Marriage is more beneficial for men than for women - at least for those who want a long life. Previous studies have shown that men with younger wives live longer. While it had long been assumed that women with younger husbands also live longer, in a new study by Sven Drefahl from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, has shown that this is not the case. Instead, the greater the age difference from the husband, the lower the wife’s life expectancy. This is the case irrespective of whether the woman is younger or older than her spouse.
Related to life expectancy choosing a wife is easy for men - the younger the better. The mortality risk of a husband who is seven to nine years older than his wife is reduced by eleven percent compared to couples where both partners are the same age. Conversely, a man dies earlier when he is younger than his spouse.
Circling back around to Charlotte, Rostock was the biggest city in Mecklenburg in the 14th century, with a population of 12,000. It was a shipbuilding center in the Hanseatic League, populated by Germans after being s burned by the Danish King Valdemar I in the 1161.
German cyclist Jan Ullrich hails from Rostock. He won Gold and Silver medals in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In 2006 he was barred from the Tour de France for suspicion of doping. In February 2012 he was found guilty of doping, and in 2013 Ullrich admitted to doping. He was stricken of all of his cycling achievements going back to May 2005.
Coal ash is one of the largest types of industrial waste generated in the United States. According to the American Coal Ash Association’s Coal Combustion Product Production & Use Survey Report, nearly 110 million tons of coal ash was generated by coal-fired power plants in 2012.
That does it - I am definitely not selling life insurance to Soon-Yi Previn.
The creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took place during the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. Although he did not push for creation of the EPA, he signed and did not veto the bill, and is thus usually credited for its establishment.
Comment only: It is my hypothesis that the the age difference between husband and wife (and with the husband being older), together with the hotness of said wife, are directly correlated to the husband’s net worth.
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The creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took place during the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. Although he did not push for creation of the EPA, he signed and did not veto the bill, and is thus usually credited for its establishment.
Richard Nixon is the earliest president to have a sibling still living: his much younger brother Edward Calvert Nixon is still alive at the age of 86.
LBJ is the earliest president to have children still living- his daughters are alive and are, coincidentally, the same age as Richard Nixon’s daughters, who are also still alive.
A photo of Caroline Kennedy riding her pony, Macaroni, around the White House grounds in a news article inspired singer-songwriter Neil Diamond to write his hit song, “Sweet Caroline”—a fact he revealed only when he performed it for her 50th birthday .
(by the way don’t Caroline and JFK beat LBJs children for earliest president to still have children alive??)
Neill Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” has been played in the eight inning of every Boston Red Sox game since 2002. It was played frequently before that, apparently for no other reason than that the stadium music director liked it, and caught on when the fans would sing along with it. It has become a popular fan favorite at many ballparks as a result, even though the song has no connection with baseball at all.
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(by the way don’t Caroline and JFK beat LBJs children for earliest president to still have children alive??)
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Forgot about her.
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Neil Diamond’s remake of The Jazz Singer made money at the box office but wasn’t a blockbuster and was critically one of the most panned movies of the 1980s. One reason was a scene in which Diamond performs disguised as a black man (an homage to the black face in the original, but a misfire) as well as a performance by Laurence Olivier that would now probably get the phrase “phoning it in”. The soundtrack was a hit, though.
The Cullinan Diamond is the largest white diamond ever discovered. It was given as a gift to King Edward VII of the UK after its discovery in South Africa. In order to keep it secure, the diamond was put in a safe in a steamboat for the UK. But that was a decoy. The actual diamond was sent to the UK by regular parcel post (though registered).
Shirley Temple’s 9 carat blue diamond ring, a gift from her father (using her earnings of course), is to be auctioned by Sotheby’s next month. It’s expected to bring between $25 and $35 million. Even though her parents squandered most of her earnings through bad investments, the value of the ring alone made her wealthy for life.
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British bestselling novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language.
The “moonstone” referred to in the title is a large diamond stolen from an Indian temple.
'The Moonstone" has been made into a movie four times. The first time was in 1909. It received very favorable reviews the week it was released, describing brilliant acting and vivid costumes from the Orient, but no print has been found for many decades, and it is not even known who directed or acted in it. Little is known about the picture, except what was described in the reviews.
“Moonstone” is a song from Cat Stevens’ second full length album, New Masters. Other songs included “The First Cut is the Deepest” and (one of my favorite Stevens’ numbers) “Northern Wind”, a song inspired by the westerns Stevens loved when he was a boy (when his name was Steven Georgiou).
Cool. I didn’t realize he’d written that. The First Cut Is the Deepest was written in 1967 and has been sung by many. It became a hit for four: P. P. Arnold (1967), Keith Hampshire (1973), Rod Stewart (1977) and Sheryl Crow (2003).
Southern New Hampshire University is located in Hooksett, NH, a town with a population of approximately 14,000 people. It has 65,000 students, of whom more than 60,000 are online only. Arizona State University has about 80,000 students, the majority of them online and many of their online students Starbucks employees who get free tuition (with certain stipulations) as part of their benefits package. The for-profit Phoenix University is exclusively online and has more than 120,000 students. Pretty much all are kept in business by Federally funded student loans.
Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education. It is known for its idiosyncratic architecture; a number of its buildings were designed by Norton Juster, better known for his classic children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth
