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Well, I'm from Hamilton and lived in Port Colborne at the time of the ice flow/damage. Rainbow Bridge is the name of the new bridge to replace the old one. What was the name of the old bridge and what year was the storm/damage. Being close by you should remember a little history of the area. Side note; Many yrs back I was standing at the railing on the American Falls side looking down into the gorge. Three days later, that section of railing fell into the gorge. Anyway, you are close in the name of the old bridge. Steve
RE: The question on a honorary president is a good oddity. Did a lot of reading, but nothing to the question. Thats Odd. Steve
Well we sure learn don't we. Now I know why when a person is asked to sign a document, they are asked to "sign your John Hancock here". Now that is an oddity. Steve
jmking; who would have thought (7) Presidents before our 1st official President. (nice info) Never heard that in history class.
Nothing on the "Computer BUG"....Oh well, A moth was found trapped between points of Relay #70, Panel F, of the Mark 11 Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, Sept 9th 1945. The operators affixed the Moth to the computer log with the entry; " First actual case of bug being found". They put out the word that they had "debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term "debugging a computer program". In 1988, the log, with the Moth still taped by the entry, was in the Navel Surface Warfare Center Computer Museum at Dahlgren, Virginia. Now thats an Oddity, Steve
I have a question that is not only a history question, but a geography question and an oddities question. I am the only U. S. President to ever hold a patent. Who am I? What is the patent for? What and where did I observe something to inspire me to design the item?
Jo Estet; This might not be the answer. April 10th 1790, George Washington issued a Patent to Samuel Hopkins for a "Potash" to make soap etc. It was reviewed by Thomas Jefferson on his invention of a Portable Desk (1775). Patents were given a date only and was only later they started to give numbers. Early ones (records lost in fire) were then started with a "X". Believe this was in Vermont. Steve
Sorry, I'm pulling you leg. Good ole Abe Lincoln was on the great lakes and saw where boats would go aground. He made a wooden prototype of wood with a buoyency bags that were filled with air to keep the boats from grounding out on the shoals May 22nd 1849. Pista Basci (steve)
John Hancock?
Here's a good one. Who is now the 1st cousin 4 times removed from John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot President Lincoln.
Isn't that British PM Tony Blair's wife, Cherie (nee Booth)? Booth's Uncle was her Great Great Great Grandfather (or something like that). John Wilkes Booth had no children, but had a brother, Edwin, who saved Lincoln's boy (Robert Todd Lincoln) in NJ from falling in the path of a train.
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