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A microwave oven or simply microwave is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range. [1] This induces polar molecules in the food to rotate and produce thermal energy (heat) in a process known as dielectric heating .
Percy Spencer, an engineer working for American defense contractor Raytheon, accidently discovered a new use for radar technology in the mid-1940s. While standing near an active magnetron, which ...
In 1947, just a year after Spencer’s snack food serendipity, the first commercial microwave oven hit the market. Called the “Radarange,” it weighed nearly 750 pounds and cost more than ...
Geisel was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Theodor Robert Geisel and Henrietta Geisel (née Seuss). [9] [10] His father managed the family brewery and was later appointed to supervise Springfield's public park system by Mayor John A. Denison [11] after the brewery closed because of Prohibition. [12]
Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (/ ˈ θ ɜːr l ˈ r eɪ v ən z k r ɒ f t /; February 6, 1914 – May 22, 2005) was an American actor and bass singer. He was well known as one of the booming voices behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades.
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is Theodor Seuss Geisel's first children's book published under the name Dr. Seuss.First published by Vanguard Press in 1937, the story follows a boy named Marco, who describes a parade of imaginary people and vehicles traveling along a road, Mulberry Street, in an elaborate fantasy story he dreams up to tell his father at the end of his walk.
A children's picture book illustrated by Mel Crawford was published by Simon & Schuster in 1952 and as of 2024 was still in print in multiple formats. [8] Crawford also illustrated a comic book adaptation of the story for the first issue of the Dell Comics series Gerald McBoing-Boing and the Nearsighted Mr. Magoo, also in 1952. Further ...
On March 2, 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, owner of the rights to Seuss's works, withdrew On Beyond Zebra! and five other books from publication because of imagery they deemed "hurtful and wrong". [7] The book depicts a character called "Nazzim of Bazzim". Nazzim is "of unspecified nationality". He rides a "Spazzim", a fantasy-creature resembling ...