In his 2014 bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Israeli historian Yuval Harari suggested that humanity made a mistake in turning from hunting/gathering to farming, due to the harder work and more limited diet that typically resulted for most people at the time.
ETA: Marines can still eat what they want when off-duty.
The near-universal adoption of farming wasn’t due to intrinsic superiority so much as the higher population densities allowed. Non-farmers were simply outnumbered and easily dispossessed or conquered.
Such equation of big with better is sometimes cited as a flaw in modern economic thought.
The Universal Accreditation Act of 2012, also known as the Universal Adoption law, provides that adoption service providers working with prospective adoptive parents in non-Convention adoption cases need to comply with the same accreditation requirement and standards that apply in Convention adoption cases.
The first Republican National Convention was held at Lafayette Hall in Pittsburgh on February 22–February 23, 1856. At this convention, the Republican Party was formally organized on a national basis, and the first Republican National Committee was elected. The first Republican National Convention to nominate a presidential candidate convened from June 17–19, 1856 at the Musical Fund Hall in Philadelphia. John C. Fremont was nominated for President and William L. Dayton was his VP. They lost the election to the Democrats under James Buchanan.
Fremont, California, named after the famous John Charles Frémont who was court-martialled for declaring himself military Governor of California (although the accent mark was dropped), is home to the old Mission San José and to the southernmost station in the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
In May 1962, three northern California counties, Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco, adopted a plan to build a rapid transit system together. Originally Marin and San Mateo counties were to be part of the plan but they opted out. On 19 June 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson presided over BART’s groundbreaking ceremony. On 11 September 1972, BART opened to the public.
The Port Authority Trans-Hudson, commonly called PATH, is a rapid transit railroad serving Newark, Harrison, Hoboken, and Jersey City in metropolitan northern New Jersey, as well as lower and midtown Manhattan in New York City. The PATH is operated by, and named after, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. PATH trains run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
BART does not run 24/7.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the term 24/7 as “twenty four hours a day, seven days a week; constantly”. It lists its first reference to 24/7 as from US magazine Sports Illustrated in 1983. In that story, LSU player Jerry Reynolds described his jump shot in just such a way - plus 365.
Sports Illustrated magazine has been published continuously since 1954. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. Its swimsuit issue has been published since 1964. Michael Jordan was on its cover 50 times, the most for an individual athlete. US Presidents who have been on its cover are John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. Ronald Reagan was the only President to appear twice on the cover.
Molecules reach a temperature of absolute zero (0 °K or −273.15 °C) when they cease all motion and stand still. Physicists, however, have a concept of “negative” temperatures, i.e. temperatures below absolute zero.
The Avogadro constant is named after the early 19th-century Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro, who, in 1811, first proposed that the volume of a gas (at a given pressure and temperature) is proportional to the number of atoms or molecules regardless of the nature of the gas.
In 1147,Amadeo III,Count of Savoy, accompanied his nephew Louis VII of France and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine on the Second Crusade. Amadeo died the following year in Cyprus. Eleanor went on to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages
All kings and queens of England after Henry II are descended from Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Two actresses playing Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter have won major awards. Rosemary Harris won a Tony when the play ran on Broadway in 1966. Katherine Hepburn won an Oscar for the film version in 1968.
The big cats (Lion, etc.) are in Genus Panthera of Subfamily Pantherinae and roar, but cannot purr. Other cats are mostly in Subfamily Felinae and purr but can not roar. An exception is the snow leopard which is in Panthera (and sometimes thought to be Panthera’s ancestral species) which purrs but does nor roar.
Most cat species, whether in Pantherinae or Felinae, share a genetic anomaly that prevents them from tasting sweetness.
Over 7,000 De Tomaso Panteras were built between 1971 and 1992.
About 177 AD the Greek philosopher Celsus, in his book ‘The True Word’, expressed what appears to have been the consensus Jewish opinion about Jesus, that his father was a Roman soldier called Pantera. ‘Pantera’ means Panther and was a fairly common name among Roman soldiers. The rumor is repeated in the Talmud and in medieval Jewish writings where Jesus is referred to as “Yeshu ben Pantera”.
The Capuchin Crypt in Rome consists of five chapels and a corridor 60 meters long, with the bones of 4,000 deceased monks. The coffee drink Cappuccino takes its name from this order of monks who were known by their custom of wearing a hood or cappucio with their habits.