TheStoryGoesOn

TheStoryGoesOn t1_ism6edo wrote on October 17, 2022 at 12:42 AM

Reply to comment by Dwarf-Lord_Pangolin in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm

Labor? You’d have to build a port and be able to staff it year round.

TheStoryGoesOn t1_isdltbu wrote on October 15, 2022 at 3:50 AM

Reply to TIL that before Lincoln Center could reward David Geffen's $100 Million donation by renaming "Avery Fisher Hall" to "David Geffen Hall", they had to pay the heirs of Fisher - the original donor - $15 million. Geffen's donation has a provision that requires his name to be on the hall "in perpetuity". by AspireAgain

So I guess the $100 million donation was really $85 million to Lincoln Center and $15 million as a refund to the prior donor.