In 1960, Tom Monaghan and his brother, James, purchased DomiNick’s, a small pizza store in Ypsilanti, Michigan, near Eastern Michigan University. The brothers planned to split the work hours evenly, but James didn’t want to quit his job as a full-time postman to keep up with the demands of the new business. Within eight months, James traded his half of the business to Tom for the Volkswagen Beetle they used for pizza deliveries.[ By 1965, Tom Monaghan had purchased two additional pizzerias; he now had a total of three locations in the same county. Monaghan wanted the stores to share the same branding, but the original owner forbade him from using the DomiNick’s name. One day an employee returned from a pizza delivery and suggested the name Domino’s. Monaghan immediately loved the idea and officially renamed the business Domino’s Pizza, Inc. in 1965.]
The company logo originally had three dots, representing the three stores in 1965. Monaghan planned to add a new dot with the addition of every new store, but this idea quickly faded, as Domino’s experienced rapid growth. Dominos now has 8,200+ stores worldwide.
The Detroit Tigers are a charter member of the American League, one of four clubs (with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians) still located in its original city. It was established as a charter member in 1901.
The first game in National League history was played on April 22, 1876, at Philadelphia’s Jefferson Street Grounds, 25th & Jefferson, between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Stockings (now the Atlanta Braves). Boston won the game 6–5.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. In 1954 it was adapted as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a Technicolor adventure film and the first science fiction film shot in CinemaScope. The film was personally produced by Walt Disney, and stars Kirk Douglas, James Mason, and Peter Lorre.
The Federal League of 1914-15 was an attempt to create a third major league. It failed due to low attendance but did challenge the AL and NL under antitrust law. The judge hearing the case, Kenesaw Mountain Landis (named after a Civil War battle) delayed his ruling until the Federal League failed and made peace with the others leagues, making the point moot. The AL and NL remembered this and, needed a figure of integrity after the Black Sox Scandal, named him the first commissioner of baseball.
So as to avoid a point moot, after being Ninja’d, I’ll say that Kirk Douglas’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was stolen and then replaced. The stars of James Stewart, Gregory Peck, and Gene Autry were also stolen and later replaced.
The FBI maintains the NSAF, the National Stolen Art File database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are submitted for entry to the NSAF by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. Their top ten stolen art items are at the bottom of their page, Art Crime — FBI.
The Ames Stradivarius, stolen from violinist Roman Totenberg in 1980, was recovered in 2015, 35 years after the theft and 3 years after Totenberg’s death at the age of 101. The violinist said the loss of the violin was like losing an arm. The thief, violinist Philip Johnson, a student of Totenberg, was suspected from the beginning but police said that there was insufficient evidence for a search warrant.
Cellos were derived from other mid- to large-sized bowed instruments in the 16th century, such as the viola da gamba, and the generally smaller and squarer viola da braccio, and other such instruments made by members of the Amati family in Italy.
In modern economics, tree bark still has several uses, the most common of which are cork, and several spices. Bark of birch and other similar trees was previously used by some cultures as a substitute for textile, paper, and building materials.
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1833 – “It doesn’t take a Philadelphia lawyer to tell that the man who serves the master one day, and the enemy six, has just six chances out of seven to go to the devil. You are barking up the wrong tree, Johnson.”—James Hall, Legends of the West, p. 46.
The world’s tallest trees are California redwoods, technically known as Sequoia sempervirens. Sequoia sempervirens can grow to over 400’ tall. The oldest redwoods are over 2,000 years old.
Sequoia sempervirens demands a lot of water. Even a comparatively short 150’ redwood uses over 1,300 pounds, or about two-thirds of a ton, of water daily. Xylem is vascular tissue in the tree trunk that forms a continuous water column extending from the leaf to the roots, and phloem carries organic nutrients, (in particular, sucrose) to all parts of the plant where needed. The phloem is the innermost layer of the bark.
Tree growth stops past a certain point because above a certain height, water pressure drops so far that air bubbles begin to form within the tree’s water-conveying capillaries. These bubbles, or “embolisms,” tend to block water flow.
The **ton **is a unit of measure. It is derived from the tun, the term applied to a cask of the largest size. This could contain a volume between 175 and 213 imperial gallons (210 and 256 US gallons), which could weigh around 2,000 pounds. In the United Kingdom the ton is defined as 2,240 avoirdupois pounds, while the tonne (metric ton) is defined as 1000 kg (2,204.6 lbs). In the United States and formerly Canada a ton is defined to be 2,000 pounds.
“Sixteen Tons” is a song about a coal miner, based on life in coal mines in Kentucky. It was written and first recorded by Merle Travis in 1946. It was first released by Capitol. The song became a gold record and was later famously covered by Tennessee Ernie Ford and Johnny Cash, among others.
Travis’s songs’ lyrics often discussed both the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners. The line, “You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt,” came from a letter written by Travis’ brother John. Another line came from their father, a coal miner, who would say, “I can’t afford to die. I owe my soul to the company store.”
Chimney sweep’s cancer is a squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the scrotum. Initially noticed as being prevalent amongst chimney sweeps, it was the first reported form of occupational cancer. An ingredient of coal soot was shown to be a carcinogen.
Dick Van Dyke appeared in the movie Mary Poppins as Bert, a cockney jack-of-all-trades and Mary Poppins’s closest friend, who is completely accustomed to her magic. Their playful interactions imply that they have known each other for a long time, and that this kind of story has repeated itself many times. Bert has at least four jobs throughout the film: a one-man band, a pavement chalk artist, a chimney sweep, and a kite seller.