The SI unit measure for magnetic field strength is named *tesla *in honour of Nikola Tesla.
High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, a South African native of Canadian and British descent, founded or co-founded PayPal, SpaceX, Zip2, Solar City, and Tesla Motors. He sits on the boards of The Space Foundation, The National Academies Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, The Planetary Society, Stanford Engineering Advisory Board, and Caltech.
Bill Nye the Science Guy is the executive director of The Planetary Society (and I’m a member!).
As the sidekick on “The Steve Allen Show”, Louis Nye pioneered the now-staple of television talk shows, the Man on the Street interview sketch, performing with Allen, Don Knotts, Dayton Allen, Tom Poston and Bill Dana
Paul Leonard, lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1987-1991, was a former mayor of Dayton.
James Jacob Ritty, of Dayton, invented the cash register in 1879 to stop his saloon patrons from pilfering house profits.
While “pilfering” now means surreptitious theft of relatively small amounts, the ancestral Old French word had a much more serious meaning: “pelfrer” meant “to pillage”.
The adjective surreptitious is derived from the Latin verb *subripio *(past participle subreptus), meaning to steal, or take away secretly.
ALABC: The Australia-Latin America Business Council promotes, encourages and facilitates commerce, trade and investment between Australia and the countries of Latin America.
The Commonwealth of Australia came into existence on 1 January 1901 with the federation of the six original colonies: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia.
The Thirteen Original Colonies of the United States were the British Colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded between 1607 (Virginia) and 1733 (Georgia) that joined together to declare independence in 1776. Individual colonies began collaborating at the Albany Congress of 1754 to demand more rights and set up a Continental Congress that declared independence from Great Britain in 1776 and formed a new sovereign state, the United States of America. The thirteen colonies that declared independence were: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey were formed by mergers of previous colonies.
Alphabetical order by state abbreviations: CT, DE, GA, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, NC, PA, RI, SC, VA.
The 2nd Duke of Albany succeeded to the title at his birth in 1884 as the posthumous son of Prince Leopold, 1st Duke of Albany, fourth son of Queen Victoria.
As a result of the Titles Deprivation Act of 1917 all of his British titles were suspended for taking up arms against the UK.
Leaving aside “succeed” and its variants, there is only one other word in the English language that contains the letter combination “ccee”.
Is it “recceed”? I tend to use recce as a noun, not a verb, so I’m not sure of the spelling of the past tense.
According to this link, there are no other words containing “ccee” besides succeed and its variants. So, what word are you thinking of, Princhester?
ETA: Here’s an interesting tidbit I found about Albany, because of Cunctator’s post:
The cities of New York and Albany, New York were both named after James Charles I’s son(), as he was the Duke of York and Albany.
Typo correction - missed the edit window:
The cities of New York and Albany, New York were both named after James (Charles I’s son), as he was the Duke of York and Albany.
Here’s more about the name of Albany NY (I grew up near Albany, in Latham NY - that’s my “hometown” and is the main reason for my interest):
According to this Wikipedia link for Albany, NY:
Albany: Named for the Scottish Duke of Albany, whose title comes from the Gaelic name for Scotland (Alba).
According to this Wikipedia link for the Duke of Albany:
The cities of New York and Albany, New York were both named after James (Charles I’s son), as he was the Duke of York and Albany.
Bullitt, I spoilered a possible answer in post 19550.
Yes, thanks. I wonder if that’s the one.
Isn’t “recce” a military slang term for “reconnaissance” or “reconnoiter”?
William Clark took his slave York with him on his famous western expedition with Meriwether Lewis. Although treated as a full member of the corps, at one point even risking his life to save Lewis from a grizzly bear, he chafed after their return when Clark tried to make him submissive once again. Clark eventually freed York but his later fate is unknown.