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• Ferrari launched the Daytona sports car in 1971, boasting its “aerodynamic design” that enabled the vehicle to reach a top speed of 170 miles per hour.

• German immigrant Gerhard Mennen introduced his first product, Mennen’s Sure Corn Killer, in 1878. His method of advertising constituted a horse and wagon and a banjo player that travelled from one town to the next. The banjo player provided entertainment which was periodically interrupted by Mennen plugging his product. Mennen’s Borated Talcum Infant Powder hit the shelves in 1889, with Gerhard pouring $0.50 of every dollar earned back into advertising. Gerhard Mennen died while on a European family vacation at the age of 45.

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• A certain real estate firm was advertising a property development in Los Angeles in 1922. They placed 45-foot-high letters on a hill above the city, spelling HOLLYWOODLAND---a landmark that remains today, minus the land.

• Although we think of Maxwell House Coffee when we hear the slogan “good to the last drop,” this phrase was originally used by Coca-Cola.

• The initials S.O.S., used for America’s favorite steel wool pads, have nothing to do with a call for help. An abbreviation for “Save Our Saucepans,” S.O.S. pads were first given away as a free gift by a door-to-door salesman selling aluminum cookware in 1917. Edwin Cox received more requests for the scouring pads than he did for the pans. It was Mrs. Coz who came up with the catchy name for this commodity.

• “You press the button---we do the rest” was the company’s slogan, first used in 1888. What product was it? It was a Kodak camera! When Kodak introduced its Brownie camera in 1900, the price was $1.

• Introducing! …Blibber-Blubber! What in the world is Blibber-Blubber? In 1906, it was a product marketed by the Fleer Corporation---bubble gum! However, because it was a little too sticky, the formula was changed, and in the 1920s, so was the name…to Dubble Bubble.

• Touted as and “Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage,” Coca-Cola hit the world of advertising in 1886. When pharmacist Asa Candler bought the formula for the beverage from pharmacist John Pemberton in 1887, he paid $2,300.

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• The Maybelline Company introduced its cake mascara in 1917 with magazine advertisements.

This cosmetic was available only through the mail until 1932 when it was finally offered for sale in variety stores.

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• Any fisherman could purchase a quality, ash fishing rod, 10 feet long with three joints and brass mounting, for $0.18 from the 1900 Sears and Roebuck catalog. The top-of-the-line bamboo rod, 15 feet long with four joints, would set him back $1.50.

• Ladies perusing the 1900 Sears catalog could find $0.69 flannel nightgowns, $0.98 corsets, and a pheasant feather-trimmed bonnet for $3.95.

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• England’s first printer, William Caxton, created the world’s first printed advertisement in 1478. The ad promoted religious books that Caxton printed in his own print shop.

• The first neon sign was put in place in Paris, France, in 1912, advertising Cinzano.

• The Kellogg cereal company, presented Rice Krispies in 1929 with the “Snap, Crackle, and Pop” slogan. In 1942, the company jazzed up its Corn Flakes for the first time, introducing Sugar Frosted Flakes, using Tony the Tiger as its advertising “spokesman.”

• Kodak’s first instamatic camera hit the market in 1968, touting its easy-to-use, drop-in film cartridge and two exposure settings, sunny and cloudy.

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• That big, bald guy dressed in all white, known as Mr. Clean, made his first grime-fighting appearance in 1958.

• Elvis Presley promoted only one product in a television commercial in all his years as a celebrity. It was the donuts made by Southern Made Donuts.

• Eleanor Roosevelt endorsed Good Luck magazine on the game show “Haggis Baggis” in 1959.

• Alka-Seltzer started using the little spokesman “Speedy” in 1931 to advertise its fizzy antidote for hangovers and queasy stomachs. Speedy, with his Alka-Seltzer tablet body, was going to be named “Sparky,” but the company made a last-minute change. He appeared in 212 television commercials, beginning in 1952. In Spanish–speaking countries, Speedy was also known as “Prontito.”

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• Although Wheaties were introduced in 1924, this product did not become the “Breakfast of Champions” until 1933 when the company sponsored a baseball radio broadcast, followed by a billboard at a Minneapolis ball park.

• Babe Ruth was one of the first athletes to endorse Wheaties, yet his picture did not appear on the box until 1992 when a commemorative package was unveiled.

• Lou Gehrig was the first athlete to appear on a Wheaties box in 1934.

• Michael Jordan’s face has appeared on the package 18 times, followed by Tiger Woods appearing 14 times.

