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Posted on 01/28/2006 7:17:17 PM PST by alfa6
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 are acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated.
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 OR HOW TO HAVE FUN EATIN ON THE RUN With the demise of the C-rations in the early 1980s and the advent MRES the McIllhenny Company stepped up and produced an updated version of the Charlie Ration Cookbook. In 1984 The Unofficial MRE Recipe Booklet was brought out with the help of the Bettle Bailey crew to help the GIs spice up their rations. So here is "The Unofficial MRE Recipe Booklet" or "How to Have Fun Eatin on the Run"              |
LOL That's my girl!!
1. Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast.
2. The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet.
3. Minnesota Inventions: Masking and Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Green Giant vegetables
4. The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 allowing oceangoing ships to reach Duluth.
5. Minneapolis is home to the oldest continuously running theater (Old Log Theater) and the largest dinner theater (Chanhassan Dinner Theater) in the country.
6. The original name of the settlement that became St. Paul was Pig's Eye. Named for the French-Canadian whiskey trader, Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant, who had led squatters to the settlement.
7. The world's largest pelican stands at the base of the Mill Pond dam on the Pelican River, right in downtown Pelican Rapids. The 15 1/2 feet tall concrete statue was built in 1957.
8. The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is the largest urban sculpture garden in the country.
9. The Guthrie Theater is the largest regional playhouse in the country.
10. Minneapolis’ famed skyway system connecting 52 blocks (nearly five miles) of downtown makes it possible to live, eat, work and shop without going outside.
11. Minneapolis has more golfers per capita than any other city in the country.
12. The climate-controlled Metrodome is the only facility in the country to host a Super Bowl, a World Series and a NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship.
13. Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined.
14. The nation’s first Better Business Bureau was founded in Minneapolis in 1912.
15. The first open heart surgery and the first bone marrow transplant in the United States were done at the University of Minnesota.
16. Bloomington and Minneapolis are the two farthest north latitude cities to ever host a World Series game.
17. Madison is the "Lutefisk capital of the United States".
18. Rochester is home of the world famous Mayo Clinic. The clinic is a major teaching and working facility. It is known world wide for its doctor's expertise and the newest methods of treatments.
19. The Bergquist cabin, built in 1870 by John Bergquist, a Swedish immigrant, is the oldest house in Moorhead still on its original site.
20. For many years, the world's largest twine ball has sat in Darwin. It weighs 17,400 pounds, is twelve feet in diameter, and was the creation of Francis A. Johnson.
21. The stapler was invented in Spring Valley.
22. In 1956, Southdale, in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, was the first enclosed climate-controlled suburban Shop50states.
23. Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson was the first enlisted man to land with the first American Expeditionary Force in Europe in WWII on January 26, 1942.
24. The first practical water skis were invented in 1922 by Ralph W. Samuelson, who steam-bent 2 eight-foot-long pine boards into skies. He took his first ride behind a motorboat on a lake in Lake City.
25. In Olivia a single half-husked cob towers over a roadside gazebo. It is 25 feet tall, made of fiberglass, and has been up since 1973.
26. The first Children's department in a Library is said to be that of the Minneapolis Public Library, which separated children's books from the rest of the collection in Dec. 1889.
27. The first Automatic Pop-up toaster was marketed in June 1926 by McGraw Electric Co. in Minneapolis under the name Toastmaster. The retail price was $13.50.
28. On September 2, 1952, a 5 year old girl was the first patient to under go a heart operation in which the deep freezing technique was employed. Her body temperature, except for her head, was reduced to 79 degrees Fahrenheit. Dr. Floyd Lewis at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota performed the operation.
29. The first Aerial Ferry was put into Operation on April 9, 1905, over the ship canal between Duluth to Minnesota Point. It had room enough to accommodate 6 automobiles. Round trip took 10 min.
30. Rollerblades were the first commercially successful in-line Roller Skates. Minnesota students Scott and Brennan Olson invented them in 1980, when they were looking for a way to practice Hockey during the off-season. Their design was an ice hockey boot with 3 inline wheels instead of a blade.
