The Shuttle
Oct 11
Ah, modern technology, it is changing everything about our lives. Or is it? Is it possible that the foundations of our modern world are really built on pillars from the past? What of the space shuttle, the epitome of, and culmination of, our advances in propulsion! Or again, is it? The shuttle itself, with those three giant engines in the tail, was not strong enough for the initial push to escape...
What do the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower have in common?
Oct 02
You could point out that each has become the symbol of the city in which it is placed. But essentially, it is the fact that they are both really tall, and whatever the reason for their height, they were rescued from destruction (The Eiffel Tower) or irrelevancy (The Empire State Building) by Radio. The Eiffel Tower was conceived as the centerpiece of the Paris Exposition of 1889, an exposition...
ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW AND REMEMBER!
Sep 23Fact: The first theater to be used solely for the showing of motion pictures was built by a Jew (Adolf Zukor). Fact: The first full-length sound picture, The Jazz Singer was produced by the Jewish Samuel L. Goldwyn & Louis B. Mayer (MGM). Fact: A Jew (Dr. Abraham Waksman) coined the term antibiotics. Fact: A Polish Jew (Casimir Funk) who pioneered a new field of medical research gave us a...
Interesting Jewish Facts
Sep 20Lillian Friedman married Cruz Rivera. They named their baby Geraldo Miguel Rivera (Funny, it doesn’t sound Jewish.) Since, according to Jewish Law, anyone born to a Jewish mother is Jewish, Geraldo Rivera is Jewish. As Were, among others: Fiorello Laguardia, Winston Churchill and Cary Grant, as Explained below. Fiorello Laguardia’s mother’s name was Jacobson. His father was not...
Some Interesting Jewish Trivia
Sep 12
Some interesting facts – some you may already know but some were new to me. The Roosevelts were Dutch, arriving in NYC in 1682 (Originally name Claes Rosenvelt before name change to Nicholas Roosevelt) Sarah Delano, FDR’s mother, was descended from Sephardic Jews. Joseph Stalin was originally named Joseph David Djugashvili (translating into “son of a Jew.”) All 3 of the...