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Name something that your region of the world has contributed to the rest of the world.

AJUMP23

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I live in the South of the US and I think one of the best things the south has done is BBQ. The food is amazing, and every region has their own twist, from the White sauce in Alabama, to the Dry rubbed ribs of Memphis. Nothing is better than good BBQ, and bad BBQ is still pretty good.

Barbecue, according to research done by The Smithsonian, began during the Colonial Era in Virginia. Colonists observed Native Americans smoking and drying meats over an open flame. Then, the British settlers put their own spin on it with basting, using mostly butter or vinegar, to keep the meat moist while grilling over an open flame. Years later, as slaves from the Caribbean were brought to the U.S., they also brought their own flavors, spices, and techniques. Thus, barbecue was born.
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Now it is your turn, give something that your areas contributed, provide a little history and why you like it or think its important. Also discuss with everyone what they talk about.
 
DESTROYA

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Rockets

Robert H. Goddard

Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched his rocket on March 16, 1926, ushering in an era of space flight and innovation.
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Pretty much speaks for itself
 
TindalosPup

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Marshmallow Fluff
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On May 14, 1920, a small article appeared in the Lynn, Massachusetts, Daily Evening Item announcing that two young men, H. Allen Durkee and Fred L. Mower, both graduates of Swampscott High and veterans of the United States Infantry in World War I, had formed a partnership in the manufacture of Marshmallow Fluff. The actual date that they started working together is hard to pin down, because they had been making candies together before they started making Fluff. The company numbered two men in those days, and they started out cooking their confections in the kitchen at night and selling them door to door in the daytime.

As Durkee wrote in 1930: “Ten years ago we started out with one barrel of sugar (at 28 cents per pound) a few tin cans: two spoons: one second hand Ford, and no customers, but plenty of prospects. Today (after a short span of only ten years) we have thru the fine cooperation of the wholesale grocers, the largest distribution of marshmallow cream in New England, and no Ford.”

The origins of Marshmallow Fluff actually go back to 1917. Before WWI, a Somerville MA man named Archibald Query had been making it in his kitchen and selling it door to door, but wartime shortages had forced him to close down. By the time the war was over, Mr Query had other work and was uninterested in restarting his business, but he was willing to sell the formula. Durkee and Mower pooled their saving and bought it for five hundred dollars. Having just returned from France, they punningly renamed their product “Toot Sweet Marshmallow Fluff” but “Toot Sweet” didn’t stay on the label for long. The situation of “no customers, but plenty of prospects” didn’t last long either.
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DESTROYA

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TindalosPup said:
Our region is pretty cool

Harvey Ball (from Worcester) also invented the SMILEY FACE 🙂
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Yup, we might have shitty winters but we have done some cool things.

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Did you know about these famous firsts?

  • The Declaration of Independence was first publicly read in Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester in July 1776.
  • The monkey wrench was invented by the Coes brothers in 1840.
  • Worcester resident Charles Thurber patented the first modern-day typewriter in 1843.
  • The first national convention of women advocating women’s suffrage was held in Worcester on October 23 and 24, 1850.
  • In 1854, Elm Park was the first purchase of land, with tax-levy funds, for a public park in the United States.
  • Worcester resident Joshua Stoddard invented the steam calliope in 1855.
  • J. Lee Richmond of the Worcesters pitched the first perfect game in major league baseball history on June 12, 1880.
  • Worcester resident Henry Perky became the first to mass produce shredded wheat in the U.S. in 1895.
  • Albert A. Michelson, later chairman of Clark University’s Physics Department, is named America’s first Nobel Prize Winner in 1902.
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lock2k

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Stiflers Mom said:
"Arise" is one of the greatest albums of all time, imo.

I am from Germany, and we have given Einstein, Kopernikus, Nietzsche, Gauss, Beethoven, Goethe and Veronica Moser scat porn to the world.

