No wonder everybody left – there wasn’t any elbow room!
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Alberta, Canada, is the largest rat-free populated area in the world. Rat invasions of Alberta were stopped and eliminated by very aggressive government rat control measures, starting during the 1950s. Although it is a major agricultural area, Alberta is far from any seaport and only a portion of its eastern boundary with Saskatchewan provides a favorable entry route for rats. The adjacent and similarly landlocked province of Saskatchewan initiated a rat control program in 1972, and has managed to reduce the number of rats in the province substantially, although they have not been eliminated.
Blues singer and songwriter Alberta Hunter grew tired of touring and performing and wanted something new in her early 60s so she lied about her age, went to school, and became a nurse. She was forced to retire at 70, the mandatory retirement age at the time, which she very much resented but at least felt some satisfaction in knowing that she was really in her early 80s. In her mid-80s she returned to performing and became one of the most popular acts in NYC, selling out nightclubs and theaters until her death at 89.
A **nightclub **is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night. A nightclub is generally distinguished from bars, pubs or taverns by the inclusion of a dance floor and a DJ booth, where a DJ plays recorded music.
During US Prohibition, nightclubs went underground as illegal speakeasy bars, with Webster Hall staying open, with rumors circulating of Al Capone’s involvement and police bribery. With the repeal of Prohibition in February 1933, nightclubs were revived, such as New York’s 21 Club, Copacabana, El Morocco, and the Stork Club. These nightclubs featured big bands.
During 1998 the collapse of a construction hoist blocked access to the Henry Miller Theatre on 43rd Street, where the successful revival of the Broadway musical Cabaret was playing. To keep the show accessible, the Roundabout Theater Company agreed to move the performance to Studio 54. Roundabout later bought the building in 2003 from Allied for $22.5 million, and Cabaret played until 2004.
The landlocked Republic of Moldova has no coast, but it does have a port. Moldova enjoys 480 meters of shoreline on the navigable Danube River, upon which it has developed a port facility.
Republic Airlines was a United States airline formed by the merger of North Central Airlines and Southern Airways on July 1, 1979. In 1986 Northwest Orient Airlines announced on January 23 that they would buy Republic for $884 million and the Northwest-Republic merger was approved by the Transportation Department on July 31.
Northwest Airlines can be traced back to a beginning in 1939, when the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (FWD), a major manufacturer of four-wheel transmissions and heavy-duty trucks based in Clintonville, northern Wisconsin, opened a flight department and traded a company truck for a Waco biplane for their company’s use. It first operated as Wisconsin Central Airlines, and later as North Central…
The Iowa class of battleships, the four largest and most powerful ever built by the United States, included the USS Iowa, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Missouri. The Japanese Empire surrendered to the U.S. and other Allied powers on the deck of the Missouri, now a museum ship moored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1945, ending World War II.
Q: What are the “Four Iowas”?
A: Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri and Wisconsin. Iowa-class battleship - Wikipedia - a picture of the USS Iowa firing all nine of her main guns at once. Check out the shock waves on the water. If on deck, one had better have their ear protection on.
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Q: What are the fifth and sixth Iowas?
A: Illinois and Kentucky.
The Illinois and Kentucky were ordered and laid down, but WWII ended. The Illinois was ¼ complete, and the Kentucky ¾ complete, and what remained of their hulls were sold for scrap.
I guess it can be said that the Illinois and Kentucky were two more casualties of the atomic bombs. Good casualties.
The US Navy’s first supercarrier was to have been *USS United States *(CVA-58). On 29 July 1948, President Harry Truman approved construction of five “supercarriers”, for which funds had been provided in the Naval Appropriations Act of 1949. The keel of the first of the five planned postwar carriers was laid down on 18 April 1949 at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. The program was canceled, *United States *was not completed, and the other four planned carriers were never built. Resistance from the Air Force to the Navy impinging upon its strategic nuclear bombing role was the key factor.
The Frederick Keys, a minor league affiliate of baseball’s Baltimore Orioles, are named for Francis Scott Key, a native of Frederick, Maryland, who composed the American national anthem. The team has been called the Keys sinve 1989 – previous Fredereick teams were called the Hustlers.
The future Frederick the Great was born on January 24, 1712, in Berlin, Prussia, the son of Frederick Wilhelm I, a Calvinist who ruled his household and kingdom with a stern, paternal intolerance of frivolity. When the young Frederick showed talents for music and languages, his father prescribed military training.
At age 18 Frederick attempted to escape to England—where his maternal grandfather George I was king—in search of personal freedom and a new Prussian alliance with the British. He was caught, court-martialed and forced by his father to watch as his best friend (who had aided in his attempted escape) was decapitated.
It is a very cool picture. First time I ever saw it, thanks to your post!
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John Calvin lived from 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564. Calvin was born in Noyon, France. He died in Geneva, Switzerland. Calvin published his Institutio Christianae Religionis.
Martin Luther lived from 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546. Luther was born and died in Eisleben, Germany. Luther’s 95 Theses were nailed on or about 31 October 1517.
In humans, nails grow at an average rate of 3 mm a month. Fingernails require three to six months to regrow completely, and toenails require 12 to 18 months
Humans are beset in a galaxy full of other sentient warlike races who tend to want just the same kind of Earthlike worlds for colonization in Ohio author John Scalzi’s award-winning Old Man’s War sf series.
Warlike races were a designation created by Army officials of British India after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, where they classified each caste into one of two categories, ‘martial’ and ‘non-martial’. The ostensible reason was that a ‘martial race’ was typically brave and well-built for fighting.
In 1750 the English astronomer Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated (correctly) that the galaxy might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars held together by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger scale. The resulting disk of stars can be seen as a band on the sky from our perspective inside the disk.
The first project to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun was undertaken by William Herschel in 1785 by counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky. He produced a diagram of the shape of the galaxy with the solar system close to the center.
