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If you've got some time to kill, scroll through the topics I've researched, read a few articles and learn something new you never knew you needed to know.esnpc.blogspot.com/p/blog-pa…
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"Hokey Pokey" or "Hokey Cokey"? Americans may not know that it's "Cokey" in Britain. Brits may not even know that the original song was "Cokey Cokey." First popularized among Americans by soldiers in England in WWII. The standard lyrics quickly separated by the Atlantic.
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Interestingly, tge song was not the first "put your left leg in" song, merely the first to pair it with "Hokey Pokey."
The expression itself has an even okder history, possibly with ties to Hawaiian aristocractly.
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Airplanes "taxi" because instructors at a French flying school took students in essentially flightless training aircraft called "Penguins." The instructors drove students around the training grounds - for a fee - like taxi customers.
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But why is it called a Teddy?
The reason may surprise you. Perhaps a garment maker named Theodore Bear.
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Ironic watching the 2004 "Born a Donkey" Budweiser commercial. Decades before the original Budweiser Clydesdales, they had teams of mules and oxen for promotional purposes.
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Hollywood Execs, New York Writers, & the People They Fly Over - the Origin of "Flyover Country" esnpc.blogspot.com/2016/11/h…
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Surprisingly, perhaps, the first performance of Jingle Bells may have been in blackface. And there were some similar precursors, performed in blackface and otherwise, and some with cowbells. More cowbell, please.
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"Deeply ensconced within the bowels of the Smithsonian Institution lie many a strange and bewildering thing; none less so than a pair of boots made from the skin of a human being."
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Yes, an American, but nearly two decades earlier, by the same man who invented the stapler.
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Surprisingly, perhaps, before cowboy hats were known a 10-gallon hats, formal top hats were sometimes referred to as 2, 5 or 10-gallon hats.
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When President Harding wore a cowboy hat, it was generally referred to as a 4-gallon hat. It wasn't until Coolidge wore a cowboy hat that we settled on 10-gallon as the standard measure of a large cowboy hat.
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Long before Snoopy became Charlie Brown's dog, the name was a common name for pet dogs and cats.
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The sculptor of that Jean d'Arc statue, Emmanuel Fremiet, also famously sculpted a gorilla abducting a woman. The image of that sculpture became very famous, and was copied in political humor, wax museums, nightclub acts and film. It may have helped inspire King Kong.
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"German Chocolate Cake," a thread. The old food knowledge is that it has nothing to do with Germany, and was named after Sam German's "German chocolate." Wikipedia says it was first cited in Texas in 1956. #German #chocolate #cake 1/
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While they were Highlanders, they were also known, altatively, as Kilties or Hillmen. Kilties because the real-life Gordon Highlanders wore kilts, as did a popular musical group based on the highlanders called the Kilties.
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The name Yankees was already suggested before they played their first game. They played in the American League, and therefor known as the NY Americans, in contrast to the National League's Giants (Nationals). When Gordon left the team, and the stadium moved to the Polo Grounds at a lower elevation, the Highlanders no longer was appropriate, and Yankees became the dominant nickname.
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During the NY Yankees' first decade, tgey were more commonly called the Highlanders, based in part on the fact that the stadium was located above a bluff in a high place, and in imitation of a famous British fighting unit, the Gordon Highlanders, since their president was named Joe Gordon.
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During the NY Yankees' first decade, tgey were more commonly called the Highlanders, based in part on the fact that the stadium was located above a bluff in a high place, and in imitation of a famous British fighting unit, the Gordon Highlanders, since their president was named Joe Gordon.
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The name Yankees was already suggested before they played their first game. They played in the American League, and therefor known as the NY Americans, in contrast to the National League's Giants (Nationals). When Gordon left the team, and the stadium moved to the Polo Grounds at a lower elevation, the Highlanders no longer was appropriate, and Yankees became the dominant nickname.
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While they were Highlanders, they were also known, altatively, as Kilties or Hillmen. Kilties because the real-life Gordon Highlanders wore kilts, as did a popular musical group based on the highlanders called the Kilties.
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