The cash register was invented by James Ritty, a saloon owner from Dayton, Ohio, who received a patent for it in 1879. He suspected his bartenders were stealing money, and while traveling by steamship in 1878 he studied a device that counted a propeller’s revolutions, which gave him the idea that a similar mechanism could…
Things I Like: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009 Film)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was actually the second-to-last Harry Potter movie I watched before I eventually dove into the books. When I saw it in 2010, it was still a relatively recent release, having just hit theaters and, by the time I caught it, Blu-ray as well. Much like the book, it’s one…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946, in a one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, right by the Great Smoky Mountains. She was the fourth of twelve kids. Her father, Robert Lee Parton, worked as a sharecropper and on construction crews, while her mom, Avie Lee, kept the home. Money was tight. The…
Things I Like: Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (GameCube)
I remember being 13 years old when the Nintendo GameCube launched back in 2001. It wasn’t exactly the strongest launch lineup. There was no mainline Mario title, and Super Smash Bros. hadn’t arrived yet either. That left just two real standout options: Luigi’s Mansion and Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader. Funny enough, I…
Fun Facts and Trivia About The Chemical Element Dysprosium
The name dysprosium traces back to the Greek word dysprositos, meaning hard to get at or hard to obtain, a reference to the extraordinary difficulty that chemists faced in separating it from the tangle of other rare earth elements surrounding it. It was identified in 1886 by French chemist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in Paris….