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...
was first exhibited with great honour at the crossroads in the countryside, and then conveyed into the city itself. But in the town of Lavinium a whole month was devoted to Liber alone, during the days of which all the people gave themselves up to the must dissolute conversation, until tha...
Mastermind was Von Braun – developed in record time, new materials invented Huntsville Al. was a small city when Von Braun went there in the 1950s – Picture of Von Braun team member meeting Korolev’s daughter – Saturn was a military concept for testing rockets at the start – Pictures ...
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Years later, after Ma (my Granny) had died, I remember finding Grandad – who was a charming conversationalist and never without a flirtatious twinkle in his one real eye – holding court in the tiny living room of the cottage to a glamorous laughing Freda, (Mrs Phiip Mist) Alfred’s ...
Hidden Valley Ranch, a dude ranch on the central California coast, invented ranch dressing in 1954, according to Slate. It became an instant hit with guests, who took bottles of the creamy dressing home as souvenirs. Less than 20 years later, the brand was sold to the Clorox Company for ...
but the hostility of the Russian government was a fact of my life during my most formative years. And it seems odd to that Cold War child that no one seemed to foresee social media being weaponized in quite this way – maybe if Facebook had been invented by someone a little older, the...
With the head of a bull and the body of a man, you can’t blame the top-heavy minotaur for being an angry fellow. Trapped at the center of a labyrinth built by cruel King Minos of Crete (who lends his name to the creature), the legendary Minotaur was finally slain by the Athenian...
Now part of the Thomas Edison National Historical Park, Glenmont was commissioned by the Wizard of Menlo Park for his new wife, Mina, in 1886. Henry Hudson Holly designed both the Queen Anne house and neighboring laboratory, where Edison invented both the phonograph and the alkaline storage bat...
All her life had been spent at Sawston with a dull and amiable father, and her pleasant, pallid face, bent on some respectable charity, was a familiar object of the Sawston streets. Why she had ever wished to leave them was surprising; but as she truly said, “I am John Bull to ...