tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48899571949232113012024-03-26T13:29:47.202+01:00First VersionsEverything had a first version: here you can find it!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-21789442001316875512021-08-12T21:51:00.005+02:002021-08-12T22:27:31.528+02:00Singer (sewing machine)<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name:</span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Singer sewing machine"</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Home</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Subcategory:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Manufacturing</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Inventor:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Isaac Merritt Singer</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Invented:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1850 - Boston, Mass., USA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Patented:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> August 12, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1851">1851</a></b></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Producer:</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Singer & Phelps", Boston, Mass. (founded in 1850 by Isaac Merritt Singer, Orson C. Phelps, and George B. Zieber to sell the first machines in Phelps's shop)</span><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "I. M. Singer & Co.", New York City (founded in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer and lawyer Edward Clark, renamed "Singer Manufacturing Company" in 1863, then "The Singer Company" in 1963)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Production start:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1851 - New York City</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">First price:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to the first newspaper advertisement (1850, see below), the first Singer sewing machines «complete, with all appendages for operation» were sold for 125 US dollars</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Features:</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In the summer of 1850, analyzing the flaws of the Lerow and Blodgett sewing machine, Isaac Merritt Singer devised a machine that used a shuttle that moved in a straight path—as opposed to theirs, which moved around in a complete circle. He visualized replacing their curved horizontal needle with a straight, vertically moving needle. Singer worked on perfecting his machine, and at the end of 1850 submitted a commercial sewing machine for his first patent model. On August 12, 1851, he was granted Patent No. 8,294. These commercial sewing machines were built in a machine shop owned by Orson C. Phelps at 19 Harvard Place in Boston. The head, base cams, and gear wheels of the machine were made of cast iron; to fit together, these parts had to be filed and ground by hand. The machine made a lockstitch by using a straight, eye-pointed needle and a reciprocating shuttle. The specific patent claims allowed were for: 1) the additional forward motion of the shuttle to tighten the stitch; 2) the use of a friction pad to control the tension of the thread from the spool; and 3) placing the spool of thread on an adjustable arm to permit thread to be used as needed. Overall measures: 16 in x 17 in x 12 in; 40.64 cm x 43.18 cm x 30.48 cm.<br />
By November 1850, a three man enterprise - Isaac M. Singer, Orson C. Phelps (owner of the machine shop in Boston), and George B. Zieber (Singer's financier and partner), identifying themselves as the I. M. Singer & Co., placed advertisements in several newspapers proclaiming the amazing abilities of the «Singer & Phelps's Belay-stitch Sewing Machine».<br />
What set Singer's machine apart from the other machines was that the Singer innovation was truly beneficial to the seamstress. According to a sewing machine historian, a practical working sewing machine required essential features: the lockstitch, an eye-pointed needle, a shuttle for the second thread, continuous thread from spools, a horizontal table, an overhanging arm, continuous feed, thread or tension control, a presser foot, and the ability to sew in a straight or curving line. Although, Singer did not invent or patent all of these essential features, he did incorporate them into his machine. He combined his predecessors' inventions with his own to create a practical and useful sewing machine. The ability to incorporate these features into one machine gave the Singer machine the clear advantage. Other machines possessed some of these features but not all. Additionally, the time spent in Phelps's workshop proved that the Lerow and Blodgett machine required a skilled mechanic to keep it functioning, whereas the Singer machine did not require a mechanic to keep it operational: it was even guaranteed to work for a full year without repairs.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Son of poor German immigrants, Isaac Singer was born on October 27, 1811, in Pittstown, New York. As a young man he worked as a mechanic and cabinetmaker. For a time he was an actor and formed his own theatrical troupe, "The Merritt Players". Needing a steadier income, Singer worked for a plant in Fredericksburg, Ohio, that manufactured wooden type for printers. Seeing the need for a better type-carving machine, he invented an improved one. In June 1850, Singer took the machine to Boston looking for financial support. He rented display space in the workshop of Orson C. Phelps. Here Singer became intrigued with the sewing machine that Phelps was building for John A. Lerow and Sherburne C. Blodgett. The result of this new passion - the birth of the first Singer sewing machine, can be explored in the "Features" section above, and by images below.<br />
The machine incorporated the basic eye-pointed needle and lock stitch, developed by inventor Elias Howe: in 1851, immediately after the registration, he asked Singer to pay 2,000 dollars for the use of his patent. Meanwhile, Singer was looking for a new partner, and with Howe's accusations circling, it was advantageous to look for a partner with legal talents. Singer found Edward Clark, a respectable and skilled New York lawyer, who becomes co-founder of the "I. M. Singer & Co.". Singer and Clark actively fought the infringement; however, the courts ruled in favor of Howe. In 1854, after three years of litigation, Howe was rewarded $15,000 in damages, and royalties of $25 per machine. When Howe's patent expired, he had received royalties up to $2,000,000.<br />
In 1855 the Singer brand was awarded the first prize at the World’s Fair in Paris, France. That same year, Singer became the largest selling brand of sewing machines internationally. In 1865 Singer brand introduces the new "Family” Sewing Machine, in 1870 the Red "S" girl trademark, in 1889 the first practical electric sewing machine, and in 1890 Singer brand reaches 90% market share globally.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Slogan (1892):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">«All Nations use Singer Sewing Machines»</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I. M. Singer & Co., Singer Manufacturing Company, The Singer Company</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.singer.com" target="_blank">https://www.singer.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, first newspaper advertisement</b> (Burlington free press, Burlington, Vt., November 8, 1850). «Sewing by Machinery. To Journeymen Tailors, Sempstresses, Employers, and all others intersted in Sewing of any description. SEVERAL ATTEMPTS have been made to produce Machinery for Sewing, but they were not whitout many objections, and could be used to little advantage or profit. Singer & Phelp's Belay stitch Sewing Machine, invented by Isaac M. Singer, and manufactured by Singer & Phelp's, No. 19 Harvard Place, Boston, Mass., is offered to the public as a perfect machine, and will be constructed and adapted to perform any kind of work, from the stitching of a fine shirt-bosom to a ship's sail, as well as some descriptions of leather. The needle is straight, and works perpendicularly upon the table of the machine, affording room and opportunity to adjust the fabric in any way - and the stitch may be regulated to any length, even to a hair's breadth. The stitch made by this machine is one which will not ravel or open, and the sewing can only be taken apart by cutting every second or third stitch. From 500 to 1500 stitches, according to the fabric operated upon, may be taken per minute. To bring this machine to perfection, much labor and study have been expended upon it by the inventor, and the subscribers now offer the Belay-stitch Sewing Machine, feeling confident that it will correspond, upon trial, with the recommendation here given. The profits arising from the use of one of these machines, which sews with either one or two needles, is from five to six dollars per day. The operation is not confined to the manufacture of clothing only, but may be applied to sewing every description of linen, cotton, woolen, and most kinds of leather. The machine, with ordinary care, is warranted to run one year without repairs, and will last many years. And it is so simple in its construction, and so easily regulated and managed, that any person of ordinary ability may operate it. The price of one of these sewing machines, which is worked by treadle, and capable of sewing any ordinary linen, muslin, or woolen fabric, is one hundred and twenty-five dollars, complete, with all appendages for operation. These machines are so beautiful and neat in their appearance, and they take up so little room, that they are an ornament to any lady's sewing apartment. An Agent, (with whom exclusive arrangements will be made,) is wanted in every city and town in the United States. All applications for Agencies, and all orders enclosing the money for machines, (which will be carefully packed to send to any part of the world,) as well as all enquiries about their adaptation to different purposes, will be promptly attended to by the manufacturers. All letters must be post-paid, and addressed to SINGER & PHELPS, 19 Harvard Place, Boston, Mass. - Nov. 5, 1950.»</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, prototype</b> (1850). Cast iron (heavy: est. 75 lbs), square machine. The head is unpainted, plain, metal finish. Lockstitch machine, shuttle is missing.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machine patent model 1851 - front" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq6-Aaqkxn_plmDJVBZZwuyKB3H7UI7CR-ORzKrm_RIVIhXb2SEYrniR0d21lrDa28gGPOiT9fjy026RvFvg449xiX-hQR-CWupC7FjFj7xGhop-b_bDInCOZIwyD5K-Y2roGCOq6DKqw/s0/FirstVersions_Singer_Patent-Model-1851_A1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machine patent 1851 - sheet 1" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-NIVZFpKpqOXK6Z1Oifefw3Lv7RQ5jtghqSGtR_JIddVNe4d98-mjyQyasBBQdxz_qt_WnTARa_bw7Wwi-KR1Wfcyeu3xVJvLQr0d7YuON3I4aEXqibHqjYT6X99nhnethsif5SZWQo/s0/FirstVersions_Singer_Patent-1851_A.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, images from Patent granted to Isaac M. Singer</b> (August 12, 1851)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machines newspaper ad 1869" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPVW1gACIztxsSF9FRQaOXzpYGiXmGEpR5TyDvs5TD_MFZexSSTMz7FFa5Nd75JLsg5mzQuT11ujkIp1ZDtgdVyX1xq4oy2v2VKDIeJek03hiIP0WO2J40-ZXuxHkaosGb8qUcHHIw6A/s0/FirstVersions_Singer-Ad1869.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, newspaper advertisement</b> (The Emporia news., Emporia, Kan., January 1, 1869)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machines Statue of Liberty trade card 1883" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXU9Crvu3c9od7lBUBZWleqK-o39oeaHejcWyWjWCf7tNIVThoGfNMPkxBJJy50Trlf637PLX8QUqazfNWPAt1EqJxR8RRPn1R3rdNZynQsyqvAbzW46UM8gzFQaSSdJ7yRrquHaXyFgI/s0/FirstVersions_Singer_TradeCard-1883.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, trade card featuring the Statue of Liberty</b> (1883). This Singer trade card shows the Bartholdi Statue (as it was then known) before it was completed. Front: «THE "NEW SINGER"». Back: «THE BARTHOLDI STATUE. "LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD." (...) THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Agencies in all important Towns and Cities throughout the World».</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machines ad poster 1892" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg836YYTR7vdRvoEks9JNOUN9rUG3SEe_rlu8VP6ySPI3VPNb-hSh81LBQTzS3_ROf0DV64bmOq6bJeXzWH-FvmBrHPJsY-yqbpur72YkRX1A8z7YWmqjKSTf3Viqtipar0eYv8-fgstRI/s0/FirstVersions_Singer-Ad1892-A.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ad poster 1892 - All nations use Singer sewing machines" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggdCsKcu3FJoobNC4oo2-6eyE1n5p1FR2TzBnH4R6yL3NosgqwuqJb8q5thLqfh0oYxOcdjUvxIw1gjknbP2I6HC01hf8AF8P7xE5dhaa4Dwx0GB2PdYkCwT7wZqH4WUuEeYEUPCTP41Q/s0/FirstVersions_Singer-Ad1892-B.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machines ad card 1892 - Zululand" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6e0Jz8wrfGcUBo7NRx5g5mUDvsHe-gfq_JTZAvuzgl-nREqxv5TcLyhlJg66wtl0kp0OofJ6X1f7Bq7KYtr4VlqNq8Z3_wXgiIcpwplqV5ZoASAeN88dzVP1V0jP6R8vzBv7uqpjLUw/s0/FirstVersions_Singer-Ad1892-C.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machines ad card 1892 - Ceylon" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWXEhCyRpysFldsTw8aF5Obx3hUoH-1lstTA2Pa0rY9VL2jNB3oyYadKZGHGYi2NwyuMJpNzJWf8viABFxvdqoqHy2q3C9Nn-p0YCHeEICJBDojg317ALy1Qnq89MNcn5cmwlEsI4FgI/s0/FirstVersions_Singer-Ad1892-D.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machines ad card 1892 - Portugal" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-tHbmgrDWfS1hD4bpZYXNY0m6VvlUww_LeZcgGDfkULiEQYR7KccFg-TZhyGu3gYb_ktj5BQYItte-JoLqYELVFWGF8dl621Bg4pKQ5as4MbRCddSyB_l45okaWiyQ5FjZ8f0pM9DsI/s0/FirstVersions_Singer-Ad1892-E.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, advertisement cards distributed at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893</b> (Singer Manufacturing Co., 1892 by J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y.)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, advertisement card titled «The first lesson on the Singer sewing machine»</b> (Singer Manufacturing Co., 1893). Front: «The new improved Singer. Easy to use - easy to learn - easy to buy». Back: «Founded 1850. Progressing 1893. Over eleven million Singer sewing machines have been made and sold. Why the unprecedented success of this ideal machine? The answer comes echoing back from millions of homes that the Singer excels in all kinds of family sewing and art work. - It has: The shortest needle. The finest and simplest stitch adjustement. The best "balanced tension". The greatest number of labor-saving modern improvements. The simplest self-threading shuttle. The best automatic bobbin-winder. The greatest capacity for all kinds of family sewing. Prices within the reach of all. Liberal terms on monthly payments. The Singer Manufacturing Company».</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machines ad card 1895 - The Singer Dorcas Society" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7t1Bh2hu0pn8NYVbUMsL6SF5yG9FZigfnji8CDrm1KAZAs5_RjGy4Olh25GRVk_soYg5VFd8112M9TWtXEDuTi9XE8WOP9kvd0Jk4IcrUiCcxsnr5wCIUQTJNmSWdFcSD1N2sjwACjys/s0/FirstVersions_Singer-Ad1895-A.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, advertisement card titled «The "Singer" Dorcas Society»</b> (Singer Manufacturing Co., 1895). «Singer family sewing machines are so simple and light running that even the youngest children can easily learn how to sew on them».</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machines French ad 1895" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIDxzZeo_aEBOdtlxhI93lyqFQ4YtsGv3UoCKMLGrgf6scB3ez56abGQHeMY9ExSQf8M9nUdUFao_Xrte5DZJo24t30bpzdTB2HhmOj7voWZ-2L8p70j5L510XQRWAWwpVIrVZlCoVP_s/s0/FirstVersions_Singer-Ad1895-B.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, French advertisement «La Compagnie "SINGER" Machines à Coudre»</b> (J.E. Goossens, Paris, ca. 1895)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Singer sewing machines ad 1900" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ-BDbdYS_YmWYkE_Ib9Bp8kjQ3mRe8Hma9J53IkWsKqPU32Pw3Mm2ClZhYxLU0Hrwe8HEJQeraywGV39Qb1mc8du_Fb74ctPpEBzkHifX4PIyQEH6_VXiEPwgG4pk71wxRsiFo_KrBXU/s0/FirstVersions_Singer-Ad1900.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Singer sewing machines, advertisement: «The cycle of a century 1800-1900. Singer sewing machines lead all others»</b> (Singer Manufacturing Co., ca. 1900)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Isaac Merritt Singer" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQBhNqJRfwDn8t4Ljpnc-mt2yzrbkNChoY30Q1BwC1Wi_i0lC8sKZFObc6JdAH0YxgWAeha7X9pJcV1ecOt7-Lemucvwy4k6SorhQbeuH1VVhDfndfYbJ0aZwNFF1PbSNGHHnhdQIoic/s0/FirstVersions_Isaac-Merritt-Singer.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Isaac Merritt Singer</b> (Pittstown, New York, USA, October 27, 1811 - Paignton, Devon, UK, July 23, 1875), actor, businessman, inventor of the Singer sewing machine and founder of I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 (oil on canvas by Edward Harrison May, 1824-1887)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Singer celebrates its 170th Anniversary </b>(1851-2021) introducing a Limited Edition 170th Anniversary Vintage 15-class cast-iron machine in both black and red versions</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-24123833448879962942020-01-10T20:03:00.002+01:002020-01-10T20:03:37.555+01:00Palmolive (soap)<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Palmolive logo 1899" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZAvQ6SH6aE1OOMgYhafn427F5-pEGtzLAKgLifrtQBwJB5a-nfk9t-RKaRFBZOZbld45J8LRM28CWtFMiNDE5MEXV9Tgwi2KvE0KoslDm-q8MvhSkERPVCbuOTYourP1o_VYxkVIDgNs/s1600/FirstVersions_Palmolive_logo1899.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 1px;" /></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Palmolive"</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Health - Beauty</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Soap</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inventor - Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> B. J. Johnson Soap Co. (founded by Burdett J. Johnson in 1864, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, as B. J. Johnson & Company, renamed B. J. Johnson Soap Company in 1894, then The Palmolive Company in 1917, under the management of Burdett's son Caleb Elliott Johnson)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1898" target="_blank">1898</a></b> - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First price:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 10 cents a cake</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> The original formula of Palmolive Soap was composed primarily of palm oil, olive oil, and cocoa butter.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In 1864 Burdett J. Johnson, native from New York, estabilished the B. J. Johnson & Company, a soap manufacturing business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A few years later Burdett's son Caleb Elliott Johnson entered the father's business: initially as a worker, then as a traveling salesman and regular employee of the company. On December 31, 1894, the company was renamed B. J. Johnson Soap Company, and Caleb Johnson was made vice president until 1902, when his father died and he succeeded the presidency. During these years - exactly in 1898, the company introduced the Palmolive Soap, so called after its formula that included palm and olive oils. In 1917 the corporation was renamed The Palmolive Company, having a run of success over the years – relying heavily on advertising: the product proved wildly popular, thanks in large part to an advertising campaign that promoted it as an exotic cleanser that would have been favored in the age of the Pharaohs. By the early 1900s, Palmolive was the world's best-selling soap and a full line of Palmolive cosmetics soon followed; in 1928, the company merged with <a href="https://www.firstversions.com/2015/03/colgate-toothpaste.html"><u>Colgate</u></a> and the resulting firm, Colgate-Palmolive, still exists today.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Slogan (1899):</span> «The new Luxury - made of Palm and Olive Oils»</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Colgate-Palmolive Company</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.colgatepalmolive.com" target="_blank">https://www.colgatepalmolive.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Palmolive Soap 1910" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQmLyD7aWigGKuFTL-St-JEhS6Xu2c8_nowBERMuC5W7zKWPXtTruduEW42m3l5TjX8Qzx5Nk4Cn4GzIlXrHk7DYh2moMQ_F4pL9U1HvD_dBES9QYA0NH4H8R2z9c0dxnsnu3TdOkMrM/s1600/FirstVersions_Palmolive_1910.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Palmolive Soap, ad August 22, 1899" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaGjGAvjSxS5vN4m7nBfFD-j_sdtn-8zpeE_cQboXLRvNt2m3flyXPbfN72R1N79IX71RNmirt_B0bl41WhNLF49IiMfERxDH1ii_43kLnE4WEKrP5pK1Y4qXKYFydpiOiDimaAmvysmM/s1600/FirstVersions_Palmolive_Ad1899-A.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Palmolive Soap, ad August 25, 1899" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicV6m5-hDLm2FtQJNa_7YYc5I84kAgCgD6VyGG8TPcZPQZYFxOGJDUk0QBBrZ7XElH2mbl63mMF73KPhqNhbznW2Vd4ocbTEaWFnyB2oZvdmDPXJINabjkrJKInSx_U6z8Ee0lKCcYxVs/s1600/FirstVersions_Palmolive_Ad1899-B.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Palmolive Soap, ad August 29, 1899" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0VNmobK425OETEvvCBVucG62d22IO57AoARzUnJcNFDDAtrIlt3E15i4VUyCOaWFg1f_Uub-BOOAuTx8taNAXuuTE882OwdzTgajQuKNL14oxWMQdWGojcsPpKCX46Kafg0T5uOs7ZI/s1600/FirstVersions_Palmolive_Ad1899-C.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Palmolive Soap, ad September 1, 1899" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfeFrTeOKw6-DVK-sPrVN5ahPbO2F9k9WnDCtvGkzpTsEdDIk-SqNr1SpHg2rnKMEi_SvWR228y7sHCoSDanaHt0KVAfHdJJawWGe40dBhv1WytCMbswfMpf0KPBghqDy40_bygPKK40/s1600/FirstVersions_Palmolive_Ad1899-D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Palmolive Soap, ad September 3, 1899" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirWBxi4XaHFupOzaPQvqWShRGnCRiCVYFGNlMG094-4tihrprJGGqsuYyxu6wdar4gnM9RxcGzQhE5sB_ork6d9B_GMEsg7kT6sPeWtckQ2LlEs4zpA87xm_BE5EG_DKEcqAFKensePOE/s1600/FirstVersions_Palmolive_Ad1899-E.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Palmolive Soap, first advertisements in newspapers</b> (The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., 1899, from top: August 22, 25, 29, September 1, 3)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Palmolive Soap, ad April 1904" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0MGrSBs_6DuSn2ShlCOchT_C92jODZCnBiG7WOFJRSeAtMtiKpRNREeaVQPjPXU7-RuQGclcNLOgDMxKuLiFTBQ1RMW5OTTge3Gcr4sN4h1OL8mn-Gd1o9y3ExjQAP53BW6OPSiCQyqo/s1600/FirstVersions_Palmolive_Ad1904-A.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Palmolive Soap advertisement: «The Easy Way To Beauty-Free»</b> (Collier's, March 1910)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Palmolive Soap advertisement: «How the Grecian Mother Bathed her Baby»</b> (The American Magazine, March 1915)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Palmolive Soap advertisement: «Buying Palmolive 3,000 Years Ago»</b> (People's Home Journal, June 1917, art by Willy Pogany)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Palmolive Soap advertisement: «The Oldest of Toilet Requisites»</b> (The Ladies' Home Journal, May 1919, art by Coles Phillips)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>"A Day in the Palmolive Factory", pamphlet in Pdf</b> (The Palmolive Company, 1925) «Dedicated to the sales force of The Palmolive Company by the advertising department»</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The entrepreneurs who launched the Palmolive brand in 1898:</b> <u>Burdett J. Johnson</u> (Buffalo, April 14, 1826 - Milwaukee, August 23, 1902), founder of B. J. Johnson & Company in 1864 (The Palmolive Company in 1917), <u>and his son Caleb Elliott Johnson</u> (Buffalo, June 7, 1857 - Jacksonville, August 8, 1924), who served as vice-president (1894-1902) and president (1902-1924) of the company.