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Carrie 4 year s ago
Are you saying that the coke logo has not changed in all these years?
       
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Mellia 4 year s ago
Carrie,
That's correct.

It also became a soft drink by accident. One day someone walked into Jacobs Pharmacy with a headache and needed a bottle. It was originally intended to be mixed with water before drinking. He didn't want to wait to get home and asked for it to be mixed at the soda fountain there in the drugstore. The tap was down at the other end of the counter, so the man behind the counter just mixed it with soda water. The result is what we know today.

More trivia: In Chinese, "Coca cola" translates to "Bite the wax tadpole."
       
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Peregrine 4 year s ago
At least three of those (Amazon, Starbucks and Microsoft) started within a few miles of each other.
       
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Lauryn 4 year s ago
Its Bentonville Arkansas, not Arizona........
       
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Harley-Davidson, 1903

The Harley-Davidson company was founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was one of only two American motorcycle manufacturing companies to survive the Great Depression, the other being Indian.

The roots of the company go back to 1901 when William S. Harley drew up plans for a small engine that could be used in a regular pedal-bicycle frame. Together with his childhood friend Arthur Davidson, they spent the next 2 years working on their motor-bicycle. Arthur's brother, Walter, later joined the team.

The very first Harley-Davidson motorbike was built in a 10 by 15-foot shed (pictured) in the Davidson family backyard. By 1904, their racer prototype was functional and competed in a Milwaukee motorcycle race where driver Edward Hildebrand rode it to fourth place.

Harley and the Davidson brothers built their first factory in 1906. It was 40 by 60 feet big and made of wood. The company made around 50 motorcycles that year.

When the US entered World War One in 1917, Harley-Davidson motorbikes were adopted for military use. The US military bought more than 20k Harleys during this time.

 

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