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Who are some famous people with tattoos?
I am a female who collects ink (LOVE IT!). To answer your question, Thomas Edison, Queen Victoria, Lady Churchill (Mrs. Winston Churchill), JFK Jr., Britney Spears,Ben Affleck, the late Heath Ledger, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, all the members of KORN, POD, Godsmack, and oh so many more.
What was the first cat in space?
Long, long before fictional figure Commander Data traveled on the Enterprise with his cat Spot, France was testing cats for space flight. Felix and Felicette were apparently two street cats in the program (10 were de-commissioned for eating too much!), with Felix being the feline chosen to undertake the first mission. According to one report, Felix escaped the flight -- whether by literally escaping or being decommissioned is not known -- and was replaced by the female cat Felicette. On October 18, 1963, the cat blasted off in a special capsule on top of French Veronique AGI sounding rocket No. 47, from the Colomb Bacar rocket base at the Hammaguir test range in the Algerian Sahara desert. The cat did not actually go into orbit, but traveled 100-130 miles into space. Throughout the flight electrodes transmitted neurological impulses back to Earth. After approximately 15 minutes, the capsule separated and the pod, with cat inside, descended by parachute and was rescued. Pod and cat were safely recovered, and the French Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherches de Medecine Aeronautique (CERMA) affirmed afterwards that the cat had made a valuable contribution to research. A second flight occurred on October 24, but whether the same cat was the 'Astrocat' traveler for the second flight is unknown. There were problems with the recovery, and the unfortunate traveler died.
What is president Roosevelt's ties to Georgia including his visit to warm springs and his impact on the state?
President Roosevelt had been a frequent visitor to Georgia, spending time at the “Little White House” in Warm Springs. On March 30, the president returned to the Little White House. He planned to rest and work on a speech for the United Nations. On April 24, Roosevelt was sitting for a portrait. Suddenly, the president put his hand to his head and said, “I have a terrific headache.” At 5:48 p.m., a stunned nation learned of the death of the man who had led the country through recovery from the depression, through the New Deal, and to the brink of victory in World War II. He had suffered a massive stroke. As Roosevelt’s body was carried by train from Warm Springs back to the nation’s capital, the tracks were lined by thousands of crying Georgians who had come to think of Roosevelt as one of their own. Whole families stood alongside the railroad tracks to say goodbye to their beloved president. And, it was not just Georgia. All along the route to Washington, Americans stood with their hands over their hearts in a final salute. Vice President Harry S. Truman became president on the death of Roosevelt and was the nation’s commander-in-chief during the final months of World War II.