</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-50023243703495994182019-12-23T19:30:00.000+01:002019-12-23T19:54:51.155+01:00Tom and Jerry (cartoon)<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Series title:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Tom and Jerry"</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Cartoon</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Genres:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Short, Comedy, Humor, Slapstick</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Creators/Directors: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- William Hanna</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Joseph Barbera</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Country of origin: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">USA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Released:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> February 10, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1940">1940</a></b> - USA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No. of shorts (original series): </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">114 shorts, last released on August 1, 1958</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producers: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Rudolf Ising (1940)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Fred Quimby (1940–55)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- William Hanna (1955–58)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Joseph Barbera (1955–58)</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production company: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studio</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Distributor: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Running time: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6-10 min.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Color:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Technicolor</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Original language:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> English</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Background: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The series revolve around a grey and white domestic cat, Tom, and a little brown mouse, Jerry, who spite each other: usually, Tom attempts to catch Jerry, but rarely succeeds, causing only trouble; so the shorts generally end showing the mouse triumphant.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Main characters (in order of appearance):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Jerry</u>: named Pee-Wee in the first official announcement (see below), named Jinx in the first short (but not referred to in name on-screen), named Jerry since second short; first appearance in the first short "Puss Gets the Boot", February 10, 1940. Small brown house mouse, one of the two main protagonists of the series along with Tom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Tom</u>: named Jasper in the first official announcement (see below), named Jasper also in the first short, named Tom (full name Thomas) since second short; first appearance in the first short "Puss Gets the Boot", February 10, 1940. Grey and white domestic shorthair Tuxedo cat, one of the two main protagonists of the series along with Jerry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Mammy Two Shoes</u>: first appearance in the first short "Puss Gets the Boot", February 10, 1940. African-American housemaid, Mammy Two Shoes catches Tom acting against her orders. As a minor figure, her face is almost never shown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Spike</u>: occasionally named Killer/Butch/Bulldog in a few shorts; first appearance in the fifth short "Dog Trouble", April 18, 1942. Grey American bulldog, Spike has little affection for Tom; despite so, his relationships with Tom and Jerry varies from time to time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Butch</u>: first appearance in the 12th short "Baby Puss", December 25, 1943. His very first appearance, as Butch's only solo cartoon along Toodles Galore, took place in the MGM short "The Alley Cat" (July 5, 1941). Black alley cat, leader of Tom's friends alley cat bullies who often help him catch Jerry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Toodles Galore</u>: first appearance in the 23th short "Springtime for Thomas", March 30, 1946. Her very first appearance, as Toodles Galore's only solo cartoon along Butch, took place in the MGM short "The Alley Cat" (July 5, 1941). Attractive white female cat, Toodles is Tom's most favored love interest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Tyke</u>: first appearance in the 44th short "Love That Pup", October 1, 1949. In this short Spike was given a puppy son, Tyke precisely, who became a popular supporting character in the series. Spike is a loving father to his son Tyke.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The birth of Tom and Jerry dates back in 1939, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, when animator and storyman Joseph Barbera teamed up with animator and director William Hanna to develop some popular recurring characters like the other studios had. Their idea about a cat and a mouse always in conflict with each other was not entirely appreciated by producer Fred Quimby, despite this he let they go ahead and produce one cartoon short. This first short, titled "Puss Gets the Boot", was released to theaters on February 10, 1940, achieving great critical acclaim and earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject: Cartoons - the first nomination of a total of 13 in the series of 114 shorts directed by Hanna and Barbera until 1958, seven of which won the Oscar.<br />
In 1957 MGM cartoon studio closed, and Hanna and Barbera founded an own production company to produce such popular animated television series including <a href="https://www.firstversions.com/2015/08/the-flintstones-cartoon.html">The Flintstones</a>, Yogi Bear, and Scooby-Doo; however, over the years, Tom and Jerry have been relaunched several times by others directors through theatrical shorts, television series, spin-offs, movies and so, until the present day.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In the original series (1940-1958) Tom and Jerry rarely spoke, and creator William Hanna himself provided most of their vocal effects, including Tom's trademark scream, and Jerry's nervous gulp. Hanna and Barbera made minor adjustments to Tom and Jerry's appearance over the years, so they would "age gracefully".</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">TOM AND JERRY - FIRST SHORT</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First short title:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Puss Gets the Boot"</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Released:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> February 10, 1940 - USA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Directors: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- William Hanna</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Joseph Barbera</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Rudolf Ising</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Plot:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> See the official announcement below</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Music:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Scott Bradley</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Animation:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Don Williams, Michael Lah, Jack Zander, Peter Burness, Rudy Zamora, Ray Abrams, Tony Pabian, Carl Urbano, Robert Allen, George Gordon, Lovell Norman, Al Grandmain.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Running time:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 9 min. 8 sec.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Tom and Jerry, opening and first scenes from the first short: "Puss Gets the Boot" </b>(February 10, 1940). Released to theaters, the short achieved great critical acclaim and earned an Academy Award nomination for <i>Best Short Subject: Cartoons</i> in 1941.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Tom e Jerry, official announcement for the first short "Puss Gets the Boot" released on February 10, 1940</b> (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Shorts Story magazine, January-February 1940). «PUSS GETS THE BOOT... Since Eve evolved from Adam's rib, cats have waged constant war against mice. Now comes a one-mouse revolution brought on by a cat, that ends in victory for the mouse. This story, as told in Rudolf Ising's latest M-G-M Cartoon, "Puss Gets the Boot," relates how this one small mouse, taking advantage of one large cat's shortcoming, subdues the large warrior in a battle of wits and with the aid, of course, of circumstances. Ising's cat feels particulary wicked, this day. Before putting an end to the mouse of his choice, he decides to toy with it. As the mouse pokes his headout of his hole, friend cat grabs him with his tail, flips him in the air, and lets him fall to the floor senseless. The cat then dips his paw into some ink and draws a false hole in the wall for the mouse. As soon as he awakens, the mouse makes a dash for his hole, runs into the solid wall and is knocked unconscious again. This time, when he awakens, he is angry. With great courage he strolls up to the cat and punches him right in the eye. Furious, the cat runs after the mouse, and dashes right into a pillar that supports a beautiful vase. The vase falls to the floor, crashes into a thousand pieces, and the cat, Jasper, by name, is in for it. Immediately the housekeeper chases after Jasper with a broom, beats him, and warns him that if anything else is broken in the house, he will be thrown into the street forever. Now, the mouse, named Pee-Wee, knows how to handle Jasper. If Jasper tries to hurt him again, he'll break something and blame it on the cat. The next time Jasper chases Pee-Wee, the mouse runs to the edge of a table, grabs one of a set of cocktail glasses, and defiantly shouts that he will drop the glass if the cat comes any closer. With each of Jasper's lunges, Pee-Wee threatens to drop the glass. Finally, just to be ornery, Pee-Wee does drop the glass which Jasper catches, before it breaks, by the skin of his theet. Another glass and still another come hurtling down with Jasper catching each one before it hits the floor. Now Jasper gets wise and places soft cushions all over so that even if Pee-Wee does drop the glasses, they won't break. Jasper moves toward Pee-Wee, who threatens to drop another glass. Jasper laughs, the mouse drops the glass and it falls on the pillows and doesn't break. Immediately, Pee-Wee is in Jasper's tail, being tossed up and down like a ball of wool. But Jasper flips Pee-Wee a bit too high. The mouse catches on the ledge of a mantel on which there are many valuable plates. Immediately he starts throwing them to the floor. The cat dashes around madly, catching each dish until his arms are full. Calmly, Pee-Wee comes down from the mantel, and kicks Jasper right into next week. Up in the air goes every dish, and down they come. The housekeeper catches the cat and banishes him from the house forever. Calmly, and with great confidence, Pee-Wee strolls back to his hole, sighing. "Home, Sweet Home."»</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Tom and Jerry, original hand drawn concept designs</b> (August 8, 1939)<b> for the first short "Puss Gets the Boot"</b> (February 10, 1940)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Tom and Jerry, characters names appeared for the first time as the official opening title of the series in the second short: "The Midnight Snack"</b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> (July 19, 1941)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Tom e Jerry, official announcement for the second short "The Midnight Snack" released on July 19, 1941</b> (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Shorts Story magazine, July-August 1941). «MIDNIGHT SNACK - The same cat and mouse who were so well received in their first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon, "Puss Gets the Boot," are back again, by public demand, in another co-starring vehicle titled "Midnight Snack." Supervised by William Hanna and Joe Barbera, the Technicolor one-reeler opens on Jerry, a little mouse, loaded down with a big slice of cheese, struggling away from the ice-box. He looks about cautiously as he staggers forward, making sure that he isn't being followed by Jasper, the cat. (...)»</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Mammy Two Shoes debut</b> ("Puss Gets the Boot", February 10, 1940) <b>and first of her rare appearances in full body</b> ("Saturday Evening Puss", January 14, 1950)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tom and Jerry, Spike and Tyke in their first appearances, 1942 - 1949" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HGOOfCTLJjv-74nU5iw0lPssGkG23-F7twu1R3vKbIG6uXSPFiQxJjj_vGGZSGBkdjmf8FMZ9X-t_MitHZAqleOL0tmm5mOQsuIzoa3wrkjSZk2guAimzSDYTwNwCBn6-a74Dq6oKB8/s1600/FirstVersions_Tom-and-Jerry_Spike-and-Tyke.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Spike and Tyke in their first appearances</b> (left: Tom and Spike in "Dog Trouble", April 18, 1942 / right: Spike and Tyke in "Love That Pup", October 1, 1949)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tom and Jerry, Butch and Toodles Galore in their first appearances, 1943 - 1946" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLQIsQEpBqfEOGwkk4CxvVvMhg9jsXNWBU2JIrmX76L3nJ9aWlnkrMpaRU3k87kIVXwaNDrA_6sPQdc0v4a6lV1EuvYZC1_1f8NEw7_jzBfc_Tw1AcpKYTjKAZkgJj3CLfIyyRC1WK-i4/s1600/FirstVersions_Tom-and-Jerry_Butch_Toddles-Galore.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Butch and Toodles Galore in their first appearances</b> (left: Butch in "Baby Puss", December 25, 1943 / right: Toddles Galore in "Springtime for Thomas", March 30, 1946). Butch and Toddles Galore, before being integrated as recurring characters into the Tom and Jerry series, were introduced in the MGM only solo short "The Alley Cat" (July 5, 1941) by Hugh Harman.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tom and Jerry, first Oscar 1943: The Yankee Doodle Mouse" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjHRMDu_uHjugefAt4EZnSJsTPkXuYU2x9v_tg56EjmXlcWT6-4Pqgln1RqpN_wCvx9Ag_HqQ1qPq_bUL599ZnJSzzkRNmTCYe-Q3ejh2g8lST17b0oGXRZAzCa4pj5F8yFpra1n-akFE/s1600/FirstVersions_Tom-and-Jerry_1st-Oscar.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Tom and Jerry, theatrical poster for "The Yankee Doodle Mouse"</b> (June 26, 1943) <b>- first of 7 Oscars winning shorts in the series for Best Short Subject: Cartoons</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tom and Jerry in Anchors Aweigh film 1945" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jw6sv6bSVmvgm5r85BCULqzF_BbT4udXdxhDbVWENNmizq22kgOoDmrGxvzLqt2yGtQtlfpFPNAcZc4gbVN6uY-HAREtNL0W5fow0Vj_BJ_dlnbnQVzLYeJ1SSE1otH8AtkWT2VOZUY/s1600/FirstVersions_Tom-and-Jerry_movie1945.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Tom and Jerry, first cast in a live-action/animated movie: "Anchors Aweigh"</b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> (1945, musical comedy by George Sidney starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly). The movie is remembered for the sequence in which Gene Kelly dances along with Jerry.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The creators of Tom and Jerry:</b> <u>William Denby "Bill" Hanna</u> (Melrose, July 14, 1910 - North Hollywood, March 22, 2001), American animator, director, producer, voice actor, and cartoon artist; <u>Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera</u> (New York City, March 24, 1911 – Los Angeles, December 18, 2006), Italian-American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>William Hanna and Joseph Barbera pose alongside all the Oscars won by their Tom and Jerry shorts for "Best Short Subject: Cartoons" under their direction (1940 to 1958: 7 Oscars and 6 nominations)</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>You might also like, by the same authors Hanna and Barbera:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <a href="https://www.firstversions.com/2015/08/the-flintstones-cartoon.html">The Flintstones</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-38419536958268028372019-09-29T19:57:00.002+02:002019-10-12T13:10:45.974+02:00Nestlé<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Nestlé logo 1868 - 1938" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig_W1xdWa7xDEXpWJo2ajm1ITndxb0j1WIieabQ0blMxOVcawUBYdWwkdH9earQSoR1xu2TAS7FycvlPD2VMawrDLs1UElgfMZzAEwoOW0i23JiH_NcWvaF_Kelbb0ABteKmv7PE4fTCY/s1600/FirstVersions_Nestle-logo-1868-1938.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé logo 1868</b> (left)<b> and 1938</b> (right). Henri Nestlé used his family's crest (Nestlé = little nest in German) as inspiration for the brand; later, lettering and logo were combined to become the unifying distinguishing mark for different Nestlé products.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Henri Nestlé" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62zAsaaivuz4xu8eYAsZM40EUaqGmAjrcPZPK47NdU6sB40b44eYoRtBPtDGL8FAJpZY0jQxHWzxxaM-XzoBnP2qH1ZG0VxG7V1_MeBr3rT8g0dZYOfePJ9HPvdzgfWtKW5POIDU2Pw4/s1600/FirstVersions_Henri-Nestle.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 1px;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Henri Nestlé</b> (Frankfurt, Aug. 10, 1814 - Montreux, July 7, 1890), confectioner, inventor of the "Farine Lactée Nestlé" and founder of the Nestlé company</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Farine Lactée Nestlé"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Food</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Baby food</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Inventor:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Henri Nestlé</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Invented:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 1867 - Vevey, Switzerland</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company" (founded by Charles Page and George Page in <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1866" target="_blank">1866</a></b> - Cham, Switzerland), merged in 1905 with "Société Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé" (founded by Henri Nestlé on March 8, 1875 - Vevey, Switzerland, under new ownership) to become "Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company".</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Production start:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 1867 - Vevey, Switzerland</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Farine Lactée Nestlé was a mixture of cow's milk, wheat flour and sugar, for consumption by infants who could not be breastfed. The German-Swiss pharmacist Henri Nestlé invented this formula to combat the raging infant mortality prevalent at the time, in close cooperation with his friend Jean Balthasar Schnetzler, a Swiss naturalist. His model was Justus von Liebig, a German scientist who at that time developed a soluble food for babies: «Liebig first kindled the flame of truth about human nutrition. He also drew up the requirements for his infant paste. It is an excellent product but far too difficult to prepare, requiring as it does half an hour of complicated cookery. Furthermore, the mother had to obtain the finest quality flour, malt, milk, and potash, which is certainly no small task. (...) My product is prepared entirely on Liebig's principles, only I reach the same goal by other means» (Henri Nestlé, 1868). Ready to use, Farine Lactée Nestlé needed only to be boiled prior to feeding; thus, it soon proved to be a viable substitute for breast milk for infants who were unable to be breastfed.<br />
Nestlé's name appeared in advertisements and on labels in association with the name of the product: "Farine Lactée Nestlé" in French, "Nestlé's (Milk) Food" (USA and Australia), "Nestlé's Bread and Milk Flour" (Britain), "Harina Lacteada Nestlé" (Spain), "Nestlé's Kindermehl" (Germany).</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In 1866 the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company was established in Cham, Switzerland, by the American brothers George and Charles Page, to market their "Milkmaid" condensed milk as a safe, long-lasting alternative to fresh milk. In 1867 Henri Nestlé developed his "Farine Lactée", and soon began marketing it as baby food for consumption by infants who cannot be breastfed. In 1905 this two companies, after years of fierce competition during which both selling rival versions of the other's original products (condensed milk and infant cereal), merge to form the Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Milk Company. Before this, in 1875, Henri Nestlé retired and sold his company to his business associates, but the company retained his name as Société Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé; by the same year, Nestlé's products were sold everywere from Indonesia to Egypt, and from the US to Argentina. When Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss merged in 1905, the company had more than 20 factories, and started using overseas subsidiaries to establish a sales network that included Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia; over 150 years since its foundation, Nestlé results the largest food company in the world, with a range of products including baby food, medical food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, snacks...</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quote (Henri Nestlé, 1878):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «My invention is not a new discovery but a correct and rational application of substances long known to be the best for the feeding of children. The chief ingredients are quality milk, bread and sugar».</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Nestlé S.A.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Official website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.nestle.com" target="_blank">https://www.nestle.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé newspaper advertisement</b> (Evening star, Washington, D.C., March 25, 1872). «MOTHERS, SAVE YOUR INFANTS. NESTLE'S LACTEOUS FARINA, THE MOTHER'S MILK SUBSTITUTE. Extensively used and recommended by the most eminent physicians. Sold by Druggist and Fine Grocers. B.W. REED & SONS, Agents for the South, 1214 F street northwest, Washington, D.C. Send for memorial on the Nutrition of Infants, by Henri Nestlé, Chemist. Furnished gratis. m20 12t».</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Nestlé advertisement 1880" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNuPa6zModCqL54uhnWZNxjrxWDxP2CHrPdWOeZnOkWdN0HVOFOLZyBJoqHUDHwyRQjLx-hGIk-5slEsa3B_Lw9395lFDafy2zmpHFn75msk93wonQ2VAXs9OoQX4nFkhNkdOfvdaZFfE/s1600/FirstVersions_Nestle-Ad-1880.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé newspaper advertisement</b> (Chicago daily tribune, Chicago, Ill., July 13, 1880). «NESTLE'S MILK FOOD. Manufactured solely by Henry Nestlé, Vevey, Switzerland. Contains only milk, wheaten bread-crust, and sugar, and requires only water to prepare it for use. Recommended by all family physicians as a certain preventive of cholera infantum and summer complaints. Pamphlets with full particulars sent to any address. Kept by druggist and grocers. Thomas Lemming & Co., Montreal, Canada».</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé newspaper advertisements</b> (Boletín mercantil de Puerto Rico, San Juan, P.R.; top: January 25, 1882 / bottom: March 4, 1888)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Nestlé factory 1890" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwrQrpHNJw4xLHsNzt3Ni1mPQVHpRCPb140fX6jZdI_MKurnT23_fMHpERR5uow7CZRx_77ZYGdfGUgsymfx2NVkLLlcmXlTdKEdH0lBrKPqzWQ-D7RQYD1H7Y0QOSVFuyZhU_hHJrtDA/s1600/FirstVersions_Nestle-factory-1890.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Nestlé milk arrival 1890" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FxtyPsaam8XObH86BtDOz-cSwL__bto1sgyB5KAiMgvLKJgePMccTfid3FQZcXJV78WIV9TC0FQ2OMrDo0LSpv5dklnRi-mA1w4NcHicxlrS6a6NroCspU3zaa3vZ3mCB-wCIbxolqo/s1600/FirstVersions_Nestle-milk-arrival-1890.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé milk arrival in Cham, Switzerland</b> (ca. 1890)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Nestlé tins 1875 - 1890" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKPHHJk7p6A2_dLPmANjDkorePkl5VY_GtlJylfi0Z_hCA-Ib579zCn8elUj00wA8mlU6Dv_Jmkjln6GI9Ecd8z8KUQRt_epnIPs0Ip-4cv-4Q2BMMhkD6NPzZv-4IE3tAhiT3OQwrIA/s1600/FirstVersions_Nestle-old-tins.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Farine Lactée Nestlé, early tins</b> (German packaging, left ca. 1875, right ca. 1890)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé advertisement</b> (1891): «The Struggle with Cholera Infantum»</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé advertising</b> (1893)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé advertising</b> (1897, art by Alphonse Mucha)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé advertisement</b> (Illustrirte Zeitung Leipzig und Berlin, August 11, 1898)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé advertisement</b> (Paris-Noël, December 1900): «Farine Lactée Nestlé, 30 ans de succès»</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nestlé celebrates 150 years</b> (1866-2016) with a series of events around the world, and inaugurating its "Nest" (June 2, 2016), an interactive Museum in Vevey, the Swiss city where the first factory was built.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-17700800841414548872019-07-14T19:58:00.000+02:002020-09-14T18:40:45.435+02:00Jaguar: 1st model ever<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>S.S. Jaguar logo 1935.</b> The first car launched with the Jaguar brand was the "S.S. Jaguar 2.5 litre Saloon", unveiled at the Mayfair Hotel London, September 21, 1935; but the first car ever produced by the same company - S.S. Cars Limited, later Jaguar Cars Limited - was the 1932 "S.S. 1", or "S.S. One", debuted at the London Motor Show in October 15 to 24, 1931.