Aksel Hennie from Norway to the world journey 2020

Aksel Hennie is a Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter born on 29th October, 1975 in Lambertseter, Oslo, Norway. He is best known for his leading role in the Norwegian film Headhunters (2011), and as Tydeus in Hercules. He graduated in 2001 at Norwegian National Academy of Theatre where he studied acting.

Aksel has acted both at Teatret Vårt in Molde and at Oslo Nye Teater (since 2002). He is famous for acting role in Jonny Vang, Buddy, Uno, Max Manus, Headhunters and as Tydeus in Hercules.

The conviction against Hennie was in fact one of the first such cases in Norway. Hennie was admitted to the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre after applying four times. He graduated in 2001, and has since acted both at Teatret in Molde from 2001 to 2002 and at Oslo Nye Teater from 2002 till now where he has been in plays such as Hamlet, and The woman who married a turkey.

His main success, however, has been as a film actor. He made his debut starring in the feature film Jonny Vang in 2003. Though the director, Jens Lien, originally thought Hennie was too young for the role, the actor convinced him he was the right man for the film. The same year he also acted in the movies Buddy and Ulvesommer, and the next year he made his debut as a director and writer with the movie Uno, in which he also acted.

For this film Hennie, and his co-star Nicolai Cleve Broch, went into hard physical training for six months to perform convincingly as bodybuilders. He won the Amanda Award (the main Norwegian film award) for “The Best Direction” (for the movie Uno in 2005), and that same year he was also among the nominees for “Best Actor” and “Best Film”. He also won an Amanda award as “Best Actor” for the movie Jonny Vang in 2003. He was named one of European films “Shooting Stars” by European Film Promotion in 2004. In 2001 he was also named “Theatre talent of the year” by the newspaper Dagbladet. In 2008 Hennie starred in the movie Max Manus, where he played the role of the Norwegian war hero by that name. The movie had a large budget by Norwegian standards, and was met with great expectations.

He was featured in film Jonny Vang in 2003 which was his first movie. He became most famours after appearing in age of Heroes (2011) and Hercules (2014). In 2008 he made his appearance in Max Manus as the starring where he played the Norwegian war hero of the same name. He also had a supporting role in Ridley Scott’s The Martian (2015).

He has acted in a number of successful Norwegian movies and has won numerous awards through out his career. Aksel was named “Theatre Talent of the Year” by the newspaper Dagbladet in 2001. He won the Amanda Award for “Best Direction” for Uno in 2005 and also for “Best Actor” for Jonny Vang in 2003. Aksel was named one of European film’s “Shooting Stars” in 2004 by the European Film Promotion. Hennie won an Angela Award at the Subtitle European Film Festival in Kilkenny, for his role in the film 90 Minutes on 1st December 2013 .

Aksel Hennie Age

Aksel was born on 29th October, 1975 in Norway. He is currently 42 year old.

Aksel Hennie Height

He stands at a height of 5 ft 8 inch (1.73 m).

Aksel Hennie Wife – Married

Aksel is not married yet and currently it is not known who he is dating for he has kept his love life out of public. Aksel was in a relationship with Tone Damli Aaberge a Norwegian singer from 2009 to 2013 then they broken-up.

Aksel Hennie Children – Aksel Hennie Barn

Aksel has a daughter called Hedda Hennie.

Aksel Hennie Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.

Aksel Hennie Muskler

Aksel spends hours at the gym where he pumps iron and built muscles. His training program includes body exercises, and he runs from 6 to 12 repetitions on each exercise. He started training flexibility, balance and core, before he started training with heavier weights and began a diet that made him lower fat percentage. His diet consists of dietary supplements glutamine, protein powder, protein-containing foods such as eggs, broccoli, meat, fish and chicken.

Aksel Hennie The Martian

The Martian is an American science-fiction film released on October 2, 2015. The movie is directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Drew Goddard. Aksel Hennie plays the role of  Alex Vogel a German chemist and astronaut who works for the European Space Agency (ESA). He is part of the Ares III mission as a joint project between NASA and ESA. In addition to being part of the Ares III mission, Vogel is also the first German to go to Mars.

Vogel has a wife named Helena who is grammar teacher. He also has two kids who he refers to as monkeys, Victor and Eliza,

Vogel’s Mother has dementia , and is getting worse. Vogel, after the Ares III extended mission, took some time to look after her and care for her.

