Mathematician Michael Hutchings is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for proving the double bubble conjecture on the shape of two-chambered soap bubbles where, in the theory of minimal surfaces, the shape that encloses and separates two given volumes and has the minimum possible surface area is a standard double bubble — three spherical surfaces meeting at angles of 2π/3 on a common circle. It is now a theorem, as a proof of it was published in 2002.
‘Hutchings’ was also the middle name of Robert Goddard.
Busby Berkeley was an American movie director and musical choreographer. He is best known today for devising elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns. Berkeley’s works used large numbers of showgirls and props as fantasy elements in kaleidoscopic on-screen performances.
Until the post-9-11 reforms of the U.S. national security establishment, the title of the head of the Central Intelligence Agency was “Director of Central Intelligence” (DCI), not “Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.”
The FAA’s Temporary Flight Restriction over Disney World has been in place ever since just after 9/11, stretching the definition of *temporary *more every day. The TFR’s centered on Palm Beach every weekend Trump wants to go to Mar-a-Lago have severely impacted the local aviation industry.
FAA TFRs (Temporary Flight Restrictions) define a certain area of airspace where air travel is limited because of a temporary hazardous condition, such as a wildfire or chemical spill; a security-related event, such as the United Nations General Assembly; or other special situations. The text of the actual TFR contains the details about the restriction, including the size, altitude, time period that it is in effect, and what types of operations are restricted and permitted.
The iconic Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man” contains some footage of the the United Nations exterior plaza and lobby, but the scenes set inside the UN were filmed in a studio that reproduced on a small scale the UN General Assembly Hall with its simultaneous interpreter booths.
The Long Island village of Lake Success, part of Great Neck, was the temporary home of the United Nations from 1946 to 1951, occupying the headquarters of the Sperry Gyroscope Company on Marcus Avenue.
Doctor Carol Marcus was one of the leading molecular biologists in the United Federation of Planets. She was once romantically involved with Starfleet officer James T. Kirk – a relationship from which she bore a son, David Marcus – but she opted to devote her life to her research and to raising her son.
Early in the morning of 10 February 1567, Kirk o’ Field house in Edinburgh was destroyed by an explosion. The partially clothed bodies of Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and his servant were found in a nearby orchard, apparently strangled but unharmed by the explosion.
Suspicion immediately fell upon Mary and James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, one of her closest and most trusted noblemen. Although Bothwell was considered to be the lead conspirator, he was found not guilty at his trial in April, 1567. Mary married Bothwell the following month, just three months after Darnley’s murder. Darnley’s death remains an unsolved historical mystery.
The oldest school in Saskatchewan continuously operating in its original building is Hepburn School, an elementary and high school in Hepburn, Saskatchewan.
William Walter Phelps (1839 - 1894) was a Congressman (first elected 1872)m, Ambassador Germany (appointed in 1889 by President Benjamin Harrison), and a major landowner (owned 4000 acres from the Hudson to Hackensack Rivers). An avid arboirculturist, he planted about 600,000 trees of many varieties on his estate which stretched from Englewood to Teaneck (which was then a part of Englewood). His 350 foot long mansion in Teaneck was tragically detroyed by fire in 1988.
(The newly restored Mackay Park Gatehouse is the last remaining entrance to his vast estate)
annie, don’t see the relation to Bullitt’s post, but that may be my morning headcold. Playing off your post:
Benjamin Harrison attended Miami University, located in Oxford, Ohio in 1850. While a student, he was part of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta, which would become an important social – and in some cases, political – network for him for the rest of his life.
The successful presidential campaigns of James A. Garfield in 1880, Benjamin Harrison in 1888 and William McKinley in 1896 are perhaps the best-known front porch campaigns, a campaign where the candidate remains close to or at home to make speeches to supporters who come to visit. The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, previously known as the Benjamin Harrison Home, was the home of the Twenty-third President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison. It is in the Old Northside Historic District of Indianapolis, Indiana. It was from the front porch of this house that Harrison instituted his famous Front Porch Campaign in the 1888 United States Presidential Campaign, often speaking to crowds on the street.
The President of the United States is also Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America, which operates under a Congressional charter. The President’s signature appears on the commemorative card given to all those who reach the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest in the BSA.
In Charles Schulz’s strip “Peanuts”, the Beagle Scouts, led by Snoopy, otherwise consisted only of birds: Woodstock, Fred, Roy, Wilson, Conrad, Olivier, Harriet, Bill and Raymond.
On December 27, 1831, the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle left Plymouth, England, on a voyage with Charles Darwin aboard. Darwin wrote a book about the expedition titled Journal and Remarks. A republication of the book in 1905 introduced the title The Voyage of the Beagle, by which the book is now best known.
The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii, and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the beginning of the 20th century.
British director Ridley Scott initially considered naming the starship in his 1979 sf horror movie Alien the Snark, and some preproduction artwork shows the ship named that. However, he eventually decided to name it the Nostromo, after the anti-hero of the Joseph Conrad novel of the same name. Scott is a Conrad fan.
What was arguably the first US strategic cruise missile, the Northrop SSM-A-3 Snark (named for the book), had such serious reliability problems in its test launches from Cape Canaveral that one wag posted a sign on the beach: “Warning: Snark-Infested Waters”. It took 31 test flights until one survived sufficiently intact to be examined. The program was killed as soon as possible, when the Atlas ICBM became operational.
Fashion designer to superheroes Edna Mode (voiced by The Incredibles director Brad Bird, and perhaps based on actual Hollywood designer Edith Head) is quite emphatic that she will not make Mr. Incredible a new costume with a cape: The Incredibles on Blu-ray: "Convincing Edna" - Clip - YouTube