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The oldest major league baseball stadium is the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park which opened in 1912. The second oldest is Wrigley Field (1914), home to Chicago Cubs. Third oldest? Dodger Stadium. That opened in 1962. It’s practically a newcomer.
Philadelphia was the world’s 10th largest city in 1900.
Famed songwriter Cole Porter’s wife was Linda Lee Thomas. Her first husband was Edward Russell Thomas. Edward was the first American to kill somebody in a car accident.
Paul Gauguin Panama Canal — The painter Paul Gauguin was a laborer on the Panama Canal — the unsuccessful French one.
He was arrested for urinating in public in Panama City and marched at gunpoint to the courthouse where he was made to pay a one piastre or about 80 cents.
He left soon after.
California has the most trailer parks. But weep not Robert James, Florida is second.
The French still use the Maginot Line, at least part of it. Ouvrage Hochwald is a hardened command center for Drachebronn Air Base.
The French actually re-manned the line after World War II — an event in which it infamously failed — and used it as originally intended until the 1960s when they developed an independent nuclear deterrent.
One of the forts was used as the set for SPECTRE headquarters in the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Yes, there is a Saint Lucifer. Well, maybe. The status is debated. Lucifer was the name of the bishop of Cagliari from 353 -370 and the Sardinians venerate him as a saint. Some, however, argue his holy deeds were done by another Lucifer who was martyred by the Vandals.
Lucifer appears to have been a fairly common name among courageous Christians of the late Roman Empire. The first bishop of Siena (306) was also named Lucifer.
And Lucifer never was the name for the Devil. It started as the name for the planet Venus and is used to denote the state from which Satan has fallen.
A bald eagle nest weighs more than a ton.
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-18-17
Knights Templar recruits were subject to a secret test to prove their sincerity. It has never been learned what it was. It got them in trouble.
If white reflects all colors why are not mirrors white?
Because “white” objects don’t reflect but scatter.
The objects we see as white are rough and absorb the light waves. They bounce around a bit beneath the surface via material that acts as prisms then comes back to your eyes. If snow, sugar, clouds and painted walls were perfectly smooth then they would reflect the light back as do mirrors.