Cast

Matt Damon as Mark Watney

Jessica Chastain as Melissa Lewis

Michael Peña as Major Rick Martinez

Aksel Hennie as Alex Vogel

Sebastian Stan as Dr. Chris Beck

Kate Mara as Beth Johanssen

Jeff Daniels as Teddy Sanders

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Venkat/Vincent Kapoor

Sean Bean as Mitch Henderson

Kristen Wiig as Annie Montrose

Donald Glover as Rich Purnell

Mackenzie Davis as Mindy Park

Nick Mohammed as Tim Grimes

Naomi Scott as Ryoko

Jonathan Aris as Brendan Hatch

Aksel Hennie Hercules

Hercules is an American 3D action fantasy adventure film released on 23 July 2014. The film is directed by Brett Ratner, written by Ryan J. Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos.

Cast

Dwayne Johnson as Hercules

Ian McShane as Amphiaraus

John Hurt as Lord Cotys

Rufus Sewell as Autolycus

Aksel Hennie as Tydeus

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Atalanta

Reece Ritchie as Iolaus

Joseph Fiennes as King Eurystheus

Tobias Santelmann as Rhesus

Peter Mullan as Sitacles

Rebecca Ferguson as Ergenia

Isaac Andrews as Arius

Joe Anderson as Phineas

Stephen Peacocke as Stephanos

Nicholas Moss as Demetrius (as Nick Moss)

Aksel Hennie Cloverfield

The Cloverfield Paradox is an American science fiction horror release on 4 February 2018. The film is directed by Julius Onah and written by Oren Uziel and Doug Jung. The film was originally known as God Particle and was later changed to Cloverfield Paradox.

Cast

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Hamilton

David Oyelowo as Kiel

Daniel Brühl as Schmidt

John Ortiz as Monk

Chris O’Dowd as Mundy

Aksel Hennie as Volkov

Ziyi Zhang as Tam

Elizabeth Debicki as Jensen

Roger Davies as Michael

Clover Nee as Molly

Jordan Rivera as Ayana Age 7

Michael Stokes III as Isaac Age 7

Celeste Clark as Ayana Age 4

Aksel Hennie Movies

1990-1998 Bobby’s Verden

1998 1732 Høtten

2000 Fort Forever

2002 Anolit

2003 Buddy

2003 Jonny Vang

2003 Ulvesommer

2004 Den Som Frykter Ulven

2004 Hawaii, Oslo

2004 Uno

2004 Tell me everything goes well

2004 The one who fears the wolf

2005 Terkel in Trouble

2005 The Hardest Words In The World

2007 Torpedo (TV series)

2008 Max Manus: Man of War

2008 Salary

2008 In a mirror, in a riddle

2010 A Somewhat Gentle Man

2011 Headhunters

2011 Age of Heroes

2012 90 minutter

2013 Pioneer

2014 24

2014 Hercules

2015 Last Knights

2015 The Martian

2016 Nobel (TV series)

2015 Smuggler

2018 The Cloverfield Paradox

Aksel Hennie News

Ax Hennie is in the new Netflix scifi horror thriller

Updated: FEBRUARY 5, 2018

During the break at the Super Bowl final in Minneapolis, USA this night, the new trailer for the third “Cloverfield” movie was shown. It will soon be ready on Netflix, reports Variety .

John Logie Baird

Scottish engineer John Logie Baird was the first man to televise pictures of objects in motion. He also demonstrated color television in 1928.

John Logie Baird was born in 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland. He produced televised objects in outline in 1924, transmitted recognizable human faces in 1925 and demonstrated the televising of moving objects in 1926 at the Royal Institution in London. The BBC used his televising technique to broadcast from 1929 to 1937. By that time, however, electronic television had surpassed Baird’s method and became more widely used. Baird died of a stroke in 1946.

Early Life

John Logie Baird was born on August 13, 1888 in Helensburgh, Dunbarton, Scotland. The fourth and youngest child of Rev. John and Jesse Baird, by his early teens he had developed a fascination with electronics and was already beginning to conduct experiments and build inventions.

After completing his primary schooling, Baird studied electrical engineering at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow. However, his studies were interrupted with the outbreak of World War I, though he was rejected for service because of health issues. Left to pursue his interests in England, he worked for a utilities company and started a manufacturing business before moving to Trinidad and Tobago where he briefly operated a jam factory.

