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In 1984 or so, National Geographic's kids magazine World had a complicated puzzle competition involving places around the world. One of the clues was something like "where London is a stone's throw from Paris."

I went to the school library, pulled out the big world atlas, and looked up maps containing both "London" and "Paris." That is how I first learned of Christmas Island (not labeled Kiritimati on that old map). The scale told me they were over mile apart, but I figured it was a metaphorical stone throw, so that's what I submitted as my answer.

I did not win, and as i recall they did not publish the answers, so I'll never know if that answer was right. Still, it meant when I saw the map here on Neatorama I recognized it immediately, along with a memory of my jr. high library reference room. Neat!
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The link is concerned with the false urban legend "that the changes were done at the entry point and that the immigrants were unwilling participants in the modifications". It makes clear that immigrants certainly changed their name after arrival.They couldn't change their name upon boarding the ship as the ticket was issued to the original name. This name went on the passenger manifest, which was cross-checked at Ellis Island. Any pre-transit name change would have to be done before purchasing a ticket, or at least before the name was put on the manifest.

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Have you seen their name in the ship manifest or arrival records? Perhaps they changed their name with citizenship? Given how easy it is to change one's name - under common law they could simply use the name MacNaughton, see Lindon v. First National Bank, 1882 - why did they care to keep using MacNaught?The article points out that starting in 1906 federal law made it easy to legally change one's name during the citizenship process, so that was another opportunity to change it back if they didn't want the common law process.
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I visited Battleship Cove some years back. They described how beloved ice cream was to the Navy men in WWII and mentioned not only the dedicated supply ship, but how when one ship was going down, an exiting sailor first went the galley to fill up his hat with ice cream before abandoning ship.
Time-Life - your source - says 1,500 gallons per hour, but those are recent sources. Publications from 1945 say things like "The machine can make 500 gallons of ice cream a day —with storage space for 1500 gallons more." and "a special unit which turns out 10 gallons of ice cream every seven minutes". There is even a picture of one of the 125 hp refrigeration engines .
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I don't come to Neatorama to read about the dating history of a war criminal, and if I do, I prefer the obit include mention of the several million people estimated killed due to his actions, and not just the American deaths.
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I think I figured it out! The brothers Heinz and Lutz Heck started a breeding program to make cattle which looked like aurochs. Göring was taken with the idea, as it aligned with his views on a historic past, and hunting large beasts, and supported the project. The Polish Wikipedia entry says (via Firefox's translator): "The breed of cattle resembling the turn was first placed in the Prussian forest reserve Rominsten, and in 1942, the release was released in the Białowieża Forest." Which is where Simona Kossak was.
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Back around 2005, some Jägerettes came to the bar we were at, handing out free shots. After they left, the German woman in our group commented that back in Germany this was the type of drink old women use "for medicinal reasons", just like the video said. That likely wasn't quite the sort of marketing Jägermeister wanted.
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