• Mary Lou Retton was the first female athlete to appear on the box in 1984 after winning an Olympic gold medal in Los Angeles.

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• A chef traditionally wears white because the chef of the first prime minister of France (1815) believed it was the most hygienic of all colors.

• The shape of the Coca-Cola bottle is patterned after a cacao seed pod.

• In 1995, Chris "Fenderman" Black got hitched to his Fender Stratocaster guitar that he'd purchased 35 years earlier, after his real wife quipped that he spent so much time with it, he should marry it.

• Early Hoover vacuum cleaners were hard to sell because potential customers refused to believe they could have that much dirt in their carpets.

• Plane exhaust kills more people than plane crashes. Approximately 10,000 people die annually from toxic airplane pollutants.

• Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Goycochea would crouch down and covertly urinate on the field before every penalty shootout for good luck.

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• "Hurkle-durkle" is an old Scottish word meaning to lie in bed after it's time to get up and get going.

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You'd think that the grocery store shortages would be long gone by now. But no ... they never completely went away. Only the missing items have changed.

My neighbor and I laugh and compare notes about "the toilet paper of the month," recalling the long period when getting name-brand toilet paper was impossible around here. At this point, the missing item is a type of soup, which has been gone for nearly four weeks. A particular flavor of baked beans, gone. No-salt canned green beans, vanished. Jasmine rice, steel-cut oatmeal, low-sodium tuna ... no more. Even the tags are missing from store shelves in all three shopping locations here, and managers can't order them.

My neighbor and I weren't laughing today, however, when we realized it had been a full month since a certain chocolate bar had been seen on shelves in any store here.

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• Chamomile came from the Greek words “chamai” meaning “on the ground,” and “melon” meaning “apple.”

• Columbine comes from the Latin word “columba” meaning “dove” because the flowers resemble a circle of doves.

• Geraniums were named from the Greek word “geranos” meaning “crane,” because the seed pods are pointed like the bill of a crane.

• “Pasque” was the old French word for Passover and Easter, and the Pasque flower was so named because it blooms around that time of year.

• “Pentstemon” is Greek and means literally “five stamens.”

• Pansy comes from the French word “pensée” which means “thoughtful,” because the flower looks somewhat like a pensive face.

• Clematis comes from the Greek word “klema” meaning “vine branch.”

• Aster comes from the Latin word for star.

• Daisy comes from “days eye,” referring to its habit of opening in the morning and closing at dusk.

• “Gladiolus” is Latin for little sword, and from it we get gladiator, a sword-wielding fighter, and gladiolus, which has sword-shaped leaves.

• The Virgin Mary had many plants named for her, including “Mary’s Gold,” which is now marigold.

• Hollyhock was once used to make a concoction that reduced the swelling in the ankle, or hock, of a horse.

• “Impatiens” is the Latin word for impatient, referring to the flower’s violent explosion of seeds.

• Primrose means “first rose” in Latin because it appears so early in the season.

• The hydrangea bush absorbs up to twelve gallons of water per day and its name comes from “hydro,” the Greek word for water.

• The Dutch borrowed the word “tulip” from the French (“tulipan”), who borrowed it from the Turks (“tulbend”), who noted that the shape of the flower reminded them of a “turban.”

• Lilac comes from the Persian word for blue.

• Joel Poinsett was a diplomat from South Carolina in the 1800s. While serving in Mexico he collected specimens of a wild shrub and shipped them back to America, where they became known as poinsettias.

• The magnolia was named after French botanist Pierre Magnol who devised the botanical scheme of classification.

• Leonard Fuchs was a botanist who wrote a book about plants in the year 1542. The plant (and the color) fuchsia is named after him.

• The dahlia was named after Swedish botanist Anders Dahl, who was a student of Carl Linnaeus, who devised the modern system of naming organisms.

• Camellia was named by Linnaeus to honor fellow botanist Joseph Kamel.

• Scottish botanist Alexander Garden was honored by having the gardenia named after him.

• The begonia was named to honor Michel Bégon, an official in French King Louis XIV’s court who became governor of Canada.

• Nicotiana is the genus that includes smoking tobacco and flowering tobacco. It is named after Jean Nicot, the French ambassador who introduced tobacco to France.

• Narcissus is named for the Greek god who saw his reflection in a pond and fell in love with himself. The peony is named for Paeon, the Greek physician to the gods.

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• There are many fancy cleaners for sale for wood and laminate floors.