Returning to the United Kingdom in 1920, Baird began to explore how to transmit moving images along with sounds. He lacked corporate sponsors, however, so he worked with whatever materials that he was able to scrounge. Cardboard, a bicycle lamp, glue, string and wax were all part of his first “televisor.” In 1924, Baird transmitted a flickering image a few feet away. When, in 1925, he succeeded in transmitting a televised image of a ventriloquist’s dummy, he said, “The image of the dummy’s head formed itself on the screen with what appeared to me an almost unbelievable clarity. I had got it! I could scarcely believe my eyes and felt myself shaking with excitement.”

Shortly after that success, he demonstrated his invention to the public at Selfridge’s department store in London, and in 1926, he showed his creation to 50 scientists from Britain’s Royal Institution in London. A journalist who was present at the time wrote, “The image as transmitted was faint and often blurred, but substantiated a claim that through the ‘televisor,’ as Mr. Baird has named his apparatus, it is possible to transmit and reproduce instantly the details of movement, and such things as the play of expression on the face.”

In 1927 Baird transmitted sound and images over more than 400 miles of telephone wire from London to Glasgow, and in 1928 he sent the first television transmission across the Atlantic Ocean from London to New York. Beginning in 1929, the BBC used Baird’s technology to broadcast its earliest television programming.

Baird’s technology, while the first form of television, had some intrinsic limitations. Because it was mechanical—electronic television was being developed by others—Baird’s visual images were fuzzy and flickering. In 1935, a BBC committee compared Baird’s technology with Marconi-EMI’s electronic television and deemed Baird’s product inferior. The BBC dropped it in 1937.

Later Life

In 1931, the 43-year-old Baird married Margaret Albu. Together they had a daughter, Diana, and a son, Malcolm. Baird continued his explorations for the rest of his life, developing electronic color television and 3-D television, though they were never reproduced beyond his laboratory. Baird suffered a stroke and died on June 14, 1946 in Bexhill-on-Sea in England.

Alexander Graham Bell the telephone inventor

Bell was a Scottish-born American scientist and inventor, most famous for his pioneering work on the development of the telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell was born on 3 March 1847 in Edinburgh and educated there and in London. His father and grandfather were both authorities on elocution and at the age of 16 Bell himself began researching the mechanics of speech. In 1870, Bell emigrated with his family to Canada, and the following year he moved to the United States to teach. There he pioneered a system called visible speech, developed by his father, to teach deaf-mute children. In 1872 Bell founded a school in Boston to train teachers of the deaf. The school subsequently became part of Boston University, where Bell was appointed professor of vocal physiology in 1873. He became a naturalised U.S. citizen in 1882.

Bell had long been fascinated by the idea of transmitting speech, and by 1875 had come up with a simple receiver that could turn electricity into sound. Others were working along the same lines, including an Italian-American Antonio Meucci, and debate continues as to who should be credited with inventing the telephone. However, Bell was granted a patent for the telephone on 7 March 1876 and it developed quickly. Within a year the first telephone exchange was built in Connecticut and the Bell Telephone Company was created in 1877, with Bell the owner of a third of the shares, quickly making him a wealthy man.

In 1880, Bell was awarded the French Volta Prize for his invention and with the money, founded the Volta Laboratory in Washington, where he continued experiments in communication, in medical research, and in techniques for teaching speech to the deaf, working with Helen Keller among others. In 1885 he acquired land in Nova Scotia and established a summer home there where he continued experiments, particularly in the field of aviation.

In 1888, Bell was one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society, and served as its president from 1896 to 1904, also helping to establish its journal.

Bell died on 2 August 1922 at his home in Nova Scotia.

Wills Carrier the father of air conditioning

Willis Haviland Carrier was born in Angola, New York, on November 26, 1876, a member of an old New England family. Young Willis was educated at Angola Academy and taught school for two years before entering Central High School in Buffalo, New York, to meet college entrance requirements. Carrier then won a state scholarship to attend Cornell University. He graduated from Cornell in 1901 with a degree in electrical engineering, whereupon he joined the Buffalo Forge Company in Buffalo as a research engineer. Carrier became chief engineer of the firm in 1906.

While associated with Buffalo Forge Carrier assisted materially in the development of blowers and of pipe-coil heaters manufactured for the company and formulated a technical method of testing and rating blowers and fan-system heaters. He also devised and published the first system of scientifically determined rating tables defining the capacities, speeds, and resistances of heaters at various steam pressures and air velocities. When the problem of providing clean air was encountered, Carrier invented a spray-type air washer, from which he later developed the spray-type humidifier or de-humidifier.

