Irving Berlin

 “Blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies do I see.” Irving Berlin wrote “Blue Skies” in 1926 after the birth of his daughter. The song became a hit with audiences after singer Belle Baker performed it in the Broadway production of “Betsy.” But “Blue Skies” really took off after Al Jolson performed it in the groundbreaking film “The Jazz Singer” in 1927.

George W. Bush

  As the son of a former President, George W. Bush entered the White House with a pre-existing codename from the Secret Service. However, Bush despised his codename "Tumbler," which many believed was a reference to his younger partying days. While the Secret Service is usually very strict about changing codenames, they granted Bush's request and changed his codename to "Trailblazer." His wife Laura was dubbed "Tempo," the elder Bush was given the codename "Timberwolf," and his mother Barbara, was codenamed "Tranquility."

Aioli

 

Aioli is a garlic, salt, olive oil, and sometimes egg-based sauce that may be found in the cuisines of the northwest Mediterranean, from Andalusia to Calabria.

In Catalan, Provençal, and Italian, the names signify "garlic and oil." It may be found in the cuisines of Spain, France, and Italy, as well as Malta's Mediterranean beaches. It's also known in the Middle East as "Toom," which translates to "garlic." It's produced by blending garlic cloves and emulsifying them with oil to form a creamy, mayonnaise-like mixture. It's often accompanied with rotisserie chicken.

Some forms of the sauce are more like to a garlic mayonnaise, including egg yolks and lemon juice, while others are thinner and include more garlic. There are several variants, including the addition of lemon juice or other ingredients. It may include mustard in France. It's best to eat it at room temperature. Aioli, like mayonnaise, is made up of minute globules of oil and oil-soluble components suspended in water and water-soluble compounds. Purists in Spain feel that aioli should not include egg, whereas egg or egg yolk is the most common emulsifier in France and elsewhere.

All flavored mayonnaises have been referred to as aioli in the United States since about 1990. Although purists argue that flavored mayonnaise may include garlic, real aioli comprises just garlic and no other seasonings.

Margaret Thatcher

 

Margaret Hilda Thatcher was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her "The 'Iron Lady'", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies known as Thatcherism.

She studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist, before becoming a barrister. Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his Conservative government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition, the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general election.

Table Salt

 Chemically, table salt consists of two elements, sodium (Na) and chloride (Cl). Neither element occurs separately and free in nature, but are found bound together as the compound sodium chloride. Salt is essential for life in general, and saltiness is one of the basic human tastes. Salt has over 14,000 known uses. Manufacturing textiles, glass, rubber, leather, even drilling oil wells, depends on salt. Common uses of salt include seasoning of food, deicing for safe roads, softening hard water, and food preservation.

Jeff Goldblum

 

Jeff Goldblum is an actor and musician from the United States. Jurassic Park and Independence Day, as well as its respective sequels, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Independence Day: Resurgence, were among the highest-grossing films of his age.

Jurassic Park, subsequently shortened to Jurassic World, is an American science fiction media franchise about a failed effort to build a cloned dinosaur amusement park. It all started in 1990, when Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment purchased the rights to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park book before it was released. The novel, as well as Steven Spielberg's 1993 film version, was a hit. The film was re-released in 3D in theaters in 2013, and the Library of Congress chose it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2018 as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important." The Lost World, a sequel book published in 1995, was adapted into a film in 1997. Following films in the franchise, such as Jurassic Park III, are not based on the books.

Independence Day, directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin, is a 1996 American science fiction action film. Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, and Harry Connick Jr. are among the ensemble cast members. In the aftermath of a global assault by an alien species, diverse groups of humanity congregate in the Nevada desert. On July 4th, the United States' Independence Day, they start a counter-offensive with the rest of the globe.

Truth Social

 Truth Social is a social media platform founded by former President Donald Trump. The app launched last week and immediately shot to the top of Apple's most-downloaded list — but complaints quickly rolled in, including a buggy registration process, long waitlists, and sign-up glitches. After he was banned from Facebook and Twitter in 2021, Trump raised the prospect of building a new social media platform. The app is Twitter-like in its features and design, allowing users to build custom profiles, follow others and create posts, which the app calls "Truths" and "Re-Truths" instead of tweets and retweets.

Acorns

 

Oak trees produce acorns as their fruit. There are hundreds of species of oak trees worldwide, with roughly 90 endemic to the United States. Acorns are simple to gather. They keep well and are pretty easy to prepare. The majority of acorn species, similar to wheat and maize, have no taste. As a result, they may be employed in a number of situations. For millennia, these features are likely to have made them a key food source. Ancient peoples such as the Assyrians and Greeks, as well as Chinese and Native Americans, ate them on a daily basis.

An oak is a member of the Fagaceae (beech) family of trees. Oaks are found in about 500 different species. The common term "oak" may also be found in the names of species in adjacent genera, such as Lithocarpus (stone oaks), as well as unrelated species like Grevillea robusta (silky oaks) and the Casuarinaceae (she-oaks). Quercus is a genus of deciduous and evergreen trees endemic to the Northern Hemisphere, with species ranging from chilly temperate to tropical climates in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and North Africa. With around 160 species in Mexico, 109 of which are indigenous, and about 90 in the United States, North America contains the most oak species. China has the second-highest diversity of oak species, with over 100 species.

Many species of oak have spirally arranged leaves with lobate edges; others have serrated or whole leaves with smooth margins. Many deciduous trees are marcescent, meaning they don't lose their dead leaves until the spring. A single oak tree produces both male and female flowers (in the form of catkins) in the spring, indicating that the trees are monoecious. The fruit is an acorn or oak nut that grows in a cup-like structure called a cupule. Each acorn carries one seed (sometimes two or three) and matures in 6–18 months, depending on the species. Tannic acid is found in the acorns and leaves, which serves to protect the tree against fungus and insects. Live oaks are known for their evergreen nature, however they are not a separate species and are found across the genus.