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trivia
A collection of trivial stuff...some original, some not...in any case, credit is certainly due to all the originators of this stuff...
Big Jim the Cowboy
tags:Giving back to the community...
There's a small town named Bentleyville off of Exit 32 of Interstate 70 in southwestern Pennsylvania. Until recently, Bentleyville was known mainly as the home of a busy Truck Stop and a Best Western Hotel, both of which were quite visible to travelers along Interstate 70. On the 9th of June, 2007, Bentleyville acquired another landmark. His name is Big Jim the Cowboy and this is his story.
Where's Elvis?
tags:Ladies, Gentlemen and Others -- We have found the King! He's now in the "Telephony Business" here at hrpr.com and is available for your viewing and listening pleasure 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year...
spam
tags:Have you ever wondered why junk email is called "spam?" This bit of nonsense from Monty Python's Flying Circus is said to be the basis for the use of the term spamming to describe the sending of unsolicited junk email:
The Bird
tags:Truth or legend? (Makes no difference, it's worth the reading).
Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers...
Dr. John's Machine
tags:Back in the early days of computers, the programming was done by "hard-wiring"the computer to perform a certain sequence of instructions. People spent hours determining the wiring scheme followed by more hours actually getting the wiring right...
Railroads
tags:Does the statement, "We've always done it like that" ring any bells?
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
The Point
By admin on Friday, 22nd February, 2008 at 23:19:57
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Wondering what the background in the banner at the top of the page is? Well, its a collage of the "Point" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio River. It shows the Point circa 1920. The picture on the left is a contemporary view of the Point. The picture to the right is of the US Army Corps of Engineers Lock and Dam #4 on the Monongahela River about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh near a town called Charleroi.
