The bright red color of the plumage of cardinals is highly dependent on their diets. Cardinals get carotenoids from the seeds and fruits they eat. In cardinals, carotenoids can accumulate in the cell of growing feathers and depending on a few factors, will appear as a bright red color in the plumage of a male cardinal.
In scientific studies, male cardinals were feed a seed-heavy diet without the heavy fruit-based diet that they eat during the molting season. Without wild fruit in their diet, the red plumage was less brilliant and less shocking. The seeds, even though they aren’t red in color, contain the organic compound carotenoid. The “wild” fruit which contains even more carotenoids than yellow seeds, helps create brilliantly red cardinals.
The St. Louis baseball team joined the National League in 1892; at that time, they were called the Browns and the Perfectos before they were officially renamed as the Cardinals in 1900. The Cardinals have won 11 World Series championships, second only to the New York Yankees’ 27 and most among National League franchises.
The Cardinals won their very first World Series, in 1926, when they beat Babe Ruth’s NY Yankees. Babe Ruth lost three World Series in his lifetime, once to the Cardinals in 1926, and twice to the Giants in 1921 and 1922.
When the Cardinals won the 1946 World Series, they did it without a single player who had ever previously worn the uniform of any other major league team.
70 years ago, in July 1946, the first atomic testing took place in the Pacific Ocean, at Bikini Atoll.
Also that month, another dramatic unveiling took place in Paris when French designer Louis Reard revealed womens’ midriffs in a new, two piece bathing suit he dubbed the bikini because of the atomic tests. Two piece bathing suits had been worn since the 1930s, but they only exposed a tiny slit of the midriff. Reard’s design exposed much more of the midriff.
Réard commissioned renowned carbody specialist Chapron to build an extravagant “road yacht” by converting a Packard V8 car into a mock luxury cabin cruiser.
The original V8 vegetable juice was introduced in 1933. It is made mainly from water and tomato concentrate, and reconstituted vegetable juice blend: water and concentrate of eight vegetables: beets, celery, carrots, lettuce, parsley, watercress, spinach, and tomato. Tomato juice makes up around 89% of the total drink.
The Campbell Soup Company acquired the brand in 1948 and has produced many different varieties, a number of them featuring fruit.
Buick car’s final family of V-8 engines included the 350 in³ (5.7L) V-8. It was included in the 1969 Buick Skylark. The Buick 350 V-8 was also used by Kaiser-Jeep and AMC Jeep in the Jeep Gladiator and Wagoneer models from 1968–71; for these, the engine was billed as the “Dauntless V8”.
In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered in the small, upstate New York town of Bethel (near Woodstock, N.Y.) for four days of rain, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Performers include Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jefferson Airplane and Sly and the Family Stone.
While serving in George Washington’s Cabinet as Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson secretly funded an opposition newspaper. He repeatedly denied it until the editor turned on him and publicly exposed him.
Uriah Levy, the first Jewish Commodore of the US Navy, bought Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation in 1834 and preserved and restored it at his own cost. Upon Levy’s death in 1862, Levy left Monticello to the American people to be used as an agricultural school for the orphans of Navy warrant officers.
David Copperfield’s last encounter with Uriah Heep was when David, by then a successful author and social commentator, was touring a penitentiary and met the self-pitying Heep one last time.
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70 years ago, in July 1946, the first atomic testing took place in the Pacific Ocean, at Bikini Atoll.
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Eh? the first atomic test was at Trinity Site, July 16 1945.
In play: Having sold over 33 million tickets and grossed over $4 billion, David Copperfield, who was born David Seth Sotkin, has sold more tickets and grossed more money than any other solo entertainer in history.
When he was 18 years old, Copperfield attended Fordham University, but he dropped out after only three weeks to chase a show business career.
The third edition of Carols for a Cure was recorded at Trinity Church, 75 Broadway NYC in the shadow of the World Trade Towers on September 9 and 10, 2001. The CD insert was already being printed up, showing two brightly lit up towers.
The insert was scraped, and Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS donated some of the proceeds from the CD to the Broadway Fire Unit.
“Me and My Shadow” was the top hit song in 1927. Billy Rose was the lyricist, David Dreyer the composer,and Al Jolson a performer who was often given credits so he could earn some more money. The song has been recorded by at least 40 singers since then, with Jolson receiving royalties from all of them.
The umbra, penumbra and antumbra are three distinct parts of a shadow. The umbra is the darkest part of a shadow and is the region where no light from the source reaches. The penumbra is the region where some light from the source reaches. An observer in the penumbra experiences a partial eclipse. The antumbra is the region from where it appears that the occluding body lies wholly contained within the light source. An observer in the antumbra experiences an annular eclipse.