The Minnesota Muskies were a member of the American Basketball Association, born with the league’s creation on February 2, 1967. The team then played one season at the Met Center in Bloomington, MN before moving to Miami, Florida to become The Floridians. They were replaced for one season when the Pittsburgh Pipers moved to the Twin Cities, before moving back to the Steel City.
On January 8, 1920, the steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the US steel industry in the wake of WWI, collapsed in complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA), a member union in The American Federation of Labor (AFL) The AFL held a national steelworkers’ conference in Pittsburgh on May 25, 1919, to build momentum for an organizing drive but refused to let the workers strike. Disillusioned employees began to abandon the labor movement. The National Committee of AFL, seeing their chance for solid membership gains slipping away, agreed to a strike referendum in the mills in August. The response was 98% in favor of a general steelworker strike. The strike, which began in September 1919, shut down half the steel industry. The steel companies had seriously misjudged the strength of worker discontent. But the owners quickly turned public opinion against the AFL. The post-war Red Scare had swept the country in the wake of the Russian revolution of October 1917. The steel companies took eager advantage of the change in the political climate. As the strike began, they published information exposing National Committee co-chairman William Z. Foster’s past as a Wobblie and syndicalist, and claimed this was evidence that the steelworker strike was being masterminded by communists and revolutionaries.
In quantum mechanics, momentum is defined as a self-adjoint operator on the wave function. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle defines limits on how accurately the momentum and position of a single observable system can be known at once. In quantum mechanics, position and momentum are conjugate variables.
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In quantum mechanics, momentum is defined as a self-adjoint operator on the wave function. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle defines limits on how accurately the momentum and position of a single observable system can be known at once. In quantum mechanics, position and momentum are conjugate variables.
Pompano Beach Airpark, located within the city of Pomano Beach FL, is the home of the Goodyear Blimp Spirit of Innovation. In recent years, an effort to rejuvenate rundown areas near the city’s beach has gained momentum. (Hope this is blippy enough.)
Actor John Travolta is a certified private pilot who owns five aircraft. His home at Jumbolair Aviation Estates in Ocala, Florida, is situated on Greystone Airport has two runways that lead directly to his front door.
In 1992, the Gulfstream that Travolta was piloting suffered catastrophic failure of the aircraft’s entire electrical system. There were six passengers aboard, including his wife and son. He managed to make an emergency landing at Washington National Airport, navigating solely by the use of a small magnetic compass and a flashlight to see it by. The plane blew four tires upon touchdown.
In 1998 Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in honor of Reagan’s time as President.
Between the Capitol steps and the Lincoln Memorial, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. spans 1.9 miles.
On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln made a campaign speech at Cooper Union in New York City that may have been largely responsible for his election to be President. Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune hailed it, saying “No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience.”
The Horatii, or Horaces, were a legendary Roman family during the reign of the Roman Kings.
Livy records the story that Rome and Alba were at war, but agreed to settle the dispute by a set battle between three Romans and three Albans. The three Horatii brothers, triplets, matched against the three Curiatii brothers from Alba, also triplets. The Curiatii brothers initially looked to be successful, slaying two of the Horatii brothers, but the third Horatii brother, Publius, managed to kill all three of the Curiatii, who were weakened by their wounds.
Returning to Rome, Publius found his sister weeping, mourning the death of one of the Curiatii, to whom she had been betrothed. Publius promptly killed his sister, saying “So die all those who mourn the death of Rome’s enemies.”
The French artist David painted “The Oath of the Horatii” (“Le Serment des Horaces”) based on Livy’s tale.
During filming of The Band Wagon, Nanette Fabray gashed her leg when she broke through the top of a prop crate she was standing on. She said that shooting the “Triplets” number, which was filmed later and where she was forced to dance on her knees, was so painful that she had to take extremely large numbers of pain pills.
As automobiles, station wagons and wagons are common names in American, Canadian, New Zealand, Australian and African English, while estate car and estate are common in the rest of the English-speaking world. The names harken to the car’s role as a shuttle, with storage space for baggage, between country estates and train stations.
Shinjuku Station is a major railway station in Shinjuku and Shibuya wards in Tokyo, Japan. The station is used by an average of 3.64 million people per day and is considered to be the busiest train station in the world, also sites in India and China will contest it.
In the 1990s, Japan Railways ran a series of Christmas ads, a new version each year, which were so well-loved, that to this day, the ads have become standard Christmas music in Japan.
The Shanghai Maglev Train is the fastest commercial train currently in operation and has a top speed of 270 mph. The train connects Shanghai Pudong International Airport to the outskirts of central Pudong, Shanghai and covers a distance of 19.0 mi in 8 minutes.
On December 28, 1879, the Tay Rail Bridge, spanning the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the Wormit, collapsed during a violent storm while a **train ** was passing over it, killing all 75 crew and passengers on board. The engine was salvaged from the river and restored to the railways for service. The bridge had been opened only 19 months before its collapse, and been certified safe by the Board of Trade, thereby making the tragedy into the most notorious bridge disaster of the UK.
The Dundee Brewing Company is a Rochester NY-based brewing company that is part of the Genesee Brewing Company. Dundee Brewing Company now produces one year-round craft beer, India Pale Ale. The Genesee Brewing Company traces its history to the Aqueduct Spring Brewery, the first brewery located in Rochester, which opened in 1819.
In Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Reg (John Cleese), a Judean freedom fighter, acknowledges that the aqueduct is something the region’s Roman overlords have brought to the area, but goes on to ask, “All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
Rome’s first aqueduct supplied a water-fountain sited at the city’s cattle-market. By the 3rd century AD, the city had eleven aqueducts, to sustain a population of over 1,000,000 in a water-extravagant economy; most of the water supplied the city’s many public baths. Cities and municipalities throughout the Roman Empire emulated this model, and funded aqueducts as objects of public interest and civic pride, “an expensive yet necessary luxury to which all could, and did, aspire.”
The Zaghouan (or, Zaghwan) Aqueduct is over 50 miles long. It was built in the 2nd century to supply Carthage (in modern Tunisia). It runs from Zaghwan in the Dorsale Mountains to Carthage on the Gulf of Tunis on the south shores of the Mediterranean. It is amongst the longest aqueducts in the Roman Empire.