Founded in 1972, the Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New Jersey is dedicated to the preservation of the Garden State's distinguished, two-century aviation and space heritage. http://www.njahof.org/

As part of Lincoln Center's renovation, the Revson fountain has been reimagined. Instead of the old, low-walled fountain (designed by Philip Johnson), architects Diller, Scofido + Renfro created a "floating granite ring"—which acts as seating, if you don't mind getting a little wet—around the water. From the press release: The pool of water is lowered and converted to a shallow water surface at Plaza level. New technologies provide automated windspray sensors that adjust water pressure, height, and volume. Special nozzles and lighting systems allow for a multitude of special-effect water and light configurations. In terms of choreography, the fountain can create a wide range of water expressions from slow morphing geometric masses to fast paced chases. At night, the fountain is vibrantly illuminated with white light. The fountain's effects were designed by WET, the design firm behind the fountain at Columbus Circe and the famous fountain at Las Vegas' Bellagio Hotel. See pictures at: http://gothamist.com/2009/10/02/lincoln_center_fountain_returns_wit.php

WET (Water Entertainment Technologies), also known as WET Design, is a water feature design firm based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 1983 by former Disney Imagineers Mark Fuller, Melanie Simon, and Alan Robinson. WET is best known for its 9-acre (36,000 m2) Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas, but the company has also designed over two hundred fountains and architectural water features in many parts of the world. [1] T he antecedents of WET can be found in Mark Fuller’s undergraduate thesis in Civil Engineering at the University of Utah, for which he developed a large-scale laminar-flow nozzle that went on to be a major element in many of WET’s fountains and water features. After graduating Stanford University in product design, where he refined his laminar-flow nozzle, Fuller was hired by the The Walt Disney Company as an Imagineer. During his time at Disney, he created the “Leapfrog” fountain at Epcot, using laminar technology. [4] In 1983, Fuller and two coworkers left Disney to found WET. The company’s first major commission was Fountain Place (originally Allied Bank Tower) in Dallas, Texas, a collaboration with landscape architects, Peter Ker Walker and Dan Kiley. [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WET_Design If you have been to the Navy Pier in Chicago, EPCOT Center at Disney World, the Detroit Airport, or the Brooklyn Museum of Art, you have probably seen fountains designed by WET.

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How did broad come to refer to a woman?
O.E. brad, from P.Gmc. *braithaz (cf. O.Fris. bred, O.N. breiðr, Du. breed, Ger. breit, Goth. brouþs), of unknown origin. Slang extension to meaning "woman" (1911) may be suggestive of broad hips, but it also may trace to Amer.Eng. abroadwife, for a woman away from her husband, often a slave. Earliest use suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women in athletics, the track and field broad jump was changed to the long jump about 1967. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090523120231AAVDvbJ

I wondered what the five counties were in "Penta County" Vocational School in Perrysburg, Ohio. The school's Web site doesn't mention the counties, but a Google search brought up a 1965 article in the Toledo Blade naming Lucas, Wood, Fulton, Ottawa and Sandusky counties.
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There are seven places named Middletown in Pennsylvania. http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist?place1=middletown%2C+pa&place2=

Silent letters
wrong, write, brought, bright

buskin (BUS-kin) noun
1. A thick-soled laced boot, reaching to the knee or calf, worn by actors of ancient Greek tragedies. Also known as cothurnus.
2. A tragic drama.
Perhaps from Middle French brousequin.
A thick-soled boot was a distinctive feature of a tragic actor in ancient Greece. It elevated him and raised his stature. Because those big shoes were often worn by tragedians, we came to refer to a tragedy itself as a buskin. A counterpart of buskin is sock (a comedy) after soccus, a lightweight low shoe worn by comic actors.
sock (sawk) noun
A light, low-heeled shoe worn by ancient Greek comic actors, and by extension a comedy.
From Latin soccus (slipper). The term "sock and buskin" refers to the theatrical profession collectively.
quantum (KWON-tuhm) noun
1. A quantity or amount.
2. A portion.
3. A large amount.
4. The smallest amount of something that can exist independently.
adjective: Sudden; major.
From Latin, neuter of quantus (how much or how great). In physics, a quantum jump or quantum leap is usually a small change, while in popular usage the term is used to mean a significant change. A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

To your health
This idea of lightening up on the calories can become harder than it has to be. Instead of going the "lite" route—where you end up eating chemical-laden dishes filled with substitutes for real cheese, real bread, real meat, and real sweets—check out cuisines that are naturally healthier and lower in calories. Look at Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, and Japanese cooking. These are countries where, with the exception of the occasional feast of pork or fried foods, dishes are vegetable-centered, low in fat and intriguingly seasoned. The Splendid Table January 6, 2010