From the Human Head to the Bank Of Italy
Issue 19
The human head contains 22 bones, consisting of 8 cranium and 14 facial bones.
Each year, more movies are produced in India, where the moving image industry is referred to as Bollywood, than in Hollywood. About 1,000 movies are released annually in India, about twice the output of Hollywood. The “B” in Bollywood refers to the city of Bombay which was renamed Mumbai.
Traffic lights were used before the advent of the motorcar. In 1868, British railroad signal engineer J P Knight invented the first traffic light, a lantern with red and green signals. It was installed at the intersection of George and Bridge Streets in front of the British House of Commons to control the flow of horse buggies and pedestrians.
Amedeo Giannini, son of Italian immigrants to the US, started the Bank of Italy in a converted saloon in San Francisco on October 17, 1904. Word quickly spread about his service and by 1916 he had several branches. By 1929, the bank was strong enough to withstand the Great Depression stock crash.Giannini changed the name to Bank of America in 1928 and remained chairman until 1963.
