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Tyrannosaurus rex found in Canada is world's biggest Nicknamed Scotty for a celebratory bottle of scotch consumed the night it was discovered, the T. rex was 13 meters (yards) long and probably weighed more than 8,800 kilos (19,400 pounds) |
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https://i.postimg.cc/hGx8gCyf/screenshot-6935.png Has anyone ever seen these tires before? |
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a Photoshop image by an artist named James Laga, and it is sometimes called "Thunderstang". |
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Google's name emerged from a brainstorming session at Stanford University. Founder Larry Page was coming up with ideas for a massive data-index website with other graduate students, Business Insider reported. One of the suggestions was "googolplex" one of the largest describable numbers. The name "Google" came about after one of the students accidentally spelled it wrong. Page then registered his company with this name. |
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If you, like me, thought Adidas stood for "All Day I Dream About Soccer," you're wrong. It turns out the athletics-apparel brand is named after its founder, Adolf Dassler, who started making sport shoes when he came back from serving in World War I, according to the LA Times. The name combines his nickname, Adi, and the first three letters of his last name. |
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Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of Rolex, wanted a brand name that could be said in any language, Business Insider reported. "I tried combining the letters of the alphabet in every possible way," said Wilsdorf, according to Rolex. "This gave me some hundred names, but none of them felt quite right. One morning, while riding on the upper deck of a horse-drawn omnibus along Cheapside in the City of London, a genie whispered 'Rolex' in my ear." |
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IKEA isn't a Swedish word that you don't understand. Founder Ingvar Kamprad chose the brand name by combining the initials of his own name, IK, with the first letters of the farm and village, where grew up in southern Sweden: Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd. |
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In an interview with The Seattle Times, Starbucks cofounder Gordon Bowker told the story of how they arrived at the name. At first, they were going through a list of words beginning with "st" because they thought those were powerful. "Somebody somehow came up with an old mining map of the Cascades and Mount Rainier, and there was an old mining town called Starbo," he said. "As soon as I saw Starbo, I, of course, jumped to Melville's first mate [named Starbuck] in 'Moby-Dick.'" |
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The convenience-store chain's name means two things: 1. It's the name of the area in Pennsylvania where the company's first dairy farm was located. 2. It's a Native-American word for a Canada Goose (the one pictured in the company's logo). Wawa is named after an area of Pennsylvania. The convenience-store chain's name means two things: 1. It's the name of the area in Pennsylvania where the company's first dairy farm was located. 2. It's a Native-American word for a Canada Goose (the one pictured in the company's logo). |
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Nike was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports, and it didn't take on its current name until 1971. Co-founders Bill Bowerman -a track-and-field coach - and Phil Knight, a middle-distance runner from Portland, had wanted to make the name "Dimension 6" originally. In fact, it was Nike's first employee, Jeff Johnson who came up with the name. Nike is the Greek goddess of victory. |
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Amazon's original logo. Yes it's named after the largest river in the world. |
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Agrochemical company Monsanto was founded in 1901 by John F. Queeny. He named the business after his wife, Olga Monsanto Queeny. |
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Verizon was the product of a merger between Bell Atlantic and GTE, both telecommunications companies. The name is a mix between the latin word "veritas" meaning "truth," and horizon, which is meant to signify that the brand is forward-looking. |
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With a name like James Cash Penney, it's as if the retail founder was born to make money. |
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The Tupelo Automobile Museum cars are up for auction. The crown jewel is this Tucker which has an estimated auction price of $2,000,000. |
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Why do we have a middle name? We almost never use it. But there is actual history behind it, and it dates back to ancient Rome. Many Romans had three names, a praenomen, which was a personal name, a nomen, which was a family name, and a cognomen, which indicated what branch of family you were from. The more names you had the more respected you were by others. Women only had two names, and slaves typically had one. An example you may be familiar with, Gaius Julius Caesar. |
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The tail end of a solar storm that erupted from the sun earlier this week is expected to smash into Earth's magnetic field this weekend, making the aurora borealis (also known as the northern lights) visible as far south as Chicago. It's the first bit of exciting space weather we've had in many months as we're in the calm period at the end of the current 11-year solar cycle. The smallish solar flare and associated coronal mass ejection that erupted Wednesday also pale in comparison with far stronger and more disruptive blasts that have hit us in the past and almost certainly will again in the future. Perhaps the most famous magnetic storm is the so-called "Carrington Event" in 1859. The storm came at the dawn of our modern technological era and all but knocked the young telegraph system out of commission temporarily while lighting up skies with colorful aurora as far south as current-day Belize and Thailand. https://i.postimg.cc/hGYmYvk8/where-is-belize-1.jpg |
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Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay. These are Supertrees — which are actually vertical gardens |
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4.5 million years ago, Jupiter was four times farther away from the Sun than it is today. Analysis of isotopes in meteorites suggests that Jupiter may be so old it formed before the Sun began to shine. |
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