Buford T. Justice V wrote: » But she didn't win the Irish Open that year as well which was the point, I think?
Deleted User wrote: » The second oldest tennis tournament in the world, after Wimbledon, is the Irish Open. It was considered pretty much the biggest tournament after Wimbledon before WWI, and was the first to feature men and women singles and doubles. As recently as 1962 it was big enough to draw the superstars when it was won by Rod Laver in the year he won all 4 grand slam tournaments...a feat no other tennis player has since achieved (although he did it again in 1969).
Realt Dearg Sec wrote: » Well the Irish Open was never a Grand Slam title. Conor was saying Laver won all four Grand Slams that year and no other player has ever done it since (and he happened also to be in the Irish open that year). Then mzungu pointed out he is not the last player to do, Graf was. laver was presumably the last man to do it.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly but he didn't say it was a grand slam title, just that it was formerly a big enough tournament that Rod Laver played in it and won it in the year that he also won the grand slam in 1962. Which he did again in 1969, grand Slam plus Irish open?
Chancer3001 wrote: » W.B Yeats' younger brother Jack won Ireland's first Olympic medal (Ireland as a free state) He won us an Olympic medal.....for painting .
Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: » Chancer3001 wrote: » W.B Yeats' younger brother Jack won Ireland's first Olympic medal (Ireland as a free state) He won us an Olympic medal.....for painting . He won a Silver and, the same year, Oliver St. John Gogarty won a Bronze for literature.
Snotty wrote: » Oh it still happens and there are reported cases from all around the world in the last few years. Won't list example here, but Google waking up in a morgue. And that is with today's medical expertise, in days gone by, they knew dead bodies could infect the healthy so there was no reason not to bury someone straight away, especially the poor. On a similar note. The Lazarus syndrome is an actual medical phenomenon where people are resuscitated but it fails to get their circulation going (and so the pulse) , but once they give up on resuscitation, blood circulation begins again. For that reason medical procedure is to not certify death until atleast 10 minutes after resuscitation has failed.
In Parnia's ideal world, the way that people are resuscitated would first take in the knowledge that machines are much better at CPR than doctors. After that, he suggests, the next step is "to understand that you need to elevate the level of care". The first thing is to cool down the body to best preserve the brain cells, which are by then in the process of apoptosis, or suicide. At the same time, it is necessary to keep up the level of oxygen in the blood. In Japan, this is already standard practice in emergency rooms. Using a technique called an ECMO, the blood of the deceased is siphoned out of the body, put through a membrane oxygenator and pumped round again. This buys the time needed to fix the underlying problem that caused the person to die in the first place. If the level of oxygen to the brain falls below 45% of normal the heart will not restart, Parnia's research shows. Anything above that and there is a good chance. Potentially, by this means, dead time can be extended to hours and there are still positive outcomes. "The longest I know of is a Japanese girl I mention in the book," Parnia says. "She had been dead for more than three hours. And she was resuscitated for six hours. Afterwards, she returned to life perfectly fine and has, I have been told, recently had a baby."
Wibbs wrote: » The script on the CocaCola Bottle was based on a script Spensorian(sp?) used in the US in the late 19th century for business and other professional correspondence. The guys starting the company thought it would lend a certain gravitas to their product. Others thought similarly at the time. The only other one still around and was used for the same gravitas reason is the Ford logo script.
Professor Moriarty wrote: » Coca Cola was originally sold as a tonic and contained a small amount of cocaine until 1903 .
the beer revolu wrote: » Doesn't everybody know that?
Grayson wrote: » There's an urban legend I heard that the tail off the C in the Coca Cola was designed that way to mimic the curve in the coke bottle. However a quick google shows that it's not the case.
Widdershins wrote: » There are no tigers in Africa.
Grayson wrote: » There's an urban legend I heard that the tail off the C in the Coca Cola was designed that way to mimic the curve in the coke bottle. However a quick google shows that it's not the case. The 1887 logo is this But the bottle wasn't designed until 1916. And the inspiration for the bottle shape was a coco bean. The reason they needed a distinct bottle was because they had competitors who copied their logo (Koka-Nola, Ma Coca-Co, Toka-Cola and even Koke). They tried changing logo's but the bottles were often stored on big barrels of cold water to keep them chilled and labels just fell off. So they got their own bottle design that competitors couldn't copy.http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/the-story-of-the-coca-cola-bottle