He next undertook an exhaustive study of a number of issues, including the first analysis of de-humidification by use of mechanical refrigeration. As a result of this, Carrier was able to make the first applications of his spray-type air washer. During studies of these applications, he realized the fundamental importance of humidification (that is, the control of air's moisture content) and developed dewpoint control, a method of regulating humidity by controlling the temperature of the spray-water in the conditioning machine. As a result of these investigations, Carrier presented two papers in 1911 to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers describing humidity control.

Carrier's work was not simply theoretical. Through the offices of Buffalo Forge he put his concepts into practice. Very early he designed for Sackett-Wilhelm Lithography and Publishing Company a system which maintained 55 percent humidity in the building throughout the year at a temperature of 70 degrees in winter and 80 degrees in the summer. By 1907 Carrier systems had been installed in several cotton mills and other plants. Therefore, later in that year Buffalo Forge decided to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary—the Carrier Air Conditioning Company—to engineer and market complete air conditioning systems. For the next six years Carrier was vice-president of the subsidiary and chief engineer and director of research for the parent firm. During this time Carrier equipment was installed in several industries: tobacco, rayon, rubber, paper, pharmaceuticals, and food processing.

Carrier, then, was the "father of air conditioning" in America in both a theoretical and a practical sense. Although the term "air conditioning" was first used by Stuart W. Cramer, a Charlotte, North Carolina, mill owner and operator, Carrier quickly adopted it, defining air conditioning as control of air humidity, temperature, purity, and circulation. In 1914 Buffalo Forge decided to limit itself to manufacturing and withdrew from the engineering business. Carrier then formed the Carrier Engineering Corporation. Shortly thereafter Carrier made an invention which would transform the industry. He developed a radical new refrigeration machine—the centrifugal compressor—which used safe, non-toxic refrigerants and could serve large installations cheaply. This opened the way for a system whose objective was human comfort.

During the 1920s Carrier began installing complete air conditioning systems. One of the earliest and most significant of these was in the massive J. L. Hudson department store in Detroit in 1924. This was followed in 1928-1929 by installations in the House and Senate chambers of the American Capitol. Of more local significance was the fact that by 1930 more than 300 movie theaters had installed air conditioning systems. The company, which Willis Carrier had started on a shoestring in 1915, prospered as a result of these and other installations and by 1929 was operating two plants in Newark, New Jersey, and a third in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1930 Carrier Engineering merged with two manufacturing firms—Brunswick-Kroeschell Company and the York Heating and Ventilating Corporation—to become the Carrier Corporation, with Willis Carrier as chairman of the board.

The depression of the 1930s, however, forced the company to fight for its survival. Bringing in business consultants, Carrier cut costs and systematized his operations, centralizing everything in a plant in Syracuse, New York. He also began to search out new markets. An obvious candidate was the tall skyscraper, but until the late 1930s no system could effectively provide this service. In 1939, however, Carrier invented a system in which conditioned air from a central station was piped through small steel conduits at high velocity to individual rooms. Although adoption was stalled by World War II, after the war there was a great boom in air conditioning, as it virtually became compulsory for any office building. Carrier Air Conditioning reaped a lion's share of this business, but a heart attack forced Carrier to retire in 1948. He died on October 7, 1950.

Carrier's achievements were manifold, and at his death he held more than 80 patents. Besides those things previously mentioned, he also played a significant role in the development of the centrifugal pump, determined and published basic data pertaining to the friction of air in ducts, developed practicable means to ensure uniform and effective air distribution and circulation within buildings, designed the diffuser outlet, and developed the ejector system of air circulation in which a relatively small volume of air is ejected through converging nozzles in such a manner that it induces the movement of air from three to five times its own volume, thereby providing an effective circulation within the given enclosure.

One of the most notable installations of Carrier equipment was made at the Robinson Deep in South Africa, the deepest mine in the world. By means of Carrier equipment, the owners were able to increase the mine's depth 1,500 feet to a total of 8,500, thereby increasing the available amount of gold. Carrier was awarded the John Scott medal by the city of Philadelphia in 1931 for his air conditioning inventions; the F. Paul Anderson medal of the American Society of Heating Engineers; and the American Society of Mechanical Engineer's Society medal in 1934.

Asa Griggs Candler (CocaCola Founder) Bibliography

When people hear the name Asa Griggs Candler, they think of a man who was the founder of the Cola-Cola company, what they do not realize is that he was much more than that. He "saw his personal wealth as a divine trust to be used to the benefit of humanity" (Kemp 2002). This belief led him to become active in various projects in the South, including establishing Wesley Memorial Hospital.

