If that had been passed in 1776, America would still be in the Commonwealth.
Red Wheel was founded in 2000 as an imprint for spiritually oriented or occult self-help and how-to books, and at that time the company name was changed from Samuel Weiser, Inc. to RedWheel/Weiser, with several other variations being commonly seen, including Weiser, Inc.
British singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty and his friend, Scottish singer-songwriter Joe Egan formed the rock band Stealers Wheel in 1972. The band’s best known hit, “Stuck in the Middle with You,” was released that same year. It peaked at #6 in 1973 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 list.
Giles Corey was accused of witchcraft in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, but refused to enter a plea of innocent or guilty. In order to force him to answer the accusation, he was pressed under a board weighted with large rocks. After two days of heavier and heavier rocks, he died without yielding to his accusers. His final words were, “More weight!”
Salem cigarettes were the first filter-tipped menthol cigarettes. Salems were not named after Salem MA, but instead after Winston-Salem NC.
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Harry Winston (1896 – 1978) was an American jeweler. He donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958 after owning it for a decade. He also traded the Portuguese Diamond to the Smithsonian in 1963.
Winston and Salem brand cigarettes were both introduced by the R J Reynolds company of Winston-Salem NC, to take advantage of the new medium of television for mass advertising, Winstons came out in 1954, followed two years later by the menthol Salem counterpart.
Winston Churchill’s mother, Jennie Jerome, was a New York heiress and socialite, daughter of Leonard Jerome, a financier and stock speculator known as “The King of Wall Street.”
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Spanish explorer Captain Marcos Farfán de los Godos staked out claims of copper mines in 1598 in what is now Jerome Arizona. During WWI the demand for copper skyrocketed and the population of Jerome boomed to about 10,000 people. As of the 2010 census, the population of Jerome is 444 people.
Copper (“Cu”; atomic number 29), Silver (“Ag”; atomic number 47) and Gold (“Au”; atomic number 79) are all in Group 11 on the periodic table. These three elements are sometimes referred to as “noble metals” because they are highly non-reactive in normal conditions.
A fourth element, Roentgenium (“Rg”; atomic number 111) is also placed in Group 11, but because Roentgenium does not occur naturally on Earth and has a half-life of around 2 minutes, it is not known if it displays the same chemical properties as Copper, Silver and Gold.
A coffee table book is an oversized, usually hard-covered book whose purpose is for display on a table intended for use in an area in which one entertains guests and from which it can serve to inspire conversation. Subject matter is predominantly non-fiction and pictorial. Since they are aimed at anyone who might pick up the book for a light read, the analysis inside is often more basic and with less jargon than other books on the subject. Because of this, the term “coffee table book” can be used pejoratively to indicate a superficial approach to the subject.
Coffee was the first food ever to be freeze-dried.
Promession is the disposal of human remains using freeze drying. The body is cryogenically frozen using liquid nitrogen, then reduced to small particles using vibration. The remains are then freeze dried, reducing them to 30% of the original weight. The dry powder is then placed in a biodegradable casket which is interred in the top layers of soil, where aerobic bacteria decompose the remains into humus in as little as 6–12 months.
Freeze-drying human remains is discussed at some length in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, a best-selling 2003 nonfiction book by Mary Roach about the social, scientific, historical and medical issues involved in the use, study and disposal of corpses.
Layers are chicken hens that are reared and maintained for their egg production. A layer can be productive for ony about a year, producing about 270 eggs, and their life expectancy is reeduced from seven years to about two. After egg production declines, the birds become “soup hens”, the corpses used for processed foods.
(Ninjaed, originally playing off “layer”)
There are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird or domestic animal.
If everybody in the world ate four eggs a week, the number of laying hens alone would need to outnumber the world’s human population of seven billion. Not counting chickens actually consumed for meat. At $2.50 a dozen, the average laying hen produces about $60 retail value in its lifetime.
A chicken in Fruita, Colorado named Mike had his head cut off, on 10 September 1945. Mike didn’t die right away. “Miracle Mike” lived through the day. The farmer who cut off Mike’s head wanted to save as much of Mike’s neck as possible, and in so doing missed Mike’s jugular.
Miracle Mike lived on for 18 months.
Michael “Mike” Stearns was a former soldier, pugilist, and coal miner, who is the lead character of author Eric Flint’s “Ring of Fire”, a series of books that deal with the fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia, which due to a cosmic accident was transported from the year 2000 to Thuringia in Central Germany in May 1631, right in the middle of the 30 Year’s War. Mike has gone from leader of the town to Prime Minister of the United States of Europe and is currently a General serving under Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.