Category: Omnibit

Honolulu, HI’s original name was Fair Haven.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-7-17

The, the U.S.S. Langley,  first U.S. aircraft carrier had a compartment for carrier pigeons.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-6-17

Shanghai, China is the world’s busiest container port with 36,516  twenty-foot equivalent units containers per year as of 2015.

Take that Paulsboro, N.J.

Busiest container port William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-5-17

Michael Richard’s character was Kessler not Kramer in the  first episode of Seinfeld.

Comedian Kenny Kramer, upon whom the character is based, had not yet given consent to use Kramer.

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-4-17

Poison hemlock is a member of the carrot family. Please don’t eat it though.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-2-17

Golden eagles kill and eat coyotes and bobcats.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-30-17

 

Q is the only letter that is not in any state’s name. U.S. state that is. Australia has a state with a Q in it.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-29-17

 

 

 

Philadelphia was  the songwriting capital of the world in the 19th century courtesy of Septimus Winner.

Winner’s hits, still sung today, feature dark subject matters set to upbeat tunes. They include Listen to the Mockingbird (with Richard Milburn) which concerned a mockingbird singing over the grave of a lover; Der Deitcher’s Dog (Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone), in which the subject dog is kidnapped by Germans and turned into sausage; and Ten Little Indians, in which nine of them die tragically.

You would think he was a man without hope, except he is also the author of the great hymn Whispering Hope, also still common today.

For what it’s worth, The Three Stooges were fans of Winner. Listen to the Mockingbird was their theme, and the only full-length song they ever performed in a film was Winner’s The Spelling Bee which they called Swinging the Alphabet.

Septimus Winner William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-28-17

 

 

 

Joseph Stalin tried to make half-man, half-ape super warriors.

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-27-17

Who was Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.? He was an American singer. He was better known as John Denver.

Deutschendorf William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 11-25-17