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"S.S. 1"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Cars</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Sports car</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Designers:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> William Lyons and William Walmsley</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> S.S. Cars Limited (founded by Sir William Lyons on October 26, 1933, as the result of the Swallow Sidecar Company formed with co-founder William Walmsley on September 2, 1922)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1932" target="_blank">1932</a></b> - Foleshill, Coventry, England - Debut as coupé car at the London Motor Show in October 15 to 24, 1931, Olympia, West Kensington</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Discontinued:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 1936</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First price:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 310 GBP</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> For detailed specifications see the 1931 official brochure in Pdf below</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In 1922, two motorcycle enthusiasts, William Lyons and William Walmsley, founded the Swallow Sidecar Company, a British manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars and automobile bodies in Blackpool, Lancashire (later Coventry, Warwickshire). After some name changes - Swallow Sidecar and Coachbuilding Company, and Swallow Coachbuilding Company, during which the company diversified by bodying existying cars with more fashionable coachworks, William Lyons decided to become a car manufacturer in his own right. So, in October 1931, Lyons revealed his "S.S. 1" coupé at the London Motor Show. The engines and chassis supplied by the Standard Motor Company were fitted with Swallow bodies styled under Lyons supervision. The body was ultra low and the bonnet outrageously long. It had, stated the press, the £1,000 look, yet was priced at a very modest £310, highlighting Lyons' unique ability to offer remarkable value for money. The first two S.S. cars available to the public was the 1932 S.S. 1 with 2-litre or 2.5-litre side-valve, six-cylinder engine and the S.S. 2, a smaller version based on the Standard Nine chassis, with a four-cylinder 1-litre side-valve engine. A much improved S.S. cars followed in 1933, Saloon and Tourer models were introduced, and in the same year William Lyons formed S.S. Cars Limited. Jaguar brand first appeared in September 1935, as a model name on an S.S. 2.5-litre saloon presented at the Mayfair Hotel London. The company's name changed from S.S. Cars Limited to Jaguar Cars Limited in 1945.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Slogan (July 1931):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «WAIT! THE "SS" IS COMING»</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> S.S. Cars Ltd. - Jaguar Cars Ltd. - Jaguar Land Rover Ltd.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.jaguar.com" target="_blank">https://www.jaguar.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>S.S. 1 announcement</b> (The Autocar magazine, July 1931). «WAIT! THE "SS" IS COMING - 2 New Coupés of Surpassing Beauty. - S.S. is the new name of a new car that's going to thrill the hearts of the motoring public and the trade alike. It's something utterly new ... different ... better! Long ... low ... very low ... and very FAST! At the Show, or before, two S.S. Coupés of surpassing beauty will be presented. WAIT ... THE S.S. IS COMING» - The show to which the announcement referred was the London Motor Show, Olympia, West Kensington, where the S.S. 1 debuted together with a smaller version called S.S. 2, October 15 to 24, 1931.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="S.S. 1 car (Jaguar 1932) - interior" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii_DXB9tR780RTZQ2ZHfCq-mgF1A4bC7jg30iAJoDcGVfNrKbi7E7lkgqL8_GNsP7wqMo9UG0FqpSaHIVWALwWEEDDRgr9L-A5eK93ByuqFx9yFVKp8yO-FbrYiH6ov2X0saLPOaE-NtI/s1600/FirstVersions_Jaguar_SS1coupe-1932-interior.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="S.S. 1 car (Jaguar 1932) - engine" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCM1d02_psLrW78dNiuGMeYkhp-OPEVDCqv2I3hNkQfW6U0tcl5Vrq9PpO4ShoFYiEt-9ZPC5HvayVWzotmQ1HIAzy7LNlZdchQ3tHr3CgRVOd13rm95BLgzAlR-dVwuiZZfaweoLu84/s1600/FirstVersions_Jaguar_SS1coupe-1932-engine.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="S.S. 1 car (Jaguar 1932) - back" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4SH7TBfytNnJTBmcdYLUuE8C5WfpvA3Sy_zOJrl_EtmO7HRznOpRO4WdOlocUJJJE4KV0cGynb7lj9otD44eSfLCBejfdyj-R01a0PuOKIZMOQSi-PHo8JkcljbQIKjOU7FuamjgntE/s1600/FirstVersions_Jaguar_SS1coupe-1932-back.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>S.S. 1, the first car by S.S. Cars Ltd., later Jaguar Cars Ltd.</b> (1932, restored)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>S.S. 1 official brochure in Pdf</b> (1931)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>S.S. 1 advertisement</b> (The Autocar magazine, June 10, 1932)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>S.S. Jaguar 2.5 litre Saloon, the car that inaugurated the Jaguar brand</b> (1935)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="S.S. Jaguar 2.5 litre Saloon, debut 1935" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rTE6KZEgpUNsV4xFlpPW_nDPpg0hMNc2PkWOEYouahWSh2QVc0KYj48v5rv0VLz8_8Y-hhFUdEZNOr5-g-9yRe__ffxcrfbhSn6iWbQGkHkMaTsf3XBbNb-fNEmPLevyqDQkK_QKVIg/s1600/FirstVersions_SS-Jaguar_1935-debut.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>S.S. Jaguar 2.5 litre Saloon, debut at the Mayfair Hotel London</b> (September 21, 1935)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>S.S. Jaguar 2.5 litre Saloon advertisement</b> (The Autocar magazine, October 18, 1935)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="William Lyons" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjynxpZc1DV9OYc0pNUj4QO79QKWI5IeNWNUnaoGK4ZO_3sXk1v1Q3CEWOtKNi50V6p5SURXztjmvW50B7L-SYX7TXtAYyua-f9GnpXToRSZTbnZKtdtqU-piE_xh1M2SgriXc3egnd4v4/s1600/FirstVersions_William-Lyons.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Sir William Lyons</b> (Blackpool, Sept. 4, 1901 - Warwickshire, Feb. 8, 1985), known as "Mr. Jaguar", entrepreneur, co-founder of the Jaguar company, and designer of the early Jaguar models</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Jaguar 75th Anniversary</b> (1935-2010). On September 18, 2010, 75 iconic Jaguars started a two-day trek in Coventry to celebrate 75 years of Jaguar brand history.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-77630703791063961522019-02-12T15:07:00.000+01:002019-12-22T13:16:19.879+01:00Final Fantasy<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(North America version, Nintendo)</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Original name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Fighting Fantasy"</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Final Fantasy"</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Video games</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Role-playing</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Genre:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Fantasy</span></div><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inventor:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Hironobu Sakaguchi</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Developer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Square Co., Ltd. - Japan</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Released:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- December 18, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1987" target="_blank">1987</a></b> - Japan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- July 12, 1990 - North America</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Publishers</span><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Square Co., Ltd. - Japan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Nintendo of America Inc. - NA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Platforms</span><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Family Computer (Famicom)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Masafumi Miyamoto</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Designers:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Hironobu Sakaguchi, Hiromichi Tanaka, Akitoshi Kawazu, Koichi Ishii, Kiyoshi Yoshii, Ken Narita, Kazuko Shibuya</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Programmer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Nasir Gebelli</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Graphics:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Yoshitaka Amano</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Writers:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Hironobu Sakaguchi, Kenji Terada, Akitoshi Kawazu</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Number of players:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Single-player</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Background and characters:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «An evil shroud covers the world in darkness. You must restore the powers of earth, wind, fire and water to the Four Orbs. Create your own band of 4 Light Warriors from fighters, thieves, martial artists, and magicians. You'll need all their skills to triumph in this massive role-playing adventure. Your treacherous journey takes you to all parts of a strange new world. Explore dangerous castles and dark caverns where deadly perils, and great rewards await at every turn. Hundreds of ferocious monsters block your path. With patience, skill, and cunning you can defeat them. Come, begin your quest. Enter an enchanted new World. Command your warriors! Prepare to face the Final Fantasy! A world shrouded in the darkness of evil. Your mission – to restore the light». (From the North America version, 1990, back cover).</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Music by:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Nobuo Uematsu</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Final Fantasy, known as Final Fantasy I or FF1 in re-releases, was the first role-playing game in Square's Final Fantasy series, created by Hironobu Sakaguchi. For detailed features and game mode refer to the "Explorer's Handbook" below.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The creator of the Final Fantasy series Hironobu Sakaguchi proposed the role-playing game (RPG) to his employer Square, but the company approved the launch only after the success of the RPG Dragon Quest by Enix. The team of developers wanted a title that had a simple abbreviation in the Latin alphabet (FF) and a four-syllable abbreviated Japanese pronunciation ("efu efu"); the first name proposed for the video game was "Fighting Fantasy", but it was already taken by a tabletop game, so they decided to call it "Final Fantasy". Final Fantasy was first released in 1987 in Japan by Square, and then Nintendo of America translated the game into English and published it in North America in 1990.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Slogan (North America version, 1990, box):</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">«Enter a whole new realm of challenge and adventure.» (front) - «Dragons and broadswords, mystery and adventure. Final Fantasy has them all!» (back)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Square Co., Ltd. - Nintendo Co., Ltd.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Product website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.finalfantasy.com" target="_blank">https://www.finalfantasy.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Final Fantasy ad Square 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8oWTam8nEPv0C-izII4NsCugUDlCwakmDbNnCtxz1pPqnxdXakabPIjmJomUoT3u344eOWYDUfXEQ6Mt5iPJNKTbomLOIbAD_yxS7CVvOQp1nDZ8yqvFXnhh6A22JXCOFTDYT7jTDHL8/s1600/FirstVersions_FinalFantasy_1987-Ad1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Final Fantasy advertisement 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCVJhD8fLW2_y4oh52NrNcpYLHwc_KJli1a1lC8nWsucmhEdy0AAbAUNbzzvcanqJxUVkWZhCNDORAm1wOgHIqNbiCB0SsP-wh9L9ZZ2VYNxzO9UhDDdNX4rw-6SvnzYDhsAMFFcJjCEY/s1600/FirstVersions_FinalFantasy_1987-Ad2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Final Fantasy launch 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYJo_3ZNxffnN94Czwk_JHeURxbRMldxDqDvZB0y__8qgRH8E0Po0_zVkKxs_M7V1AWbQ94TbnARIcnlMVzBlmnBamI0PTBpbnYrrVJxSo1xgGUbgmGYchRGNeom6hx9nmAsor1zGotwk/s1600/FirstVersions_FinalFantasy_1987-Ad3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Final Fantasy advertising</b> (Japan version, Square 1987)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Final Fantasy screenshots</b> (Japan version, Square 1987)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Final Fantasy intro </b>(Japan version, Square 1987)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Final Fantasy box, front cover</b> (North America version, Nintendo 1990)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Final Fantasy cartridge</b> (North America version, Nintendo 1990)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-top: 5px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Final Fantasy "Explorer's Handbook" and maps in Pdf</b> (North America version, Nintendo 1990)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Hironobu Sakaguchi" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb50ZzBQ_erp7OjhHMeIN3U1TpVef-WBwNaEKBzNKEVcQspC6lJ-d2sdv6he1Uq3lgFALpGaYT-pb5K6AVzzTSXBv4DfJAtonRSyLHkUeMRn0kY7kaYI9HfMssca7_mE1jSr50TyztNRY/s1600/FirstVersions_Hironobu-Sakaguchi.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Hironobu Sakaguchi</b> (Nov. 25, 1962), video game developer, creator of the Final Fantasy series</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Square Enix celebrate Final Fantasy's 30th Anniversary</b> (1987-2017). With 87 titles, the series was awarded the "most prolific RPG series" by the Guinness World Records in 2017.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-61916917693882040042018-02-25T00:16:00.000+01:002019-10-23T09:44:34.852+02:00Ryanair<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Names:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Danren Enterprises" (Nov. 28, 1984)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Ryanair" (since 1985)</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Transportation</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Subcategory:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Airlines</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Founded:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nov. 28, 1984 - Dublin, Ireland</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Founders:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Christopher Ryan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Tony Ryan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Liam Lonergan</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Operations start:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> July 8, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1985">1985</a></b></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Features:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ryanair began operations on July 8, 1985 with daily flights on a 15-seater EMB 110 Embraer Bandeirante turboprop aircraft, from Waterford to London Gatwick. First cabin crew recruits must be less than 5ft. 2ins. tall in order to be able to operate in the tiny cabin of the aircraft. The 90-minute flight, Waterford's first international scheduled air service, departed at 8.30am, with the return flight departing from Gatwick at 7pm. On May 23, 1986 Rayanair launched a second route Dublin - London Luton, operated by two 46-seater BAE748 turboprop aircraft.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1975, Irish businessman Tony Ryan founded Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA), a commercial aircraft sales and leasing company based in Shannon, Ireland. During the 1980s the company became the world's largest commercial aircraft lessor, but in early '90s economic depression undermined this commercial success, the company over-reached itself, and in 1992 it ran into debt problems. Ryan lost control of the company; however, in 1985 he had already launched a little airline, Ryanair (named after him), with co-founders Christopher "Christy" Ryan, godfather to Tony's second son Declan and worker at GPA on the sales team, and Liam Lonergan, owner of Irish travel agent Club Travel. With a share capital of just £1, and a staff of 25, they began to charter a 15-seater aircraft to bring small groups on business and leisure trips between Waterford and London Gatwick. In 1986, Ryanair obtained permission from the regulatory authorities to challenge the British Airways and Aer Lingus' high fare duopoly on the Dublin-London route; services were launched with two 46-seater aircraft. The launch fare of £99 return was less than half the price of the British Airways and Aer Lingus lowest return fare of £209. With two routes in operation, Ryanair carries 82,000 passengers in its first full year in operation. Thirty years later, in 2016, Ryanair was the largest European airline by scheduled passengers flown, and carried more international passengers than any other airline.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ryanair</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Official website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.ryanair.com/" target="_blank">https://www.ryanair.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ryanair announcement 1985" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjfcLUwtby7AajcQOKKctDn8a9Jg0iI_vrnj5itDdY49xU6yDE90oN11eJJtNIt-4UMnoWTfj3Aykh_V5odiB8xQZKn66TIt4YrN4aTJFlR-gwNO76npNyHa0IvhCNxvOdamzdcaiyps/s1600/FirstVersions_Ryanair_1985-announcement.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ryanair getting ready to begin operations</b> (announcement: Flight International magazine, June 22, 1985). «Ryanair starts Waterford-London link. New airline Ryanair is to launch a daily service from Waterford in south-east Ireland to London Gatwick on July 1. The carrier will operate a 15-seat Embraer Bandeirante on the route. The new service provides a welcome boost for Waterford's regional airport, which was hard hit by the collapse of Irish commuter airline Avair».</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ryanair's Bandeirante 1985" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxYI2EFXycyI38jx1yMLI1IYnLdeOmoNcRqGpDqgPW9UeoQBe46NZzghx7eqtj__4mMgbIT8-iMcC-nKEWcJRmYs79R-bCGWKnyy9AJ5dPewZwyylc7WhkYvEWxffyr5K1982kQYxYRQ/s1600/FirstVersions_Ryanair_1985-1st-2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ryanair, first aircraft operated by the company</b> (July 8, 1985). Ryanair's first route Waterford - London Gatwick was operated by a 15-seater EMB 110 Embraer Bandeirante turboprop aircraft.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0707/713260-ryanairs-first-flight" target="_blank"><img alt="Ryanair inaugural flight video 1985" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLoLYjbw94m3tNn8xJNlD0EwDMkYo7QGzuwk-WK0f0BoyM8g-KiQbpdPGAjhYNFURKu_xEEd0BnOEDhafy-gl75aeiy0fAYVHyVSzQNJX1sryOnX-a1IP-6kD90E1Z_KofMMkjV2rNxGo/s1600/FirstVersions_Ryanair_1985-video.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ryanair inaugural flight - video</b> (July 8, 1985). <b>Click the image to see the clip</b> (1 min.) archived by RTÉ.ie, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ryanair's timetable 1986 - front" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzeTAaRW9BJ7PHxeRB1GOhEIjh_JAmjQMgp_QZv0YUmvwad087p3hJd7TpRfpcOISvylWoT34UnaYL3iDcSb9OSqaS0HZpJ1cMl-cPYOsAzp2iLXMm7ZIEl5PQEh4XOHRsibpgWcVB158/s1600/FirstVersions_Ryanair_1986-timetable-front.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ryanair's timetable 1986 - back" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgleq40dGfp3f8mJsQ8UXoHDZfqrYnsw45rxpCGcYXqk4Dtz8QD1gP3AWa-xHR5jkS54YGDuI69iyTLDu875MHAMfCdo1oLrkQBwZAJchYVguW-H9hOuOwXnfsPeh_OaxcstTbqi9_D_eg/s1600/FirstVersions_Ryanair_1986-timetable-back.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ryanair, early timetable</b> (January-March 1986)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Ryanair announcement 1986" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQo_myvCmLppKQpfs3JkvfsDBVLaC2KVgI4l5BwH7Vpvii3exMBgbu3m_D65J2OR_qNyfiajCUe_AQilL1jqULob3tpRwrIWMMU64lp6NqLoALABCcbyVIu6gCFLlJ4wkQ4HTWj8Yx_Y/s1600/FirstVersions_Ryanair_1986-announcement.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ryanair getting ready to launch the second route</b> (announcement: Flight International magazine, May 10, 1986). «RyanAir starts Luton service. Irish carrier RyanAir begins Dublin-Luton services on May 23 using two ex-Dan-Air HS.748s. It plans to undercut the existing services of British Airways, Aer Lingus, and Dan-Air with an £86.50 no-restrictions return fare».</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ryanair, second aircraft operated by the company</b> (May 23, 1986). Ryanair's second route Dublin - London Luton was operated by two 46-seater BAE748 turboprop aircraft, known as "The Spirit of Ireland".</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ryanair founders:</b> <u>Christopher "Christy" Ryan</u> (left), <u>Thomas Anthony "Tony" Ryan</u> (center), and <u>Liam Lonergan</u> (right).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ryanair 30th Anniversary</b> (1985-2015). Ryanair celebrate 30 years looking back at travel with Ryanair in 1985 compared to 2015.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Yomiuri Shimbun"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Founders:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Takashi Koyasu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Morimichi Motono</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Shôkichi Shibata</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First issue:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">November 2, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1876">1874</a></b> - Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First editor:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Takashi Koyasu</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Takashi Koyasu" border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVGRCjoJ_b2bXoNiHU1okcdG4TtTzLl-c9KUZ74WlS-2G-BMzBMIF1Beyd_yLKNFpj_APOMqlYFLtX5xQhc2MNWRm9yIuB5xiwyO3S27W6hCFNld9q6xaGNXXkkrujNP1yKL02OxpdPLI/s1600/FirstVersions_Takashi-Koyasu.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Takashi Koyasu</b> (1836-1898), Industrialist, founder of Nisshusha company in 1870 (changed to The Yomiuri Shimbun since December 1, 1917) and founder of the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in 1874 with co-founders Morimichi Motono and Shôkichi Shibata.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Overview:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1870 Japanese Industrialist Takashi Koyasu established the letterpress printing company "Nisshusha" in Yokohama, with the former First Secretary of Foreign Affairs Morimichi Motono and the interpreter Shokichi Shibata, and published an English-Japanese dictionary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1874 they launched the "Yomiuri Shimbun" in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo: the name literally means "sell by reading newspaper", and refers to the newspaper sellers of Edo period (1603-1868). Yomiuri Shimbun was one of five new dailies created early in the Meiji period (1868–1912) to meet the need for a vernacular newspaper in the rapidly modernizing society of Japan. It became popular among the general public for its easy-to-read style, and in the following year its circulation had grown from 200 every other day to more than 10,000; by 1877 it had exceeded 33,400. In the beginning, the Yomiuri Shimbun published literature, novel translations, and some famous writers such as Kôyô Ozaki. In 1914 the Yomiuri Shimbun creates "Yomiuri Fujin Furoku", a page dedicated to articles for women, the first in Japanese newspapers. On September 1, 1923, the new Yomiuri Shimbun's head office building, located at Ginza 3-chome, was destroyed in Great Kanto Earthquake; in 1945, just before the end of World War II, an air raid burnt down headquarters building a second time; but Yomiuri Shimbun flourished again by building a strong national sales network.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The Yomiuri Shimbun - Yomiuri Group</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Official website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/" target="_blank">http://www.yomiuri.co.jp</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Yomiuri Shimbun was the first Japanese newspaper to carry a news photo</b> (August 7, 1888). The image, printed using asphalt copperplate, shows the lake Inawashito immediately after the eruption of Mt. Bandai, Fukushima Prefecture.