Toilet Tissue/Paper

Did you know...
Toilet tissue/paper isn't as old as you may think...
Needless to say we have NOT always had Toilet tissue/paper; and it was some time before it was invented even though people saw the need for such an item long before it became a household necessity. So what did people use before toilet paper??? First it was the hand,(gross!) grass, (that's a little better) leaves, (much better if they were soft) corn cobs and even rocks.(that must have been hard) The ancient Greeks used stones and pieces of clay; ancient Romans used sponges on the ends of sticks, that were kept in jugs filled with salty water. Mid-easterners commonly used the left hand, which is supposedly still considered unclean in the Arabian region. But as time goes on we started to realize how much easier and more hygienic a piece of paper could be, so enters the newspaper; Newspapers could be found in almost all "Outhouses". Then there was the Farmers Almanac, which even had a hole in it so it could be hung in the outhouse just for that purpose. Then of course there was the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The catalog became the "king" of the outhouse, until they started making the pages glossy, but by then we had toilet paper. So who invented this much needed and used item? Some say it was Joseph Gayetty who produced the first commercially available toilet paper in the U.S. in 1857. The tissue was moistened with aloe and sold in packages of 500 individual sheets, each one with a watermark bearing Gayetty’s name. It was sold as a medical product, but was not very successful. Three brothers, Edward, Clarence, and Thomas Scott began selling their toilet paper from a push cart in Philadelphia in 1867. It seems the paper was in much demand so in 1879, Edward and Clarence Scott founded the Scott Paper Company (the third brother, Thomas, went into the publishing business instead). Scott toilet paper was sold in rolls that were, apparently, unperforated in the early years. In addition, the company did not market their products under the Scott brand at that time. By 1883, at least one patent had been issued for a toilet paper roll holder that had a serrated cutting blade. The Albany Perforated Wrapping (A.P.W.) Paper Company was selling rolled, perforated (and medicated) toilet paper by 1885—and possibly as early as 1877.
A 1935 ad for Northern Tissue boasted that it was “splinter-free,” but this does not suggest, in any way, that all toilet paper prior to theirs had splinters!
The first two-ply toilet paper was sold by St. Andrew’s Paper Mill in England in 1942. But no matter who invented toilet paper, Gayetty or Scott, We give thanks. We now have a choice of 1 ply, 2 ply, or 3 ply toilet paper, with aloe or other softeners, or even moist wipes. So now you may ask who invented the toilet???

Uranus, The Planet of Many Moons

Did you know...
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has many moons, as much as 27 that we know of.
Uranus, the only planet whose name is derived from a figure from Greek mythology rather than from Roman mythology:
The name Uranus means "small light" and refers to the pale light emitted by the planet as seen from Earth. It takes Uranus 84 (Earth) years to revolve around the Sun. Uranus has 27 known natural moons. All of these moons have names chosen from characters from the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. The five main moons are named
Miranda,no not the warning to criminal suspects in police custody but from a character in the play "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare
Ariel,also a character from the play "The Tempest" by Shakespeare who was a lively sprite in attendance on Prospero and from "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope
Umbriel,who was a moody spirit in poet Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"
Titania, The Queen of the Fairies and wife of Oberon in Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream
Oberon from the legendary king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature. He is best known as a character in William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in the mid-1590s, in which he is Consort to Titania, Queen of the Fairies.

The moons Titania and Oberon were spotted by Sir William Herschel on January 11, 1787, six years after he had discovered the planet itself. The other spherical moons, Ariel and Umbriel were discovered in 1851 by William Lassell and in 1948 Gerard Kuiper discovered Miranda. The remaining moons were discovered in 1985 and after, either during the Voyager 2 flyby mission or with the aid of advanced Earth-based telescopes.

The 27 moons of Uranus, When discovered, by whom/what

Cordelia 1986 Voyager 2
Ophelia 1986 Voyager 2
Bianca 1986 Voyager 2
Cressida 1986 Voyager 2
Desdemona 1986 Voyager 2
Juliet 1986 Voyager 2
Portia 1986 Voyager 2
Rosalind 1986 Voyager 2
Cupid 2003 Showalter and Lissauer
Belinda 1986 Voyager 2
Perdita 1999 Voyager 2
Puck 1985 Voyager 2
Mab 2003 Showalter and Lissauer
Miranda 1948 Kuiper
Ariel 1851 Lassell
Umbriel 1851 Lassell
Titania 1787 Herschel
Oberon 1787 Herschel
Francisco 2003 Holman et al.Detected in 2001, published in 2003.
Caliban 1997 Gladman et al.
Stephano 1999 Gladman et al.
Trinculo 2001 Holman et al.
Sycorax 1997 Nicholson et al.
Margaret 2003 Sheppard and Jewitt
Prospero 1999 Holman et al.
Setebos 1999 Kavelaars et al.
Ferdinand 2003 Holman et al.Detected in 2001, published in 2003.



The Rape of the Lock (a poem by Alexander Pope) and the names of the moons of Uranus which derived from this poem :
Ariel, Umbriel, Belinda

The Plays by William Shakespeare from which most of the moons of Uranus derived their names:
o A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania, Oberon, Puck
o The Tempest: (Ariel), Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand
o King Lear: Cordelia
o Hamlet: Ophelia
o The Taming of the Shrew: Bianca
o Troilus and Cressida: Cressida
o Othello: Desdemona
o Romeo and Juliet: Juliet, Mab
o The Merchant of Venice: Portia
o As You Like It: Rosalind
o Much Ado About Nothing: Margaret
o The Winter's Tale: Perdita
o Timon of Athens: Cupid

Simple Backout Clause.

Did You Know....
No Congress, no President has been strong enough to stand up to the foreign-controlled Federal Reserve Bank. Yet there is a catch - one that President Kennedy recognized before he was slain - the original deal in 1913 creating the Federal Reserve Bank had a simple backout clause. The investors loaned the United States Government $1 billion. And the backout clause allows the United States to buy out the system for that $1 billion. If the Federal Reserve Bank were demolished and the Congress of the United States took control of the currency, as required in the Constitution, the National Debt would virtually end overnight; the need for more taxes and even the income tax, itself would come to an end. Thomas Jefferson was concise in his early warning to the American nation, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

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