Lean Cuisine sold so quickly when it was launched in 1981 that its parent company, Nestle, was forced to ration the meals among retailers. The under-300-calorie entrees tripled sales projections in their first year. 1982: Diet Coke enters the market Fairfax Media Archives // Getty Images 198...
Los Angeles insurance agent Harry Baker invented chiffon cake in the 1920s, keeping his recipe under lock and key for 20 years. General Mills bought his recipe in 1947, and a year later, they revealed the delightfully airy cake’s secret ingredient (vegetable oil) in Better Homes and Gardens...
and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of ki...
He started singing when he was only two years old. He could sing very well when he was eight. After he left school, Elvis became a truck driver. He made his first record for his mother’s birthday when he was 17. The next year another one was recorded. After that he was asked by...
As one of the first energy drinks to hit the market, Red Bull needed a flashy logo to make its mark in a new category. The first ad depicted a red bull with a polka dot tie holding a tray of Red Bull, and the caption said the drink was "so awesome that polka dots will literally...
I really enjoyed solving the 6T puzzle - it was my first solve of the new year! The Soma Licious is a new way of forcing a sequential packing of the Soma pieces with dimples into a box with internal spikes. I've only managed to extract one piece from the Moitié cube so far... ...
Goodyear The Greek god Mercury—a messenger known for his speed and carrying good news—was the inspiration for Goodyear's logo. Founder Frank Seiberling got the idea from a statue of Mercury that stood in his home. Logo #18 Sinclair Oil ...
The next year another one was recorded. After that he was asked by more and more people to make records. During his lifetime, Elvis made more than 200records and 30 films. 7 The World Online 例一要点: 1、因特网对 我们的生活产生了很大的影响。第一是因特网对于人们搜索信息所具有的价值。
Steve Sasson, the Kodak engineer who invented the world’s first digital camera in 1975 showed his invention to Kodak’s management and their reaction was: ‘That’s cute, but don’t tell anyone.” Eventually Kodak commissioned some research, the conclusion of which was that digital photography...
A loudspeaker somewhere on the square was playing “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” Russian public spaces sometimes emit American Christmas music at odd times of year, such as early March. This was my first St. Petersburg neighborhood, back when I used to stay at the nearby...