Asa Griggs Candler was born on December 30, 1851, in Georgia and was the eighth child of Samuel and Martha Candler. "His father was a well-establisher merchant and property owner… but the war with all of its destruction gave the Candler children a background of poverty that would leave an indelible impression on them…" (Graham 1992, 34). Asa's formal education began shortly before his fifth birthday and ended when he was ten years old (Ibid., 36). Candler could have chosen to attend Emory College for a year (as a sub-freshman), yet he chose to let his brother, Warren, attend in his place because "Warren's choice of career was a noble one (Ministry)" (Ibid., 38).

Knowing that he had an interest in the medical field (but did not have the money to attend medical school) Candler decided to pursue a career as a druggist. This introduced him to the medical field, but required no formal education. Asa became an apprentice to Doctors Best and Kirkpatrick and acquired knowledge as he did varied tasks for the two (Ibid., 39). His earnings as an apprentice were meager, so Asa decided to move to Atlanta. With very little money and no job Candler went from drug store to drug store in Atlanta asking for a job. He was hired by George Jefferson Howard, the father of his future wife, Lucy Elizabeth.

Still, Asa was not content. He had large ambitions and was not comfortable working for mere wages. At twenty-five years old he formed a partnership with Marcellus Hallman, under the firm name Hallman and Candler. Asa's plunge into entrepreneurship was only partly brought by desire to be his own boss. He and George Howard had a falling out over Howard's fifteen year old daughter, Lucy Elizabeth. To discourage the budding romance, Howard sent Lucy and her sister, Alice, off to Salem College. (Ibid., 46)

Now under his own direction, Candler began manufacturing his own "blood balm" and perfume at his drugstore. The store was such a success that Asa bought his partner's share. The profit margins at the store were continually increasing and the business seemed stable. He would then make the decision that would affect the rest of his life and establish a behemoth company to be known across the world a century later. He decided to "sell his entire stock of drugs, paints, oils, glass, and fancy articles, amounting in value to approximately fifty thousand dollars…to concentrate his efforts in manufacturing and marketing of the refreshing, stimulating drink" (Ibid., 53). This drink later became known as Coca-Cola. The business was a success, and made Asa Candler one of the richest men of his time.

Once the business was well-established, Asa spent more time and money supporting philanthropic works. He contributed a large amount of money to organizations and causes within the Atlanta, Georgia, area; this greatly increased economic development in his city. One of the lasting monuments that Asa made in his community was to provide funds to build a new 275-bed building for the Wesley Memorial Hospital, now called Emory University Hospital (Emory Healthcare 2003). Today, the hospital is considered one of the ten best hospitals in America.

Most of Candler's time was devoted to his family, charities, the Methodist church, and real estate developments. Unfortunately, he struggled through the last ten years of his life, mourning over his deceased wife and fighting many court battles dealing with property rights. Asa Candler passed away on March 12, 1929, at the age of seventy-eight years old.

Importance

Asa Candler was a "prime example of Henry Grady's 'New Southerner,' which Grady preached as the doctrine of the self-made man and industrial wealth as means of lifting the South out of its difficulties" (Ibid., 95). Asa helped the South by contributing funds to education, the Methodist church and real estate development. He was a devoted Methodist and believed in institutional education. "Asa believed that education without a strong Christian influence would lead to a population of an educated elite with no moral foundation. A person unable to distinguish between right and wrong had as little value to their community as those who could neither read nor write" (Ibid.).

Ties to the Philanthropic Sector

The concept that a person's wealth should benefit the community was a value by which Candler lived. In fact, he "was opposed by those who did not share his point of view" (Kemp 2002). He wanted everyone to contribute what they could. When he contributed funds for Wesley Memorial Hospital, he challenged others to do the same. "Asa pledged $12,500 for the hospital as a matching gift, if other Atlantans would raise the same amount" (Graham 1992, 99). Though rare during Candler's time, this type of challenge fundraising is commonly used in the nonprofit sector today.

PepsiCo, Inc. Deep History

PepsiCo, Inc., American food and beverage company that is one of the largest in the world, with products available in more than 200 countries. It took its name in 1965 when the Pepsi-Cola Company merged with Frito-Lay, Inc. The company’s headquarters are in Purchase, New York.

The first Pepsi-Cola was created by Caleb D. Bradham (1866–1934), a pharmacist in New Bern, North Carolina. 