31. The first Intercollegiate Basketball game was played in Minnesota on February 9,1895.
32. In 1919 a Minneapolis factory turned out the nations first armored cars.
33. Tonka Trucks were developed and are continued to be manufactured in Minnetonka.
34. Hormel Company of Austin marketed the first canned ham in 1926. Hormel introduced Spam in 1937.
35. Introduced in August 1963, The Control Data 6600, designed by Control Data Corp. of Chippewa Falls, was the first Super Computer. It was used by the military to simulate nuclear explosions and break Soviet codes. These computers also were used to model complex phenomena such as hurricanes and galaxies.
36. Candy maker Frank C. Mars of Minnesota introduced the Milky Way candy bar in 1923. Mars marketed the Snickers bar in 1930 and introduced the 5 cent Three Musketeers bar in 1937. The original 3 Musketeers bar contained 3 bars in one wrapper. Each with different flavor nougat.
37. A Jehovah's Witness was the first patient to receive a transfusion of artificial blood in 1979 at the University of Minnesota Hospital. He had refused a transfusion of real blood because of his religious beliefs.
38. Minnesota has one recreational boat per every six people, more than any other state.
39. There are 201 Mud Lakes, 154 Long Lakes, and 123 Rice Lakes commonly named in Minnesota.
40. The Hull-Rust mine in Hibbing became the largest open-pit mine in the world.
41. Minnesota's waters flow outward in three directions: north to Hudson Bay in Canada, east to the Atlantic Ocean, and south to the Gulf of Mexico.
42. At the confluence of the Big Fork and Rainy Rivers on the Canadian border near International Falls stands the largest Indian burial mound in the upper midwest. It is known as the Grand Mound historic site.
43. Author Laura Ingalls Wilder lived on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove.
44. Akeley is birthplace and home of world's largest Paul Bunyan Statue. The kneeling Paul Bunyan is 20 feet tall. He might be the claimed 33 feet tall, if he were standing.
45. Hibbing is the birthplace of the American bus industry. It sprang from the business acumen of Carl Wickman and Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson - who opened the first bus line (with one bus) between the towns of Hibbing and Alice in 1914. The bus line grew to become Greyhound Lines, Inc.
46. The first official hit in the Metrodome in Minneapolis was made by Pete Rose playing for the Cincinnati Reds in a preseason game.
47. Polaris Industries of Roseau invented the snowmobile.
48. Twin Cities-based Northwest Airlines was the first major airline to ban smoking on international flights.
49. Alexander Anderson of Red Wing discovered the processes to puff wheat and rice giving us the indispensable rice cakes.
50. In 1898, the Kensington Rune stone was found on the farm of Olaf Ohman, near Alexandria. The Kensington Rune stone carvings allegedly tell of a journey of a band of Vikings in 1362.
Joke . . . try 24th. According to Golf Digest:
MYRTLE BEACH, SC
NAPLES, FL
WILMINGTON, NC
FORT MYERS-CAPE CORAL, FL
FORT PIERCE-PORT ST. LUCIE, FL
WEST PALM BEACH-BOCA RATON, FL
SARASOTA-BRADENTON, FL
PUNTA GORDA, FL
FORT WALTON BEACH, FL
BARNSTABLE-YARMOUTH, MA
#51 Robert Zimmerman, aka, Bob Dyklan is also from Hibbing. Minnesota
FWIW
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
I've found several references to the Cement plant being the largest in Michigan, the largest owned by LaFarge, and the largest in the midwest. ""We are making this investment to improve the competitiveness of the largest cement plant in the Midwest," Alexis Langlois, president of the Lafarge North America Great Lakes Cement Region said." http://www.michigan.org/medc/news/major/combo.asp?ContentId=E5341968-AF3A-4065-9CD8-C5D9D0352A34&QueueId=1&ContentTypeId=7
"The plant currently produces 2.5 million tons of cement per year." http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/Alpena_cement.html
This one may actually hold up. It is apparently 11 acres - more than twice the size of the Hirshhorn (about 4 acres).
I guess it depends on what you mean by 'sculpture garden' and 'urban'.
