lets forget about sizes it makes me sad

Did you know why a hotdog is called a hotdog???
In 1987, Frankfurt, Germany celebrated the 500th birthday of the frankfurter, the hot dog sausage. Although, the people of Vienna (Wien), Austria will point out that their wiener sausages are proof of origin for the hot dog. (By the way, ham, being pork meat, is found in hotdogs.) According to Douglas B. Smith in his book "Every wonder why?" the hotdog was given its name by a cartoonist.

A butcher from Frankfurt who owned a dachshund named the long frankfurter sausage a "dachshund sausage," the dachshund being a slim dog with a long body. ("Dachshund" is German for "badger dog." They were originally bred for hunting badgers.) German immigrants introduced the dachshund sausage (and Hamburg meat) to the United States. In 1871, German butcher Charles Feltman opened the first "hotdog" stand in Coney Island in 1871, selling 3,684 dachshund sausages, most wrapped in a milk bread roll, during his first year in business.

In the meantime, frankfurters - and wieners - were sold as hot food by sausage sellers. In 1901, New York Times cartoonist T.A. Dargan noticed that one sausage seller used bread buns to handle the hot sausages after he burnt his fingers and decided to illustrate the incident. He wasn´t sure of the spelling of dachshund and simply called it "hot dog."


ohh these Germans!!

did you know that, first ferries came to Istanbul in 1853?

The Bosphorous Steam Navigation Co or its Turkish name Sirketi Hayriye was established in 1851 and construction of the ferries was given to a Greek banker called Baltaci Manolki.

He had a son living in London and through him, he brought 6 ferries named as 

No 1 Rumeli,

No 2 Tarabya,

No 3 Göksu,

No 4 Beylerbeyi,

No 5 Tophane

No 6 Besiktas.

They were all built in Isle of Wight!

that is the link http://www.bartiesworld.co.uk/postcards/ship_list_commercial.htm 

I can not find pictures of them but it must be something like that: 

http://bp3.blogger.com/..fbbo/s400/sahilbent_jpg.jpg

ps I thought, IOW is a such a small place with a population around 500 people..I never knew they had ship construction there..you always learn something new..

WOW!!! That is soooooo interesting!  I lived in Cowes until early this year and know Samuel Whites very well. That is amazing!!!

Yes, theH, Cowes (and it´s annual regatta) on the Isle of Wight is known all over the world as one of the yachting capitals, and YES we also build ships....we are also the home of the hovercraft

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A471412

PS. 500 people?  The last census recorded our population as 132,731!!!

ha ha

You seemed quite proud of your hovercrafts...

..

The folks who live in Cowes and 
Gurnard tremble by the thousand, 
And the peace of Ryde is shattered everyday. 
So if you want a place that´s silent, 
You´d better leave the Island, 
You can hear the bloody thing at Totland Bay.

is this IOW national anthem?  

 Yes!!!! Where the hell did you find that song?

EDIT:  Ahh ok it was at the bottom of the link

did you know that British victory during Battle of Waterloo was the result of some lost leeches?

On the day, Napoleon was  suffering  an acute  attack of haemorrhoids that stopped him riding his horse and ultimately lost the ability the supervise his troops movement..

And two days earlier his doctor had lost the leeches which were used to relieve him from the pain of his piles and overdosed him with laudanum..

He was still under the effects of the drug at that morning and his assult which was planned at 6 am, was delayed till midday..

That is why he was defeated..