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Yomiuri Shimbun begins serialization of Ozaki Kôyô's novel "Konjiki Yasha" - The Golden Demon</b> (January 1, 1897)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Yomiuri Shimbun was the first Japanese newspaper to introduce pages devoted to women's interests</b> (April 3, 1914). Originally called "Yomiuri Fujin Furoku", these pages evolved into a Lifestyle section.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Left</u>: <b>Yomiuri Shimbun celebrate their 140th anniversary (1874-2014) starting operations from the Yomiuri Shimbun Building, their new headquarters in Tokyo's central Otemachi district.</b> <u>Right</u>: <b>Yomiuri Shimbun issue No. 50,000 (April 9, 2015).</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 2010, in the Britain's Guinness Book of World Records, the Yomiuri Shimbun was credited with having the highest circulation in the world, and with being the only newspaper to have a morning circulation in excess of 10 million copies: the morning edition had a circulation of 10,020,584, while the evening edition had a circulation of 3,516,692, producing a combined figure of 13,537,276; with an average of 2.5 readers per copy, this results in a total readership of 25,051,460 per day.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Transportation</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Subcategory:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shipping</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Founded:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nov. 14, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1965" target="_blank">1965</a></b> - Seattle, Washington, USA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Founder / First president:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Stanley B. McDonald</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Operations start:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> December 3, 1965</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Features:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Founded in 1965, Princess Cruises began operations on December 3, 1965, carrying 400 passengers aboard the "Princess Patricia" Turbo-Electric Vessel from Los Angeles to Mexico, calling at La Paz, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco and Mazatlan. In 1967 they chartered a more specific cruise ship, "Princess Italia", and in 1968 the third "Princess Carla" ship, thus continuing the series of Mexican Riviera cruises. In June 1969 Princess Cruises inaugurated the first series of summer cruises to Alaska.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1962 entrepreneur Stanley B. McDonald bought a ship, the cruise vessel "Yarmouth", to operate as a hotel at the World's Fair in Seattle, where his company Air Mac provided all the ground transportation equipment; the ship sailed from San Francisco to Victoria B.C., then down to the fair for a 10-day cruise. For four days of the cruise the ship was used as a hotel while people onboard visited the fair. This experience inspired McDonald to try a new businness, so in 1965 he decided to found Princess Cruises.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The popular American television series "The Love Boat", aired on the ABC Television Network from 1977 to 1986, was set aboard many of Princess' ships in destinations around the globe; the two ships featured heavily were "Pacific Princess" and "Island Princess". To celebrate their 50th Anniversary, on December 3, 2015 Princess Cruises reunited The Love Boat cast aboard Pacific Princess in the Port of Los Angeles.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Quote (Stanley B. McDonald):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">«The call of the "Mexican Riviera" was coined by our people as I remember. Now everyone refers to it as the Mexican Riviera».</span></div><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Official website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.princess.com/" target="_blank">http://www.princess.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Princess Cruises before Princess Cruises</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(summer 1965). This brochure offered 7-days summer cruises in Alaska - from May to August, from Vancouver to Skagway and return - aboard Canadian Pacific's "Princess Patricia", the first ship chartered by Stanley McDonald in the fall of the same year to start his businness. The Princess Patricia was a very popular, reliable ship: despite its tiny size, it had eight sumptuous wood-paneled suites with large living rooms, a large selection of outside upper/lower berth cabins, and outdoor activities included shuffleboard played atop decks.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Princess Patricia, the first ship operated by Princess Cruises,</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">docked in Vancouver during the first Princess Cruises management. On December 3, 1965, Princess Patricia's first cruise took 400 passengers from Los Angeles to Mexico, calling at La Paz, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco and Mazatlan, thus inaugurating the first series of 14-day cruises to Mexico, until april 1966. This Turbo-Electric Vessel, 6,082-ton, 356-by-56 foot, built in Scotland 1949 and converted to cruise liner in Canada 1963, returned under the Princess banner for a second Mexican Riviera cruise in winter 1966/67, before being left to the exclusive management of its owner Canadian Pacific. Demolished in Taiwan 1995.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Princess Italia, the second ship operated by Princess Cruises,</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in Acapulco (1967, under charter to Princess but still with Oltremare's triangle funnel logo). Princess Italia made her maiden departure from Los Angeles on December 15, 1967. This cruise ship, 12,083-ton, 489-by-68 feet, 452 passenger plus 240 crew, was built in Italy 1967 as "Italia" for Crociere d’Oltremare, then chartered by Costa Lines and subchartered to Princess Cruises, who marketed her as "Princess Italia", but never officially renamed her. On June 3, 1969 Princess Italia was also used for the first Alaskan cruise from San Francisco. Demolished in Gujarat, India 2012.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Princess Cruises introduce their iconic "Seawitch" logo</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1968)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Princess Carla, the third ship operated by Princess Cruises</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1968). Princess Carla made her maiden departure from Los Angeles on December 19, 1968; it was the first vessel to carry the iconic "Seawitch" funnel logo. This cruise ship, 20,469-ton, 600-by-80 feet, 452 passenger, was built in France 1951 as "Flandre" for French Line, then sold in 1967 to the Italian firm Costa Cruises, who renamed her "Carla C". In 1968 the ship was chartered to Princess Cruises, who marketed her as "Princess Carla", but never officially renamed her. Demolished in Turkey 1994.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Stanley B. McDonald</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Alberta, October 13, 1920 – Seattle, November 20, 2014), entrepreneur, founder of Princess Cruises</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Princess Cruises 50th Anniversary</b> (1965-2015). On December 3, 2015, Princess Cruises celebrated their 50 years recreating the exact route of the cruise line's original Princess Patricia's maiden voyage (December 3, 1965) - from Los Angeles to Mexico - on board the 30,277-ton Pacific Princess (above).</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Names:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Mechanics Made Easy" (1901)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Simplified Mechanics" (1907)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Meccano" (since Sept. 14, 1907)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Toys</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Construction set</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inventor:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Frank Hornby</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Invented in:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 1898 - Liverpool, England, UK</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Patent:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> January 9, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1901" target="_blank">1901</a></b> (accepted November 30), UK</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meccano Ltd. (founded in Liverpool, May 30, 1908, by Frank Hornby)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 1902 as "Mechanics Made Easy", UK</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Since 1908 as "Meccano", worldwide</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First price:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- The first outfit marked "Mechanics Made Easy" (1902) cost 7 shillings 6 pence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- The first outfit trademarked "Meccano" (1908) cost 4 pence.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In early newspaper advertisements, Meccano - born in 1901 under the name "Mechanics Made Easy" - was described as «a patent adaptable mechanical toy, with which boys may exercise they ingenuity in constructing cranes, bridges, wagons, shafting, etc. - in fact, an endless variety of models. The metal strips being perforated with holes, equidistant, enables them to be formed into the shapes (among others) enumerated». The first sets had a very limited range of parts, manufactured by various local firms, and the strips were made from thin tinplate steel with edges folded over to give strength. The boxes were long, thin, and attractively tin-printed. By 1904 the outfits included girders and gear wheels, three different sets were product, accessory outfits and manuals were introduced. In 1907, after a temporarily rebrand as "Simplified Mechanics", the very first "Meccano" trademark appeared on a new large box called "Meccano Kindergarten Outfit" (though, the design of the parts remained the same). Since then, "Meccano" became the official name, with "Mechanics Made Easy" in brackets as subtitle for 3/4 years and then cut off. In 1908 the boxes were large, the outfits were numbered from 1 to 6, and the parts were nickel plated. Through the years new designs, parts, and outfits were developed using different materials and technologies, for an always-modern toy.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1898 Frank Hornby, a bookkeeper from Liverpool, began to design a system of interchangeable metal strips, plates, wheels, axles and gears, with nuts and bolts to connect the pieces, for the amusement of his two children. Supported by his employer David Elliott, Hornby got his new system patented in 1901, and started selling it as "Mechanics Made Easy" outfits, with parts produced by external businesses in Liverpool. From 1902 to 1907, advertisements began to appear in newspapers and magazines, model-building competitions were also advertised, new parts and sets were introduced, and with the support by chair of Engineering Henry Selby Hele-Shaw sales started to take off. In 1907 Hornby decided to rebrand his sets: the iconic "Meccano" trademark was registered, and sets carrying the new name made their first appearance. In the same year the first factory opened on Duke Street in Liverpool, and Meccano began to be exported to many countries, but it was not until 1908 that the new "Meccano Ltd." company came into being, when Hornby bought out his employer's stake in the business (until then the sets carried the monogram "E&H" or "Elliot and Hornby"). At the same time, the outfits evolved with the introduction of the nickel plating. In 1914 a large factory was built in Binns Road to churn out the new Meccano sets in increasing quantities, and in 1916 "Meccano Magazine" - edited by Frank Hornby and published by his Meccano Ltd. company - was launched to keep Guild clubs informed of each other's activities, as well as encourage the sales. For over 100 years, Meccano has inspired countless engineers, designers, architects and creative minds of all ages.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Slogan (1902):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «Mechanics Made Easy. A Patent Adaptable Mechanical Toy»</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Meccano Ltd. - Spin Master Ltd.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.meccano.com/" target="_blank">https://www.meccano.com</a></span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Mechanics Made Easy, precursor to Meccano, patent</b> (January 9, 1901, accepted Nov. 30) by Frank Hornby for "Improvements in Toy or Educational Devices for Children and Young People".</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Mechanics Made Easy, crane</b> (1904). This model, similar to the example in Hornby's patent, is made with Mechanics Made Easy first outfit.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Mechanics Made Easy first outfit 1904 box - contents" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfvqDAyBNftyBsBnyn_Wka40PQV39_eU0lyPEx7SPPpanGgkJX-BQ3IWH3HGG_1PvvkSjFo4VTcJ4k1JupZyU_aksPKiRPjOaGDFAqIY7KfThis-Y6KBlEBkgAyGULEjsjYLVL_zaYLi0/s1600/FirstVersions_Meccano-1904-3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Mechanics Made Easy, first outfit</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (1904)</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Mechanics Made Easy manuals</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (left: c. 1904, right: c. 1906)</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Mechanics Made Easy, advertisement</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ("The Boy's Own Paper" weekly magazine, London, September 13, 1902). «MECHANICS MADE EASY. A Patent Adaptable Mechanical Toy, with which boys may exercise they ingenuity in constructing Cranes, Bridges, Wagons, Shafting, &c. - in fact, an endless variety of models. The metal strips being perforated with holes, equidistant, enables them to be formed into the shapes (among others) enumerated. No expense for tools. Charming occupation and toy indestructible. Price 7s. 6d., from G. Philip & Son, Ltd., 32 Fleet Street, London; Philip, Son & Nephew, South Castle Street, Liverpool; Leading Stationers, and Toy Dealers. Manufacturers: Elliot & Hornby, 18 James St., Liverpool.»</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Simplified Mechanics box 1907" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLd9TPZxtwAnUR1Di2aPdwSCYQLC3BGrfQnRTbnCteiER2l2fO6RU3XetALwa3-uiubQYesvEa80jApIL1ZAFgFWF6ZZkv1COhDxhyphenhyphenUxEu8uvVqTZ-14X3Qln587SOhEn1IeIO0jClrU/s1600/FirstVersions_Meccano-1907-Simplified-Mechanics.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"Simplified Mechanics": temporarily rebranded box before "Meccano" trademark</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (1907)</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Meccano Kindergarten Outfit 1907" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHCl4_ovZz-T_a9clq1Ap3s-vQS9paxnMMItnZlD_zw-CRzooAUT4XCifbQUQxjx20JRzGAi4ay2CfvMIdAtioOs_L_4pIURKu28NWcQFI8r6k_m5n2KXc_3mh7FyyIdWFF_HsYB7dv1I/s1600/FirstVersions_Meccano-1907.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Meccano Kindergarten Outfit, the very first outfit trademarked "Meccano"</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (late 1907). Produced for Christmas 1907 and sold until 1910, this outfit encouraged children to draw out simple models with a plastic ruler on squared paper in a drawing book before construction.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Meccano first outfit</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (1908). Nickel plated parts are introduced, and the "Mechanics Made Easy" subtitle on the box will soon be cut off.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Meccano advertisement 1909" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI9JJw7R3v_1KS_J1MjPMh2Obu3K4NgeAO154bDU7y-fibAiHvX3v_UiZkkrax3Ycuh8bGWODYwOvijMb4n-lRDNBDG51DF-f39ap7rF-hgsDR_Q9i3u-Ztcg1i_5lkXXe7-c1P_K8TWg/s1600/FirstVersions_Meccano-Ad1909.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Meccano advertisement</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ("Evening star" newspaper, Washington, D.C., Dec. 17, 1909)</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Meccano advertisement 1912" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5ywNgkcFJrxspXP6OLUIfvad-lKTBjgC6pky00Fo8DzVjm7RbI1Ua3TYOCmlVA8DHJMR-273Acrjx2j2YtmQ6YxaBX_D2A-a9M6ED3KHfvVNqFCvK20pWCSg0V-wrya7fNMCpu_CUuc/s1600/FirstVersions_Meccano-Ad1912.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Meccano advertisement</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ("The daily Gate City" newspaper, Keokuk, Iowa, Dec. 1, 1912)</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Meccano advertisements</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ("Popular Mechanics" monthly magazine, USA, Nov./Dec. 1914)</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Meccano Magazine, first issue</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (Sept. 1916, left) <b>and last</b> (Apr. 1981, right). Meccano Magazine was launched «to help Meccano Boys to have more fun than other boys» by inventor Frank Hornby (first editor), and published as bi-monthly by his company Meccano Ltd.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Frank Hornby" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitYzIPMAcmnETkKZG-xElOXgwcQiddE2oSQ31p7NII4Si5aORapyYsnHtq_eKZmGTDOEXZ2mNuChpAahvbDRaphXm84wLQGHkzmRG87WLW7LmPE-Vj5R8s8g43Et1fWf7MzLnbYYQZTJ8/s1600/FirstVersions_Frank-Hornby.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Frank Hornby</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Liverpool, May 15, 1863 - Maghull, September 21, 1936), the inventor, businessman and politician who invented Meccano toys and founded Meccano Ltd.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Meccano 100th Anniversary</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1901-2001, left), <b>and Frank Hornby 150th Anniversary</b> (1863-2013, right). In 2001 Spin Master Corp., brand owner, launched a special Anniversary Edition to commemorate 100 years from the Meccano patent. In 2013 museums, communities and enthusiasts from all over the world celebrated 150 years of the inventor (poster by Brighton Toy and Model Museum).</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-51949786719834733002018-01-15T19:05:00.000+01:002019-12-22T13:28:04.606+01:00Central Japan Railway Company<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Central Japan Railway Company logo 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_Etb_oY9mevIyvABjiFoIFX7r3UiCjnbq8-ImSi2FTZ-DLSomknqN60i9I-gIi4oRocjjfqDLo4IwMkuorCZEyVRcOt97Ki9OJvgdfuQyqpfLQ1wP-6sFEUYCCr8Hpv9qbXWn7ZcQK0/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_logo.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 1px;" /></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Names:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Central Japan Railway Company"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "JR Central" (abbrev.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "JR Tokai" (Japanese abbrev.)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Transportation</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Railroad</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Founded:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> April 1, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1987" target="_blank">1987</a></b> - Tokyo, Japan</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Founder:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Japan Railways Group (JR Group)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First president:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Hiroshi Suda (Kyoto, January 28, 1931)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Operations start:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> March 31, 1987 at 11 pm the first JR Central train left from Tokyo Station to Nagoya Station (April 1, 7.27 am)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1987, the year of its foundation, the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central, or JR Tokai in Japanese) was one of the following seven companies owned by the new Japan Railways Group.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">• Three main passenger companies:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 1) <u>Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central)</u>;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 2) West Japan Railway Company (JR West);</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 3) East Japan Railway Company (JR East).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">• Three passenger companies for the smaller islands:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 4) Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu);</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 5) Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku);</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 6) Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">• One company for freight transportation:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 7) Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Central Japan Railway Company began operating on April 1, 1987 upon the privatization and breakup of the Japanese National Railways (JNR), a state-controlled agency that maintained a near monopoly over all railway business in Japan since its inception in 1949. In 1987 the JNR had been dissolved, and in its place stood seven companies as described above.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the same year, a state agency that held all of the stock in the seven companies, the Japan National Railway Settlement Corporation (JNRSC), was also created. A year later, JR Tokai Bus Company was established, and automobile transport business was also transferred to the company.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By 2017, 30 years after its foundation, JR Central operated:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- the Tokaido Shinkansen - the world's first high-speed rail route created by Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1964, linking Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- 12 conventional lines centered on the Nagoya and Shizuoka City areas.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Central Japan Railway Company</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Official website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://jr-central.co.jp/" target="_blank">http://jr-central.co.jp</a></span></div><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Japanese National Railways end, ceremony March 31, 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXW7vMwlatbMx178Y22ZCYFjVpP8Z_rkD7Q_XU3oZ1BwG-IBq5b7oqS9teHJG5CQexARC1Q4EdT47k1PZJmJ4_oJmIkM7lH9_SUsKZjlNpcnD9il3ASUKhyphenhyphenYaItU5junWuSUYXnl4el0o/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_JNRstops2_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Japanese National Railways, president Takaya Sugiura on March 31, 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Fm520pw12RT_NybG8kNfftkaeBGH2-duZP5LPZRI4OO0X8ZrfAl8BHAwxd11Mxn-8tjhJcKIHsUA8XQKvRCtgPyPykK_ueEdRthXCbVdWXLGCYTT7nzmxZ-IllwhVPpFeyVfGrtChd8/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_Takaya-Sugiura_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Japanese National Railway stops operations</b> (Tokyo, March 31, 1987). Special free one-day tickets for all Japanese lines were issued on March 31, 1987. In a public ceremony at midnight, Takaya Sugiura - the last president of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) - rode a "C-56160" steam locomotive at Shiodome Freight Terminal in Minato, Tokyo, and blew the whistle to mark the end of the 115-year-old national railways. Locomotive "C-56160", built by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) from 1935 to 1939, and later operated by Japanese National Railways (JNR), is preserved in operating condition by JR West at Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="JR Central, celebration at Tokyo Station, April 1, 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpss97LvJW5SBzFPb4tas8JUQLSU-p11CEdij2fZQIZe4bjPai8vCiPSBjB68QNW1Pj5_BfZeDxg-vjbU-E6L9JWtUBQkoecWOP1BpYRbt5km_KZnTls347p8lErd9p0aPY5q7ZC5SMVU/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_Start-a1_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="JR Central: first train from Tokyo, April 1, 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPN9pIiZYaGS8hhD1P5BYMJl86G3vILi5Qdr_nn-LCVL2mSoYoTJfL7J5cl-tbSuxBHmLce24k0cM4Amzyz2uWSOciQQwZ5gM47NLMf1g3crbu4E4l_MMQ1Zplr47eiAXCKfFxdKSWRfk/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_Start-a2_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Central Japan Railway Company starts operations</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (Tokyo, April 1, 1987). On March 31, 1987 at 11 pm, the first JR Central train "EF 58-122" left for the maiden voyage from Tokyo Station to Nagoya Station, where it arrived the next day at 7.27 am. On a head mark, the new orange "JR" logo and "Best regards JR Tokai". Locomotive "EF 58-122" was built in 1957 by Hitachi, and cut up at Hamamatsu Works in January 2009.