“The Adventure of the Speckled** Band**” is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the eighth of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It is one of four Sherlock Holmes stories that can be classified as a locked room mystery. The story was first published in Strand Magazine in February 1892, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Doyle later revealed that he thought this was his best Holmes story.
Off line: FWIW, this is one of my 2-3 favorite Holmes stories.
Scots people hate it when you use Scottish as an adjective. Even worse, Scotch, inoffensive only for whiskey or tape.
Superstitious actors are often afraid to say aloud the title of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” and will refer to it solely as “the Scottish play.”
The Martini–Henry rifle was a breech-loading single-shot lever-actuated rifle adopted by the British Army and used in the late 19th century up until around the time of WWI. The then-unique design brought the cocking and striker mechanism within the receiver, greatly improved the operation of the rifle, and was combined with the polygonal barrel rifling designed by Scotsman Alexander Henry. The resulting rifle allowed for faster cycling of the action, and increased range and accuracy.
Butterscotch, as a confection, dates back at least to 1848. It refers to equal parts sugar and butter, not boiled long enough to become as hard as toffee. Originally, molasses was used instead of all sugar.
Leopold “Butters” Stotch, a character on “South Park”, is voiced by series co-creator Matt Stone and loosely based on co-producer Eric Stough. His evil alter ego is Professor Chaos, whose sidekick is General Disarray. His best-known song is probably “What-What In The Butt”.
The Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company, founded in 1910, began operation in 1912. Purchased by Carl D. Bradley and the United States Steel Corporation in 1920, the company came under the ownership of U.S. Steel upon Bradley’s death in 1928. In 1951 the company became a division of the corporation. Self-unloaders of the division’s Bradley Transportation Line carry limestone from this, the world’s largest limestone quarry, to industrial ports around the Great Lakes.
Milton Bradley, the founder of the board game company, set up Massachusetts’s first color lithography shop. One of his first successes was His likeness of Abraham Lincoln, which sold very well until Lincoln grew his beard and rendered the likeness out-of-date.
Milton Obelle Bradley, Jr. (born April 15, 1978) is a retired Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. Milton Bradley played for eight different teams during his 13 year MLB career. Bradley was a skilled player but was hampered by anger management issues that kept him from reaching his full playing potential.
In physics, potential energy is the energy that an object has due to its position in a force field or that a system has due to the configuration of its parts
As an example, in the case of a bow and arrow, when the archer does work on the bow, drawing the string back, some of the chemical energy of the archer’s body is transformed into elastic potential-energy in the bent limbs of the bow. When the string is released, the force between the string and the arrow does work on the arrow. Thus, the potential energy in the bow limbs is transformed into the kinetic energy of the arrow as it takes flight.
Pierce-Arrow were high end luxury automobiles made in Buffalo, NY, from 1901 to 1938. The company was formed from the predecessor Heinz, Pierce and Munschauer, which was best known for making luxury high-end gilded birdcages.
The Buffalo Bills are one of the ten original AFL teams to have joined the NFL in the 1970 merger that are still in the same city/area and currently still have the same city and team name. The other teams are the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oakland Raiders, the New York Jets, the Miami Dolphins, the Denver Broncos, the Cincinnati Bengals, and the San Diego Chargers.
The two AFL teams to have changed their city/area and team name since the 1970 merger are the Boston Patriots who are now the New England Patriots, and the Houston Oilers who have moved and are now the Tennessee Titans.
At the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, three NFL teams joined the ten AFL teams to form the 13-team AFC: the Baltimore Colts who are now the Indianapolis Colts, the Cleveland Browns who are now the Baltimore Ravens, and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys were the first band to play the drums at The Grand Old Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Grand Ole Opry debuted nationally on NBC Radio in 1939.
NBC originated in 1926, as a merger between RCA, General Electric, and Westinghouse. It was then divided into two programming operati9ons, the Red Network and the Blue Network. At that time, nearly all radio programming was live, as there was no technology that would allow for pre-recording material on a re-usable medium. Sound on discs was subject to considerable distortion, and no more than about three minutes could be cut into a single disc…
Art director and graphic designer Paul Rand designed the company logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT.
Technically, the Missouri Army National Guard, sworn into Federal service: Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia
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Rand Paul and Jeb Bush are both candidates for the Republican nomination for President in 2016, and are both the sons of men who also ran at least twice. Ron Paul ran and lost in 2008 and 2012, while George H.W. Bush ran but lost in 1980, ran and won in 1988, and ran as the incumbent President and lost in 1992.
Justin Trudeau is the first son of a Prime Minister to become Prime Minister of Canada.
His opponents have attributed his electoral success to his good hair. 
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Justin Trudeau is not the first Canadian Prime Minister to have the same name as a predecessor. McKenzie has occurred three times, in Alexander McKenzie, McKenzie Bowell, and William Lyon McKenzie King.