According to Adam Smith (1723-1790), the “invisible hand” of economics is competition that regulates the marketplace.
He first made this observation in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776).
Panama hats have always been made in Ecuador, where their manufacture helps to support the economy. They were once distributed through Panama.
“I Love Lucy” ran for six seasons, from October 15, 1951, to June 24, 1957.
Part of the reason for the orientation of buttons on clothing is custom. Men usually dressed themselves, and because most men are right-handed, buttoning from the right made sense. Women were more often dressed by maids, and maids found it easier to work from their right, the wearer’s left.
The original cheese comes from the city of Gouda in the western Netherlands, chartered in 1272.
The name for the artistic movement Dada was founded in Zurich in 1915 as a revolt against complacent art. It is drawn not from an artist or a technique but from the child’s word for a parent, dada, which in French, curiously, also means “hobbyhorse.” Whatever its origin, the name Dada is intended to be…
Over a 60-year period, groundhogs have been only 28 percent accurate in guessing when spring will start. This may be because their staying out of their burrows or rushing back into them has more to do with sexual desire or hunger than with weather or shadows.