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On June 12 1988, a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express (a musical about trains) opened at a specially built venue, the Starlighthalle (today called Starlight Express Theater) in Bochum, Germany, directed by Dion McHugh. It is the only permanent production still running today, and is the most popular musical in Germany, and advertises as “Das rasanteste Musical im Universum!” (“The fastest musical in the universe!”).
The original Weber BBQ grill came from a marine buoy. In 1952 George Stephen Sr. was working at Weber Brothers Metal Works in Chicago IL, manufacturing marine buoys when he came up with an idea for a better grill. His invention: a dome-shaped grill with a lid to protect food from the elements, while sealing in that only-from-the-grill barbecue flavor. George Stephen cut a buoy in half and added some air vents and leg.
Clorox-owned Kingsford Products Co., which holds an 80% share of the US charcoal market (mainly used in grills), was founded by Henry Ford as a way to sell the odd scraps of wood he had left over from making Model T’s. Thomas Edison designed the briquette factory next to the sawmill that Charles Kingsford ran in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 as the Electro-Alkaline Company, and it first product was Clorox bleach. When the company went public in 1928, the name was changed to Clorox Chemical Company. The company was purchased by Proctor & Gamble in 1957 and was renamed the Clorox Company. After a 10-year court battle regarding competition in the household products market, P&G was forced to divest the company, and in 1969 the company once again became independent.
The Clorox Company is headquartered in Oakland CA. It originated in 1913 in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. It went public on the San Francisco stock exchange in 1928 and survived the Great Depression throughout the 1930s.
During World War II, when one of Clorox bleach’s ingredients (sodium hypochlorite) was being rationed under US government orders due to chlorine gas shortages, Clorox declined to dilute their product like other companies did and drcided instead to sell fewer units of a full-strength product. This established a strong reputation for quality.
(Great business decision!)
1913, 1957 and 1969 were all U.S. presidential inauguration years, for Woodrow Wilson, Democrat of New Jersey; Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican of New York; and Richard M. Nixon, Republican of California, respectively.
Not in play: Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Texas; his family moved to Abilene, Kansas, when he was 2 years old. Ike considered Abilene his home town. (As do all Kansans.)
Stupid. Me. Will be right back.
The Abilene Trail was a cattle trail leading from Texas to Abilene, Kansas. The first herds were probably driven over it in 1866, though the trail did not get it’s name until the town of Abilene was established in 1867. It is estimated that in 1871, more than 5,000 cowboys herded from 600,000 to 700,000 cows to Abilene and other Kansas railheads.
Herding Cats: A Life in Politics, by Senator Trent Lott, was published in 2006. An editorial review calls it “an unsparingly candid and engaging memoir from one of the dominant political figures in the last half-century”.
The 1545 - 1563 Council of Trent was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church prompted by the 1517 Protestant Reformation. The 25 sessions spanning 19 years were overseen by Pope Paul III, who convoked the Council, Pope Julius III, and Pope Pius IV. The Council condemned the Protestant heresies regarding scripture, the Biblical canon, sacred tradition, original sin, justification, salvation, the sacraments, the Mass and the veneration of saints.
The Council of Trent took place in what is now the city of Trento, Italy. With a population of barely 100,000, Trento regularly ranks in the top ten percent of Italian cities in measures of economics and quality of life. It has been a part of Italy for only a century, after being annexed from Austria-Hungary after WWI. But it has always had an ethnic Italian majority.
Trento ITA, a 150-mile drive east from Lake Como (gMap) and 100 miles NW from Venice (gMap), is the site of the 13th century Castelvecchio (“Old Castle”; the Castello del Buonconsiglio).
A dark episode in the history of Trento was the Trento blood libel. When a 3-year-old Christian boy, Simonino, later known as Simon of Trent, disappeared in 1475 on the eve of Good Friday, the city’s small Jewish community was accused of killing him and draining his blood for Jewish ritual purposes. Eight Jews were tortured and burned at the stake, and their families forced to convert to Christianity. The bishop of Trento, Johannes Hinderbach, had Simonino canonized and published the first book printed in Trento, “Story of a Christian Child Murdered at Trento”, embellished with 12 woodcuts. In a governmental ceremony in the 1990s, Trento apologized to the Jewish community for this dark episode and unveiled a plaque commemorating the formal apology.
Image: Trento — https://goo.gl/images/S1kUdH
Historical examples of the blood libel have been advanced in Canada and other countries with civil hate speech prohibitions as one of the justifications for those laws.
One analysis is that those laws are a form of civil action for libelling a group based on religious, ethnic or other grounds, analogous to civil libel laws which protect individuals.
The ["]approximate]([URL="blood types most common rare - Google Search) [distribution](The Blood Center) of blood types in the US population is as follows:
38% O+ ➞ O+ can donate to O+ A+ B+ AB+ ➞ O+ can receive from O+ O-
34% A+ ➞ A+ can donate to A+ AB + ➞ A+ can receive from A+ A- O+ O-
09% B+ ➞ B+ can donate to B+ AB+ ➞ B+ can receive from B+ B- O+ O-
07% O- ➞ O- can donate to everyone ➞ O- can receive from O-
06% A- ➞ A- can donate to A+ A- AB+ AB- ➞ A- can receive from A- O-
03% AB+ ➞ AB+ can donate to AB+ ➞ AB+ can receive from everyone
02% B- ➞ B- can donate to B+ B- AB+ AB- ➞ B- can receive from B- O-
01% AB- ➞ AB- can donate to AB+ AB- ➞ AB- can receive from A- B- AB- O-
Jan Jansky, who was born near Prague in 1873, was a Czech neurologist, serologist, and psychiatrist. He is credited with the first classification of blood into the four types (A, B, AB, 0). At the time, this discovery passed almost unnoticed. In 1921, the year of his death, an American medical commission acknowledged Janský’s classification, and he was posthumously awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1930.
There were not one but two historic Defenestrations of Prague, in which people were thrown or pushed from windows - fatally in 1419, but not in 1618.
Mozart’s Symphony No. 38, the “Prague”, premiered on January 19, 1787, in the city of Prague. Mozart was fond of the city and people of Prague and considered them to be an educated audience, musically speaking; his opera, “The Marriage of Figaro”, was a huge hit there, and he was delighted at the way that his tunes were played and whistled all over the city. He had a well-recorded dislike for the French and was often annoyed at the unpredictability of Vienna’s audiences, where his popularity went up and down regularly.
While on break from the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in summer and early fall of 1787, George Washington of Virginia, president of the Convention, went on fishing trips and visited his Revolutionary War military campsite of Valley Forge, Pa.