop round-the-world flight in Voyager. Although they had previously been in a romantic relationship and were on speaking terms only in regard to the flight, Rutan kept her on because she is tiny and was already prepared for the flight. Dick’s brother, legendary designer Burt Rutan, had the plane built with attachment points already in place to let it hang in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - which it does, directly over the visitors’ information desk.
The record-setting 1986 flight of Burt Rutan’s Voyager started on 14 December and ended in a successful landing 9 days later, on 23 December. To take off, the fully-fueled Voyager used 2.7 miles of runway.
Back in 1986, I worked at Hexcel Corporation (advanced composite materials) in Dublin, California. Hexcel provided most of the building materials for Voyager. When Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager finished their flight, Hexcel hosted a banquet for them where we met them and got autographed photos of Voyager in flight. Mine still hangs at home, although the signatures are a little faded.
At Hexcel, we liked to say that we provided 95% of the materials for Voyager, but only 5% of its weight. Of course, most of its weight was fuel.
Also working at Hexcel around that time was future astronaut Leroy Chiao. Chiao would go on to be the first astronaut to cast his vote from outer space.
Jack Swigert, a late addition to the Apollo 13 crew when Ken Mattingly was exposed to measles, failed to file his tax return or an extension in the pre-launch rush.
Swigert was later elected to Congress , but died of cancer before he could take his seat. He is the only astronaut represented in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol (formerly the House chamber), as one of Colorado’s two choices.
Jack Swigert was 51 when he died of cancer in 1982. He is one of 24 men who are known to have flown to the moon. Swigert did his undergrad work at the University of Colorado and then went on to an MS degree from RPI’s Hartford CT campus.
In 2003 Swigert was elected to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Hall of Fame.
(Note: My dad, BTW, was a professor who taught at RPI in Troy NY and also later at RPI’s Hartford CT campus.
R.I.P., Dad. I remember tossing paper airplanes as a kid out of your RPI Troy office window. When I went back to visit recently, I tossed a paper airplane out of the same window as a middle-aged man. :D)
There might be others?
RPI was the alma mater of Washington Roebling, the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was designed mainly by his father John, who died of tetanus soon after a simple accident in surveying the site. The Roeblings were also the leading US manufacturers of wire cable, key to the project.
Yeah, is there something you’d like to tell us, Bullitt?
In play:
The Brooklyn Bridge is often shown in movies set in New York City. The protagonist Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) finds himself alone on the bridge early one morning after a memory blackout in Limitless, for example, and it is destroyed in both Cloverfield and I Am Legend.
Naah, nothing else, nobody else. Just allowing for the incredibly, minisculy remote chance that someone else has flown there without us knowing about it.
The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in NYC is also known as the 59th Street Bridge, and Simon and Garfunkel’s 59th Street Bridge Song is also known as Feelin’ Groovy.
Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless signal at the promontory known as Signal Hill, near St John’s, Newfoundland. However, the trans-Atlantic cable companies threatened him with lawsuits, alleging that they had a monopoly over trans-Atlantic communications in Newfoundland.
Marconi therefore built his first permanent wireless station in Cape Breton in Canada, rather than in Newfoundland.
Signal Hill, California, is a 2.2 mi² city that is completely surrounded by the city of Long Beach.
The completion of the last Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport in May, 2015, at the former Douglas factory in Long Beach, marked the end of a glorious history of aircraft manufacture in Southern California, driven out primarily by industry consolidation, and labor and land costs.
The Port of Long Beach is the United States’ second busiest container port and one of the world’s largest shipping ports. The city also maintains a large oil industry with wells located both underground and offshore. Manufacturing sectors include those in aircraft, car parts, electronic and audiovisual equipment, and home furnishings.
ANGLICOs are specialized USMC units where the Marines are jump qualified and specialize in coordinating fire support from air, ground and sea elements. ANGLICO stands for Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company. The Marine Corps has six ANGLICOs:
1st ANGLICO, in Camp Pendleton CA
2nd ANGLICO, in Camp Lejeune NC
3rd ANGLICO, in Bell CA
4th ANGLICO, in West Palm Beach FL
5th ANGLICO, in Camp Hansen, Okinawa Japan
6th ANGLICO, in Concord CA
Before its relocation to Bell CA, 3rd ANGLICO was located at Long Beach Naval Station on Terminal Island.