Ray Charles was known as “The Genius” since the early 1950s. Frank Sinatra described him as ‘the only genius in our business.’
The Genius Bar is a tech support station located inside all but one of Apple’s retail stores, the purpose of which is to provide concierge style support for customers of Apple products. Employees are specially trained and certified at the Genius Bar.
Which Apple store lacks a genius bar?
Appletree Books is a bookstore in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. It recently hosted an evening reception featuring several Cleveland-area mystery writers.
The NFL quarterback with the most career wins in Cleveland Browns Stadium is Ben Roethlisberger. Of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Who play there once a year.
The Quarter Pounder was introduced by McDonald’s in 1971, but it was not sold in Japan until 2008. When it was launched at one McDonald’s restaurant in the Kansai (Osaka) region in December 2008 it was reported that 15,000 customers had visited the restaurant on the first day, generating a record 10.02 million yen in sales for a single restaurant in one day. However, it was also revealed that McDonald’s had hired 1,000 “extras” to queue up on the first day. McDonald’s Japan explained that the “extras” were used for “product monitoring purposes”.
When Jollibee, a Philippine chain, opened their first Canadian outlet in Winnipeg on a December morning, Filipino immigrants cued up in minus-40 temperatures at 5-am to get their taste of home, chicken and rice.
On December 1st, 1913, Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 minutes.
The basic kernel of an assembly line concept was introduced to Ford Motor Company by William “Pa” Klann upon his return from visiting Swift & Company’s slaughterhouse in Chicago and viewing what was referred to as the “disassembly line,” where carcasses were butchered as they moved along a conveyor. The efficiency of one person removing the same piece over and over caught his attention. He reported the idea to Peter E. Martin, soon to be head of Ford production, who was doubtful at the time but encouraged him to proceed. Others at Ford have claimed to have put the idea forth to Henry Ford, but Pa Klann’s slaughterhouse revelation is well documented in the archives at the Henry Ford Museum.
Henry Ford said he tried to hire the laziest workers he could find. He could depend on them to find work-saving short cuts. He recognized that the wheel was not invented by the most energetic, diligent worker on the job site, but by the laziest, most indolent.
Lilian Gilbreth was the first of the pioneers of industrial management to receive a doctorate, from Brown University in 1915. She co-authored multiple books with her husband and business partner, Frank Gilbreth Sr., however, due to publishers’ concerns about the books’ credibility with a female author her name did not appear on the books, despite the fact that Lillian had earned a doctorate while her husband never attended college. Their labor-saving ideas were tested out in their home, with their twelve children helping out with the experiments, as retold in the 1948 book and 1952 film Cheaper By the Dozen.
Marcus Allen was the first NFL player to gain more than 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards during his career.
Marcus Allen is the only player to have won the Heisman Trophy, an NCAA national championship, the Super Bowl, and be named NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP.
Marcus Allen is one of only four players ever to win both the Heisman Trophy and Super Bowl MVP. Roger Staubach, Jim Plunkett, and Desmond Howard are the other three.
Marcus Allen’s younger brother Damon Allen was the all-time QB passing leader, at 72,381 yards, until he was passed in that stat by Anthony Calvillo. Both played their entire careers in the CFL.
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius). The term was coined by the political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli in 1503. Marcus Aurelius’s naming of his son Commodus as the next Emperor was considered to be an unfortunate choice and the beginning of the Roman Empire’s decline.
The Emperor, a large blue neo-tropical butterfly, has a distinction is shares with a bird, the Indigo Bunting. Like the bird, it has no blue pigmentation. The brilliant blue color in the butterfly’s wings is caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings. Like the bird, it has no blue pigmentation.
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major was the last piano concerto of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Its first performance was on 13 January 1811 in Vienna. The concerto is popularly known as the Emperor Concerto because Johann Baptist Cramer, the English publisher of the concerto, gave it this epithet. Cramer, one of the greatest pianists of his time (early 1800s), considered that the concerto bore a regal character, including the key of E-flat major which it shared with the Eroica Symphony, a key sometimes associated with nobility in the Classical Era. Publishers often added epithets to works of music as a marketing technique, sometimes contrary to the intentions or wishes of the composer.
Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437 (Emperor Waltz) is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1889. The waltz was originally titled Hand in Hand and was intended as a toast made in August of that year by Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I on the occasion of his visit to the German Kaiser Wilhelm II where it was symbolic as a ‘toast of friendship’ extended by Austria to Germany.
Strauss’ publisher, Fritz Simrock, suggested the title Kaiser-Walzer since the title could allude to either monarch, and thus satisfy the vanity of both rulers.
In the 17th century, “sacred works for voices and orchestra” were typically called concertos, but in recent centuries and up to the present, a concerto is a piece usually composed in three parts or movements, in which normally one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra or concert band.
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The Cleveland Orchestra, one of the best-known and most respected in the world, is celebrating its centennial this year.
Although you probably wouldn’t guess it from his name, 1970’s Boston Red Sox pitcher Reggie Cleveland was a white guy from Saskatchewan.
SOX is the IATA code for Sogamoso Airport