Who was Sarah Winchester?

Sarah L. Winchester (September 1839 – September 5, 1922) was the wife of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to his estate and a 50 percent holding in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company following his death from tuberculosis in 1881. Convinced spirits would kill her if she completed construction of her California home, Sarah used her fortune to continue uninterrupted, round-the-clock construction on it for 38 consecutive years. Since her death, the sprawling Winchester Mystery House has become a popular tourist attraction, known for its many staircases and corridors leading nowhere. Texsource Wikipedia
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www.winchestermysteryhouse.com

Haunted Travels: The Winchester Mansion

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Why do movies use 555 numbers?

The phone companies began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies to use the 555 prefix for fictional telephone numbers, roughly during the 1960s. One of the earliest uses of a 555 number can be seen in Panic in Year Zero! (1962), with 555-2106.
In older television shows from the 1950s or 1960s, "Klondike 5" or "Klamath 5" was used, as at the time the telephone exchanges used letters and numbers in phone numbers. More recent works set in this period typically use this convention as well. For example, in Back to the Future Dr. Emmett Brown's 1955 phone number is "Klondike 5-4385" while the 1985 Jennifer Parker character writes the number 555-4823 on the clock tower flier telling Marty to call her at her grandmother's.
In 2011, the fictional Netflix Relief Fund satirized the company's price increase of that year and used the fictional number 1-555-368-7147...
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555 Wikipedia
TV Tropes FiveFiveFive
A compilation of 555 numbers

What is an Italian Beef Sandwich?

An Italian beef is a sandwich of thin slices of seasoned roast beef, dripping with meat juices, on a dense, long Italian-style roll, believed to have originated in Chicago, where its history dates back at least to the 1930s.[1] The bread itself is often dipped (or double-dipped) into the juices the meat is cooked in, and the sandwich is typically topped off with Chicago-style giardiniera (called "hot") or sauteed, green Italian sweet peppers (called "sweet").

Italian beef sandwiches can be found at most hot dog stands and small Italian-American restaurants throughout the city of Chicago and its suburbs. They are difficult to find outside the Chicago metropolitan area. However, Chicago expatriates have opened restaurants across the country serving Italian beef,
Chicago-style hot dogs, and other foods original to the Chicago area.
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Al´s Beef Chicagos #1 Italian Beef since 1938
Unfortunately not in Austria.

www.great-chicago-italian-recipes.com
www.seriouseats.com

What is TIKI Culture???

Tiki culture refers to a 20th-century theme used in Polynesian -style restaurants and clubs originally in the United States and then, to a lesser degree, around the world. Although inspired in part by Tiki carvings and mythology, the connection is loose and stylistic.
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Some interesting links from this great era of american culture:
Tiki on wikipedia
Tiki daze
The Hukilau
The Tikiroom

What's Up Wit' That? - Tiki Culture

USA Ice cream

Everything about ice cream in the USA. For example, what is an ice cream truck and whats about ice cream truck tunes (absolutly unknown in Austria). Also famous ice cream companys, brands and many more.
Ice cream USA
Ice cream trucks Wikipedia
Michael Hearst - Songs for ice cream trucks
Ice Cream Truck Music
Ice cream truck superstore


Mr. Softee

1,540 Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts Companies in the U.S.
Ice cream brands around the world, wikipedia
Breyer´s ice cream
Good Humor ice cream
Baskin-Robbins
Ben&Jerry´s Austria
Ice Cream Chains

Ice cream reciepes an other informations
www.ice-cream-recipes.com
Eiscreme a la USA
THE 15 MOST POPULAR ICE CREAM FLAVORS
Legends and Myths of Ices & Ice Cream
Ice Cream
Selected Internet Resources-Ice Cream The Library of Congress
www.icecream.com
Other Ice Cream Pages - Businesses
Ice Cream Books
2Dips Ice Cream Tasters
International Dairy Foods Association

Where is the "Seattle Greace Hospital" located?

Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered as a mid-season replacement on March 27, 2005 on ABC....
Fisher Plaza, which is the headquarters building for the media company Fisher Communications and Fisher's ABC affiliated KOMO radio and television stations for Seattle, is used for some exterior shots of Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, such as air ambulances landing on the KOMO-TV newscopter's helipad. This puts Seattle Grace conveniently close to the Space Needle (which is directly across the street from Fisher Plaza), the Seattle Monorail, and other local landmarks. However, the hospital used for most other exterior and many interior shots is not in Seattle; these scenes are shot at the VA Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center in North Hills, California. (Text source wikipedia)
Grey's Anatomy on Wikipedia
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Believe it or not, a hospital from the rainy city is located in sunny California!!!!
That means, if you are on a trip to California, visit North Hill and take a look at these nice hospital.

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What is a "Cupcake"?

A cupcake (British English: fairy cake; Australian English: patty cake or cup cake) is a small cake designed to serve one person, frequently baked in a small, thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations, such as sprinkles, are common on cupcakes.(Textsource Wikipedia)
Wikipedia Cupcake
Brandnew in Austria, the best Cupcakes you can get, unfortunately only in Vienna
www.cupcakes-wien.at
Cupcakes on www.usa-kulinarisch.de

Where can I find the "Wisteria Lane"?

Wisteria Lane is a fictional street appearing in the American television series Desperate Housewives. The set used for the street is Colonial Street on the Universal Studios backlot outside Los Angeles.(Text source Wikipedia)
www.thestudiotour.com
www.universalstudioshollywood.com
Wikipedia Wisteria Lane
Google maps

K or W - What a Callsign mean

Wie die Sender in den USA zu ihren "seltsamen" Namen kommen.

United States Callsign Policies
K/W Call Letters in the United States

UNITED STATES EARLY RADIO HISTORY

What does ACME mean??

Simply said: A Company that Manufactures Everything

More ACME information under:

Wikipedia (german)
Wikipedia(english)
ACME Laboratories
A closer look at ACME Products

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