Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – c. 212 BC), the Greek mathematician and physicist, is reported to have said, “Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth.” Another quote attributed to him is, “Eureka!” — for “I have found it!”
Eureka! is California”s state motto.
In 1929, Lever Brothers, a British soap company founded in 1885, merged with the Dutch company Margarine Unie, (itself founded from the merger of 4 margarine companies) and formed Unilever. It is one of the oldest multinational companies and the world’s largest consumer goods company measured by 2012 revenue. Unilever owns over 400 brands and its products are available in around 190 countries.
Helene Curtis was founded in Chicago in 1927 as the National Mineral Company, and was renamed Helene Curtis in the 1940s. During the 1970s through the 1990s, Helene Curtis was one of the U.S.'s largest manufacturers of personal care products (primarily haircare products), making brands such as Suave, Finesse, Salon Selectives, and Degree. In 1996, Helene Curtis was purchased by Unilever.
(Also, my first full-time job was as a market researcher at Helene Curtis. 
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Unilever brands include, besides Helene Curtis, also Dove, Hellmann’s and Best Foods, Knorr, Lipton, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Best Foods mayonnaise, sandwich spreads, peanut butter and salad dressings, Breyers ice cream, Klondike ice cream sandwiches, Sealtest milk products, and many others.
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is a logistics services company with its head office in Osnabrück, Germany. In 2000 the company had 300 offices located on five of the six inhabited continents. Founded in 1871 by Carl Heinrich Hellmann, the company is still family-run today by Hellmann’s great grandchildren, Jost and Klaus Hellmann.
n 1903 Richard Hellmann emigrated from Vetschau, Prussia, to New York City, where in August 1904 he married Margaret Vossberg, whose parents owned a delicatessen. In mid-1905 he opened his own delicatessen, where he developed his first ready-made mayonnaise, dished-out in small amounts to customers. In 1920, he became a US citizen.
The “Roaring Twenties” was the period that occurred during and around the 1920s marked by sustained economic prosperity, and with a distinctive cultural edge, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Paris, and Sydney. Jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined the modern look for British and American women, and Art Deco peaked.
The most famous flapper was probably Clara Bow (1905-1965), an actress who got her start in silent movies and later made a successful transition to ‘talkies’. One of her starring roles was as a shopgirl in the 1927 movie It, which brought her worldwide fame and the nickname of ‘The It Girl’.
Two years after marrying actor Rex Bell in 1931, Bow retired from acting and became a rancher in Nevada.
Mission Santa Clara de Asís in Santa Clara CA was the eighth mission in (Alta) California. It was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Saint Clare of Assisi. It was the first California mission to be named in honor of a woman and the only one now located on a university campus. It was originally established as La Misión Santa Clara de Thamien (or Mission Santa Clara de Thamien, a reference to the Tamyen people) at the Indian village of So-co-is-u-ka (meaning “Laurelwood”, located on the Guadalupe River). Today there is a rail station on Tamien Avenue.
Clara Oswald, played by Jenna Coleman, was a Companion to both the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith), and the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi), in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
While the portable ice chest was invented by Richard C. Laramy of Joliet, Illinois (1953 patent), it was the Coleman Company that popularized the cooler with its initial offering of a galvanized cooler in 1954. Three years after that, Coleman developed a process to make a plastic liner for coolers and jugs. Coleman coolers are still in production.
The Coleman Company was founded by William Coffin Coleman, who began selling gasoline pressure lamps in 1900 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1902.
Coleman Company historians claim that in 1905, the company provided a demonstration for the 1905 Cooper vs. Fairmount football game (now called Sterling College and Wichita State University). Coleman gas lamps were purportedly provided to light the first night football game west of the Mississippi River.
Although caskets and coffins are used for the same purpose, they are two different things. A coffin is constructed with SIX sides, a top and a bottom, while a casket is constructed of FOUR sides, a top and a bottom. Coffins are what you have seen in old movies. They are still used in some foreign countries, however caskets are more in use in the United States.
After being convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia (not against the United States) for his abortive 1859 raid on the U.S. arsenal in Harpers Ferry, radical abolitionist John Brown was taken to his hanging in Charles Town, Va. (later West Virginia) sitting on the coffin he would soon occupy. A handsome red-brick house built in 1892 on the site of the gallows is now owned by the town pharmacist.
The mural Tragic Prelude, depicting abolitionist John Brown, was painted on a wall of the Kansas State Capitol building in Topeka by Kansas native John Steuart Curry in 1937.
A cropped image of the mural, centered on Brown, served as the cover art for the first, eponymous album by the progressive rock group Kansas, which was released in 1974.
“Steuart” is a less common variant of the Scottish surname “Stewart” or “Stuart”.
Davy Steuart was a Saskatchewan politician who bore the name. He led the Liberals in the provincial election in 1975 but was badly defeated by Allan Blakeney and retired from politics, although he won his own seat in the Assembly.
Jackie Stewart raced in Formula One between 1965 and 1973. In those 9 seasons he won three World Drivers’ Championships, and twice he was the runner-up.
Pretty amazing.
Mary Stuart, better known as Mary Queen of Scots, was unusually tall by sixteenth-century standards, attaining an adult height of 5 feet 11 inches. Vanessa Redgrave, who played her in a 1972 film, was the same height; Saiorse Ronan, playing her in a recent film, is 5’6".
Redgrave was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for the role, but it was won by Jane Fonda in Klute.
Vanessa Redgrave is a member of the Redgrave acting family. Her parents were the actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, and her siblings were the late actress Lynn Redgrave, and the late actor Corin Redgrave.
Vanessa’s daughters, Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson, are / were also both actresses, and Vanessa’s son-in-law is actor Liam Neeson.
Corin is a wise old shepherd in As You Like It.