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="JR Central starts to operate the Tokaido Shinkansen, April 1, 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyn7AEPvGNb2_Sk0wccj6Xh2IfPgYgPF7U5eWc8P2tYt2OhtImog05YUsRM3-mSkQ2MGJmIEi4b92Vy7Ok_BexMJNj1ulfv23maUarlRUgYLHLbpSWKGLWJFwrjpGLd_OcADKGuG1f-y0/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_Start-b1_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="First bullet-train Tokaido Shinkansen operated by JR Central, April 1, 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQB389Q8tL762NddKX0DKsouyivYlugRMxNmekn631H6c_eo6EDxWxPmsvMWx7sDPkraCA2W49sHt64djIyEynZw2cFSODFH6rzOY0vamvl1sSOK2DoksOvuZQx-OmFvTtenjdKCofOw/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_Start-b2_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Central Japan Railway Company starts to operate the Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed line</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (Tokyo, April 1, 1987). A so-called "bullet train" Shinkansen 100 series left from Tokyo Station showing the new company brand at the head mark.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="JR Central commemorative medal, April 1, 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8S50hDhduCMKH73Zzw_sbql_X4T-euYoabJWV4o0RiIDZvXCY2rQ-liH8nOq54Rwa5-4Mu5n9_t_b4gYzKUiFCm6FtBHt3YVANv0XMEUUzK28SWcpFAHNXmBux9n64DNuSdPVlQR3vG4/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_Medal_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="JR Central commemorative stamp Steam Locomotive 137, April 1, 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYqzgp7oM3Skjpl8IOqEii-qqJ1Qe9VtfiBRE6lwnmkW2TOqjVcnjqHFtnOXKs33rIBINZhyyxcsCaJHWaUTVCGy5GtMwDkg3xeqrV0QPOFtEjFvLnpG_vpTEXZnJfbX_cTsDkTyQNhQ/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_Stamp1_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="JR Central commemorative stamp Maglev MLU002, April 1, 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsh6uHwpmG0ZKte69IdtUWiUXJIeasdGEXh3hV8videfZo7RBA3Jh6RWMfkk03-yqWXut2naihlGt0mdBMheZSl8PKIXcpGbxVcWYjGKxSOoNR-7UJKgLjV-neGJYkDeFNTlVdMCmB6w/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Central_Stamp2_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Japan Railway medal and postage stamps</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (April 1, 1987) issued to commemorate the establishment of the new railway business system from public corporation (JNR) to private enterprise (JR). The two depicted trains are: the first ever steam locomotive built in Japan, "No. 137" (originally "No. 221") completed in 1893 by JNR / IGR Kobe Works, and the prototype "Maglev MLU002" (Magnetic Levitation, U-shaped guideway) built in 1987 by JR Central for experimental purposes only.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="JR Group first timetable April 1987" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEBnJIADVd0bhgXMct_S-i1q3K6fkDo31uGGQvKeL-eyUfMQPiiLwqJ6WKwKrVSO0-QYI8kYmfCUJyRDwPQFdvgUPdScjCIBJh6IloAziihf3eqEFEsWgT8QLvMJ3KajbHfkfVFYe_qgo/s1600/FirstVersions_JR-Group_Timetable_1987.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Japan Railway Group, first timetable</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (April 1987)</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Central Japan Railway Company, first TV commercial</b> (June 1987). To promote the Shinkansen high-speed line, the "Cinderella Express" campaign began, targeting young people by depicting a situation in which a couple share a long-distance relationship. Title and background music: from a song by Yumi Matsutoya; actress: Misa Kawai.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Central Japan Railway Company 30th Anniversary</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (April 1, 1987-2017)</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-68357406514812118482018-01-10T20:52:00.000+01:002019-12-22T13:25:52.508+01:00The Doors<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The Doors logo" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwI15liilHXSAA5UYEFufBv_R4Ttu614vLZnEO_FB13SI427GsJwB6fsOyR1Tk4cv43adFhE4Tmy_5gUA_B1P6YLnnCXtN_PDVOf-3mRuCjBj9s3jN5KiNqSxsNovDyHcHepzm2xo6_Yc/s1600/FirstVersions_TheDoors_logo.png" style="clear: right; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 1px;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The Doors logo 1967</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from their first album</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Band:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "The Doors"</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">FIRST SIX-SONGS DEMO</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tracks:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 1) "Moonlight Drive" (2:31)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 2) "Hello, I Love You" (2:28)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 3) "Summer's Almost Gone" (2:17)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 4) "My Eyes Have Seen You" (2:01)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 5) "End of the Night" (2:59)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 6) "Insane" (2:30)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Writer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Jim Morrison</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Musicians:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Jim Morrison - <i>vocals</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Ray Manzarek - <i>piano and vocals</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- John Densmore - <i>drums</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Rick Manzarek - <i>guitar</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Jim Manzarek - <i>harmonica</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Patricia Hansen (née Sullivan) - <i>bass guitar</i></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Genre:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Psychedelic rock</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Recorded:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> September 2, 1965</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Richard Bock</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Studio:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> World Pacific Studios, 8715 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, California, USA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Format:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> One-sided acetate, 10", 33rpm.</span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The Doors, first ever six-songs demo, one-sided acetate</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (recorded September 2, 1965)</span></div></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">FIRST SINGLE</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tracks:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- A-Side: "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (2:24)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- B-Side: "End of the Night" (2:49)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Writers / Musicians:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Jim Morrison – <i>vocals</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Ray Manzarek - <i>organ, piano bass</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Robby Krieger - <i>electric guitar</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- John Densmore – <i>drums</i></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Genre:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Psychedelic rock</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Recorded:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> August 1966</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Released:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> January 1, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1967" target="_blank">1967</a></b></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Paul A. Rothchild</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Studio:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Elektra Records, 51 West 51 Street, New York City, USA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Label:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Elektra Records</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Format:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Vinyl, 7", 45rpm.</span></div><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><video controls controlsList="nodownload" onContextMenu="return false;" preload="auto" width="100%"><source src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dzdid9tkyd43lrt/TheDoors-Break.mp4?raw=1"></source></video></div></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">FIRST ALBUM</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Title:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The Doors"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A-Side Tracks:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 1) "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (2:25)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 2) "Soul Kitchen" (3:30)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 3) "The Crystal Ship" (2:30)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 4) "Twentieth Century Fox" (2:30)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 5) "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (3:15)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 6) "Light My Fire" (6:30)</span><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">B-Side Tracks:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 7) "Back Door Man" (3:30)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 8) "I Looked at You" (2:18)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 9) "End of the Night" (2:49)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 10) "Take It as It Comes" (2:13)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- 11) "The End" (11:35)</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Writers:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All tracks written by The Doors (Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore), except No.5 "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, and No.7 "Back Door Man" by Willie Dixon and Chester Burnett.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Musicians:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Jim Morrison – <i>lead vocals</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Ray Manzarek - <i>organ, piano, keyboard bass, marxophone, backing vocals</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Robby Krieger - <i>lead guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- John Densmore – <i>drums, percussion, backing vocals</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Larry Knechtel (uncredited) - <i>bass guitar</i></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Genre:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Psychedelic rock</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Recorded:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> August 1966</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Released:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">January 4, 1967</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Paul A. Rothchild</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Studio:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Sunset Sound Recorders, 6650 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California, USA</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Label:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Elektra Records</span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The Doors, their Sunset Strip billboard</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (January 1967)</span></div></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Overview:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Doors was formed in the summer of 1965. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In July, two fellow graduates at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek, met in Venice Beach, California, and decided to try playing together. Jim sang his "Moonlight Drive", and Ray - who played the keyboard in a band called "Rick & the Ravens" with his brothers Rick and Jim - began to accompany him. They called the band "The Doors", from the title of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception", itself derived from a line in William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell": «If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite».</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In August, Ray invited John Densmore - who was playing with the "Psychedelic Rangers" and knew Manzarek from meditation classes - to join the band as drummer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On September 2, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore, with Ray's brothers Rick (guitar) and Jim (harmonica), and Patty Sullivan (bass guitar) from the band "Patty And The Esquires", recorded their first six-songs demo at World Pacific Studios in Los Angeles. In late September, after Manzarek's two brothers left, the group recruited another member of the "Psychedelic Rangers", guitarist Robby Krieger: the lineup – Morrison, Manzarek, Densmore and Krieger – was complete.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the end of 1965, The Doors began auditioning in various small clubs, and in early 1966 the group was playing the Los Angeles club "London Fog". From May to August 1966 they graduated to the more esteemed "Whisky a Go Go", where they were the house band.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On August 18, after Elektra Records president Jac Holzman and producer Paul A. Rothchild saw two sets of the band playing at the Whisky a Go Go, they signed them to the label. In less than one month, The Doors recorded their first album at Sunset Sound Recording Studios in Hollywood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On January 1, the first single containing "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" on A-side, and "End of the Night" on B-side, was released, accompanied by a promo clip made by Elextra Records producer Mark Abramson, and their first live television appearance lip-synching the song "Break on Through", aired on Shebang, KTLA-TV Channel 5, Los Angeles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On January 4, The Doors' self-titled first album was released. A billboard with the album cover was put up at 8171 Sunset Blvd.: it was the first billboard on the Sunset Strip to advertise a rock band.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quote (Jim Morrison):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «We didn't start out with such big ideas. We thought we were going to be just another pop group, but then something happened when we recorded "The End". We saw that what we were doing was more important than just a hit song. We were writing serious music and performing it in a very dramatic way. The End is like going to see a movie when you already know the plot. It's a timeless piece of material... It was then that we realized we were different from other groups. We were playing music that would last for years, not weeks».</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Elektra Records - The Doors Property, LCC</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Official website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.thedoors.com/" target="_blank">https://www.thedoors.com</a></span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The Doors at "Whisky a Go Go" club</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (1966). From left: <u>Robby Krieger</u> (Los Angeles, Jan. 8, 1946), <u>John Densmore</u> (Los Angeles, Dec. 1, 1944), <u>Jim Morrison</u> (Melbourne, Dec. 8, 1943 - Paris, July 3, 1971) and <u>Ray Manzarek</u> (Chicago, Feb. 12, 1939 - Rosenheim, May 20, 2013).</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Cendrillon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1899) film title frame</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Title:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Cendrillon" (Cinderella)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Movies</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Fantasy</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Director/Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Georges Méliès</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Based on:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Cendrillon" by Charles Perrault (1697)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Starring:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Mlle Barral (Cinderella)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Bleuette Bernon (Fairy Godmother)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Carmelli (Prince)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Jehanne d'Alcy (Prince's mother, Queen)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Depeyrou (a party guest)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Georges Méliès (the genie of the midnight clock)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Georges Méliès</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Paris, December 8, 1861</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- January 21, 1938,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cendrillon (Cinderella)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production company:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Star-Film</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Distributors:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Star-Film, Pathé Frères (France) - American Mutoscope & Biograph, Edison Manufacturing Company, S. Lubin (USA)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Released:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">October <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1899" target="_blank">1899</a></b> (France) - December 25, 1899 (USA)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Running time:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 6 min.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Color:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Black and White, partially hand-colored</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Language:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Silent</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Summary plot:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The film illustrates the essence of the classic fairy tale Cinderella in the version of Charles Perrault (1697). A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets the Prince - but will she remember to leave before the magic runs out?</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-47736358800716413372017-06-25T06:37:00.003+02:002021-10-12T07:43:32.416+02:00Moto Guzzi: 1st model ever<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prototype name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "G.P. 500"</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First model name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Normale"</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Motorcycles</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prototype designers:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Carlo Guzzi and his brother Giuseppe</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First model developers:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carlo Guzzi with his brother Giuseppe, and Giorgio Parodi with his cousin Angelo</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moto Guzzi (founded on March 15, 1921 as "Società Anonima Moto Guzzi" in Genoa, Italy, by Emanuele Vittorio Parodi, his son Giorgio Parodi, and Carlo Guzzi)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prototype made in:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1919/20</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1921" target="_blank">1921</a></b> - Mandello Tonzanico (now Mandello del Lario), Lecco, Italy</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Discontinued:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1924</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First price:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8,500 ITL</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prototype features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Horizontal four-strokes 500 cc. single-cyclinder engine characterized the first Moto Guzzi motorcycles, since the 1919/20 "G.P." ("Guzzi-Parodi") prototype. Seeking to eliminate hand-pumped lubrication systems and exposed primary drive chains, Guzzi cast the engine in aluminium as a unit with the three-speed gearbox. Its helical-gear primary drive and considerably oversquare engine dimensions (88 x 82 mm. bore and stroke) deviated from what was normal for the period. Laying the engine horizontal in the frame aided engine cooling, which also allowed for a low-slung chassis, while the geared primary drive saw the engine rotate in the reverse direction, another unused feature at the time. To smooth out vibration and enable a more compact crankcase unit, a large (280 mm.) flywheel was mounted externally. The lubrication system was exceptionally advanced, with an oil pump driven from the camshaft; this supplied oil to an external tank that was mounted in the air stream. The cyclinder head design employed aeronautical engineering techniques, with four parallel overhead valves operated by an overhead camshaft and driven by a shaft and bevel gears. Compression was a modest 3.5 : 1 and, with 12 horsepower, the prototype was capable of 62 miles per hour. The chassis had a tubular frame with twin front downtubes, an unsprung rear bolted triangle, and a girder fork and dual springs at the front.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First model features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name: Moto Guzzi "Normale". Engine Type: four-stroke horizontal single. Bore/stroke: 88 x 82 mm. Displacement: 498.4 cc. Power: 8 HP at 3,200 RPM to 8.5 HP at 3,400 RPM. Compression ratio 4.0 : 1. Valves: Side inlet, overhead exhaust. Carburetion system: Amac 15 PSY 1 in. Gears: Hand-change 3-speed. Ignition: Bosch ZE 1 shielded magneto. Frame: Tubular duplex cradle. Front suspension: Girder fork. Rear suspension: Rigid. Wheels: 26 x 2¼. Tires: 26 x 3.00. Brakes: Expansion rear wheel. Wheelbase: 1,380 mm. Dry weight: 130 Kg. Top speed: 85 Km/h. Production: 2,065.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The "Moto Guzzi Società Anonima" was established in Genoa, Italy, on March 15, 1921, with its headquarters in Mandello Tonzanico (now Mandello del Lario), Lecco. The three founders were: shipowner Emanuele Vittorio Parodi, his son Giorgio, and Carlo Guzzi, a former comrade in the Italian airforce. The emblem, a spread-winged eagle, was chosen in memory of their friend Giovanni Ravelli, a pilot who died on August 11, 1919 during a test flight. Carlo Guzzi's first horizontal four-strokes 500 cc. single-cyclinder engine estabilished a unique formula that immediately characterized Moto Guzzi motorcycles. The prototype, developed by Carlo and his older brother Giuseppe in 1919/20, was called the "G.P.", for "Guzzi-Parodi". The G.P. soon evolved into the production "Normale", which was announced in the December 1920 issue of "Motociclismo" magazine. The Normale appeared early the following year. While the G.P. had been a pure expression of Carlo Guzzi's engineering, economic necessity saw the Normale incorporating several updates, including the replacement of the exotic four-valve cylinder head and bevel-gear-driven overhead camshaft. With the appearance of the Normale, the company was estabilished, with the senior Parodi served as president. In addition to Carlo Guzzi and Giorgio Parodi, two other engineers were also involved: Carlo's Brother Giuseppe and Giorgio's cousin Angelo. While the total production of 1921 was a modest seventeen motorcycles, it was the beginning for one of the greatest italian motorcycles marque, and also one of the longest lived.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Property:</span> Moto Guzzi S.p.A. - Piaggio & C. S.p.A.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.motoguzzi.com/" target="_blank">https://www.motoguzzi.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Moto Guzzi G.P. 500 prototype, announcement</b> ("Motociclismo" magazine, Dec. 15, 1920)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Moto Guzzi Normale, the first Moto Guzzi motorcycle</b> (1921)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Moto Guzzi founders.