Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Twisted pair barb wire<br> * Cassette Tapes<br> * Antartica<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1m3">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * If you were in the virtual world, what would your pop culture avatar be?<br> <br> * Voice mail from Krazy Joe<br> * Tiffany Mangan: Danaerys Stormborn on her dragon<br> * John Miller Jr. – Optimus Prime<br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for January 10, 2018<br> This is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining in 2018.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1776, that Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense.<br> * On January 10, 1812, the first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.<br> * The Metropolitan Railway, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground on this date in 1863.<br> * January 10, 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.<br> * 117 years ago today, the first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.<br> * Also today in 1927, Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.<br> * 56 years ago today, NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.<br> * Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications on this date in 1990.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * German astronomer, Simon Marius, born on this date in 1573.<br> * Lazzaro Spallanzani, the Italian priest, biologist, and physiologist was born 289 years ago today.<br> * English physician and academic, founded Birkbeck, University of London, George Birkbeck was born 242 years ago today.<br> * Born January 10, 1780, German physician and explorer Martin Lichtenstein.<br> * Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway was born on that same date in 1802.<br> * Italian paleontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, Luigi Pigorini, born on this date in 1842.<br> * American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building, John Wellborn Root was born 168 years ago today.<br> * Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic was born on that same date in 1875.<br> * Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the Russian journalist, author, and poet was born 135 years ago today.<br> * Born January 10, 1891, German mathematician and academic Heinrich Behmann.<br> * Katharine Burr Blodgett, the American physicist and engineer was born 120 years ago today.<br> * American engineer and inventor, Gordon Kidd Teal was born 111 years ago today.<br> * Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1916.<br> * American businessman, Roy E. Disney was born 88 years ago today.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1938, American computer scientist and mathematician, Donald Knuth.<br> * American singer-songwriter and musician, Donald Fagen is 70 today.<br> * Also turning 65 today is American singer-songwriter Pat Benatar.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1962, American computer scientist and academic, Kathryn S. McKinley.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> * 03 – Thomas Gideon (<a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/page/http%2F%2Fthecommandline.net">The Command Line Podcast</a>)<br> * 06 – Steve Therrien (Canada)<br> * 08 – Elvis!<br> * 09 – <a href="http://www.thebritandyankee.com/">Lingo</a> from <a href="http://www.thebritandyankee.com/">the Brit & Yankee pubcast</a><br> * 14 – Glynne Tolar<br>
