The 2025 Indianapolis 500 (branded as the 109th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge) is an IndyCar Series event scheduled to be held on Sunday, May 25, 2025, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.  The race is round six of the 2025 NTT IndyCar Series season.  The month of May activities formally began with the Sonsio Grand Prix on the combined road course.  The race will be televised on FOX for the first time in its history.  Practice began on Tuesday May 13.  Time Trials will be held on May 17–18, and Carb Day, the traditional final day of practice, is set for Friday May 23.  Josef Newgarden of Team Penske enters as the two-time defending race winner.  Four-time winner Hélio Castroneves is expected to make his milestone 25th start, and is again seeking to become the first five-time winner of the Indy 500.  Kyle Larson is making his second attempt at "Double Duty" after failing to succeed in 2024, as that year's Coca-Cola 600 was called for rain.  The 2025 race marks the first year of hybrid energy recovery system powertrains at Indianapolis.  The new ERC powertrains were first introduced in the series in July 2024 at Mid-Ohio.   The Indianapolis 500, commonly called the Indy 500, is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a 2.5-mile (4.02 km) paved oval.  First held in 1911, it is currently a points-paying race of the NTT IndyCar Series.  The event is contested by "Indy cars", a formula of professional-level, single-seat, open cockpit, open-wheel, purpose-built race cars.  The race is the most prestigious event of the IndyCar calendar, and one of the oldest and most important automobile races in the world.  The race traditionally has a field of 33 cars.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Indianapolis_500   

Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom "America" is named.  Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery between 1497 and 1504, first on behalf of Spain (1499–1500) and then for Portugal (1501–1502).  In 1503 and 1505, two booklets were published under his name containing colourful descriptions of these explorations and other voyages.  Both publications were extremely popular and widely read throughout much of Europe.  Historians still dispute the authorship and veracity of these accounts, but they were instrumental in raising awareness of the discoveries and enhancing the reputation of Vespucci as an explorer and navigator.  Vespucci claimed to have understood in 1501 that Brazil was part of a fourth continent unknown to Europeans, which he called the "New World".  The claim inspired cartographer Martin Waldseemüller to recognize Vespucci's accomplishments in 1507 by applying the Latinized form "America" to a map showing the New World.  Other cartographers followed suit, securing the tradition of marking the name "America" on maps of the newly discovered continents.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci 

 

malarkey (plural (rare) malarkeys)  noun  (originally US, informal)  Nonsense; rubbish. [from 1920s] synonym ▲quotations ▼

Of unknown origin; the word was popularized by the Irish-American cartoonist Thomas Aloysius (“Tad”) Dorgan (1877–1929), who started using it in cartoons on March 9, 1922.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malarkey 

Woodward Houses are two historic homes located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.  The house at 701 West Street was built about 1745, and is a 3+¹⁄₂-story, three-bay, quarried granite dwelling with a gable roof.  It has an L-shaped, side-hall plan.  The house at 703 West Street was built about 1760, and is a 3+¹⁄₂-story, three-bay, stuccoed stone dwelling with a gable roof.  It is three feet shorter in both length and width than 701.  Its interior was altered in the mid-19th century and then in the 1930s to accommodate apartment dwellings.  They are excellent examples of the Georgian style.  The houses were probably built by Joseph Woodward, a Quaker ropemaker from West Chester, Pennsylvania.  There is a legend that the house at 703 contains a hearthstone which was a section of the platform where Thomas Jefferson stood to read the Declaration of Independence to the people of Philadelphia.  The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward_Houses 

The Brinton 1704 House & Historic Site, built in 1704 by the Brintons, a Quaker family, is one of the oldest in Pennsylvania.  It has been restored to its original state and is filled with furniture and other pieces from the 1700's.  The House is open for tours Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00-5:00, May through October, and by appointment.  https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g53951-d10446036-Reviews-Brinton_1704_House_Historic_Site-West_Chester_Pennsylvania.html  The Brintons from England landed at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, and lived in caves until they found a suitable place and built the house.   

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