Call it Megan's Law. After Missouri officials declined to bring charges against Lori Drew for her role in the suicide of Megan Meier, legislators passed a cyber-bullying law. Now that law is being used to go after at least seven cases of obnoxious online behavior, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Leland James, headed Freightliner and built one of the first Freightlinersâ¦. none of the trucks at the time suited him, so he made his own! 1941: the shovel nose cabover appeared. 1942: The company, Freightliner Inc. was now official. 1948: 40 of these trucks were manufactured in Oregon and this was the same year that Freightliner produced the cab of these trucks, in aluminum.
Gravity Switchback Railway. What is considered the first successful commercial roller coaster made its debut in 1884 at New York's famous Coney Island. LaMarcus A. Thompson constructed the first roller coaster, the primitive Gravity Switchback Railway. The ride was an instant success, drawing long lines of eager riders and yielding returns at an astounding $600 a day. The idea of the gravity ride spread quickly, leading to great diversity in early roller coaster design.