For example, I found a reference to Pepsico having a 68 acre site at its headquarters. Donald Kendall Sculpture Gardens, Purchase, NY, but Pepsico seems to have pulled all references from its web site and the link I found no longer worked. Google Donald Kendall Sculpture Gardens for a pile of references.
Or go to Grand Rapids for the Frederic Meijer - http://www.meijergardens.org/ - at 125 acres.
Some other big rural parks listed here: http://www.webenglish.com.tw/sites/Arts/VisualArts/Sculpture/ParksandGardens/NorthAmerica/ Although the list is missing at least one major urban park.
Same thing happened last year in March, hmmm. I think there may be something blooming around here my body doesn't care for.
We are expecting a cold spell, minor compared to what the eastern folks just got but I still don't care for the cold.
Hugs everyone.
xoxoxo
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I not a big fan of Dylan but given his stature in th music world . . . that's a big oversight by the folks at 50states.com
Thanks sweetie. I'm feeling every bit of my age lately, I think my whole body requires prayer!
Waidaminutehere. Didn't we read the first open heart surgery was done in Alabama?
Good afternoon everyone.
Waidaminutehere. Didn't we read the first open heart surgery was done in Alabama?
From the Alabama "Facts and Trivia" list . . .
In 1902 Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing a stab wound in a young boy's heart. The surgery occurred in Montgomery.
How the "San Juan Hill" did you remember that? You two are really scary. Still, all these trivia errors are being documented for a very long letter to the webmaster at 50states.com
That's a really good catch.
Notes to self.
1)Don't play Trivial Pursuit with PE.
2)Research carefully before flaming PE.
Footnote to #2:
It could have been "peanutgallery" that made the "good catch" and PE is just taking credit for her insight and brilliance. Developing . . .
1. In 1963 the University of Mississippi Medical Center accomplished the world's first human lung transplant and, on January 23, 1964, Dr. James D. Hardy performed the world's first heart transplant surgery.
2. Borden's Condensed Milk was first canned in Liberty.
3. In 1902 while on a hunting expedition in Sharkey County, President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured bear. This act resulted in the creation of the world-famous teddy bear.
4. The world's largest shrimp is on display at the Old Spanish Fort Museum in Pascagoula.
5. The first bottle of Dr. Tichener's Antiseptic was produced in Liberty.
6. The world's largest cactus plantation is in Edwards.
7. Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, on January 8, 1935.
8. H.T. Merrill from Luka performed the world's first round trip trans-oceanic flight in 1928.
9. In 1884 the concept of selling shoes in boxes in pairs (right foot and left foot) occurred in Vicksburg at Phil Gilbert's Shoe Parlor on Washington Street.
10. The first female rural mail carrier in the United States was Mrs. Mamie Thomas. She delivered mail by buggy to the area southeast of Vicksburg in 1914.
11. Historic Jefferson College, circa 1802, was the first preparatory school established in the Mississippi Territory. Located in Washington the educational institution is also the site where tradition holds Aaron Burr was arraigned for treason in 1807, beneath what became known as Burr Oaks.
12. William Grant Still of Woodville composed the Afro-American Symphony.
13. Burnita Shelton Mathews of Hazelhurst was the first woman federal judge in the United States and served in Washington, the District of Columbia.
14. Dr. Emmette F. Izard of Hazelhurst developed the first fibers of rayon. They became known as the first real synthetics.
15. The first nuclear submarine built in the south was produced in Mississippi.
16. In 1871 Liberty became the first town in the United States to erect a Confederate monument.
17. Mississippi was the first state in the nation to have a planned system of junior colleges.
18. Leontyne Price of Laurel performed with the New York Metropolitan Opera.
19. Mississippi is the birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star.
20. The rarest of North American cranes lives in Mississippi in the grassy savannas of Jackson County. The Mississippi Sandhill Crane stands about 44 inches tall and has an eight-foot wingspan.
21. Guy Bush of Tupelo was one of the most valuable players with the Chicago Cubs. He was on the 1929 World Series team and Babe Ruth hit his last home run off a ball pitched by Bush.
