In addition to creating the De Laval nozzle, Gustaf de Laval was also responsible for several technological innovations in the dairy industry, including the first centrifugal cream separator, as well as early milking machines. The company which de Laval founded still exists today, as the Swedish dairy equipment manufacturer DeLaval.
King Robert Baratheon and Queen Cersei of Westeros, in the A Song of Ice and Fire books of George R.R. Martin, have three children: sons Joffrey and Tommen, and a daughter, Myrcella.
At least, Robert thinks they’re his…
ETA: Tommen Baratheon shows no interest in dairy farming.
In 1991, Alfa Laval Agri, a company producing dairy and farming machinery based in part on the inventions of Gustaf de Laval, was split from Alfa Laval when it was bought by the Tetra Pak Group. When Alfa Laval was sold, Alfa Laval Agri remained a part of the Tetra Pak group and was renamed DeLaval, after the company’s founder.
A tetra is one of several species of small freshwater fish from Africa, Central America, and South America belonging to the biological family Characidae and to its former subfamilies Alestidae (the “African tetras”) and Lebiasinidae. The Characidae are distinguished from other fish by the presence of a small adipose fin between the dorsal and caudal fins. Many of these, such as the neon tetra (Paracheirodon innesi), are brightly colored and easy to keep in captivity. Consequently, they are extremely popular for home aquaria.
Tetra is no longer a taxonomic, phylogenetic term. It is short for Tetragonopterus, a genus name formerly applied to many of these fish, which is Greek for “square-finned” (literally, four-sided-wing).
Marlins and swordfish look similar, but they can be distinguished by their dorsal fins: for marlins, their dorsal fins look like a ship’s sail with trailing webbing, while for swordfish, their dorsal fins are more trim and curved, almost like the fins of a penguin.
In the Disney / Pixar film Finding Nemo, the clownfish Marlin was voiced by Albert Brooks. Other well-known actors who performed in the film included Ellen DeGeneres (Dory), Willem Dafoe (Gill), Brad Garrett (Bloat), Allison Janney (Peach), Geoffrey Rush (Nigel), Barry Humphries (Bruce), and Eric Bana (Chum). The film’s director and writer, Andrew Stanton, also voiced Crush the sea turtle.
Thanks for the Route 66 soft pitch lob, kenobi. I’ll swing away at that…
In the Pixar-Disney animated movie Cars (2006), Pixar’s final independently-produced film just before the Disney purchase (Disney released the movie), the fictional town of Radiator Springs represents a composite of multiple real places on historic U.S. Route 66 from Kansas to Arizona. Radiator Springs is near Gallup NM, and its relation to I-40, as shown on a map during a flashback in the film, is similar to that of Peach Springs on Arizona State Route 66.
Hey, it’s like having a friendly pitcher for Home Run Derby. 
The state flags of Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas each feature a single star.
The state flags of Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Utah all have multiple stars on them.
The flag of the President of the United States has 63 stars on it (50 for the current states, in a circle around the eagle, and 13 for the original colonies and states, over the eagle’s head), while the Vice President’s has 17 (one in each corner, and 13 over the eagle’s head).
The state flags of Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming have no stars on them.
The Route 66 Stars are a baseball team that placed first in 2018 in the Show Me Summer Collegiate League, all of whose teams play in Ozark, Missouri.
Something I found out recently (and I am so ashamed):
The Boston Red Sox were the last major league team to integrate, holding out until 1959, a few months after the Detroit Tigers. This was allegedly due to the steadfast resistance provided by team owner Tom Yawkey. In April 1945, the Red Sox refused to consider signing Jackie Robinson after giving him a brief tryout at Fenway Park. The tryout, however, was a farce chiefly designed to assuage the desegregationist sensibilities of powerful Boston City Councilman Isadore Muchnick
Mark Twain was not particularly proud of his brief service in the pro-Confederate Missouri militia during the Civil War, and later wrote that he and his fellow soldiers had spent most of their time hiding in the woods trying to avoid Federal troops.
ETA: Twain had no sons named Isadore.
Comment only: Well there’s also the Boston Celtics of the 1970s and 1980s. As compared to the LA Lakers of then, it was Larry Bird and the white Celtics versus Magic Johnson and the black Lakers. Although Red Auerbach and Bill Russell and the Celtics of the 1950s and 1960s were among the first to integrate, after Russell retired in 1969 the Celtics were largely white after that for an extended period.
Play on…
In play: For boatsmen on the Mississippi River in the 1850s, to determine depth soundings, the leadsmen would use old-fashioned words for some of the numbers: instead of “two” they would say “twain”. Thus when the depth was two fathoms, they would call “by the mark twain!”. Writer Mark Twain, a former river pilot, likely took his pen name from this cry. The term lives on in today’s world in echo sounding, the technique of using sonar to measure depth.
While Mark Twain had no sons named Isadore, Santa did write a letter to his daughter Susie Clemons
True. The *Bruins *integrated before the Red Sox.
Yawkey got a lot of fawning press about how much he loved the game, how great a guy he was, etc. - but it was written mostly by the racist drunk reporters that the racist drunk Yawkey hung out with. Any reporter who thought of trying to tell the truth got shut out and couldn’t do his job.
The tradition continued through their years training in Winter Haven, FL, where only the white players got access to the local Elks lodge for post-game drinks, and Tommy Harper had to make a career-ending stink to get that over with.
Coupla additions:
- The Celtics were the *first *NBA team to integrate.
- The Celtics were the *first *NBA team with a black head coach (Russell).
- The Celtics were the *first *NBA team to put 5 black players on the floor at once.
- The teams with Bird, McHale, and Ainge were better known for their multiple championships than their race, except among Lakers fans (and other Californians?) jealous that white people were winning the blacks’ own game. Charges of racism have to be laid a little more carefully. hmm?
In play: After the Civil War and introduction of barges ended the commercial health of the steamboat business, Samuel Clemens got into the writing business as a reporter for the Virginia City, NV Territorial Enterprise, where use of pseudonyms such as “Mark Twain” was part of the company culture. He went on to the lecture business, telling audiences about the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), then other subjects, and into travelogues and eventually novels.
Nazi Germany had very little amphibious shipping and, in preliminary planning for the invasion of Great Britain (Operation Sea Lion) during World War II, the use of Rhine River barges was considered.