“Longshore” means “found along the shore.” That’s why they’re called “longshoremen.” But depending on their union, they might also be stevedores.
According to a recent study of U.N. data from 236 states and nations, the reason why you might find a large number of people who live to a super advanced age in certain places is most likely due to pension fraud, poor record keeping, clerical errors, and forged birth certificates.
The tip of the exhaust pipe for the first generation of the Mini Cooper was modeled after a can of Budweiser.
Melting polar ice is changing the Earth’s rotation, and time itself.
The TWA Hotel at Kennedy Airport was originally an airplane terminal built to accommodate Lockheed Martin’s Constellation, which was a propeller-driven plane. The day it opened, it was functionally obsolete as it was too small to house jet planes.
This article appears in October 18 • 2024.