Hoping to duplicate the recent success of Coca-Cola, Bradham named his sweet cola-flavoured carbonated beverage Pepsi-Cola in 1898. The drink proved so popular that in 1902 Bradham incorporated the Pepsi-Cola Company. After many years of moderate prosperity, the company fell on hard times after World War I and was reorganized and reincorporated on several occasions in the 1920s.

In 1931 the company’s trademark and assets were picked up by Charles G. Guth (1876–1948), founder of the modern Pepsi-Cola. He established a new Pepsi-Cola Company, had a chemist formulate a better drink, set up new bottling operations, and began merchandising a hugely successful 12-ounce bottle for five cents. Guth was also president of Loft, Incorporated, a candy manufacturer and soda-fountain chain (founded 1919), and in legal battles in 1936–39 he lost a controlling interest in the Pepsi-Cola Company to the new management of Loft. When in 1941 the Pepsi-Cola Company was merged into Loft, the name Loft, Inc., was changed to Pepsi-Cola Company.

In 1950 Alfred N. Steele (1901–59), a former vice president of Coca-Cola Company, became chief executive officer. His emphasis on giant advertising campaigns and sales promotions increased Pepsi-Cola’s net earnings 11-fold during the 1950s and made it the chief competitor of Coca-Cola. (After Steele’s death, his wife, actress Joan Crawford, became an active director of the company.) In 1965 Pepsi-Cola merged with Frito-Lay, Inc., the maker of snack foods such as Fritos, Doritos, Lay’s potato chips, and Rold Gold pretzels. The newly enlarged company diversified further with the purchase of three restaurant chains—Pizza Hut, Inc. (1977), Taco Bell Inc. (1978), and Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp. (1986; now called KFC)—and Seven-Up International (1986), but in 1997 the restaurant chains were spun off into a new, separate company called Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. Looking to add more products that were considered healthier, PepsiCo acquired the Tropicana and Dole juice brands from the Seagram Company in 1998, and in 2001 it merged with the Quaker Oats company to form a new division, Quaker Foods and Beverages. With the merger, PepsiCo’s popular brands included Pepsi cola, Frito-Lay snack products, Lipton Tea, Tropicana juices, Gatorade sports drinks, Quaker Oats cereals, and Rold Gold pretzels.

In the early 21st century, PepsiCo focused on expanding its operations in other countries, notably Russia, which was its second largest market. In 2008 it bought a controlling interest in JSC Lebedyansky, Russia’s largest juice manufacturer, and three years later it completed its acquisition of Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods. Those investments helped make PepsiCo the largest food and beverage company in Russia.

Caleb Bradham Bibliography and Pepsi History

Caleb Davis Bradham, founder of Pepsi-Cola, pharmacist, and Shriner, was born at Chinquapin, Duplin County, the son of George Washington and Julia McCann Bradham. He was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, and his American background included a great-great-great grandfather, John McCann, who was an officer in George Washington's army. He attended several North Carolina academies before entering The University of North Carolina in 1886. After three years he left to study medicine at the University of Maryland. Before he finished his funds gave out, and he returned home to teach in the Vance Academy in New Bern, a private school run by Appleton and Augusta Oaksmith.

Bradham continued to be interested in medicine, and after two years he went back to Maryland and entered the College of Pharmacy. Upon completion of those studies, he purchased a New Bern drug store and established "Bradham's Pharmacy," where the Pepsi-Cola story began. It was his pleasure to concoct soft drinks for the friends always gathered around his soda fountain. With his medical background and his knowledge of compounding prescriptions, it was natural for him to experiment with new flavor combinations. In the late 1890s he produced a beverage of his own creation and began offering it at his fountain. It was successful immediately and his friends promptly named it "Brad's drink." In 1898, however, for reasons no one knows, young Bradham changed the name to "Pepsi-Cola."

In 1902, the year he married Sarah Charity Credle of New Bern, he turned his drug store over to an assistant in order that he might devote all his time to developing Pepsi-Cola into a full business. His application to register "Pepsi-Cola" as his trademark was filed 23 Sept. 1902 and is the earliest dated document in the history of the company. The U.S. Patent Office accepted the mark and registered it on 16 June 1903. In April of the same year the trademark was registered in the Office of the Secretary of State of North Carolina.

Bradham formed the first Pepsi-Cola Company in December 1902, and it became a corporation under the laws of North Carolina. It began in the back room of the drug store and was an immediate local success. He mixed his syrup, packaged it, and went out to build sales. He was a popular man and a superb salesman, and it was not long before his drink became a nationally known product. He franchised other territories in rapid succession until, by the end of 1910, there were at least three hundred bottlers spread over twenty-four states. He continued to prosper until after World War I; then, despite a hard fight, the rise and fall of the sugar market caused his twenty-year-old company to fail. At this time, the technology of bottling had not been perfected, and Bradham knew little of advertising and marketing. It was said that "he had a modern business in the wrong decades; he was a third of a century ahead of his time."