Enjoy...
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Agreed - so much raw energy and the fact that the instruments were not even tuned properly and it didn't use a metronome, tempos are all over the place, making it more chaotic. Great album :)

I like a lot of German bands including Scorpions, Any Given Day, Rammstein, Juli, Accept, Caliban, Blind Guardian, Megaherz, etc :)
 
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Stiflers Mom

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lock2k said:
Agreed - so much raw energy and the fact that the instruments were not even tuned properly and it didn't use a metronome, tempos are all over the place, making it more chaotic. Great album :)
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It's amazing. so much raw energy.
I went to the concert of Sepultura here in Munich in 1991 on the Arise tour.
I am not even a metal head, but I needed to see them performing this live.

And it was crazy amazing.

lock2k said:
I like a lot of German bands including Scorpions, Any Given Day, Rammstein, Juli, Accept, Caliban, Blind Guardian, Megaherz, etc :)
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LOL, I don't like any of them, to be honest.
 
belmarduk

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AJUMP23 said:
I live in the South of the US and I think one of the best things the south has done is BBQ. The food is amazing, and every region has their own twist, from the White sauce in Alabama, to the Dry rubbed ribs of Memphis. Nothing is better than good BBQ, and bad BBQ is still pretty good.




Now it is your turn, give something that your areas contributed, provide a little history and why you like it or think its important. Also discuss with everyone what they talk about.
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How could you completely ignore Carolina BBQ in this context??? Its the best one. You need to go to a pig pickin, son.
 
lock2k

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Stiflers Mom said:
It's amazing. so much raw energy.
I went to the concert of Sepultura here in Munich in 1991 on the Arise tour.
I am not even a metal head, but I needed to see them performing this live.

And it was crazy amazing.


LOL, I don't like any of them, to be honest.
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That's cool. I'm a huge metalhead though. But that's a really cool story about Sepultura. I never got to see them with Max, only afterwards I was able to see them with Derrick and also Soulfly with Igor participating, and they played a lot of classic Seps material :)
 
INC

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John Logie Baird 1888-1946​

Baird came to Hastings in 1922 to recover from ill health. He took lodgings in Linton Crescent and set up a laboratory over a shop in Queens Arcade where he transmitted the first moving image in 1924, based on the Maltese Cross of a St Johns Ambulance Medal. Baird subsequently moved to London where his invention was taken up by the BBC in 1929. He returned to Sussex in 1941 and lived at Station Road, Bexhill until his death in 1946.

You're welcome


And 1066 the battle of hastings, not sure counts as contributing tho......
 
Stiflers Mom

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lock2k said:
That's cool. I'm a huge metalhead though. But that's a really cool story about Sepultura. I never got to see them with Max, only afterwards I was able to see them with Derrick and also Soulfly with Igor participating, and they played a lot of classic Seps material :)
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I was more of a punk, hardcore and crossover person back then, being a skateboarder and that.

Maybe have a look at Jingo de Lunch:


and Spermbirds:


if you want to listen to what I think is some good german made music from that time period..
 
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AJUMP23

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belmarduk said:
How could you completely ignore Carolina BBQ in this context??? Its the best one. You need to go to a pig pickin, son.
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Not mentioning isn’t ignoring. But I’m glad you brought it up because they have great sweet sauces for their BBQ.

What do you like best about Carolina BBQ?
 
Happosai

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I live in Mexico but am from the U.S. Since I'm staying here permanently now I can say that this country has contributed some of the following to the world:

-Best food (burritos don't count...I've lived here 5-years and no one sells them or even knows if they're a Mexican food). Seems like reading through posts that many people pick Chinese, Italian, or Mexican food when going for something non traditional. No, Taco Bell does not make authentic Mexican food. I don't hate what they make but it's really their own invention or take on Mexican food.

-Color CRTV technology. The man who pretty much invented color CRTV was a Mexican.

- Popcorn

- Chocolate (ancient Mayans were drinking hot chocolate a could thousand years ago). It tastes very different here than anything I had growing up. Very strong.

