History

You Put Them On The Brightness Is Gone!

May 18, 2015 — 18 Comments

sunglasses

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Day 138 / 365

Sunglasses allowing you to stare at people without getting caught. It’s like Facebook in real life.    🙂

Interesting Fact: It is said that the Roman emperor Nero liked to watch gladiator fights with emeralds. These, however, appear to have worked rather like mirrors.[5] Sunglasses made from flat panes of smoky quartz, which offered no corrective powers but did protect the eyes from glare were used in China in the 12th century or possibly earlier. Ancient documents describe the use of such crystal sunglasses by judges in ancient Chinese courts to conceal their facial expressions while questioning witnesses. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunglasses )

I Don’t Have A Clue

May 9, 2015 — 10 Comments

clue

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Day 129 / 365

I believe Colonel Mustard did it, in a dining room with a gun.

Interesting Fact: In 1944, Anthony E. Pratt, an English musician, applied for a patent of his invention of a murder/mystery-themed game, originally named “Murder!” The game was originally invented as a new game to play in bomb shelters.[citation needed] Shortly thereafter, Pratt and his wife presented the game to Waddingtons‘ executive, Norman Watson, who immediately purchased the game and provided its trademark name of “Cluedo” (a play on “clue” and “Ludo“; ludo is Latin for I play). Though the patent was granted in 1947, due to post-war shortages, the game was not officially launched until 1949, when the game was simultaneously licensed to Parker Brothers in the United States for publication, where it was renamed “Clue” along with other minor changes.  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluedo#History )

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

May 5, 2015 — 4 Comments

Cinco de Mayo

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Day 125 /365

Shots shots shots shots shots Everybody!!!      🙂

Interesting Fact:  Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May) is celebrated to honor Mexico’s victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War (1861-1867). Despite having a small band of fighters, the Mexicans were able to defeat the massive French army on May 5, 1862.  People have this misconception that Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of Mexico’s Independence Day, but the fact remains that Mexicans celebrate their day of independence on September 16. ( http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/smart-living/12-cinco-de-mayo-facts-you-didnt-know/ss-BBj1D9X#image=2 )

Fight Night!

May 2, 2015 — Leave a comment

boxing gloves

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Day 122 / 365

Big fight tonight Mayweather vs Pacquiao. I wonder who will be the winner?

Interesting Fact: Boxing has been around for centuries; in fact it was one of the sports in the ancient Olympic games of Greece. There is evidence that the sport of boxing was around as early as 688 B.C., although it differed somewhat from the sport we see today. Here are a few interesting facts about boxing and professional boxers that you might not know. ( http://www.thearenamma.com/interesting-facts-boxing/ )

Let it go!

May 1, 2015 — 11 Comments

cartoon

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Day 121 / 365

What if you would be able to play with what you draw…

Interesting Fact: John Barnes Linnett patented the first flip book in 1868 as the kineograph. A flip book is a small book with relatively springy pages, each having one in a series of animation images located near its unbound edge. The user bends all of the pages back, normally with the thumb, then by a gradual motion of the hand allows them to spring free one at a time. As with the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and praxinoscope, the illusion of motion is created by the apparent sudden replacement of each image by the next in the series, but unlike those other inventions no view-interrupting shutter or assembly of mirrors is required and no viewing device other than the user’s hand is absolutely necessary. Early film animators cited flip books as their inspiration more often than the earlier devices, which did not reach as wide an audience. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation )

WAKE UP!!!

April 25, 2015 — 18 Comments

wake up

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Day 115 / 365

Wouldn’t you like to payback your alarm clock?

Interesting Fact: Some people think that an alarm clock was first made in Germany. That alarm clock was made in the 1400’s. It was a clock that hung on the wall. The clock was made of iron with a bronze bell. It was very heavy. Other people think that the alarm clock was invented in Turkey. In 1559, a scientist named Taqi Al-Din invented a special clock.  ( http://www.facts4me.com/disp_subject.php?s_id=995 )

Make A Wish! 

April 24, 2015 — 12 Comments

Fountain

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Day 114 / 365

What did you wish for?

Who cleans all the coins out of fountain?

Interesting Fact:  Ancient civilizations built stone basins to capture and hold precious drinking water. A carved stone basin, dating to around 2000 BC, was discovered in the ruins of the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash in modern Iraq. The ancient Assyrians constructed a series of basins in the gorge of the Comel River, carved in solid rock, connected by small channels, descending to a stream. The lowest basin was decorated with carved reliefs of two lions.[3] The ancient Egyptians had ingenious systems for hoisting water up from the Nile for drinking and irrigation, but without a higher source of water it was not possible to make water flow by gravity, and no Egyptian fountains or pictures of fountains have been found. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain )

Hungry Bag

April 20, 2015 — 5 Comments

lunch bag

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Day 110 / 365

What if your lunch bag ate your snacks?

Interesting Fact: The first paper bag machine was patented by Francis Wolle in 1852. Margaret E. Knight (1838-1914) was an employee in a paper bag factory when she invented a new machine part to make square bottoms for paper bags. Knight can be considered the mother of the grocery bag; she founded the Eastern Paper Bag Company in 1870. On 20 February 1872, Luther Crowell also patented a machine that manufactured paper bags. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_bag#History )

Photography Face Off!

April 11, 2015 — 2 Comments

face off

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Day 101 / 365

We Shoot on three. One, Two, Three……

Interesting Fact: The longest photographic negative measures 39.54 m (129 ft 8.69 in) in length and was created by Esteban Pastorino Diaz (Spain) using a custom-built panoramic slit camera on 13 June 2010. The negative is a panorama of major streets in Buenos Aries, Argentina, captured by the slit camera while mounted on the roof of a moving car.  ( http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-photographic-negative/ )

 

 

Call Me Maybe?

April 10, 2015 — 6 Comments

phone

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Day 100 / 365

What’s the difference between a married man and E.T.?

E.T. phone home.

Interesting Fact: The first phone call was between Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson. On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made history by speaking into a telephone and proclaiming, “Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.” Okay, not exactly as epic a quote as when we first landed on the moon, but just as monumental nonetheless. That first successful phone call sparked a technological boom that would develop into the telecommunications industry that we know today.  ( https://blog.ringcentral.com/2014/08/5-facts-telephone-never-knew-friday-five/ )