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PepsiCo Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP) was officially founded in 1920 but its actual history began in 1893 when pharmacist Caleb Bradham developed a drink he called.
7 famous companies that originally had different names
BACKRUB // GOOGLE
Google has its origins in BackRub , a research project that was begun in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University.
By 1997, the Google co-founders decided that the BackRub name just wasn’t good enough and came up with Googol, during a brainstorming session.
Googol is the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes, while googolplex is 1 followed by googol zeros.
BRAD’S DRINK // PEPSI
Originally created and developed in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and introduced as Brad s Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898, and then shortened to Pepsi in 1961.
Caleb Bradham died this week.
Well, not this week. He died 87 years ago on January 19, 1934 which was one of those “meh” years in which not a whole lot happened. I’m looking at some of the events that old Caleb just missed seeing:
On January 7th of that year the first Flash Gordon comic strip appeared. It’s possible he read it, though unlikely. I’m pretty certain the Sun Journal didn’t carry that strip, and even if it did, since Bradham’s death was brought about by “a prolonged illness with hardening of the arteries, with complications” (I quote his obit), I doubt he was feeling up to the task.
52 Faces of Community: Anne Schout
By Holly Desrosier
Anne Schout greatly values the preservation of historical structures and has helped the New Bern area make tremendous headway in the restoration of its historical district. Her hands-on humanitarian efforts in many organizations have also helped New Bern stay current with the area’s more progressive issues, such as attainable education, community integration and support for all walks of life.
“If I m going to join an organization, I m going to work for it,” she said. “I m not going to just sit back.”
Anne, whose family dates back to the original settlers in Charlotte, earned her degree in chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1971. She went on to work as a chemist for nine years. She worked for the Department of Medicine at UNC and did independent cancer research for three years before working for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, where she analyzed feed, fertilizer, pesticide, food and gasoline. After gettin