</b> Left: <u>Emanuele Vittorio Parodi</u> (Genoa, ? - April 13, 1945), entrepreneur. Center: his son <u>Giorgio Parodi</u> (Venice, 1897 - Genoa, August 18, 1955), aviator. Right: <u>Carlo Guzzi</u> (Milan, November 4, 1889 - Davos, November 3, 1964), designer.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Winston"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Tobacco</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Cigarettes</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (founded by Richard Joshua Reynolds in 1875)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1954" target="_blank">1954</a></b> - Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Overview:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Winston cigarette was introduced in 1954 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the same manufacturer that launched the well known <a href="http://www.firstversions.com/2015/07/camel.html" target="_blank"><u>Camel</u></a> cigarettes in 1913, and quickly became one of the top selling cigarette brands. The brand was named after its productions region Winston–Salem, North Carolina, USA. Winston cigarettes were first introduced in the New England area in March; shortly thereafter they were offered in the New York metropolitan market and gradually the distribution was extended to the other parts of the country. The famous advertising slogan for this brand was "Winston tastes good - like a cigarette should!": it was a long lasting slogan that showed up in newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV advertisements for Winston cigarettes from the brand's launch in 1954 until 1972.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Slogan (1954):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «Winston tastes good - like a cigarette should!»</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Property:</span> R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company - ITG Brands LLC - Japan Tobacco Inc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Product website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://winstoncigarettes.com/" target="_blank">https://winstoncigarettes.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Wikipedia"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Internet</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Online encyclopedias</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Registered:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- January 12, 2001 (wikipedia.com)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- January 13, 2001 (wikipedia.org)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Official release:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">January 15, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/2001" target="_blank">2001</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jimmy Wales</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Larry Sanger</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Programming languages:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia with the aim to allow anyone to edit articles. The name "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau of "wiki" (software that provides collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser) and "encyclopedia". Wikipedia was initially conceived as a feeder project for the Nupedia, a free online encyclopedia born ten months earlier.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The idea of creating a publicly editable encyclopedia without an editorial process (unlike Nupedia), combined with the new strategy of using the wiki platform, was the key to its success. In January 2001 Wikipedia was launched as a single English-language, and its early contributors came from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and web search engine indexing. Early in Wikipedia's development, it began to expand internationally, with the creation of new namespaces, each with a distinct set of usernames. The first subdomain created for a non-English Wikipedia was "deutsche.wikipedia.com" (March 16, 2001). By the end of 2001, Wikipedia had grown to approximately 20,000 articles and 18 language editions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In 1996, American internet entrepreneurs Jimmy Wales (later Wikipedia's co-founder), Tim Shell, and Michael Davis founded Bomis, a web-advertising portal. In 2000 Jimmy Wales hired Larry Sanger (later second Wikipedia's founder), a graduate philosophy student, to help him develop the first project about a free online encyclopedia built by volunteers: Nupedia went online in March of that year, supported by Bomis' resources. Nupedia was characterized by an extensive peer-review process, designed to make its articles of a quality comparable to that of professional encyclopedias; so Wales and Sanger discussed various ways to create content more rapidly. A computer programmer named Ben Kovitz suggest Sanger to introduce the so-called "wiki" platform, a software that allows publishers to contribute simultaneously and incrementally. In five days: this new project was proposed on the Nupedia mailing list, Sanger gave it a name, domain names ".com" and ".org" were registered, and on Monday 15 January 2001 Wikipedia was formally announced. Two days later an appeal for volunteers to engage in content creation was made by Sanger to the Nupedia mailing list, and the project began to receive its first participants.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Slogan (2001):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «The Free Encyclopedia"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Property:</span> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank">https://www.wikipedia.org</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Wikipedia, first announcement on the home page of its predecessor Nupedia</b> (January 17, 2001). «Finally, we'd like to announce a fun project loosely associated with Nupedia, Wikipedia. Have a look and write a paragraph or two!» Nupedia, launched on March 9, 2000, had a seven-step approval process to control content of articles before being posted, rather than live wiki-based updating, and authors were expected to have expert knowledge. Before it ceased operating (September 26, 2003), only 25 articles were approved and published.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Wikipedia, announcement by co-founder Larry Sanger on Nupedia mailing list</b> (January 17, 2001): «Wikipedia is up! http://www.wikipedia.com Humor me. Go there and add a little article. It will take all of five or ten minutes. --Larry».</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Wikipedia, first home page </b>(screenshot March 31, 2001). Eleven weeks after launch, the introduction reads: «Welcome to Wikipedia! We're writing a complete encyclopedia from scratch, collaboratively. We started work in January 2001. We've got over 3,000 pages already. We want to make over 100,000. So, let's get to work! Write a little (or a lot) about you know!»</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Wikipedia, first two logos </b>(2001, left January, right December). Wikipedia's <u>first logo</u> was an image that was originally submitted by Bjørn Smestad for a Nupedia logo competition which took place in 2000. The logo included a quote from the preface of "Euclid and his Modern Rivals" by Lewis Carroll. The <u>second logo</u> was chosen in the first Wikipedia logo contest, which took place from November to December 2001, from a list of 24 leading candidates: the winner was an image contributed by user The Cunctator, which included a quote from Thomas Hobbes's "Leviathan", Part I, Chapter VI. This second logo was adopted from December 12, 2001 to September 26, 2003, when the English Wikipedia switched to Paul Stansifer's contest-winning "puzzle ball" logo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Wikipedia, header with new logo</b> (December 12, 2001 - «over 18,000 articles»)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Wikipedia founders: Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales </b>(Huntsville, August 7, 1966)<b> and Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger </b>(Bellevue, July 16, 1968)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "IKEA"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Home - Office - School</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Furniture, home accessories</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Founder:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ingvar Kamprad</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Founded: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">July 12, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1943" target="_blank">1943</a></b> - Älmhult, Sweden</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First opening:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oct. 28, 1958 - Älmhult, Sweden</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Originally, IKEA sold mail-order products such as pens, wallets, picture frames, table runners, watches, jewellery and nylon stockings. Furniture was introduced in 1948, IKEA design in 1955, and the first store opened in 1958.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The company's name is an acronym that consists of the initials of <u>I</u>ngvar <u>K</u>amprad (its founder), <u>E</u>lmtaryd (the farm where he grew up), and <u>A</u>gunnaryd (his hometown in Småland, southern Sweden). The first commercial business started in 1943 as a mail-order business selling pencils, postcards, and other merchandise. In 1948 furniture is introduced in the IKEA business as a complement to the general merchandise. This is a success, and Ingvar Kamprad starts exploring innovative solutions such as furniture design, self-assembly and advertising. In 1951 the first annual IKEA furniture catalog is published in Sweden, and two years later a showroom opens in Älmhult. In 1955 the IKEA business starts designing its own furniture. Over time, flat packaging and self-assembly become part of the concept. On October 28, 1958 the first IKEA store opens in Älmhult, Sweden. In the 1960s the international expansion of the IKEA business begins, with stablishments of small start-up stores in Norway and in Denmark.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Quote (Ingvar Kamprad):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes»</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Property:</span> IKEA - Inter IKEA Systems B.V.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Official website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.ikea.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ikea.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>IKEA, the very first catalog: "Ikéa-Nytt"</b> / IKEA News (1948-49)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Ingvar Feodor Kamprad</b> (Ljungby, March 30, 1926 - Småland, January 27, 2018), the Swedish entrepreneur who founded IKEA, in front of the world's first IKEA store opened in Älmhult 1958.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>IKEA Museum:</b> opened in June 2016, it is located in the original building that housed the first IKEA store, which opened in 1958 and closed in 2012 when the new store opened in Älmhult.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Maybelline"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Categories:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Beauty, Fashion</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Mascara</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inventor:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Thomas Lyle Williams</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maybell Laboratories (founded by Thomas Lyle Williams in Chicago, Illinois, in 1915 - renamed Maybelline in 1923)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1917" target="_blank">1917</a></b> - Chicago, Illinois, USA</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First price:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">75 cents</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The exact composition of the early Maybelline cake mascara is unknown, but it was most likely a sodium stearate cake mascara. Maybelline came in two shades, black (containing lamp black) and brown (containing iron oxides). The box included a rectangular cake of product stamped with the name Maybelline, a small bristle brush and a mirror attached to the inside of the lid. The product was applied by first wetting the cake, then using a small brush to lift and apply the colour to the eyebrows and eyelashes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thomas Lyle Williams, a young entrepreneur from Chicago, noticed his older sister Mabel applying a mixture of Vaseline, ash and coal dust to her eyebrows to enhance her eyes. Inspired by the potential of her homespun solution, Thomas used a chemistry set to make a better one, but his first attempt was unsuccessful. So he commissioned Park-Davis, a wholesale drug manufacturing company, to make a suitable product for sale. This first product was named "Lash-Brow-Ine". In 1915 Thomas Williams founded Maybell Laboratories - so named after his sister Mabel, and began to advertise and sell his invention as a mail-order product. In 1917, with the assistance of Park-Davis, he began production and sale of a cake eyelash and eyebrow beautifier: this new product was named "Maybelline". After losing a trademark dispute in 1920, Williams could no longer use the name Lash-Brow-Ine, and Maybelline took its place. In the 1920s promotion play an important role in the success of the company, with a lot of advertising featured famous actresses such as Phyllis Haver, Ethel Clayton, Viola Dana, Ruth Roland and Natalie Moorhead. In the same years, the company expands beyond Maybelline cake mascara by adding a waterproof liquid version (1925), eyebrow pencils and eye shadow (1929). In 1996 the company was acquired by <a href="http://www.firstversions.com/2016/07/loreal-hair-dyes.html" target="_blank"><u>L'Oreal</u></a>, and in 2001 became "Maybelline New York".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Quote (Thomas Lyle Williams):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «What if I told you every woman could have a bit of that beauty in her own life? Is that so wrong?»</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Property:</span> Maybelline Co. - Maybelline New York - L'Oréal</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Product website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.maybelline.com/" target="_blank">http://www.maybelline.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Maybelline, first packaging and first advertisement for "Lash-Brow-Ine",</b> Maybell Laboratories' first product and precursor to Maybelline mascara (ad. from The Green Book Magazine, Chicago, Illinois, December 1915).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Maybelline cake mascara 10-cent box 1932 - inside" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPqJ6wpIytvPQbUyr2xOqZiDQrhrwcI3BsOJxEvPaZ3dB0FzSQdpxwPl4qYQlTSbYrkEx1xsRyBACkCvvd7bJ1F0Nham18dPP0vo2TfTto5a-YzNwTmuJo2Cxk9n8QjIRFhsh3yDklsBM/s1600/FirstVersions_Maybelline_mascara1932-B.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Maybelline, cake mascara 10-cent box</b> (1932). During the Great Depression, Maybelline introduced a special smaller version of the original 75-cent box of cake mascara.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Maybelline, advertisement and packaging for cake mascara «in the new, ultrasmart gold and scarlet metal case»</b> (ad. from Photoplay Magazine, New York City, April 1934).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Thomas Lyle Williams" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmDLZAZo8IZ-fvMh3bHwMuTJrcd3YlX-2i3L2hUq2w92xB7rM3t3Nh5Shzc15ehBgag75oockR_hamAO-dLQzdsDrM6ARjFnof78NHMm286BVI454QyO_pe_BR1zrXFl_WtR1ftQUBam0/s1600/FirstVersions_Thomas-Lyle-Williams.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Thomas Lyle Williams</b> (Morganfield, 1896 - Los Angeles, Sept. 26, 1976), inventor of Maybelline mascara and founder of Maybelline Laboratories.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Heineken"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Drink</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Beer</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Heineken's Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij NV (founded by Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam on February 15, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1864" target="_blank">1864</a></b>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">1873 - </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Amsterdam, Holland</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Original recipe:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since its origins, Heineken beer is brewed in a natural brewing process, with no additives. It contains water, barley malt, hops and the unique Heineken A-yeast for the fermentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Amsterdam, Sept. 28, 1841</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- March 18, 1893,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">founder of Heineken & Co.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> On February 15, 1864, Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought De Hooiberg (The Haystack), an old brewery and well-known Amsterdam establishment dating from 1592.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1869 Gerard Heineken decided to switch from traditional top fermentation to the Bavarian method of bottom fermentation, a totally different technique that produces a clearer, purer beer, which keeps longer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On January 11, 1873, Heineken's Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij NV (HBM) was established, and Gerard Heineken was appointed President.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A second brewery was opened in Rotterdam in 1874.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1886 Dr. Hartog Elion, a pupil of the French chemist Louis Pasteur, developed the "A-yeast" in the Heineken laboratory. This yeast is still the key ingredient of Heineken beer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Quote (Gerard Heineken):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «A good product is recommended by its use alone»</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Property:</span> Heineken N.V.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Product website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.heineken.com/" target="_blank">http://www.heineken.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Heineken brewery in Amsterdam, 1867" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfPR0ApMMGqfgeHq7b2N0Cm1AMMs5eidRg6do54jXEUIV0AXuc8PP_kyK8si5zP7KQBhdMEv7Dxs5iDXoKmZW1ZM-hAoVRJ7NkWkFXnywYdrR9sH28zyqnchTdFg1oMRYP8pnGi074Wqw/s1600/FirstVersions_Heineken_Brewery-1867.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Heineken labels 1870s" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRPGppINEnLcM3gj-gli4o1uAQ85064u115DotwKNjDQ06Pk4doUVbWoRgpCLjogSbHmH9MOaSovdsxjskxguvN2rJe8InpaTrUxcjCACHqDbH2fAV1jjZa77HfAhlsMsK8cliTDgOvE/s1600/FirstVersions_Heineken_labels-1870s.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Heineken, advertisement for De Hooiberg (The Haystack), by C. Greive</b> (ca. 1870)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Heineken, early labels with the distinctive five point star and green color.</b> Over the years, the names of prizes won by Heineken have been added to the label: a gold medal at the International Exposition in Paris in 1875, the "Diplome d'Honneur" in Amsterdam in 1883, followed by the "Grand Prix" at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Heineken, two horse-drawn drays and one of the first lorries</b> (ca. 1900)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Heineken, price list from Die Port van Cleve Hotel</b> (early 1900s)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Heineken celebrates its 150th Anniversary</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1864-2014). To commemorate 150 years of Heineken's existence, in 2014 three of the brewery's landmark historical buildings were reproduced in handmade ceramic miniatures, as a gift for all employees of Heineken worldwide.</span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-59655210019255239742017-04-04T06:52:00.000+02:002018-02-04T16:28:39.369+01:00Swatch (watches)<hr color="#e6e6e6" />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by M. Schmid and B. Müller</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Swatch"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Categories:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Electronics, Fashion</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Watches</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Developers:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Elmar Mock and Jacques Müller, under supervision of Ernst Thomke</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producers:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse (founded in Grenchen, Switzerland, 1793)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Ébauches SA (founded in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1926)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Swatch Ltd. (founded by Nicolas G. Hayek in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 1983)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prototypes made: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since 1980</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">October 1982 (Dallas, Texas, USA - first 10,000 pieces)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- March 1, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1983" target="_blank">1983</a></b> (official debut in Zurich, Switzerland)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First price:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> CHF 39.90 to 49.90</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> In the late 1970s, the Swiss watch industry was in deep crisis. The country's centuries-old traditional approach seemed doomed to disappear in the face of competition from cheap, mass-produced quartz watches. A radical approach was needed, and the drive to simplify was soon complemented by a search for innovative materials and methods that would allow the production of an entirely new kind of Swiss watch. A small team of visionaries, working in secret, got a solution. ETA SA engineers Elmar Mock and Jacques Müller, under the direction of the then ETA SA's CEO Dr. Ernst Thomke started with a one-piece case made of plastic, the bottom of which also served as the bottom plate for the movement; they also have managed to decrease the number of assembled parts from about 100 (as done by Japanese competitors) to a mere 51 - operation known as "Revolution 51" -, hence further reducing the manufacturing costs. Working in sinergy with the engineers, designers Marlyse Schmid and Bernard Müller represented the creative heart of the team: they designed the final version of the casing - the shape and the two additional bridges for stabilizing the mount of the strap, which is one of the main characteristics of Swatch watches; they have designed almost all dials from 1981 prototypes up to 1986 market models, integrating in a very intelligent way the fluctuations in style and changes in color preferences through the years. Even the Swatch logo, which is one of the easiest recognizable logos, has been created by them. The overall result was a youthful watch which combined the highest Swiss quality with a new, trail-blazing attitude: Swatch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The name "Swatch", initially conceived by marketing consultant Franz Sprecher as a contraction of "Swiss Watch", was also intended as a contraction of "Second Watch", meaning a low-cost, high-tech, artistic and emotional watch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Slogan (1982):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «The Swiss watch that knows life should be an adventure»</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Swatch Ltd.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.swatch.com/" target="_blank">http://www.swatch.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Swatch watches, sketch of an early prototype named "Vulgaris"</b> (by Elmar Mock and Jacques Müller, March 27, 1980)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Swatch logo 1981" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyau06XJR0xxeuOprmUlxhI1VBpUVs0A1BMPfN0oghenuXR5PCNpMebhoj7hgkB-Ji8Vv1djEYUEfPb5AhwwGb5BuZ6PDjYT2CRxNLtzTO-I0vA6b9sru141-fnNcfRaAxDlklZ703OUw/s1600/FirstVersions_Swatch_logo-study-1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Swatch watches, logo study</b> (bottom right the final version - by Marlyse Schmid and Bernard Müller, 1981/82)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Early Swatch prototype assembling phases" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX1iasoIa2h7AERDAUjspy_Vgo6Fl-FXc0wzZZi-goeesp4Vr-wBd3NbhMlBjeIMmgYa7ScFsdYc5MMagXK4pT03fPs963xY6s4sERks9GUu7vEGE6ycoaML4B4eeBD381MK9JCZAsG6A/s1600/FirstVersions_Swatch_prototype4.