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Add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance and get $100 off for every year of safe driving. we put members first. join the nation. nationwide is on your side on october 28th, 1886, president grover cleveland held a huge celebration in new york. a dedication to the statue of liberty, a gift from france, sitting in the new york harbor. the dedication took place on what is now known as liberty island. the celebrations included a water parade with approximately 300 vessels that passed in front of lady liberty. this engraving from the library ....
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Of congress depicts the new york harbor and the statue of liberty that day. the fireworks you see didn t actually happen, even though they re in the engraving. they were postponed due to bad weather. but bad weather or not, new york city did hold the very first ticker tape parade that day in lower manhattan. it was in honor of the new statue, the statue of liberty. and while there were reports of that horrible weather that day, thousands of people did still show up. in the 128 years since that first parade, there have been 203 more ticker tape parades up the canyon of heroes, up the stretch of broadway between battery park and city hall that s called the canyon of heroes. it s hosted parades for everyone from visiting heads of state to american olympic teams to new york pro sports teams who won championships to astronauts to war veterans, frequently to war veterans. and interestingly, as well, at the end of world war ii, in 1945, joirp vendered to the ....
since the serial number on the shotgun had been ground off, investigators sent the gun to forensic scientist timothy duerr. he knew that scratch marks usually aren t as deep as the initial engraving. the serial number may only be a few thousandths of an inch, but the compressed metal goes a lot deeper into the metal. duerr applied an acid solution that when applied only goes at one level and goes no deeper. it will actually eat away and you can actually burn past the point of compression. it reacts differently between the compressed and uncompressed metal. the acid solution removed the top surface, leaving the bottom, or compressed metal, virtually untouched. upon utilizing restoration techniques on this shotgun, i was able to restore five of the ....
The winner of that mini spelling bee is going to win an all expenses paid trip to the scripps national spelling bee in washington, d.c. in may. but here s where it gets even weirder than that. because while this was going on at the same time the word tchotchke was helping another kid take down another spelling bee, this one in kansas city, missouri, where 11-year-old sophia hoffman and her 13-year-old nemesis kush sharma blew through 47 rounds head to head just the two of them in the jackson county, missouri spelling bee. they went through so many rounds that the pronouncer and the judges ran out of words. they ran out of the approved words provided by scripps. so the judges took i lunch break, and then they enlisted the help of merriam webster to try to find some extra words. words like intaglio, which is an engraving or incised figure in stone or other hard material. can you spell intaglio? yeah, i had no idea that s what that word was. no idea. also, schadenfreude, another word i us ....