Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, is also famous for his experiments demonstrating that a combination of only white and red lights could produce the illusion of full color, as seen in this image of a hamburger which appears to have orange cheese and green lettuce.
Edwin Thomas Booth (1833 – 1893) was a famous 19th-century American actor who toured throughout America and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays.Hhis achievements are often overshadowed by his relationship with his brother, John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. However, Edwin Booth saved Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert, from serious injury or even death. The incident occurred on a train platform in Jersey City, New Jersey. The exact date of the incident is uncertain, but it is believed to have taken place in late 1864 or early 1865.
The world’s first telephone box called “Fernesprecherkiosk”, was opened on January 12, 1881 at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin[Paper tickets called Telefonbillet, were purchased and which allowed for a few minutes of talking time. In 1899 it was replaced by a coin-operated telephone. William Gray is therefore credited with inventing the coin payphone in the United States in 1889, and George A, Long was its developer
In Las Vegas, men can pee at the Berlin Wall. At the Main Street Station Casino in Las Vegas, men can pee into urinals built into chunks of the old wall.
Main Street Station Casino, 200 N Main St., Las Vegas, NV
702-387-1896
Location: North of the Strip, in downtown. At the Main Street Station Casino Hotel, which is at the corner of N. Main St. and Stewart Ave.
It’s in the first men’s room off of the main floor of the casino.
Both U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan made speeches in West Berlin not far from the Berlin Wall, arguing that it was symbolic of the terrible failure of communism that a wall had to be built to keep the people in.
The Las Vegas production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express was the first legitimate musical theatre permanent production in Las Vegas, and concessions were made in the form of the shortened runtime of 90 minutes with no intermission and betting references in the race sequences. This production also brought something to the show that no other production has ever included; the show was set on Christmas Eve. Control is playing with his trains in the opening, until his mother tells him that now that ‘your stocking is hung up’, he has to be asleep ready for the ‘big day tomorrow, Christmas Day’.
Not on that list (and not as easily seen by the public) - CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/a-walk-outside-headquarters.html
In play:
There has never been a U.S. Navy ship just named after Las Vegas, but there was a cargo ship during World War II named USS Las Vegas Victory. She was scrapped in 1993.
Cool. In your play, the begged question is, what Las Vegas victory? I poked around a little but did not find it.
ETA: there is this 1-pg doc but it doesn’t help. ussLasVegas.org.
Still in play:
The 1993 federal election marked the most dramatic electoral re-alignment in Canadian history.
Going into the election, the Progressive Conservatives were a majority government (156 seats) and the Liberals were the Official Opposition (81 seats). The NDP were third (43 seats), the Bloc Québécois fourth (10 seats) and the Reform Party last (1 seat).
Once the votes were counted on election night, the Liberals formed the government (177 seats in a Commons of 295), the separatist Bloc was the Official Opposition (54 seats), Reform was third (52 seats), the NDP was fourth (9 seats) and the PCs were fifth, having been reduced to only 2 seats. Prime Minister Campbell lost her own seat and was gone from federal politics.
The San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves both had 103 wins going into the last day of the 1993 baseball season. The Braves played the upstart Colorado Rockies while the Giants played the Los Angeles Dodgers. Young Giants pitcher Salomon Torres could not hamdle the pressure and the Giants lost. The Braves won and finished the regular season with 104 wins. The Giants still had 104. In the last season with only East and West divisions and no Wild Card, the Giants were SOL and missed the playoffs. With 103 wins. “103 in '93” is what it’s called around these parts.
I would have thought it was a Victory ship (they followed Liberty ships) named for the city.
The name Colorado Rockies was previously used for Denver’s NHL team, which was founded as the Kansas City Scouts and is now the New Jersey Devils.
And here you go: USS Las Vegas Victory - Wikipedia
Five national parks are located within the Canadian Rockies, four of which are adjacent and make up the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. These four parks are Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho. The fifth national park, Waterton, is not adjacent to the others. All five of these parks, combined with three British Columbia provincial parks, were declared a single UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984 for the unique mountain landscapes found there.
The five regular convex polyhedra have intrigued men for ages, although two of them (the icosahedron and dodecahedron) weren’t discovered until the time of Plato. Johannes Kepler, who first observed that four more regular polyhedra exist when the convexity constraint is lifted, proposed a model in which the orbits of the planets were constrained by an embedding of the regular polyhedra into concentric spheres.
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In play: Kootenay - at first seemingly a unique word - takes its name from the Ktunaxa First Nation peoples (or the Kootenai or Kutenai). They were first encountered by explorer David Thompson.
There is a Kootenays region in southeastern British Columbia.
There is a Kootenay Pass, a mountain pass in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia.
There is a Kootenay Lake, on the Kootenay River in British Columbia.
There is a Kootenay Bay, British Columbia, a unincorporated community, ferry landing and former steamboat landing on the east side of Kootenay Lake.
There is a Kootenay, British Columbia.
There is a KootenaI, Idaho, a city.
There is a Kootenai County, Idaho.
And there are other uses of Kootenay.
It was a Victory ship. They had the word Victory in their names. Here’s a list.
Although it is commonly believed that British Columbia is entirely within the Pacific Time Zone, there is a small region, including some ski resort areas popular with Calgarians, that is in the Mountain Time Zone for the convenience of their clientele.
No. Kepler was in play. I’ll join that to the false thread via “areas.”
Kepler’s Three Laws of Planetary Motion are
[ul][li]The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.[/li][li]A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time.[/li][*]The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.[/ul]
Johannes Kepler was an assistant to Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe who was born in Scania Denmark but which is now part of Sweden and which is connected to Zealand Denmark by the Øresund Bridge. Zealand Denmark has no connection to New Zealand. New Zealand is named after the Dutch province, Zeeland.
“New” municipalities in New Jersey include New Brunswick, New Hanover, New Milford, New Providence, and (if you’re not too pedantic on the subject) Newark, Newfield and Newton.