TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Greetings Infomaniacs,Well, it's the first day of spring, but it certainly doesn't feel very springlike outside! Does anybody out there actually enjoy cold weather and snow? I have one friend who looks forward to winter. Not me. Bring on the warm weather and sunshine, please!
Enjoy!
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Visit and Enjoy: EVTV1.com TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."
HINT: (1926-2012), American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.
RANDOM TIDBITSHenry Ford called the Model T the "universal car," a low-cost, reliable vehicle that could be maintained easily and could successfully travel the poor roads of the era. By 1916, 55% of all cars were Ford Model T's.
Ford owned a controversial anti-Semitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, an offensive publication which damaged Ford's reputation. Hitler believed that Henry Ford was a perfect example for what all Germans should become.
As most people know, Ford produced the first assembly line for automobiles. He supposedly got the idea from a process that was used to slaughter pigs.
Though it owns a portfolio of British brands - Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo - UAW Ford does not consider them American cars.
Henry Ford was especially fond of Thomas Edison, and on Edison's deathbed, he demanded Edison's son catch his final breath in a test tube. The test tube can still be found today in Henry Ford Museum.
Mahatma Gandhi never visited the U.S., but he had many American fans and followers. One of his more unusual admirers was Henry Ford. Gandhi sent him an autographed charkha (spinning wheel) through a journalist emissary.
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."
ANSWER: Zig Ziglar.
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