https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobeetie,_Texas
When the town applied for a post office in 1879, the name "Sweetwater" was already in use. The town took the new name of "Mobeetie", believed to be a Native American word for Sweetwater. It was allegedly later revealed that the word, in fact, meant "buffalo dung."
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The likely inspiration for the story development in Red Dead Redemption 2
And if you think of Samson, a lot of parallels to Hercules exist (which likely took inspiration from the Babylonian legend of Enkidu, like most of the Bible. . .) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson#:~ ... adaptation).
I was also thinking of gnomes from a historical inspiration, just as King Antioche of Turkey was inspired by Iranian Zoroastrianism (which incidentally many believe inspired Christianity, and Turkey was a major hub of Christianity in the ancient world) and likely took inspiration from Mithras with the Phrygian cap symbolism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochus_I_of_Commagene
So to finally answer what I was looking into, gnomes were based in Scandinavia in origin but became popularized in Germany and then England (garden gnome statues) and I tend to believe the symbolism of the Phrygian cap needs to be analyzed to know what it means. . .
A restaurant chain in New York originated in 1958 the triple-stacked (meat, bread in center, and another stack with lettuce) burger using dressing similar to Thousand Island (ketchup, mayonnaise, relish) with a pickle and onion on the bottom. It might not have had cheese, but it was identical in concept. This would have been a decade prior to Mcdonald's releasing their burger in 1967.
The only reason his burger chain didn't catch on was that the chain couldn't compete with the growth of companies like Burger King (which were 10x the size,) and once Mcdonald's adopted the Big Mac, Carrols would close up by the 1970s (Note: the company appears to have closed down their restaurants and turned them into Burger King franchises, and currently is the largest owner of those franchises. https://investor.carrols.com/news-relea ... n%20states. )
I came to that conclusion prior to reading this article.
Looking at the ad, I suspect consistency and the appearance of false advertising (such as the skillet shows very thinly pressed burgers, and the close-up shot looks like one you would cook on a grill) might have made people less likely to go their over the competitors.
It's not too common for restaurants to just take ideas and concepts and make them their own. Take for example the founder of the Big Boy restaurant chain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wian
A qanat, also known as kārīz, is an underground aqueduct system used for transporting water from an aquifer or water well to the surface. Originating in Iran around 3,000 years ago, the system has various regional names across North Africa and the Middle East, including foggara in Algeria, khettara in Morocco, and falaj in Oman. The qanat system is still operational in Iran, Afghanistan, Oman, the Turfan region of China, Algeria, and Pakistan.
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Edo era Japan had a searchlight powered by candle, which looked very similar to a modern flashlight (or "torch" as they say outside the US.)
I noticed it at the end of a 1962 movie, Chushingura (the story of 47 Ronin.)
Re: Historical Fragments
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2023 6:08 am
by Catoptric
Swiss bank documents with ties to Nazi money stolen from Jews was heading for the shredder, and the person who released the info to the public was lambasted by a people who saw him as an enemy of Switzerland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Scappaticci In January 2018, Scappaticci was arrested by police regarding offenses including murder and abduction, but was released on bail. On 5 December 2018, Westminster Magistrates’ Court sentenced Scappaticci to 3 months imprisonment, suspended for 1 year, after he pleaded guilty to possessing "extreme pornographic images", including those which featured animals. The pornographic materials were uncovered during an investigation into serious crime during the Troubles.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeknife On 29 October 2020, the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland decided that there was insufficient evidence to put him on trial on charges of perjury.[14] Stephen Herron, the PPS director in the area, also ruled out prosecutions of former members of the security services who are understood to have been his handlers as well as a former member of the PPS.[14] This means that there is little chance of him appearing in a criminal trial, despite a multimillion pound investigation into his role as a state agent inside the IRA.[14]
Looking through the images on that FB page, it shows some reference to the church organization that owned it (and might possibly have set fire to the property if they couldn't afford it and were trying to sell it?) The page showed they spent $600,000 for a baptismal pool, and the house itself was bought for $750,000 back in the 1970s.
This place was recently demolished (2 years after the last owner died in the 1930s, and would have belonged to a Parr noble at one time.) It was destroyed to make room for new estate development, during the Great Depression of all things. . . It's surrounded by fucking farm land. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Hall
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The true inventor for Monopoly was a woman, named, Elizabeth Magie, who invented 'Landlord' which comprised the rules of Prosperity & Monopoly, which were intended to give the player the experience of everyone winning when a land was purchased, or someone loses while taking out the rest (which contributed to negative side effects for the players.)