Truth is, all you need is regular sweeping and a clean, damp mop. Never use harsh cleaners on wood, and do not use too much moisture.

• D.D. in Missouri keeps morning cereal crisp by using two bowls. Bite by bite dipped in milk is the perfect remedy for avoiding a soggy spoonful!

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• On May 31, 1859, the famous tower clock known as Big Ben, located at the top of the 320-foot-high Elizabeth Tower, rings out over London for the first time. At night, all four of the clock's faces, each one 23 feet across, are illuminated. A light above Big Ben is also lit to let the public know when Parliament is in session.

• On June 4, 1876, a mere 83 hours after leaving New York City, the Transcontinental Express train arrives in San Francisco. First-class passengers rode in beautifully appointed cars with plush velvet seats that converted into snug sleeping berths. Third-class passengers sat on narrow wooden benches.

• On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II is formally crowned monarch of the United Kingdom in a ceremony steeped in traditions that date back a millennium.

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• On June 5, 1922, George W. Carmack, the first person to discover gold along the Klondike River, dies in British Columbia. In 1896, near the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike River, Carmack stumbled across a deposit of gold so rich that thumbsized pieces of gold lay scattered along the creek bed.

• On June 6, 1933, eager motorists park their automobiles on the grounds the first-ever drive-in movie theater, in New Jersey. Inventor Richard Hollingshead had come up with the idea in his driveway with different projection and sound techniques.

• On June 3, 1965, 120 miles above the Earth, Major Edward White II opens the hatch and steps out of the Gemini 4 capsule, becoming the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space. Attached to the craft by a 25-foot tether, White remained outside the capsule for 20 minutes.

• On June 1, 1980, CNN (Cable News Network), the world's first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut. CNN signed on at 6 p.m. EDT from its headquarters in Atlanta.

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• Before he was the owner of his own successful circus, Phineas Taylor Barnum worked the ticket booth and performed as a clown in a small circus. In 1871, he started his “Grand and Traveling Circus, Menagerie, Caravan and Circus.”

P.T. Barnum grossed $400,000 his first year. He wasn’t afraid to use a little deception to bring in customers, and featured fake mermaids and bearded ladies, earning him the title “an allAmerican huckster.” One of Barnum’s promotions featured a “6-foot man-eating chicken,” which was in actuality nothing but a 6-foot-tall man munching on a chicken leg.

• At age 25, P.T. Barnum opened his first show which featured a black slave named Joyce Heth, reputed to be 161 years old, who claimed to have been George Washington’s nurse. Barnum featured the original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, in his New York City museum of oddities. Chang and Eng, identical twins joined at the sternum, were born in Siam (now Thailand), hence the term Siamese twins.

• P.T. Barnum took on a partner names James A. Bailey in 1881, and the Barnum & Bailey Circus became known as the “Greatest Show on Earth.”

The circus began using the railroad to transport the business from town to town, revolutionizing the industry. It took between 60 and 70 railroad cars to convey Barnum’s show on tour.

• Because P.R. Barnum wanted to know what folks would say about him after he was dead, the New York Sun published his obituary two weeks prior to his death. The tune Auld Lang Syne was sung at Barnum’s funeral.

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• A German-born harness maker named August Rungeling instilled the love of the circus in his seven sons. Five of the boys---Al, Otto, Charles, John and Alf---changed their surname to Ringling and went into the circus business.

Brothers Henry and Gus joined them later. In 1887, spectators could watch the Ringling Brothers United Monster Shows, Great Double Circus, Royal European Menagerie, Museum, Caravan and Congress of Trained Animals--quite a mouthful for their new exhibition. The first Ringling performance came about with the effort of the five brothers and 17 employees, who together sewed the tent, sold the tickets, provided the band music, as well as performed all the acts.

• Both Barnum and Bailey had passed on by 1906, and in 1907, the Ringling Brothers purchased the Barnum & Bailey circus for $400,000. The two shows operated separately until 1919 when they combined to become the now-famous Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The family sold the circus in 1967, but it still operates under the same name.

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• Baraboo, Wisconsin is home of the Ringling brothers and a winter home of their circus. It is also home to the Circus World Museum, housing 200 vintage circus wagons.

• The circus tent used by the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1921 to 1924 still holds the record for the largest circus tent in history. This magnificent canopy covered 91,415 square feet with a round top 200 feet across.

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• The Greatest Show on Earth completed its final act on May 21, 2017. Ringling streamed the show on its website and Facebook Live.

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