Delaware
About Delaware
Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic regions of the United States. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey to its northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state's name derives from the adjacent Delaware Bay, which in turn was named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and the Colony of Virginia's first colonial-era governor.
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Modern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum. He started them in Delaware in 1880, and it was a panel of judges who chose, and one of the judges was Thomas Edison. It was to promote a beach resort outside of the normal kind of time that people would go to beaches.
from No Such Thing As HMS Kevin, 2016-07-01 at 00:09:35 · read transcript
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There wasn't quite the same tradition of raising lots and lots and lots of birds. Traditional farming favored birds, which were good for eggs and for meat, basically. Then in 1923, a woman from Delaware called Mrs. Cecile Steele, which is pleasing, she accidentally ordered far too many birds. She meant to order 50 and she got 500. Was it like when you're doing your online shopping and she accidentally put a thousand?
65: No Such Thing As A Chickenosaurus, 2015-06-12 · listen
At the end of an egg laying birds' life, it would be killed for meat, but there wasn't quite the same tradition of raising lots and lots and lots of birds. Traditional farming favoured birds, which were good for eggs and for meat, basically. Then in 1923, a woman from Delaware called Mrs. Cecil Steele, which is pleasing. She accidentally ordered far too many birds. She meant to order 50 and she got 500.
No Such Thing As A Chickenosaurus, 2015-06-12 · listen
That was in the Constitution. The phrase, we the people of the United States. In an earlier draft, it was, we the people of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. He said, I think we've got an edit in here. He came up with that lovely phrase.
No Such Thing As The Gunfight At The Amazing Corral, 2021-01-29 · listen
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