“Roamin’ in the Gloamin” (1911) was one of the signature songs of Harry Lauder, a Scottish singer and comedian. Although largely forgotten today, Lauder was the highest-paid entertainer in the world in his time, over 100 years ago.
Estée Lauder was an American businessperson who co-founded, along with her husband, the cosmetics company that bears her name. Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine’s 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.
Time Magazine, an American weekly news magazine published in New York City, was founded in 1923 by Yale classmates Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. The first issue of Time was published on March 3, 1923, featuring Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover.
The idea of Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year”, or “Person of the Year” as it has been called since 1999, began in 1927. Time magazine had recently failed to feature Charles Lindbergh on its cover after his historic flight, and this idea was created not just to honor Lindbergh but also to recover from a major faux pas.
“Faux pas” is French for “False step”.
The French Army was the first to use camouflage, in WW1, in 1915.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles Lindbergh, was herself a published author of several books, including the best-selling Gift from the Sea. She was also a licensed pilot and the first American woman to earn a first-class glider pilot’s license. She became friends with French pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery (and according to some sources had an affair with him)
According to Xenophon, when the 10,000 Greeks had fought their way out of Persia, they finally crested a hill and saw the Black Sea in the distance. They began shouting, “Thálatta, thálatta!” (“The sea, the sea!”).
The lunula is the crescent-shaped whitish area of the bed of one’s fingernail or toenail. It is the visible part of the root of the nail.
Lunlua, Ghana, is a small village in ghenortheastern part of the country. It is closer to Togo, and also even Burkhina Faso, than it is to Accra.
Lunlua, Ghana is very close to “10,000”. When “10,000” is entered into Google Maps, it gets translated to the Lat/Long coordinates 10°00’00.0"N 0°00’00.0"E, which is very close to Lunlua, Ghana.
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The “Root and Branch” petition was a petition to the Long Parliament in 1640, calling on Parliament to extinguish the episcopacy of the Church of England.
That Root and Branch Petition led to the Root and Branch Bill introduced in Parliament by Oliver Cromwell in 1641. In 1649, Cromwell was one of the signatories of King Charles I’s death warrant, for high treason and “other high crimes”.
As Lord Protector of England, Cromwell dismissed the “Rump” Parliament in 1653 with the words: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
Judaism uses the tetragrammaton to denote the name of God. It is sometimes related to the ancient Hebrew ehyeh (I will be). In the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 3:15), the name of God is revealed directly to Moses, namely: Jehovah is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton.
According to Israel National News, there are approximately 14 million Jews in the world, with 6 million in Israel and the rest spread out across the globe. Judaism is the 12th largest religion in the world, ranking just behind Spiritism and ahead of the Bahai religion.
Israel is roughly half the size of Lake Michigan. Israel is only 1/6 of 1% of the landmass of the Middle East.
Beth Israel Hospital was established in 1890 by a group of 40 Orthodox Jews on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Each of them paid 25 cents to set up a hospital dedicated to serving immigrant Jews living in the tenement slums of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The hospital has been located in several buildings throughout the years. It is currently in the Linksy Building on First Avenue and 16th Street in Manhattan which has a recognizable rounded façade that appears in several films and TV shows set in NYC, including Friends.
In Hebrew, “Beth” means “House”. Beth Israel means House of Israel. The hospital in Manhattan’s Lower East Side is officially Mount Sinai Beth Israel. On November 22, 2013 the name of Beth Israel Medical Center was changed to Mount Sinai Beth Israel as a part of the merger with Mount Sinai to form the Mount Sinai Health System.
The television series Leverage depicted a group of “Robin Hood” criminals who would stage elaborate cons in order to fight against corporate injustices on the behalf of ordinary people. The series ran for five seasons on TNT, and starred Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Aldis Hodge, and Beth Riesgraf.
In physics, leverage is the mechanical advantage gained by applying force at a distance, typically on a lever arm acting with a fulcrum, that trades the amplification of motion of the applied force with the output force.
There are 3 classes of levers. The first class is a lever with the fulcrum in the middle, with the force on one side of the fulcrum and the resistance on the other side. An example of this is a see-saw. The second class is described as the resistance being in the middle, between the force and the fulcrum. A wheelbarrow is an example of this class. The third class finds the force in the middle, with the fulcrum at one end and the resistance at the other. An example of this class is a pair of tweezers.