- Chewing gum

-Tequila...extracted from the agave and some of the best is from right near where I live.
 
lock2k

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bender said:
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I...actually like Creed. There, I said it. lol

The first record is legit.
Happosai said:
I live in Mexico but am from the U.S. Since I'm staying here permanently now I can say that this country has contributed some of the following to the world:

-Best food (burritos don't count...I've lived here 5-years and no one sells them or even knows if they're a Mexican food). Seems like reading through posts that many people pick Chinese, Italian, or Mexican food when going for something non traditional. No, Taco Bell does not make authentic Mexican food. I don't hate what they make but it's really their own invention or take on Mexican food.

-Color CRTV technology. The man who pretty much invented color CRTV was a Mexican.

- Popcorn

- Chocolate (ancient Mayans were drinking hot chocolate a could thousand years ago). It tastes very different here than anything I had growing up. Very strong.

- Chewing gum

-Tequila...extracted from the agave and some of the best is from right near where I live.
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Man... Mexican food... no one knows true Mexican food in Brazil. They think Tex Mex is authentic and when I got back from Mexico City I explained that it's pretty much a form of American Food. I do like Tex Mex and I even ate at a Tex Mex place in Mexico one day and they even liked it as well, but it has NOTHING to do with Mexican food.

But man... that list of inventions... some of the best things in humanity actually came from Mexico. Cool stuff.

I FUCKING LOVE the corn from Mexico, it's sublime.
 
Happosai

Happosai

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lock2k said:
I...actually like Creed. There, I said it. lol

The first record is legit.

Man... Mexican food... no one knows true Mexican food in Brazil. They think Tex Mex is authentic and when I got back from Mexico City I explained that it's pretty much a form of American Food. I do like Tex Mex and I even ate at a Tex Mex place in Mexico one day and they even liked it as well, but it has NOTHING to do with Mexican food.

But man... that list of inventions... some of the best things in humanity actually came from Mexico. Cool stuff.

I FUCKING LOVE the corn from Mexico, it's sublime.
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I'm a gringo who moved here and I thought the Mexican food I had growing up was the real deal; it wasn't. I'm in Puebla and they have all these local foods/dishes which aren't even sold in other parts of the country (mole poblano, chiles en nogada, chiles navidenas, chile poblano, etc). We have a ton of American franchises here but the Tex-Mex stuff is more common to border states or Mexico City (they have everything). I didn't know about the chocolate until I came here. I always figured that was South America. You're up now - Brasil has some cool ones too.
 
lock2k

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Happosai said:
I'm a gringo who moved here and I thought the Mexican food I had growing up was the real deal; it wasn't. I'm in Puebla and they have all these local foods/dishes which aren't even sold in other parts of the country (mole poblano, chiles en nogada, chiles navidenas, chile poblano, etc). We have a ton of American franchises here but the Tex-Mex stuff is more common to border states or Mexico City (they have everything). I didn't know about the chocolate until I came here. I always figured that was South America. You're up now - Brasil has some cool ones too.
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I already listed Sepultura because it was cool and I was lazy to tell more, but there are some interesting.

The Caller ID was invented by a Brazilian engineer called Nelio José Nicolai, but he registered it in the U.S. because it was easier, so it's perceived as an American invention.

We also invented the airplane. Both the Wright Brothers invented it in the U.S. and Santos Dumont also made a plane, but he was living in Paris at the time. I heard Santos Dumont invented the wrist watch but I don't know if it's true.

Another funny thing is the fact that Brazil had 7 string guitars (although acoustic) way before it became popular in the rest of the world (I head Russia also had one, but I'm not sure). They are used to play a style called chorinho and are normally tuned B E A D G B E or C E A D G B E

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with the Gracies.

Brazilian wax :messenger_tears_of_joy:

Edit: I forgot to list... Instagram was co-founded by Mike Krieger, an engineer from São Paulo whose real name is Michel but he changed it because it sounds like Michelle in the U.S.
 
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