Whale on!
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Wales is a part of the United Kingdom. Charles was Prince of Wales until the 2022 death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. He then became King Charles III, and his son, William, became the new Prince of Wales.
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In 1924, the then-Prince of Wales, who later would become King Edward VIII, donated a trophy to the National Hockey League. Since 1993, it’s been given to the winner of the NHL’s Eastern Conference.
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Wales. Prince of Wales. Prince of Wales Trophy. Everyone straight?
Apparently not.
And we go to the video archives for Segment 55: Hiding in plain sight. https://youtu.be/aMkitBA7YTE
From the mailbag: Our Oct. 22, 2023, segment on Canada, which included an argument for America to finally go metric, prompted longtime reader and occasional contributor Bob Yankowitz to write: “No argument against the length and weight parts of the metric system, but Fahrenheit is much superior to Celsius. They're both decimal based, but the Fahrenheit scale is much more attuned to human experience. Zero degrees Fahrenheit is really cold, and 100 degrees is really hot. That's a range most of humanity lives within, and a degree Fahrenheit is just about the smallest noticeable increment. The folks in the Celsius countries live in a range that covers about 56 degrees C, with each degree being too large. Basing the Celsius scale on the freezing and boiling points of water is arbitrary and unrelated to how we live and perceive the world around us.”
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