The Pteranodon is a minor alter ego of Calvin in the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes. It appeared in a single Sunday strip, where Calvin read his book on dinosaurs and enacted a pteranodon fantasy by dressing up as one and jumping off the roof of his house in an attempt to fly.
Although Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson still lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio and does enjoy his privacy, he is not a recluse, and submitted to a lengthy interview for the catalog to a 2014 exhibition on his beloved cartoon strip at Ohio State University in Columbus.
Well worth a look for any fan: https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Calvin-Hobbes-Exhibition-Catalogue/dp/1449460364/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484845182&sr=1-1&keywords=exploring+calvin+hobbes
On February 28, 1827, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was incorporated. It became the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the “Grand Old Ditch,” operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland. The canal’s principal cargo was coal from the Allegheny Mountains. The flood of 1924 put the barges, which were pulled by mules, out of business. The 185 mile canal is now a National Historic Park and tourists can take a short ride on a refurbished barge.
The Great flood of '99 occurred when the River Periyar in Kerala state of India flooded in the month of July, 1924. That was the year 1099 ME in the Malayalam Calendar and that being popular in Kerala, this flood is generally called the flood of 99. The flood claimed thousands of lives and caused severe damages to the crops and property in Kerala.
“99” is a song by Toto, released in 1979. The lyrics for the song were inspired by the science fiction movie, “THX 1138”. The movie depicts a sterile dystopian future society wherein people are not known by names, but by generic alpha-numeric designations. A somg by The Who, “905”, off the album" Who Are You", explores similar themes.
Dystopian fiction used to be considered an adults-only genre, but the 1990s and 2000s saw a great surge in its popularity in young adult novels such as Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series and Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games.
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a Category 4 hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, drove a devastating surge ashore; between 6,000 and 12,000 lives were lost, making it the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States.
In her 2008 mystery “Death of a Rug Lord,” Tamar Myers refers to a character named Sandra as “Hurricane Sandy.” Reading that book in November of 2012 really gave me pause: Hurricane Sandy, which hit in October of 2012, was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, and the second-costliest hurricane in United States history.
Sandy is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is a suburb of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,461 at the 2010 census, making it the sixth-largest city in Utah.
The Tickle Creek Trail is known as ‘The heart and soul of Sandy Oregon.’
When Canada was negotiating with British Columbia for their entry to Confederation, the BC reps asked that Canada build a wagon trail connecting them to Canada. Sir John A Macdonald had bigger plans, however, and promised them a trans-continental railway, a massive undertaking for the new and small Canada. BC entered Confederation in 1871. The CPR was completed in 1885.
The Confederation bridge, 13 km / 8 miles long, is the longest bridge over ice covered waters in the world, joining Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New-Brunswick.
The West Liberty Covered Bridge is a bridge which carries West Liberty Street across Cowles Creek in Geneva, Ohio. At 18 feet long, it has been called the shortest covered bridge in the United States and possibly the world.
The Zanesville Y-Bridge is a historic Y-shaped three-way bridge that spans the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum Rivers in downtown Zanesville, Ohio. It carries the traffic of U.S. Route 40 (Main Street and West Main Street), as well as Linden Avenue.
The 1,282 foot/391 meter Hartland Covered Bridge in New Brunswick, Canada, opened in 1901 and is the longest covered bridge in the world.
When Queen Victoria died in January, 1901, she was the longest reigning British monarch, at 63 years and seven months. That record was broken by her great-great-grandaughter, Elizabeth II, in September 2015. Her Majesty has currently reigned for 64 years and 350 days.
The coronation of Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953 in Westminster Abbey, with the exception of the anointing and communion, was the first to be televised. Elizabeth’s coronation gown was embroidered on her instructions with the floral emblems of Commonwealth countries: English Tudor rose; Scots thistle; Welsh leek; Irish shamrock; Australian wattle; Canadian maple leaf; New Zealand silver fern; South African protea; lotus flowers for India and Ceylon; and Pakistan’s wheat, cotton, and jute.
(I was 7 at the time, and remember watching it on TV.)
A wattle is a fleshy excrescence hanging from various parts of the head or neck in several groups of birds and mammals. It is a normal occurrence in these animals. In birds, wattles are often an ornament for courting potential mates. Large wattles are correlated with high testosterone levels, good nutrition and the ability to evade predators.
Mammals with wattles include many domestic goats and some domestic pigs, such as the kunekune, Lithuanian Native pig and the Red Wattle pig.