Although Bradham found his business engrossing, it did not monopolize his life. He went far in the Shriners and was made recorder of the Sudan Temple. In 1930 he was retired as "Recorder Emeritus." He was a bank officer and honorary president of a state-owned railroad. He was one of the founders of the North Carolina Naval Militia, with headquarters in New Bern; later it became the Naval Reserve. When he retired, he did so with the rank of rear admiral.

Bradham was interested in and always supported the School of Pharmacy of The University of North Carolina. In 1901 he offered the Bradham Prize to the student making the highest average during the two (later three) years of study. He continued to give the prize until 1930, shortly before his death.

He enjoyed boating, hunting, and fishing and was considered a fine marksman. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and a lifelong Democrat.

Bradham had three children, Mary Bradham Tucker of Edenton, Caleb Darnell of New Bern, and George Washington of Greensboro.

32 dead, 190 injured at funeral for Iran general killed by U.S.

Iran state TV has offered new casualty figures for the stampede at a funeral for a general slain by U.S. and says that 32 people were killed and 190 injured.

That’s according to Pirhossein Koulivand, the head of Iran’s emergency medical services, who spoke to state TV.

The stampede erupted Tuesday in Kerman, the hometown of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, where the procession was underway. His funeral was later delayed.

Also on Tuesday, the U.S. warned ships across Mideast waterways crucial to global energy supplies there’s the “possibility of Iranian action against U.S. maritime interests” in the region. The U.S. Maritime Administration cited rising threats after an American drone strike in Baghdad killed Soleimani.

A stampede erupted on Tuesday at a funeral procession for a top Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike last week, killing 35 people and injuring 48 others, state television reported.

According to the report, the stampede took place in Kerman, the hometown of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, as the procession got underway. Initial videos posted online showed people lying lifeless on a road and others shouting and trying to help them.

Iranian state TV gave the casualty toll in its online report, without saying where it obtained the information. Pirhossein Koulivand, the head of Iran’s emergency medical services, earlier spoke by telephone to state TV and confirmed the stampede took place.

“Unfortunately as a result of the stampede, some of our compatriots have been injured and some have been killed during the funeral processions,” he said.

Authorities later delayed Soleimani’s burial, citing concerns about the massive crowd that had gathered, the semi-official ISNA news agency said. It did not say when the burial would take place.

A procession in Tehran on Monday drew over 1 million people in the Iranian capital, crowding both main thoroughfares and side streets in Tehran.

America for a slaying that’s drastically raised tensions across the Middle East. The U.S. government warned ships of an unspecified threat from Iran across all the Mideast’s waterways, crucial routes for global energy supplies.

Early Tuesday, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened to “set ablaze” places supported by the United States over the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike last week, sparking cries from the crowd of supporters of “Death to Israel!” Hossein Salami made the pledge before a crowd of thousands gathered in a central square in Kerman before a casket carrying Soleimani’s remains.

The outpouring of grief was an unprecedented honor for a man viewed by Iranians as a national hero for his work leading the Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force. The U.S. blames him for the killing of American troops in Iraq and accused him of plotting new attacks just before his death Friday in a drone strike near Baghdad’s airport. Soleimani also led forces in Syria backing President Bashar Assad in a long war, and he also served as the point man for Iranian proxies in countries like Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.

His slaying already has pushed Tehran to abandon the remaining limits of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers as his successor and others vow to take revenge. In Baghdad, the parliament has called for the expulsion of all American troops from Iraqi soil, something analysts fear could allow Islamic State militants to mount a comeback.

Speaking in Kerman, Salami praised Soleimani’s exploits, describing him as essential to backing Palestinian groups, Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria. As a martyr, Soleimani represented an even greater threat to Iran’s enemies, Salami said.

“We will take revenge. We will set ablaze where they like,” Salami said, drawing the cries of “Death to Israel!”

Israel is a longtime regional foe of Iran.

According to a report on Tuesday by the semi-official Tasnim news agency, Iran has worked up 13 sets of plans for revenge for Soleimani’s killing. The report quoted Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, as saying that even the weakest among them would be a “historic nightmare” for the U.S. He declined to give any details,

“If the U.S. troops do not leave our region voluntarily and upright, we will do something to carry their bodies horizontally out,” Shamkhani said.

