@khuenink1414 The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 31, 1971, by three partners who met while they were students at the University of San Francisco English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker.
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@khuenink1414 Mark Zuckerberg the creator of Facebook began programming at a young age--when he was 12 he created a messaging program that his father used in his dental office, allowing the receptionist to notify him of new patients without yelling across the office.
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@chorstPV23 Inspired by a famous French cathedral,Riverside Church is the tallest in the United States, and 24th in the world, with the stunning bell tower standing at 392 feet tall. The 22-story tower is modeled after one of the towers at Laon Cathedral in France.
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@CgroffPv20 The Louvre was damaged during the suppression of the Paris Commune. On 23 May 1871, as the French Army advanced into Paris, a force of Communard soldiers led by Jules Bergeret set fire to the adjoining Tuileries Palace. The fire burned for forty-eight hours.
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@chorstPV23 Of the 36 inmates who staged 14 escape attemptsover the 29 years that Alcatraz served as a federal penitentiary, 23 were recaptured, six were shot and killed, two drowned, and five (including Morris and the Anglins) are listed as missing and presumed drowned.
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@RMurphyPV2002 On January 8, 1935, Elvis Aron Presley was born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, about 35 minutes after his identical twin brother, Jesse Garon, who was stillborn. The next day, Jesse was buried in an unmarked grave in nearby Priceville Cemetery.
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@flaim42 Mrs.Goodfellow started one of the first cooking schools in America. She taught classes for thirty years, and her recipes and techniques were passed on for generations in the cookbooks of one of her students, Eliza Leslie. Goodfellow also ran a renowned bakery.
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@crossPV11 The Ninth Regiment was created on 11 June 1861 under the command of Colonel Thomas Cass in Boston recruiting primarily Irish-Americans. Initial funding for the regiment came from Patrick Donahoe, publisher of The Boston Pilot.
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Mad magazine is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines. The magazine has been in various legal actions over the decades, some of which have reached the United States Supreme Court.
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@chorstPV23 In 1942 with the United States entering World War 2the airport was leased to the Army Air Corps and became known as the Sarasota Army Airfield. The Army Air Corps later added 250 acres making the airport 870 acres.
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@flaim42 The M60 tank was originally based on the M48 Patton tank. Fielded in the early 1950s and itself based on the M47 and M46 tanks, the Patton featured advanced fire control that gave it nearly a 50 percent chance of a first round hit at 1,500 meters.
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@crossPV11 Chief engineer for Chevrolet, dictated a series of changes that significantly increased the cost of the car. These changes included a new dashboard and the relocation of air ducts to the headlight pods, which resulted in the distinctive chrome headlights.
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@CgroffPv20 At the base of the Arch de Triomphe stands a torch. Every evening at 6:30 P.M. it is rekindled, and veterans lay wreaths decorated with red, white and blue near its flickering flame. It burns in the darkness to recall the sacrifice of an unknown French soldier.
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@RMurphyPV2002 In 1961, the Epiphone & Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan was one of the premier instrument factories in the world and the Casino was merely another instrument in a series of "Thinline" electrics first introduced in the late 50s.
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The Demilitarized Zone is a region on the Korean peninsula that separates North Korea from South Korea. The 150 mile long DMZ incorporates territory on both sides of the cease-fire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War in 1953.
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@CgroffPv20 World's fairs originated in the French tradition of national exhibitions, a tradition that culminated with the French Industrial Exposition of 1844 held in Paris. This fair was followed by other national exhibitions in continental Europe and the United Kingdom.
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@CgroffPv20 Gunter Demnig grew up in Nauen and Berlin and acquired his abitur in 1967. Later that year, he began studying creative education at Berlin University of the Arts with Professor Herbert Kaufmann.
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@EbologaPv27 In 1986, the government sold Tank Island and other anchorages in Key West in an auction to developer Pritam Singh. In 1988, the tanks were dismantled while the remaining fuel lines served as conduits for water, sewage, and utilities.
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