I looked at the list of bills at http://congressionalbills.org/download.html . It starts with the 80th Congress in 1947. The first to mention Iceland was in the 85th Congress (1957-1959), titled "For the relief of the Government of the Republic of Iceland", and "arising out of accidents involving United States Armed Forces during their presence in Iceland from July 7, 1941, to April 5, 1947.". Nor did I find mention of it at govtrack.us.
I did a Google newspaper search, and couldn't find any mention of that proposal.
"The intention of the Icelandic people to preserve their newlywon independence needs to be emphasized, since it is overlooked in many plans for her future which others propose. Iceland, "kingpin of the Atlantic," is certainly not for sale. If there ever was a possibility that the United States could buy Iceland from Denmark, as Seward hoped, it obviously no longer exists. The suggestion has been made that Iceland would serve her interests best after the war by applying for statehood in the American Union. This idea is even more fantastic.... But none of these possibilities seems likely in the light of Iceland's actions and of the psychology of her people."
Therefore, Iceland statehood was at least an idea floating around in post-war international politics. Then again, another idea floating around was for it to join "a commonwealth of Scandinavian nations", so it seems ideas were all over the place.
I assume that's why they built two pits? With only one, the grenade might be dragged in with the people should it fall along their path near the pits edge.
My guess is that Speedtest.net summarizes the number of people who went to Speedtest.net, while Akamai measures the CDN traffic, so Speedtest gets more traffic from people who just got new bandwidth and want to verify that it really is zippy fast.
I am just old enough to remember when the local grocery store issued S&H green stamps, and how we kids loved to stick them into the books, and get excited about the occasional 50 point stamp. But I also remember at the end of their time, going to the local S&H redemption store and thinking it was full of a lot of low quality goods.
Speech recognition is getting better. I predict that within the next 10 years it will be good enough that the back archives of all the available TV shows, news shows, radio broadcasts will be searchable. We might then have some evidence that people said "pie hole" before King wrote it down. Archive.org already offers a service like that, at https://archive.org/details/tv?q=%22pie%20hole%22 , but it doesn't extend that far backwards in time. Etymologists no doubt look forward to that new era.
I spent a lot of the last few days on it and finally got 194 points, with 6 tiles all different remaining and nothing to do for the last few seconds. It would be very hard to get the board completely clear, and there's so little time remaining that I doubt there would be a second level.
Most are designed to appeal to a man who might otherwise think that wearing a ring is effeminate. It's been enculturated that rough or chunky surfaces and machine parts are signs of manliness.
I did a Google newspaper search, and couldn't find any mention of that proposal.
But I did find http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/70377/hans-w-weigert/iceland-greenland-and-the-united-states ! It's from October 1944. It mentions that Seward, of Seward's Folly/Alaska wanted to acquire Greenland and Iceland. It also says:
"The intention of the Icelandic people to preserve their newlywon independence needs to be emphasized, since it is overlooked in many plans for her future which others propose. Iceland, "kingpin of the Atlantic," is certainly not for sale. If there ever was a possibility that the United States could buy Iceland from Denmark, as Seward hoped, it obviously no longer exists. The suggestion has been made that Iceland would serve her interests best after the war by applying for statehood in the American Union. This idea is even more fantastic.... But none of these possibilities seems likely in the light of Iceland's actions and of the psychology of her people."
Therefore, Iceland statehood was at least an idea floating around in post-war international politics. Then again, another idea floating around was for it to join "a commonwealth of Scandinavian nations", so it seems ideas were all over the place.
My guess is that Speedtest.net summarizes the number of people who went to Speedtest.net, while Akamai measures the CDN traffic, so Speedtest gets more traffic from people who just got new bandwidth and want to verify that it really is zippy fast.