The U.S. Maritime Administration warned Tuesday ships across the Mideast, citing the rising threats after the U.S. killed Soleimani. “The Iranian response to this action, if any, is unknown, but there remains the possibility of Iranian action against U.S. maritime interests in the region,” it said.

Oil tankers were targeted in mine attacks last year the U.S. blamed on Iran. Tehran denied being responsible though it did seize oil tankers around the crucial Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20 per cent of the world’s crude oil travels.

“Afloat or ashore, we remain vigilant to assess, mitigate and defeat threats to our forward-deployed forces and our interests,” 5th Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Joshua Frey said.

Iran’s parliament, meanwhile, has passed an urgent bill declaring the U.S. military’s command at the Pentagon and those acting on its behalf in Soleimani’s killing as “terrorists,” subject to Iranian sanctions. The measure appears to be an attempt to mirror a decision by President Donald Trump in April to declare the Revolutionary Guard a “terrorist organization.”

The U.S. Defense Department used the Guard’s designation as a terror organization in the U.S. to support the strike that killed Soleimani. The decision by Iran’s parliament, done by a special procedure to speed the bill to law, comes as officials across the country threaten to retaliate for Soleimani’s killing.

The vote also saw lawmakers approve funding for the Quds Force with an additional 200 million euros, or about $224 million.

Also Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the U.S. had declined to issue him a visa to travel to New York for upcoming meetings at the United Nations. The U.S. as the host of the U.N. headquarters is supposed to allow foreign officials to attend such meetings.

“This is because they fear someone will go there and tell the truth to the American people,” Zarif said. “But they are mistaken. The world is not limited to New York. You can speak with American people from Tehran too and we will do that.”

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Solemani will be buried later Tuesday between the graves of Enayatollah Talebizadeh and Mohammad Hossein Yousef Elahi, two former Guard comrades. The two died in Operation Dawn 8 in Iran’s 1980s war with Iraq in which Soleimani also took part, a 1986 amphibious assault that cut Iraq off from the Persian Gulf and led to the end of the bloody war that killed 1 million people.

2020 Nuclear weapons possession world ranking country by country

There are about 14,500 nuclear weapons in the world.

The world’s nuclear club is an exclusive group – and it has become even more dangerous with the relatively recent and unwelcome addition of North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong Un.

The United States wants the rogue regime to give up its nuclear-weapons ambitions, and President Donald Trump aims to achieve that goal, possibly through direct diplomacy. The White House said Friday that Trump still intends to meet Kim by the end of May, following his on-the-spot acceptance of an invitation to talk.

It might be too big a demand, however. North Korea is the only country to test nuclear weapons this century, and Kim has emphasized that nuclear weapons are a fundamental part of his regime’s national security. And so the potential summit puts into motion the most significant development in years of intermittent negotiations about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

North Korea is one of nine nations to have stockpiled nuclear weapons – about 14,500 total worldwide, a figure that has declined since the Cold War.

While the exact number of nukes in each country’s arsenal is closely guarded, below is a breakdown of how many weapons exist, according to estimates from the Arms Control Association and Federation of American Scientists.

No 9: North Korea

Total nuclear weapons: ~10 to 20

Total nuclear tests: ~6

First tested: October 2006

Most recent test: September 2017

No.8 Israel

Total nuclear weapons: ~80

Total nuclear tests: 0

First tested: No confirmed tests

Most recent test: No confirmed tests

No.7 India

Total nuclear weapons: ~120 to 130

Total nuclear tests: ~3

First tested: May 1974

Most recent test: May 1998

No.6 Pakistan

Total nuclear weapons: ~130 to 140

Total nuclear tests: ~2

First tested: May 1998

Most recent test: May 1998

No.5 United Kingdom

Total nuclear weapons: ~215

Total nuclear tests: ~45

First tested: October 1952

Most recent test: November 1991

No.4 China

Total nuclear weapons: ~270

Total nuclear tests: ~45

First tested: October 1964

Most recent test: July 1996

No.3 France

Total nuclear weapons: ~300

Total nuclear tests: ~210

First tested: February 1960

Most recent test: January 1996

No.2 United States

Total nuclear weapons: ~ 6,550

Total nuclear tests: ~ 1,030

First tested: July 1945

Most recent test: September 1992

No.1 Russia

Total nuclear weapons: ~6,800

Total nuclear tests: ~ 715

First tested: August 1949

Most recent test: October 1990