In a 2013 interview, Lance Armstrong confessed that some of the allegations of his using barred substances were true.
Clan Armstrong is a Lowland Scottish clan of the Scottish Borders. The Armstrong name was common over the whole of Northumbria and the Borders. The Armstrongs became a powerful and warlike clan in Liddesdale and the Debatable Lands in Carlyle, Dumfies and Galloway. Neil Armstrong took to the moon a piece of the Clan Armstrong tartan.
Jack Armstrong, All American Boy was a long running radio drama whose titular hero had adventures around the world. The character was developed by General Mills Vice President Chester Gale as a way to promote Wheaties.
In the 1960’s, Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was supposed to be made into a TV cartoon. Troubles with securing the rights made the Hanna-Barbera company change the series into Jonny Quest.
Jack Kennedy, elected to the House of Representatives while still very young, was once told by a U.S. Capitol policeman that he couldn’t use a particular phone because “Those phones are just for Congressmen, son.”
Many members of Congress have been told that the special elevators are for “members only”, not just by elevator operators but by their own colleagues.
Early in Rep. Melissa Hart’s first term, she became the subject of an embarrassing controversy for remarks made to a colleague in the House. New York Times journalist Mark Leibovich described the exchange: “Congressional staff members related an incident in 2001, in which they recalled the freshman Representative Melissa Hart of Pennsylvania, who is white, admonishing Representative Julia Carson, who is black, that the elevator they were riding on was members-only. Ms. Carson, of Indiana, [who had served in Congress since 1997] proceeded to introduce herself to her new colleague, offense taken.”
The earliest known reference to an elevator is in the works of the Roman architect Vitruvius, who reported that Archimedes (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) built his first elevator, probably in 236 BC. Some sources from later historical periods mention elevators as cabs on a hemp rope powered by hand or by animals.
In 2011, the U.S. imported $11.5 million worth of hemp products, mostly driven by growth in demand for hemp seed and hemp oil for use as ingredients in foods such as granola. Hemp seeds can be eaten raw, ground into a meal, sprouted, or made into dried sprout powder. The leaves of the hemp plant can be consumed raw in salads. Hemp can also be made into a liquid and used for baking or for beverages such as hemp milk, hemp juice and tea.Hempseed oil is cold-pressed from the seed and is high in unsaturated fatty acids.
Hemp fiber paper resists decomposition, and does not yellow with age when an acid-free process is used. Hemp paper more than 1,500 years old has been found. It can also be recycled more times.
Oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis sativa approved for industrial hemp production produce only minute amounts of the psychoactive drug THC, not enough for any physical or psychological effects. This type of hemp is botanically unrelated to Manila hemp, also known as abaca, which is a variety of inedible banana, Musa textilis, grown for its fiber.
Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive, more so than most other fruits, because of their potassium content and the small amounts of the isotope potassium-40 found in naturally occurring potassium. The banana equivalent dose of radiation is sometimes used in nuclear communication to compare radiation levels and exposures.
A person receives a dose of radiation equivalent of 1 Millirem (mrem) from any one of the following activities:
3 days of living in Atlanta
2 days of living in Denver
1 year of watching television (on average)
1 year of wearing a watch with a luminous dial
1 coast-to-coast airline flight
1 year living next door to a normally operating nuclear power plantxkcd diagram of equivalent dose comparisons. Banana equivalent dose is near the top left corner: 1 banana =0.1µSv.
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Collectively, the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons lost the first five Super Bowls they played in. The Broncos later won three Super Bowls, while the Falcons have yet to return since losing in their only appearance, in Super Bowl XXXIII when the Falcons lost to the Broncos.
The Falcons are also the collegiate athletic teams that represent the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. The intercollegiate program has 17 men’s and 10 women’s NCAA-sanctioned teams.
When the USAF Academy opened (on a temporary campus at Lowry AFB in Denver), it included a unit of Air Training Officers, drawn from fresh Air Force graduates of West Point, to act as surrogate upperclassmen. The ATO’s created the Academy’s new customs, including the Falcons team name, and imposed the hazing, er, “discipline” that future cadets would take care of in later years.
When my brother graduated, USAFA 1986, I threw him his very first salute. I was a young Sergeant in the Marines back then and I wore my Dress Blue uniform. I helped pin on his butter bars, popped my salute, and then he handed me a silver dollar coin. It is USAFA tradition to hand a silver dollar to the first person to render a salute to you. I collected a few silver dollars that day.
Since my brother knew it would be me, he went and got an 1886 silver dollar, and of course I still have that, to this day.
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Silver King was a pitcher who won over 200 games in 18-the century major league baseball. He broke in with the Kansas City Cowboys in 1886, the only year of existence for that franchise. (Silver and 1886 – two references for the price of one.)
The last time jockey Gary Stevens won the Kentucky Derby, and he has won it three times, it was in 1997 and he was aboard Silver Charm, a horse trained by Bob Baffert.
Bafferts Gin won the bronze medal in the 2006 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.