It happened This week!

• Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent in 1873 for work pants with copper rivets. The rivets were Davis’s invention. A tailor in Reno, Nevada, he’d used them to strengthen the canvas pants Strauss was manufacturing. In exchange for his idea, Strauss made Davis his production manager. And later, when the duo switched from using canvas to blue denim, blue jeans were born! • The Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet in 1910—and nothing happened! Dire predictions that a deadly comet gas would be released had worried citizens lining up and shelling out big bucks for “anti-comet pills” and gas masks! • The action-adventure film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, released in 1984, brought in a record-breaking $45.7 million at the box office in its first…

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Woman's World (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 30, 2016

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