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Swatch watches, first model launched to test market in USA</b> (October 1982). 10,000 handmade pieces were product and distributed in Dallas, Texas. The introduction to the market was a flop; but soon these watches, handled as Fashion accessories, with new collections, fancy colors, crazy dial, and strap designs became a huge bestseller.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Swatch watches, "The Original Jelly Fish"</b> (ref. GK100 SP, early 1983). Designed by Marlyse Schmid, the first transparent watch was launched in a limited edition of 200 pieces. This was the first "Special Model" introduced by Swatch.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Elmar Mock</b> (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1954) <b>and Jacques Müller</b> (Porrentruy, 1947), the engineers who created the Swatch watch under the direction of Ernst Thomke, then CEO of ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Marlyse Schmid</b> (La Forclaz, 1946) <b>and Bernard Müller</b> (Reconvilier, 1953), the designers who developed the Swatch iconic design. If Elmar Mock and Jacques Müller represent the inventors of Swatch, Marlyse Schmid and Bernhard Müller gave it an identity.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Swatch celebrates its 30th anniversary</b> (1983-2013) with a special release: "Est. 1983" model, which features a skeletonized see-thru case with gold years instead of hours.</span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-3121524495947952652017-02-02T23:11:00.002+01:002020-03-24T11:14:07.456+01:00Astérix (comics)<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Strip title:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Astérix le Gaulois"</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Comics</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Genres:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Adventure, Comedy, Satire</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Authors:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- René Goscinny <i>(writer)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- Albert Uderzo <i>(illustrator)</i></span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Country of origin:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> France</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First format:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Strip on French weekly comic magazine "Pilote"</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teaser issue: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Early October 1959 - Pilote No. 0 / page 20 of 32</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First issue: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">October 29, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1959">1959</a></b> - Pilote No. 1 / page 20 of 32 (serial)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First editor: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Société d'Edition Pilote - Paris, France</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Background: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">«We are in 50 BC. All Gaul is occupied by the Romans. All? No! Because a village populated by irreducible Gauls still resists the invader. And life is not easy for the garrisons of Roman legionaries of the entrenched camps of Babaorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Petibonum...» (from the map of Gaul legend opening the Astérix volumes). This Gallic village resists the invader thanks to a magic potion prepared by the druid Panoramix (eng. Getafix), which temporarily gives superhuman strength to who drinks.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Main characters (in order of appearance):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Astérix (eng. Asterix)</u>, first appearance in the story "Astérix le Gaulois", Pilote magazine No. 1, October 29, 1959. Astérix is the titular hero of the series, a generously-mustachioed Gaul warrior born in 85 BC. Small and thin, frail, Asterix is physically far from the stereotypes of the comics hero. Its distinctive dress consists of a black top, red trousers, a sword worn on the side and a helmet adorned with two pens that, according to their direction, reveal his mood. His name derived from "astérisque", meaning "asterisk", from the Greek word meaning "star", as the star of the series.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Obélix (eng. Obelix)</u>, first appearance (along with Astérix) in the story "Astérix le Gaulois", Pilote magazine No. 1, October 29, 1959. Obélix is Asterix's closest friend and works as a menhir sculptor and delivery man. He is a tall, obese and ravenous, with a phenomenal strength acquired when he fell into Panoramix's magic potion cauldron as a boy. He wears trousers vertical white and blue stripes, stripped to the waist. His name derived from "obelisk", a massive monument, or the typographical symbol sometimes used to indicate a second footnote if the first footnote is indicated by an asterisk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Jules César (eng. Julius Caesar)</u>, first appearance (as well as Astérix and Obélix) in the story "Astérix le Gaulois", Pilote magazine No. 1, October 29, 1959. The character of Julius Caesar is a consistent but satirical representation of the historical figure of the same name former Roman consul, conqueror of Gaul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Panoramix (eng. Getafix)</u>, first appearance in the story "Astérix le Gaulois", Pilote magazine No. 3, November 12, 1959. Panoramix is the village druid: tall with a white beard, he is the only one to possess the recipe of the magic potion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Abraracourcix (eng. Vitalstatistix)</u>, first appearance in the story "Astérix le Gaulois", Pilote No. 6, December 3, 1959. Abraracourcix is the chief of the "village des fous" (fools' village). He is a middle-aged, bigbellied man with red hair, pigtails and a huge moustache.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Assurancetourix (eng. Cacofonix)</u>, first appearance in the story "Astérix le Gaulois", Pilote No. 6, December 3, 1959. Assurancetourix is the village bard. He loves singing and playing musical instruments like lyre, bagpipes, drum and a Celtic trumpet... but his performances are unbearable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- <u>Idéfix (eng. Dogmatix)</u>, first appearance in the story "Le Tour de Gaule d'Astérix", Pilote magazine No. 179, March 28, 1963. Idéfix is Obelix's pet dog, a small white dog of unknown breed, accidentally met for the first time in this story.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The duo René Goscinny (author) - Albert Uderzo (illustrator) formed in the early 1950s and quickly led many projects together. In 1959, the advertiser François Clauteaux decided to create a new magazine for children, funded by Radio Luxembourg and titled "Pilote". There were only three months until the trial edition of Pilote was due out, and the two authors were really under pressure: they had to create a completely original comic strip series based on French culture. Finally, they decided on the period of the Gauls. Within a few hours, they created the Gallic village and its inhabitants. René Goscinny imagines a wily character in the small form, taking the opposite of the usual comics hero; Uderzo adds a strong but dim companion to which Goscinny agreed. Astérix and Obélix are born. In early October 1959, the strip was tested in the teaser issue Pilote No. 0, around 200 copies printed. Astérix and Obélix made their first official appearance on October 29, 1959 in Pilote No. 1: around 300,000 copies, immediately sold out. The first story, "Astérix le Gaulois", was published weekly in Pilote magazine from No. 1 until No. 38 (July 14, 1960), with a rate of one/two pages per week. In 1961, the entire story was collected in the volume "Astérix le Gaulois", first of a series titled "Collection Pilote", by editor Dargaud.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The launch of Pilote magazine was a success, as well as the adventures of </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Astérix</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">; despite this, in 1960 the financial backing for the magazine ceased, and Pilote was taken over by publisher Georges Dargaud, for a symbolic franc. When Goscinny died in 1977, Uderzo continued the series alone, until September 2011, when he retired from drawing.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Introduction (translated from the first strip):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «Astérix mischievously embodies all the virtues of 'our ancestors the Gauls'. The humor of René Goscinny and Uderzo will make you love this little mustached warrior, new character in comics».</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Property:</span> Dargaud - Hachette - Les éditions Albert René / Goscinny-Uderzo</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Reference website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.asterix.com/" target="_blank">http://www.asterix.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Pilote magazine No. 0 / October 1959" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjERHKj4QNUVZTzapPMQmZRY3-TaWZ4wL9Yll5EF5mhEM_JI9MThrUfLiW0BMcGP3jepJX4rZXB_zCYhZzzUUfib8sYi4gB16HSQLijPfw4J5pSJhiYXiMrR01KLWpSRbesra-lSydgUU8/s1600/FirstVersions_Asterix_Pilote0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Astérix le Gaulois, the first strip was tested in Pilote magazine No. 0</b> (early October 1959, around 200 copies). Apart from a reference to the Astérix strip (bottom right), the cover shows a photo of a large group of collaborators, but most were just friends of the authors, in front row: writer René Goscinny (4th from left, with jacket in hand) and illustrator Albert Uderzo (6th).</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Pilote magazine No. 0 / October 1959 - detail" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3dj37bbNo0DPUUZmO3eUJTqTZUbtToD2wYBnZTGWUKsD7jo09K_nHgjY1txUIMxVOFnrCDmJoLCba5txAHCG56Ittz2mDE6J8AwaZdpxldtsZI_O9fOZXYwtNJQUwmXoOvXowrfr5lv4/s1600/FirstVersions_Asterix_Pilote0-zoom.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Pilote magazine No. 1 / October 29, 1959" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtAu5hSD3WeAj1_z2ZonyCYkY6vPG70hOfE0zMfPgoJRTu8-gsdIsVzCKmTOQFmI636GCFeYeK5tbDQBFMV_YXwv09dMrSCd8-W0QzXUgnZBqsRhy5ncWTFKp1GbvXtkT96-7XAHrags/s1600/FirstVersions_Asterix_Pilote1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Astérix le Gaulois, the first strip made its debut in Pilote magazine No. 1</b> (October 29, 1959, around 300,000 copies, immediately sold out).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Astérix le Gaulois, the first strip</b> (October 29, 1959). Promoted through Pilote magazine No. 0 in early October 1959, the first story was launched as serial in Pilote No. 1.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Astérix and Obélix, first ever appearance" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM98IXaGlE_O9P4tFDi1m_s5paKw-GHLwVnnowsQE1v0tiU5CrhSxhRqK-qC3WKcy9ec1ICiEYWJKU8dM5ruYgKQlhypNR_Vyqrmc8tGi1cRzi88z5Pkl9-TZraqNMm85FvxKs0FdJniE/s1600/FirstVersions_Asterix_First-strip-1959-zoom.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Astérix characters in their first appearances" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIMfwMAsoHFEaVS_K5YLejYhn05DCpB0WELk98Z5RijNxTvob0O4NPnNRjy29BIN9H0kGHXKcD49GjvAb7dDgKd7GPSVX_hS7qV0ntz4EXVRTYyMu1TR2p9q9kOEWaNFVfkPdUIz3cXQ/s1600/FirstVersions_Asterix_characters.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Astérix, characters in their first appearances.</b> Jules César (Julius Caesar), Panoramix (Getafix the druid), Abraracourcix (Vitalstatistix the chief), Assurancetourix (Cacofonix the bard), and Idéfix (Dogmatix the dog).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Astérix, first full cover in Pilote magazine" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI_S8emyU_hoz6mdCwLjJTan7-W3gFy-QT-ukTEwmqh16xG9cpL5Bcxz9P5JNNpNNzJMJ5-Soi6PYI3AoR4vM_KgwTs6as89K7NR_grLqURkrvTcOjvbPNVdb0g37BrV1XGO2PHL-eIss/s1600/FirstVersions_Asterix_Pilote21.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Astérix and Obélix, first full cover in Pilote magazine</b> (No. 21, March 17, 1960)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Astérix le Gaulois, first volume 1961" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi32MbhP5LLZebBf1Ypkp2DdZF9YKOSFBTHWcP2ZOpgVrXX5LnKKhi9OLmapLpGYzWGcHGO8YeYZ_ATBCIWVTcg8Fk01-sPrXlliwkBj1EeX5VCfZ6ZnTWd8d9UUTDJA20rbqv5S3Yc79k/s1600/FirstVersions_Asterix_Volume1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Astérix le Gaulois, first volume</b> (Dargaud, 1961). This volume collects the first story distributed weekly in Pilote magazine from No. 1 (October 29, 1959) until No. 38 (July 14, 1960).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyVU40gBNTw8AC0tgnSIi2MW80LoNL7lIVLazT1W4_1xNT5ajN1_9noTYzhWFfna0KEov_-v2dhPwZWccGtV8BH-YoB-bHjKSDdgs5fGnYNPMHkyQAsqCkYYElEYebXuxP09dgp88vArc/s1600/FirstVersions_Uderzo-Goscinny.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The creators of Astérix comics.</b> Left: <u>Alberto Aleandro Uderzo</u> (Fismes, April 25, 1927 - Neuilly, March 24, 2020), comic book artist and scriptwriter. Right: <u>René Goscinny</u> (Paris, August 14, 1926 - November 5, 1977), comics editor and writer.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Astérix and Obélix 50th Anniversary" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHffmkbzgUMStwYoqGF87Oy2B27QvGNea6bNS7Km7UY1V3jY4TMfUNaLNCGsXpq1xOpQXb_af9ulMgkm7hS3DtpQbdhQkTK3YXsLDeQnByBOrTHFH96jxoxQNAm2OjzuHtt1fnEuPpvY/s1600/FirstVersions_Asterix_Volume34-anniversary.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Astérix comics, the 50th anniversary</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1959-2009). The 34th volume of the book series, released by Les Éditions Albert René on October 22, 2009, celebrates the first strip with a collection of short stories, all linked by the theme of Astérix's anniversary. Designed and written by Albert Uderzo, "L’Anniversaire d’Astérix et Obélix" also includes stories which were created jointly with René Goscinny.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Cars</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Luxury car</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Designer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Sir Henry Royce (on Barker body)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rolls-Royce Ltd. (founded by Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce on March 15, 1906, as the result of a partnership formed on December 23, 1904)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prototypes made in: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1904 - Cooke Street, Hulme, Manchester, England - 3 "Royce 10 hp" prototypes made</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> November <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1904" target="_blank">1904</a></b> - Cooke Street, Hulme, Manchester, England - Debut at the Paris Salon in December 9 to 25, 1904 - A total of 16 "Rolls-Royce 10 hp Type A" models were produced</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Discontinued:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 1906</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First price:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 395 GBP</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Model "Rolls-Royce 10 hp Type A", 1904. Engine configuration: Straight 2. Engine location: Front, longitudinally mounted. Engine construction: cast-iron block and head. Engine size: 1,809 cc / 110.4 cu in. Engine bore/stroke: 95.3 mm (3.8 in) / 127.0 mm (5 in). Valvetrain: 2 valves / cylinder, OHV / Side-valve. Fuel feed: Royce Carburettor. Aspiration: Naturally aspirated. Engine power: 12 bhp / 9 KW @ 1,000 rpm. Chassis: Body on steel ladder frame. Suspension (fr/r): live axle, semi-elliptic leaf springs. Brakes: rear drum brakes. Gearbox: 3 speed manual. Drive: Rear wheel drive. Weight: 740 kilo / 1,631 lbs. Wheelbase: 1,905 mm (75.0 in). Length: 3,175 mm (125.0 in). Width: 1,400 mm (55.1 in). Power to weight: 0.02 bhp / kg. Top speed: 63 km/h (39 mph).</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Rolls-Royce grew from the electrical and mechanical business established by Henry Royce in 1884. The first Royce motor car engine was tested on September 16, 1903 and on April 1, 1904 Royce drove his first 10 hp prototype out of the Cooke Street factory, Hulme, Manchester. On May 4 of that year he met Charles Rolls, whose company sold quality cars in London. Agreement was reached that Royce Limited would manufacture a range of cars to be exclusively sold by CS Rolls & Co. Two more prototypes were built in 1904, for a total of three. Rolls-Royce cars made their debut at the Paris Salon, December 9 to 25, 1904. The partnership was officially formed on December 23, 1904. Initially, Charles Rolls and Henry Royce decided to make 20 "Rolls-Royce 10 hp Type A" models, but only 16 were finally constructed, the last in 1906. On March 15, 1906, Rolls and Royce formalised their partnership by creating Rolls-Royce Limited, with Royce appointed chief engineer.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quote (Sir Henry Royce):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> «Strive for perfection in everything we do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough».</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Rolls-Royce Ltd. - Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/" target="_blank">https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Royce 10 hp prototype, first chassis</b> (1904, Cooke Street factory)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Royce 10 hp prototype</b> (1904, Cooke Street factory). The first petrol engine was tested on September 16, 1903, and the first prototype was completed in the Cooke Street factory in March 1904. Two more similar prototypes were built in 1904, for a total of three.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Rolls-Royce debut advertisement</b> (November 1904)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Rolls-Royce 10 hp Type A 1904 - display" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWKg7N1y-37P4bBTnq2K19tt4GY7dURgoSw0xx3EheeEOqyZVdfj1tQPin-wqhgBtza978sykwA7NMYjqt_4WCADDyrsmfCeSIqUyIzAaRD9UBf2m73f-eR31C8nNSZFGatX0O_5iMDSY/s1600/FirstVersions_Rolls-Royce_1904-first-car-display.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Rolls-Royce 10 hp Type A, Rolls-Royce's first ever produced car</b> (November 1904). These pictures show the world’s oldest surviving Rolls-Royce 10 hp Type A, which came off test in November 1904 and was the third car to wear the Rolls-Royce radiator and the fourth car to carry the Rolls-Royce name. This car was selected for exhibition at the Paris Salon, December 9 to 25, 1904. It was sold by Bonhams (London-based auction house founded in 1793) on December 3, 2007, for 3,521,500 GBP, breaking two world records: the highest price ever paid at auction for both a Rolls-Royce and a veteran car (pre-1905).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Rolls-Royce advertisement</b> (The Autocar magazine, Dec. 17, 1904). <u>Top-left</u>: 10 hp, tonneau, two cylinders, with Barker body, 395 GBP. <u>Top-right</u>: 10 hp, Park Phaeton, with disappearing back seat, leather hood, patent leather wings, and glass front, 436 GBP.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Rolls-Royce 10 hp Type A review - 1" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwXto7tho8Jpb5EvhFxLDkiY6CZpZ8Bis7VUeEuJZ8G27kxg3cfCqCdE20AcH6sIw4Gq43uGCNBTLpl70BRU-mE8rYEBzh00UdN5nh4pipitZulT2UbK8pIa4PnUd9vwz_UbIjuxOdst4/s1600/FirstVersions_Rolls-Royce_1904-first-car-Ad-3dec-A.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Rolls-Royce 10 hp Type A review - 2" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1AwePuCrSUn1YhyphenhyphenFN_9haJj-8o05jP14agDsM76T4dfUng5x9rDLUWZ5VTd5RELSHeLGi-3m13y9PyFSe7s94fqZ-_0IEW3y19OZa3O8E6PkDuLOhjvXtYWl44AD_A_xnJ_3mKuSxbE/s1600/FirstVersions_Rolls-Royce_1904-first-car-Ad-3dec-B.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Rolls-Royce 10 hp Type A review</b> (The Automotor Journal, December 3, 1904)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Rolls-Royce founders: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIv2WPi07Nevu_xMPzwxXuVt-emR9ntolKx0X-WEpGKRuv6DiCLJtzp8gMbZ37lYYFIN6PCO2b8qhltKBa__u_p3q2shPTiFJyB1JDqfE8VcN18ni2qis-8l_UxCmQIqB8Ffxmd7zNf6c/s1600/FirstVersions_Rolls-Royce_founders.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Rolls-Royce founders:</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Charles Stewart Rolls</u> (Aug. 27, 1877 - July 12, 1910), motoring and aviation pioneer, and <u>Sir Frederick Henry Royce</u> (March 27, 1863 - April 22, 1933), engineer and car designer.</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-53854028459836755942017-01-07T11:30:00.001+01:002021-10-12T08:20:45.164+02:00Tomb Raider<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> "Tomb Raider"</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Video games</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Subcategory:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Puzzle-platform</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Genre:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Action-adventure</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Developer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Core Design - Derby, England, UK</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Released:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-- October 25, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1996" target="_blank">1996</a></b> - Europe (Sega Saturn)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- November 14, 1996 - North America (MS-DOS, Sega Saturn, PlayStation)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- November 22, 1996 - Europe (MS-DOS, PlayStation)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- January 24, 1997 - Japan (Sega Saturn)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- February 14, 1997 - Japan (PlayStation)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- June 1998 - Europe, North America (Microsoft Windows adaption)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Publisher: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eidos Interactive - Wimbledon, London, UK</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Platforms:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/2014/12/ms-dos.html" target="_blank">MS-DOS</a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, Sega Saturn, PlayStation (1996) - <a href="http://www.firstversions.com/2015/05/microsoft-windows.html" target="_blank">Microsoft Windows</a> (1998)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Mike Schmitt</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Designer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Toby Gard</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Programmers:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Paul Douglas, Gavin Rummery, Jason Gosling</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Graphics:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Toby Gard, Heather Gibson, Neal Boyd</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Writer:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Vicky Arnold</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Number of players:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Single-player</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Background and characters:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Lara Croft, daughter of Lord Henshingly Croft, was raised to be an aristocrat from birth. After attending finishing school at the age of 21, Lara's marriage into wealth has seem assured, but on her way home from a skiing trip her chartered plane had crashed deep in the heart of the Himalayas. The only survivor, Lara learned how to depend on her wits to stay alive in hostile conditions a world away from her sheltered upbringing. Two weeks later, when she walked into the village of Tokakeriby her experience had had a profound effect on her. Unable to stand the claustrophobic suffocating atmosphere of upper-class British society, she realised that she was only truly alive when she was travelling alone. Over the following eight years she acquired an intimate knowledge of ancient civilizations across the globe. Her family soon disowned their prodigal daughter, and she turned to writing to fund her trips. Famed for discovering several ancient sites of profound archaeological interest she made a name for herself by publishing travel books and detailed journals of her exploits.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Music by:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Nathan McCree</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Features:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tomb Raider follows British archaeologist and explorer Lara Croft as she travels the world to find a mysterious artifact called "the Scion". In this 3D action game with platforming and puzzle-solving elements, the player controls Lara Croft from a third-person perspective. The camera follows Lara as she climbs, jumps, and swims through detailed environs overcoming environmental obstacles and deadly fauna. Moving through levels often involves finding spots where Lara can climb, looking for spots where Lara can use her acrobatic ability, and sliding blocks and pushing levers to solve puzzles and open passageways. Tomb Raider spans 15 levels and includes exotic places such as ancient ruins in south America, Africa and even Atlantis: the first 4 levels are set in Peru, next 5 levels in Greece, 3 in Egypt, and the last 3 in Atlantis. Each level has a number of secrets that the player can find. Lara has two basic stances: one with weapons drawn and one with her hands free. By default she carries two pistols with infinite ammo. Additional weapons include the shotgun, dual magnums and dual Uzis. Regular items to pick up include ammo, and small and large medi-packs. For detailed features refer to the manual in Pdf below.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tomb Raider was a highly successful video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive in the autumn of 1996. The original concept was born in 1993, and the game was developed by a team consisted of six people, among them Toby Gard, who is credited with the invention of the character Lara Croft, initially named Lara Cruz. Tomb Raider was one of the first true 3D titles to be undertaken by Core Design, combining for the first time platforming, puzzle solving and action sequences together. It also established the third person perspective that was used in all subsequent games.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Core Design - Eidos Interactive - Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Product website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.tombraider.com/" target="_blank">https://www.tombraider.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tomb Raider 1995 sketches by Toby Gard" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIiawEuU-1wOU3_PkEhKG2IOcKTehbMof1wK3GqdP6izlPDbVbIufVp4pF8lGqgJ7ayulX4N-_cr6_Aoh6vvMnmEb6WOO7F_8XJd7chiANu3Jz-nWl6lDlKidLHA7gQWfzl5EsEWwtj34/s1600/FirstVersions_TombRaider-sketch1995-1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lara Croft 1995 sketch by Toby Gard" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24og05J4S0sTKLm5eLMXcj5xtLm6UE2-ncV1i0JdoIK0_RyLxV72j3e3OP_3Q90GE7GUuW3ylvBAJor-NVS3vjigpXo2GLFWhkR0GDIhu9f_kWaRc65bGXexCrCPRVarUfFPhtMR_P70/s1600/FirstVersions_TombRaider-sketch1995-2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-2375559825351278852017-01-03T09:52:00.000+01:002019-10-22T15:19:26.907+02:00Risk<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Names:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "La Conquête du Monde" (1957)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Risk! Continental Game" (1959)</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Category:</span> Games</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Subcategory:</span> Board games</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inventor:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Albert Lamorisse</span><br />
