Famed science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein served as an ensign aboard the famed aircraft carrier USS Lexington in 1929. He entered a short story in a shipboard writing contest. He didn’t win.
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Who was E. Irvin Scott? He was the Swarthmore resident, who along with brother Clarence, was the first to sell toilet paper on a roll. The Scotts had a great company whose headquarters ended up near Philadelphia International Airport until it was destroyed by Albert J. Dunlap in 1995.
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William Durant last years — William Durant, the founder of General Motors, went bankrupt in the Great Depression. He spent his last years managing a bowling alley in Flint, Mich.
William Durant last years — William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 5-16-17
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Yes Robert James, “robot” comes from the Old Church Slavonic word rabota for servitude. It was popularized in an English translation of a Czech by Karel Capek which described those used to do forced labor as robotniks.
Robotniks William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-15-17
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The first automobile was built in 1769 by French Army Captain Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. It was meant to be used for transporting cannons. It traveled at about 2 miles per hour. One of the reasons it failed to catch on was the fire in the boiler kept going out.
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The melody for “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” is from the Civil War drinking song “Johnny Fill Up the Bowl.”
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Anglii was the Roman name for the place we now know as Denmark, at least the southern part. The occupants did not like it there so they sailed west and found an island to live on. The part that is called England on that island gets its name from them.
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Sadistic serial killer Ted Bundy was a Rockefeller Republican. He attended the 1968 GOP convention as a delegate for Nelson Rockefeller.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-10-17 — Ted Bundy Rockefeller Republican
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The large island of Madagascar is but 260 miles off the coast of Africa but was settled by east Asians. They came from Borneo in outrigger canoes about 350 years before the birth of Christ.
East Asians settled Madagascar — William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 5-9-17
VE Day Is Not When Germany Surrendered
Today is the anniversary of VE Day but it is not the 72nd Anniversary of the unconditional surrender of Germany in World War II. That would have been yesterday as the surrender was signed 2:41 p.m., May 7.
Today is the 72 Anniversary of active operations by German forces which occurred 11:01 p.m., May 8.
Actually, one German army continued fighting in Prague, Czechoslovakia until May 11.
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