A version of the Cinderella story, Ye Xian, appeared in Miscellaneous Morsels from Yuanyuan by Duan Chengshi around 860. Here, the hardworking and lovely girl befriends a fish, the reincarnation of her mother, who was killed by her stepmother and sister. Ye Xian saves the bones, which are magic, and they help her dress appropriately for the New Year Festival. When she loses her slipper after being recognized by her stepfamily, the king finds her slipper and falls in love with her (eventually rescuing her from her cruel stepmother).
Four British monarchs held the title “King-Emperor” - Edward VII, Queen Victoria’s son; George V, his son; Edward VIII, his son; and George VI, his next-oldest son. The title was used no more after India gained its independence in 1947.
The emperor scorpion is a species of scorpion native to rainforests and savannas in West Africa. It is one of the largest scorpions in the world averaging about 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length.
The emperor penguin is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in size, reaching 48 in. in height and weighing from 49 to 99 lbs. When hunting, they can remain submerged up to 18 minutes, diving to a depth of 1,755 ft.
The name Antarctica is the romanized version of the Greek compound word ἀνταρκτική (antarktiké), feminine of ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikos), meaning “opposite to the Arctic”, “opposite to the north”.
Aristotle wrote in his book Meteorology about an Antarctic region in c. 350 B.C. Marinus of Tyre reportedly used the name in his unpreserved world map from the 2nd century A.D. The Roman authors Hyginus and Apuleius (1–2 centuries A.D.) used for the South Pole the romanized Greek name polus antarcticus, from which derived the Old French pole antartike (modern pôle antarctique) attested in 1270, and from there the Middle English pol antartik in a 1391 technical treatise by Geoffrey Chaucer (modern Antarctic Pole).
The only continent in the world that has one and only time zone, and yet its land mass spans every line if longitude, is Antarctica. Antarctica observes UTC time. Currently, in all of Antarctica, the time is 0136, or 1:36AM. It is 0636 PDT here in San Francisco.
The Earth’s tectonic plates move relative to one another in different directions at speeds on the order of 50 to 100mm per year. So points on the Earth’s surface on different plates are always in motion relative to one another. For example, the longitudinal difference between a point on the Equator in Uganda, on the African Plate, and a point on the Equator in Ecuador, on the South American Plate, is increasing by about 0.0014 arcseconds per year. These tectonic movements likewise affect latitude.
If a global reference frame (such as WGS84, for example) is used, the longitude of a place on the surface will change from year to year. To minimize this change, when dealing just with points on a single plate, a different reference frame can be used, whose coordinates are fixed to a particular plate, such as “NAD83” for North America or “ETRS89” for Europe.
Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu was the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer who commanded the elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal during Operation Entebbe, an operation to rescue hostages held by Palestinian hijackers at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976. The mission was successful, with 102 of the 106 hostages rescued, but Netanyahu was killed in action—the only IDF fatality during the operation.
Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu was the older brother of the incumbent Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was described in a recent New York Times page-one article as being particularly careful to stay out of the U.S. presidential election, having clashed repeatedly with the Obama Administration…
Some rabbinic traditions name Benjamin (youngest of Jacob’s children—12 sons and 1 daughter) as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Chileab, Jesse and Amram.
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM (pronounced “am-ram”), is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with 7" diameter instead of 8" diameter form-and-fit factors, and employing active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance, it is a fire-and-forget upgrade to the previous generation Sparrow missiles. When an AMRAAM missile is being launched, NATO pilots use the brevity code Fox Three.
Brer Fox, Brer Bear and Brer Rabbit feature heavily in the Disney ride, Splash Mountain, but the movie they feature in, Song of the South, has not been available for the public for decades, due to the stereotypes it uses.
Walt Disney said that James Baskett, who played Uncle Remus in Song of the South, was “the best actor, I believe, to be discovered in years”. Even after the film’s release, Disney maintained contact with Baskett. Disney also campaigned for Baskett to be given an Academy Award for his performance, saying that he had worked “almost wholly without direction” and had devised the characterization of Remus himself. Thanks to Disney’s efforts, Baskett won an honorary Oscar in 1948. Although Baskett was occasionally criticized for accepting such a “demeaning” role, his acting was almost universally praised, and columnist Hedda Hopper was one of the many journalists who declared that he should receive an Academy Award for his work.
The film as well as writer Joel Chandler Harris’ original Uncle Remus stories on which the film is based were all set after the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery (Harris himself, born in 1848, was a racial reconciliation activist writer and journalist of the Reconstruction Era).
The Chandler Motor Car Company produced automobiles in the United States of America during the 1910s and 1920s. It was incorporated in 1913, with Frederick C. Chandler as President, with its factory in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1929, Chandler Motor Company was purchased by its expanding competitor, Hupp Motor Car Company, for its factory and manufacturing facilities, and the brand was discontinued.
Hupp’s cars were called Hupmobiles. The National Football League was created at Ralph Hay’s Hupmobile dealership in Canton, Ohio in 1920.
Canton, Ohio was founded in 1805, incorporated as a village in 1822, and re-incorporated as a city in 1838.
Bezaleel Wells, the surveyor who divided the land of the town, named it after Canton (a traditional name for Guangzhou), China. The name was a memorial to a trader named John O’Donnell, whom Wells admired. O’Donnell had named his Maryland plantation after the Chinese city, as he had been the first person to transport goods from there to Baltimore.
Diebold, the biggest manufacturer of automatic teller machines and related computers and software in the world today, is based in North Canton, Ohio.
In July 1995, the bust of OJ (the motherFuckingAssholeSlasherKiller) Simpson was stolen from the NFL HOF in Canton OH. A few days later it was recovered and returned to its display case.
And I was there at the exact moment it was returned!
On July 25, 2013 Bust Magazine held The Bust Magazine 20th Anniversary Extravaganza in Brooklyn, New York. To commemorate the magazine’s 20th anniversary, they held the Golden Bra Awards.
Women pictured on the cover of BUST Magazine over the years include Shailene Woodley, Sofia Coppola, Vera Farmiga, Courtney Love, Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, Maya Rudolph,…
, and Dolly Parton.