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<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Invented in:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 1957</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Patent:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- France: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">March 23, 1954</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- UK: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">March 23, 1955</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First producers/distributors:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- France: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Miro Company (founded in Paris in 1936 by Fred Mirowitch and Leo J. Frankenthal, acquired by Hasbro in 1986)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- USA: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Parker Brothers</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (founded in </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Medford, Massachusetts, in 1883 by George S. Parker, acquired by Hasbro in 1991</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">)</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Production start:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- France: 1957 as "La Conquête du Monde" (The Conquest of the World)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- USA: <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1959" target="_blank">1959</a></b> as "Risk! Continental Game"</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First price (1959):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 7.50 USD</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Features (referred to the 1959 Parker Brothers' "Risk! Continental Game"):</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Risk is a turn-based game for 3, 4, 5 or 6 players. The game is played on a board depicting a political map of the Earth, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents. The object of the game is to occupy every territory on the board and in so doing, eliminate all other players. Players control armies with which they attempt to capture territories from other players, with results determined by dice rolls. Equipment:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- A. Six sets of playing pieces, each set of a different color, consisting of a box of cubes and several oblong pieces in a separate box. Each cube represents one army and the oblong pieces are equivalent to ten armies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- B. A playing board showing a map of the six continents, each of which is subdivided into a number of territories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- C. A deck of 44 cards plus one Trade-mark card which is not used in the play of the game.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- D. Six dice, 3 of which are red and 3 of which are ivory-colored.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During the 1950s, Parker Brothers formed an affiliation with the Miro Company in Paris for the manufacture and distribution of their games in France. In exchange, Parker Brothers agreed to manufacture and distribute some of Miro's games in the United States. In the summer of 1957, Mr. Boisseau of Miro approached Parker Brothers with "La Conquête du Monde" (The Conquest of the World), a game invented by French filmmaker, film producer, and writer Albert Lamorisse, best known for his award-winning short films like "Le Ballon rouge" (The red balloon, 1956). After extensive testing, the French game's rules were adapted for American tastes, and, in 1959, Parker Brothers launched "Risk! Continental Game". Through the years, the game has become a household name all around the world. In addition to the original version of 1959, a number of official variants and not-licensed clones of Risk have been produced over the years. Hasbro bought Miro Company in 1986, and subsequently Parker Brothers in 1991.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Miro Company - Parker Brothers - Hasbro, Inc.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Producer website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.hasbro.com/" target="_blank">http://www.hasbro.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="La Conquête du Monde, box" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwoRdlX97g_9tGRmga146B_GPUn442FqTVS3WEw0WNQUnCaMvSHgAdMgla7TYSNclxzP9iRzFkAF73e30vD7-PjUDbGE7r9nZNPeglRdiv-z-uKAjI1J2Q9p5XaAPfgitrwTpkeGPz6eI/s1600/FirstVersions_LaConqueteDuMonde_02-Box.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="La Conquête du Monde, box content" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjq6yT6v76pVfgA9x8-tVgZUBljPnNc5huR65vV6tY3hGLJ7RV626U5lbUrgGAiP-W-IEbATt47bKAbDn_0fI3aj9cIIGGnBqAtr27aQaxq3uUhgDsksW4_MijoQU5mk8u1Qiy0feml-0/s1600/FirstVersions_LaConqueteDuMonde_03-Content.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>La Conquête du Monde </b>(The Conquest of the World),<b> original version of the board game Risk</b> (1957), invented by Albert Lamorisse, produced and distributed by Miro Company</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Albert Lamorisse </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Paris, January 13, 1922 - Karaj, June 2, 1970), the French filmmaker, film producer, and writer, who invented the board game "La Conquête du Monde" (The Conquest of the World) in 1957, original version of the game Risk. Lamorisse is best known for his award-winning short films, like "Le Ballon rouge" (The red balloon, 1956), which won numerous awards, including an Oscar for Lamorisse for the best original screenplay, and the Palme d'Or for short films at the Cannes Film Festival.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Risk first version 1959 - box front" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQYIG5SpxVUC_bNWPHEJqRxt4zf6ODbWttkldC1mc5i5tHZexO9VkMjzzYYkhhU8fXjqKy_h_1xvSTiY2R104ncOpxSEowCX_fWX0UOOXBL8HSCk1zQqi6Pe8lSELGQIBeGe7Wvo4wSb8/s1600/FirstVersions_Risk_01-Box-front.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Risk first version 1959 - box content" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9DwsckHc8wU-_tOHcrKqMg-zZyqSf030X34XJetlxMzpavyxFat6BMi3yFfFGcVRQyqd4jrKBLcHAmCo6Vz9ne9TtFisInfdxPSiQ-IB9YHLXu7cgxTs9ZqA_d7_tc-8hdUG9bDpRU7k/s1600/FirstVersions_Risk_04-Content.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Risk first version 1959 - box opened top-view" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzl7LvRjKVODAdLNGoGskbAY2lCEU7NMgK2XgSnnJs0_yXDwVINnVVZODbk_449OMM2KArasfA9Twuwp-iiAEvtnvUvhQs1rFlWcuD_FEPwQar3xZLGfyqMAwhn1jpWpieMSmZhohTaac/s1600/FirstVersions_Risk_05-Box-Opened-Top.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Risk first version 1959 - board top" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfCzRt4q0bKxRqRvVvFAZA6LMD5whDqlNL_u55voagr6N5UdYNVmmveFrGMaKMIlxXj1J0K7_hrLRd-0Dl47WsGQNhR1x2kEvRuCSP8mYCO2y56Y_EKwgu6J1q0L1XSEtgX74kFQ-WdfY/s1600/FirstVersions_Risk_06-Board-top.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Risk first version 1959 - board bottom-right" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1GbPeEL-dkWlRARxuYXJaJVBElgGPm7WoxP9wufx5C9nH0PFD_TF4A2XD2UyMdjAYz6Rq9fc2KnxcVxAdXL0Xa1rHesF3iGeBeXI8-p077nSgH68QOXxq0kIIJKl38bsBZH-f0yrT1_4/s1600/FirstVersions_Risk_09-Board-bottom-right.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Risk first version 1959 - cards" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzpA2Nk4sgkvXJMWUTI7H6yz8jts2pBvodbQFO_Kh_2smKszJq0b0bggoS9ViOfi0QCa8tmQSbi9bgS7__dDzikg5wzFdYWW_sDJeKsCau90pOemiTBsJxmxWo2udtH9ZDmBR_j38CPUc/s1600/FirstVersions_Risk_10-Cards.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Risk first version 1959 - dice" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh42X8WIAOyKEpv0aJQZ1nPKf2_yWYMVnzzqfbGls22CBzBhoowMZRXYhZUKgcOYB0JAOc0z7hfWu8LVrmov7YGatMpoUcwj8_-LhKLyd-tHGuIryp5ympQCVRXfc5eUo3BMiMEXmJjefA/s1600/FirstVersions_Risk_11-Dice.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Risk! Continental Game,</b> first version of the board game Risk by Parker Brothers </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1959)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Risk, introduction to the game from the instruction manual </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1959)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Risk advertising 1961" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaVv3pM1iRBPSDyfP0JUUOJssvYx0QFzburfzIHPwHl5RCq9O_FV9AwpYINpapqGdzEVRiV-GSz3qWGJD7GE9dLUCSjOEhrv8lwmjsOyjpevg2RH8K4EjA3TLGos1RUaJgdoXLJjNylJE/s1600/FirstVersions_Risk_Ad1961-A.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Risk advertising Christmas 1961" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY-iFgDrfQHlQ3-W6-MrlVIjfLcyB25PX7cd85QIlr3AKky3YJoWFyymZd79hdXhJIOL3OG1nrLnYUHhWJRndrlmQBW4i5a4YYShc5vx1y7rcoZytDVQO3vQwftsnVAeNXdUC8bOiqAUc/s1600/FirstVersions_Risk_Ad1961-B.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Risk advertising </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1961)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Risk advertisement: «He conquered the world in one afternoon!» </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1966)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Hasbro celebrate 60 years of Risk </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1959-1999). This special 60th Anniversary edition of the Risk game celebrates its legacy with premium packaging and game pieces. For true Risk fans, the included Game Guide reveals the history of the Risk strategy game. It also features 5 ways to play the Risk board game including the classic game plus the original 1957 La Conquête du Monde rules.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4889957194923211301.post-47453432943944914212016-12-31T23:09:00.001+01:002023-06-07T15:44:32.507+02:00Lufthansa<hr color="#e6e6e6" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Otto Firle 1918</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Names:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Deutsche Luft Hansa" (1926)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Deutsche Lufthansa" (1933)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "DLH" (abbreviated, 1933)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf" (1953)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Luftag"</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (abbreviated, 1953)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- "Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft" (1954)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">--- </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Lufthansa"</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (abbreviated, 1954)</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Category:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Transportation</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Subcategory:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Airlines</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">Founded:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">January 6, <b><a href="http://www.firstversions.com/search/label/1926" target="_blank">1926</a></b> - Berlin, Germany - as "Deutsche Luft Hansa".</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Founders:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Merger between Deutscher Aero Lloyd (an airline formed in 1923 as a co-operation between the shipping companies Norddeutscher Lloyd and Hamburg America Line) and Junkers Luftverkehr, the in-house airline of Junkers.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Operations start:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> April 6, 1926, with the first scheduled flight from Berlin to Zürich via Halle, Erfurt and Stuttgart, operated by a Fokker-Grulich F II. The fleet consisted of 162 aircraft, of 18 different types. A flying expedition to China was the event of the year.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Operations end:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> April 1945 (Company formally dissolved on January 1, 1951).</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Refounded (not as legal successor):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> January 6, 1953 - Cologne, Germany - as "Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf", abbrev. "Luftag";</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> renamed </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft"</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, abbrev. "Lufthansa", on August 6, 1954, when the company </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">acquired the name and logo of the liquidated Deutsche Lufthansa thus continuing the tradition of a German flag carrier of that name.</span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Refounders:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Luftag stems directly from the Bureau Bongers, formed in 1951 to </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">prepare "the first rough sketches". Hans M. Bongers, traffic manager of the old Lufthansa, was appointed aviation adviser to the Minister of Transport and set up the Bureau Bongers in two rooms in the Cologne University building. This was followed, in January 1953, by the creation of a company with a capital of which major shareholders are the Federal German Government (74%), the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Federal German Railways, together with 125 smaller holdings, mainly in travel and transport. Dr. Kurt Weigelt, deputy chairman of the old Lufthansa, became the president.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Operations restart:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 1955. Domestic services began on April 1, with two Convairs which took off almost simultaneously in Hamburg and Munich for a day of regular scheduled services. International flights started on May 15 to Madrid, on May 16 to London, and on May 17 to Paris. The first scheduled North Atlantic flight took place on June 8. These initial services were operated with a fleet consisting of four Lockheed 1049G Super Constellations and four Convair 340s, which by the end of the year had carried just over 74,000 passengers on an unduplicated route network of a little over 8,000 miles.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting facts</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #960000;">:</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The winged crest, by graphic designer Otto Firle, originated in 1918 with Deutsche Luft-Reederei, German airline established in December 1917, first company to merge with Junkers Luftverkehr to form Deutsche Luft Hansa.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Luft Hansa", first name of the company, was a composite of "Luft" ("Air" in German), and "Hansa" (after the Hanseatic League, a powerful mediaeval trading group). The word was designed by F.A. Fischer von Poturzyn, who had written a book of the same name. "Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf", name of the refounded company in 1953, also abbreviated "Luftag", can be translated as Corporation for Air Transport Requirements.</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Slogan (1926):</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">«Fliegt in die Bäder» ("Fly to the beaches")</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Property:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Deutsche Lufthansa AG</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #960000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Official website:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.lufthansa.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lufthansa.com</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Luft Hansa, book by Fischer von Puturzyn 1925" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5tq3T2sblYTQEAoyzATQmbwcYdb7BWjQcKetcUNXVHHJnPhWPKIk_KctdO6F_L0vPj07DDDfRtqKfVWZXKJjGJLU1tgCL-AkFk-jPx0_IYJSpNfUWvQo5X2qOOlUcbCCpNlAljTwTPTA/s1600/FirstVersions_Lufthansa_1925_Book.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Luft Hansa, the origins of the name</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1925). F.A. Fischer von Puturzyn published this book entitled "Luft-Hansa", which examined the options open to aviation policymakers at the time.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Luft Hansa, newspaper announcement 1926" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHt8rvV-h5pDFiiSjs4ZTENX1XTEYEzIMnnguUsFOB-RyjeGmV-RBeZWnaa-sRz-heEr44GK54x00BNGpkwzqT6CL9ysXFkxGPGeVkX5Eyw7lE16AGMy2Pl157aYLGZFmt4dSIA_IawJc/s1600/FirstVersions_Lufthansa_1926-announcement.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Luft Hansa, newspaper announcement</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Evening star, Washington, D.C., February 21, 1926). «42 AIR LINES PLANNED. Huge Projects to Be Launched in Germany Soon. BERLIN, February 20 - The German Aerial Combine, the Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft - a fusion of the Aero Lloyd and Junker Companies - plans to begin its activities by opening 42 aerial lines extending all over Germany and to many foreign countries. One-day flights are scheduled from Berlin to Moscow. Negotiations are contemplated with the Czechoslovakian government for the organization of an air service to Dresden, Prague and Vienna».</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lufthansa, first flight, April 6, 1926" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTQFBO_XtdhXUKh1cVcPW3YinZr3WbnnQdCMcHjQ2Cfc-64MPRzU1p517A0ZTobMrlxo3FweMZrUqZMzhqaykULQUAAUuUp8TCDQN58nlFD55DeHlgnyRDorfwxxT1zmJVJzGBGM7_MG0/s1600/FirstVersions_Lufthansa_1926-April.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Luft Hansa, the first ever scheduled flight</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(April 6, 1926), from Berlin to Zürich via Halle, Erfurt and Stuttgart, Fokker-Grulich F II aircraft.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lufthansa passenger 1926" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgclw7XaG8wIsUXh5-Ye9Vvi9IbviSsV96F3xk5WpttGlg95dXax4cT-lUal7vg9C2cmDliEEVXLVKeo5wJbNs7Q1U-aIvXHvuyPKG2Ru8OFoHAvIVmPdNEgdVLjZVbU7JoXvpBqQNtQtY/s1600/FirstVersions_Lufthansa_1926-C.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Luft Hansa, Fokker-Grulich F II aircraft</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1926)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Luft Hansa poster "Fliegt in die Bäder"</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">("Fly to the beaches", 1926 by Hans Vogel</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Luft Hansa poster "Fliegt in die Bäder!"</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">("Fly to the beaches!", 1927 by Hans Vogel)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Luft Hansa, passengers and airfreight had to be weighed</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(photo 1928)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Luft Hansa poster</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1932 by Otto Arpke)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Luftag refounders on the company's first day</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(January 6, 1953): from left, Chairman Hans M. Bongers, Federal German Minister of Transport Hans-Christoph Seebohm, Technical Director Gerhard Höltje, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board Dr. Kurt Weigelt.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Lufthansa, the first cabin crew members</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(February 1955) were ready for flight operations; they started work with route proving flights in March.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lufthansa stamps 1955" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yOlFguppst8DQfwMWtkvsB6J5Rc3Ib8oEqlbFapz45S3MxH07wlCjCMh_FRrn1IyOfRaULwWl6CUa_xYW3huIBRAyS7FPLHsX92mSonOnd8sfggEcE9jP9RZTxkrncFwz2BPhRF9TJo/s1600/FirstVersions_Lufthansa_1955_Stamps.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Lufthansa, four commemorative stamps</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(March 31, 1955) issued to mark the post-war re-establishment of Lufthansa Airlines and the resumption of domestic and international flights.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lufthansa timetable 1955 - front" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB1GBVxZoPDApSz2oI-WrawpXAxH-3VxmguR4hGAKnNfXIc-79wJ4VQb76LWupd_Fi11-lTLahbZG7sGDuqBW4zOLQdKMQ1c26ptA79pfNXDGGYzWAdpyhixsmk0LUF_ROtdwlXLWv_jA/s1600/FirstVersions_Lufthansa_timetable-1955-front.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Lufthansa, first timetable</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(April 1, 1955)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lufthansa first flight from Hamburg 1955" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiffnwCQ9U3Q6a2kWpsW1zh3ZarfCyYho1nhPbAJYBiVYQzcGUFPbHa719JZfNdAuy25EVnvqVf_zQDd161AYw9DyTkKBwJnog6KWamBMlvKKiAvzUFedA8JU2FuRcC0-l7bqCJKNaKl2Q/s1600/FirstVersions_Lufthansa_1955-A.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Lufthansa, the first two flights operated by the new company</b> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(April 1, 1955): two Convairs CV-340 took off almost simultaneously in Hamburg (photo above) and Munich (below), for a day of regular scheduled services.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Lufthansa celebrate 60 years</b> (april 1955-2015). To honor their 60th Anniversary, Lufthansa had "Yankee Tango" (Boeing 747-8 D-ABYT, above) painted in a livery that resembled what the 747 fleet looked like in the 1970s when Lufthansa began flying 747-100 and -200 variants.</span></td></tr>
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