22. S.B. Sam Vick of Oakland played for the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. He was the only man ever to pinch hit for the baseball great Babe Ruth.
23. Blazon-Flexible Flyer, Inc. in West Point is proclaimed to make the very best snow sled in the United States, which became an American tradition. It is called The Flexible Flyer.
24. Friendship Cemetery in Columbus has been called Where Flowers Healed a Nation. It was April 25, 1866, and the Civil War had been over for a year when the ladies of Columbus decided to decorate both Confederate and Union soldiers' graves with beautiful bouquets and garlands of flowers. As a direct result of this kind gesture, Americans celebrate what has come to be called Memorial Day each year, an annual observance of recognition of war dead.
25. The largest Bible-binding plant in the nation is Norris Bookbinding Company in Greenwood.
26. After the Civil War, famed hat maker John B. Stetson learned and practiced his trade at Dunn's Falls near Meridian.
27. In 1834 Captain Isaac Ross, whose plantation was in Lorman, freed his slaves and arranged for them to be sent to Africa, where they founded the country of Liberia. Recently, representatives of Liberia visited Lorman and placed a stone at the Captain's gravesite in honor of his kindness.
28. The world's largest cottonwood tree plantation is in Issaquena County.
29. David Harrison of Columbus owns the patent on the Soft Toilet Seat. Over 1,000,000 are sold every year.
30. The first football player on a Wheaties box was Walter Payton of Columbia.
31. Greenwood is the home of Cotton Row, which is the second largest cotton exchange in the nation and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
32. The oldest game in America is stickball. The Choctaw Indians of Mississippi played the game. Demonstrations can be seen every July at the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia.
33. The International Checkers Hall of Fame is in Petal.
34. Natchez was settled by the French in 1716 and is the oldest permanent settlement on the Mississippi River. Natchez once had 500 millionaires, more than any other city except New York City.
35. Natchez now has more than 500 buildings that are on the National Register of Historic Places.
36. The Natchez Trace Parkway, named an All American Road by the federal government, extends from Natchez to just south of Nashville, Tennessee. The Trace began as an Indian trail more than 8,000 years ago.
37. The Vicksburg National Cemetery is the second largest national cemetery in the country. Arlington National Cemetery is the largest. [Largest?? By what measurement? If measured by acreage then Calverton, NY is the largest. Also, as of Sept. 30, 2005, seven national cemeteries each contained more than 100,000 occupied gravesites, collectively accounting for 38 percent of all NCA gravesites maintained: Long Island, Calverton, Fort Snelling, Riverside, Jefferson Barracks, Golden Gate, Calif., and Willamette National Cemeteries.]
38. D'Lo was featured in "Life Magazine" for sending proportionally more men to serve in World War II than any other town of its size. 38 percent of the men who lived in D'Lo served.
39. Mississippi suffered the largest percentage of people who died in the Civil War of any Confederate State. 78,000 Mississippians entered the Confederate military. By the end of the war 59,000 were either dead or wounded.
40. Pine Sol was invented in 1929 by Jackson native Harry A. Cole, Sr.
41. The world's largest pecan nursery is in Lumberton.
42. Greenwood is called the Cotton Capital of the World.
43. Belzoni is called the Catfish Capital of the World.
44. Vardaman is called the Sweet Potato Capital of the World.
45. Greenville is called the Towboat Capital of the World.
46. Root beer was invented in Biloxi in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, Sr.
47. Of Mississippi's 82 counties, Yazoo County is the largest and Alcorn County is the smallest.
48. The Mississippi River is the largest in the United States and is the nation's chief waterway. Its nickname is Old Man River.
49. At Vicksburg, the United States Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station is the world's largest hydraulic research laboratory.
50. At Pascagoula the Ingalls Division of Litton Industries uses leading-edge construction techniques to build the United State Navy's most sophisticated ships. At the state's eight research centers programs are under way in acoustics, polymer science, electricity, microelectronics, hydrodynamics, and oceanography.
So I wonder, how big is it? Don't bother, I'll go look to see if I can find a picture. Be right back....
LOL! It's PE's catch fair and square.
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