Petroleum Marketing Annual released August 6, 2010
Monthly price and volume statistics on crude oil and petroleum products at a national, regional and state level.
http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/petroleum_marketing_annual/pma.html

Ohioans chose light-bulb inventor Thomas Edison instead of the Wright brothers to represent the state in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Out of 37,000 votes cast over three months of voting, Edison snagged 12,132 votes while Wilbur and Orville grabbed 10,895. Former U.S. Rep. William McCulloch of Piqua came in a distant third among the 10 top nominees with 3,569 votes. The National Statuary Collection Study Committee will give the public vote great weight when deciding which famous Ohioan should go to the U.S. Capitol. The committee will make its recommendation to the full Legislature.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/edison-beats-wright-bros-in-voting-for-capitol-statue-801620.html

Mummies as commodities
From the 1100s until opinions changed in the 1700s, powdered or chopped up pieces of a mummy were considered a cure for many different health problems, including diseases, poisoning, open wounds, and even broken bones. "Mummy Brown" or “Egyptian Brown” was a paint composed of powdered mummy. Most often used in watercolor and oil painting during the 1500s and 1600s, artists enjoyed its pleasing color and texture although it was prone to cracking. Mummy Brown abruptly fell out of use in the 1800s after its gruesome composition became known. In Britain during the 1830s and 1840s, mummy “unwrapping” parties were popular. Tourists traveling to Egypt would bring back a mummy and invite friends over to witness the unwrapping of the mummy, followed by refreshments. Victorians also found it interesting to keep the hand or foot of a mummy as a display piece.
http://www.suite101.com/content/egyptian-mummies-as-commodities-a84841

Frankincense is the dried resin from trees of the genus Boswellia. They grow in arid climates and under very poor growing conditions. The trees are tapped and the resin that leaks out is dried into white clumps. Myrrh is a shrubby desert tree of the genus Burseraceae. Myrrh trees can grow to as tall as 9 feet. Frankincense and myrrh were used as embalming agents by the Egyptians. Traces were found in the mummy of Tutankhamen, who died in 1339 B.C.E.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5038332_uses-frankincense-myrrh.html

Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School (loosely based on William Howard Taft School), follows ten working-class kids as they navigate the complexities of love, cars, and drive-ins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_(musical)

American Graffiti is a 1973 coming of age comedy-drama film co-written and directed by George Lucas. Set in Modesto, California, American Graffiti is a study of the cruising and rock and roll cultures popular among the Post-World War II baby boom generation. The film is a nostalgic portrait of teenage life in the early 1960s told in a series of vignettes, featuring a group of teenagers and their adventures in a single night in late August 1962.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graffiti

The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world. Located in park-like grounds across the street from Central Park, the Museum comprises 25 interconnected buildings that house 46 permanent exhibition halls, research laboratories, and its renowned library. As the "New York Museum of Natural History", the Museum is a favorite setting in many Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novels, including Relic, Reliquary, The Cabinet of Curiosities, and The Book of the Dead. F.B.I. Special Agent Aloysius X. L. Pendergast plays a major role in all of these thrillers. Preston was actually manager of publications at the Museum before embarking upon his fiction writing career. The museum in the film Night at the Museum (2006) is based on a 1993 book that was set at the AMNH (The Night at the Museum). See AMNH mentions in popular culture at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Museum_of_Natural_History

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities and magazines. Most of its facilities are located in Washington, D.C., but its 19 museums, zoo, and nine research centers include sites in New York City, Virginia, Panama, and elsewhere. See list of locations and much more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution