Kelly Services, Inc., is an American office staffing and workforce solutions company that now operates globally. The company places temporary employees at all levels in various sectors including the financial services, information technology, and law industries.
Singin’ in the Rain was moderately successful when it was released in 1952, but is now one of the most popular and admired film musicals. As co-director, lead star and choreographer, Gene Kelly was the driving force behind it; the role of Kathy Selden was Debbie Reynolds’ first leading role.
On November 10,1958, American merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond, the “most famous diamond in the world,” to the Smithsonian Institution. Winston’s fame was such that in the 1953 musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” includes the spoken interjection “Talk to me, Harry Winston, tell me all about it!”
Winston Cigarette for many years used the slogan “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should” for many years. The Slogan was criticized for being bad grammar (the use of “like” is technically wrong). Just before television cigarette ads are banned forever, Winston changed its slogan to “What do you want? Good grammar or good taste?”
Some commented that on TV, you were lucky to get either.
Winston Churchill was a Liberal Cabinet minister and a Conservative Prime Minister.
The prime meridian of the Moon lies directly in the middle of the face of the moon visible from Earth and passes near the crater Bruce.
Before the 1884 Meridian Conference, longitude zero was considered by many Frenchmen to pass through Paris; François Arago set bronze medallions through the city to define the Prime Meridian. (One of the medallions is near the present Louvre Pyramid; this was a plot element in Dan Brown’s Davinci Code.)
The alternate meridian is also a plot element in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, published a decade and a half before the Conference, with the narrator hoping Captain Nemo has revealed his nationality:
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« Monsieur Aronnax, nous sommes par cent trente-sept degrés et quinze minutes de longitude à l’ouest…
– De quel méridien ? demandai-je vivement, espérant que la réponse du capitaine m’indiquerait peut-être sa nationalité.
– Monsieur, me répondit-il, j’ai divers chronomètres réglés sur les méridiens de Paris, de Greenwich et de Washington. Mais, en votre honneur je me servirai de celui de Paris. »
Cette réponse ne m’apprenait rien.
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Celebrity Cruises’ former ship MV Meridian was built as the* SS Galileo Galilei*, used by Lloyd Trestino to carry immigrants from Italy to Australia, along with her sister ship SS Guglielmo Marconi. She sank off Malaysia when serving Sun Cruises as MV Sun Vista.
Titantic was an original musical written by Murray Yeston, that had one of the coolest logos ever, but it was later changed.
Yeston also wrote the very good musical Phantom that never made it to Broadway, despite good reviews. Talk about your very bad timing.
On April 15, 1912, the passenger liner* RMS Titanic* sank about two hours and forty minutes after colliding with an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people. The sinking in the north Atlantic Ocean came four days into the ship’s maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The largest passenger liner in service at the time, Titanic had an estimated 2,224 people on board. She received six warnings of sea ice on the previous day but was travelling near her maximum speed when her crew sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen forward compartments to the sea. She had been designed to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but not more, and the crew soon realized that the ship would sink.
John Jacob “Jack” Astor IV was an American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family. Astor died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic during the early hours of April 15, 1912. He was among the 1,514 people on board who did not survive. He was the richest passenger aboard the Titanic and was thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time, with a net worth of nearly $87 million when he died (equivalent to $2.16 billion in 2016
German-born actor Eric Braeden, known for his role as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, played John Jacob Astor in the 1997 James Cameron-directed box-office smash Titanic.
*Titanic*is a 1943 German propaganda film made during World War II in Berlin by Tobis Productions for UFA, to show that British and American capitalism was responsible for the disaster. The addition of an entirely fictional heroic German officer to the ship’s crew was intended to demonstrate the superior bravery and selflessness of German men as compared to the British officers.
In October 1938, American aviator and iconic hero Charles Lindbergh was presented by Herman Goering, on behalf of the Fuehrer, the Service Cross of the German Eagle for his contributions to aviation. News of Nazi persecution of Jews had been filtering out of Germany for some time, and many people were repulsed by the sight of an American hero wearing a Nazi decoration. Lindbergh, by all appearances, considered the medal to be just another commendation. No different than all the others. Many considered this attitude to be naive, at best. Others saw it as an outright acceptance of Nazi policies. Less than a month after the presenting of the medal, the Nazis orchestrated a brutal assault on Jews that came to be known as Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. Nazis and their sympathizers smashed the windows of Jewish businesses, burned homes and synagogues, and left scores dead. Between 20,000 and 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. The Lindberghs decided to cancel their plans to move to Germany.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles, also made some aviation history after her marriage. In 1930, she became the first American woman to earn a first-class glider pilot’s license.
Long after his death it was revealed that, beginning in 1957, American aviation hero Charles Lindbergh had had intimate relationships with German hatmaker Brigitte Hesshaimer, with whom he had three children; her sister Mariette, a painter, with whom he had two children; and with Valeska, an East Prussian aristocrat who was his private secretary in Europe, with whom he had a son and daughter. All seven children were born between 1958 and 1967.
The five children of Charles Lindbergh and his American wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh grew up without being told about their eldest brother, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., who was kidnapped as an infant and died in 1932. Several of them found out about “the kidnapping of the century” from strangers or from the media when they were in their teens.
The Morrow County, Ohio, Victory Shaft was erected in Mount Gilead’s town square in December 1919, following World War I. It was presented as a gift from the federal government to Morrow County citizens to thank them for purchasing more war bonds per capita than any other county. Warren G. Harding, a Senator who would later be elected President, was the keynote speaker at the dedication.
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow, the older sister of Charles Lindbergh’s wife, was insanely jealous of the Lindbergh couple — Elisabeth had been the intended bride but Charles fell in love with her younger sister.
The Lindbergh servants were instructed not to to allow Elisabeth to ever be alone with her nephew, Charles Jr. Soon after the mysterious murder of that baby, Elisabeth was committed to an asylum.
On June 11, 1927, the US Post Office issued a commemorative 10-cent “Lindbergh Air Mail” stamp depicting the Spirit of St. Louis over a map of its flight, which was the first stamp issued by the post office bearing the name of a living person.