Someone who faces the glare of publicity may be said to be in the limelight. American chemist Robert Hare discovered that a blowpipe flame acting upon a block of calcium oxide - which is lime - produces a brilliant white light that could be used to illuminate theater stages.
"Chopines" were platform shoes that became popular in Europe during the 16th century. Some chopines were over 20 inches tall. In the 1400's, a popular form of shoes called "crakows" sported extremely long toes. The length of the toes, which could be over 20 inches, was an indication of the social status of the person wearing them.
"Erin go bragh" means
"Chopines" were platform shoes that became popular in Europe during the 16th century. Some chopines were over 20 inches tall. In the 1400's, a popular form of shoes called "crakows" sported extremely long toes. The length of the toes, which could be over 20 inches, was an indication of the social status of the person wearing them.
"Erin go bragh" means "Ireland forever."
"Ichigensan okotowari" is a custom developed in ryotei ( Restaurants which serve authentic traditional Japanese cuisine) in Kyoto. It means that you must be introduced by someone to be welcomed. The reason for this is it enables the restaurant to give its warmest hospitality and services to all its customers. Business cards are preferred to credit cards. Most establishments will only accept cash.
"The Boston Nation," a newspaper published in Ohio during the mid-nineteenth century, had pages seven and a half feet long and five and a half feet wide. It required two people to hold the paper in proper reading position.
"The Washington Post March" by John Phillip Sousa was named after the newspaper, the Washington Post.
$1,000,000 in $1 bills would weigh approximately one ton. Placed in a pile it would be 360 feet (110 m) high – as tall as 60 average adults standing on top of each other.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain, was the first novel ever to be written on a typewriter.
A "funambulist" is a tight-rope walker.
A trokenbeerenauslese is a German wine made from vine-dried grapes so rare that it can take a skilled picker a day to gather enough for a single bottle.
There are about 3,000 hot dog vendors in metropolitan New York.
A balloon released into the jet stream would take two weeks to travel completely around the globe.
There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.
The harp's ancestor was a hunting bow, but the history of this complex instrument is far from clear. Epic tales, poetry, and works of art have shown that harps existed since at least the ancient times of Babylonia and Mesopotamia. They've been represented in paintings in the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III, in ancient Greece sculptures, in votive carvings from Iraq which date from 2900 B.C. Likely during the growth of Islam, the harp traveled from north Africa to Spain during the eighth century. Its use soon spread throughout Europe.
There are more than 5,919,682 telephones in New York City, more phones than in the entire country of Spain. The cables serving the New York City area have nearly 33,072,975 miles of wire.
The height and width of modern American battleships was originally determined by insuring they had to be able to go beneath the Brooklyn Bridge and through the Panama Canal.
St. Miles Partridge once played dice with Henry VIII for the bells of St. Paul's church. He won, and collected the bells.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
The highest rating given a top quality diamond is D-flawless.
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