On April 10, 1815, Indonesia’s Mount Tambora began erupting violently. Possibly the biggest eruption ever for a normal volcano, super-volcanos excepted, it killed over 71,000 people and affected temperatures throughout the world for the next two years.
The Mount St. Helens eruption on 18 May 1980 was the first significant eruption in the lower 48 since the 22 May 1915 eruption of Mount Lassen. When it erupted, Mount Lassen, the southernmost active volcano in the Cascades, spewed gas and ashes more than 30,000 feet into the air.
Its pyroclastic flow devastated an area of 3 mi2.
Mount St. Helens’ eruption, by comparison, spewed gas and ashes more than 80,000 feet into the air.
Its pyroclastic flow devastated an area of 230 mi2.
Mount Lassen was names after a Danish blacksmith, who came to Boston at the age of 30, then went to Califirnoa in 1840 and found fame by blazing trails for the early pioneers. Lassen was murdered in 1859 under unclear circumstances, apparently shot by an unknown sniper while breaking camp.
Camp Coffee is a British form of instant coffee, containing coffee and chicory flavours. Its label features a Gordon Highlander sitting down with an Indian soldier in an outdoor camp.
Gordon R. Dickson was a Canadian-American science fiction writer. He was best known for the Childe (or Dorsai) cycle of novels and the “Hoka” series that he co-authored with the writer Poul Anderson. Unlike many ‘hard’ SF writers, he also did fantaasy, most noteable “The Dragon and the George” series of novels.
“The Way of Cross and Dragon” was a 1979 science fiction short story by George R.R. Martin, about an inquisitor for the distant-future interstellar Catholic Church investigating a sect which reveres Saint Judas Iscariot.
Brian Dickson, Chief Justice of Canada, was one of the most respected Supreme Court justices ever. He had a major influence on the interpretation of the new Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as on modern interpretation of the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments. He also wrote influential decisions on the criminal law, particularly in the area of mens rea and the moral basis for criminal liability, as well as on major common law matters.
Dickson was born in Saskatchewan and served with distinction in the Normandy Campaign, losing a leg in a friendly fire attack. Some of his biographers have speculated that his own physical disability was a major contributing factor to his ability to consider the personal situations of litigants who came before him advocating for minority rights. His warm humanism shines in many of his Charter decisions.
On May 20, 1891, Thomas Edison’s Kinetograph and Kinetoscope were both first publicly exhibited, being a motion picture camera and viewing device. Previously, Edison obtained a patent for the motion picture camera or “Kinetograph.” He did the electromechanical design, while his employee W.K.L. Dickson, a photographer, worked on the photographic and optical development. Much of the credit for the invention belongs to Dickson. In 1891, Thomas Edison built a Kinetoscope, or peep-hole viewer. This device was installed in penny arcades, where people could watch short, simple films.
Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas was born in Virginia but remained loyal to the United States when the Civil War broke out. He nevertheless had to repeatedly prove his loyalty in the early days of the war, swearing no less than three Federal oaths in the span of ten days. Perhaps understanding the suspicions of his superiors, Thomas didn’t seem to mind. He told a fellow officer, “If they want me to take the oath before each meal I am ready to comply.”
In the English common law system, a superior court is a court of general jurisdiction that is not subject to judicial review or appeal unless a statute provides for it. An inferior court is subject to judicial review by a superior court, unless the legislature has specifically limited the scope of judicial review by statute.
The terms “inferiority complex” and its opposite, “superiority complex”, are no longer current; the preferred terminology is now “lack of covert self-esteem”. The earlier terms were prominent in Alfred Adler’s method of Individual Psychology in the 1920s.
The full name of Alfred, Bruce Wayne’s elderly, prim and proper English butler, was Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth.
On July 21, 1925, American high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act by teaching evolution in class. William Jennings Bryan was the attorney for the state, while Clarence Darrow represented Scopes. The famous event is known as “the Monkey Trial.” The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100 (equivalent to $1,345 in 2015), but the verdict was overturned on appeal.
Ninja’ed by ozzie, albeit I don’t see the connection to Elendils’ post (but I’ll play off it anyway).
Scope is a brand of mouthwash made by Procter & Gamble. It was introduced in 1966, and for many years has been positioned in the marketplace as the purportedly better-tasting alternative to Listerine, the longtime dominant mouthwash product. On March 26, 2013 Scope introduced, as an April Fool’s joke, a viral video campaign for a bacon flavored mouthwash.
[The connection between posts 32287 and 32288 is “butler”]
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Ham and bacon made from sheep (mutton) and lamb were traditionally made on farms in the Lowlands of Scotland, sheep being more plentiful than pigs in that area. The portmanteau term “macon” is sometimes used, but older Scots writers such as John Buchan refer simply to “mutton bacon” and “mutton ham”.
Macon George was named b y its original eettlers after a North Carolina statesman and politician, Nathaniel Macon, because many of the early settlers in the town had come from North Carolina. The city was designed to be a “city within a park”, and it was obligatory for the town residents to plant shade trees in their front yards.
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The Hindenburg crashed on 06 May 1937 at Lakehurst NJ. The Macon crashed on 12 February 1935 in Monterey Bay CA. The Macon was filled with helium while the Hindenburg used hydrogen. The Macon was on its way to Sunnyvale CA when it crashed.
On August 18,1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium while analyzing the chromosphere of the sun during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.