Although Goodyear welted shoes are synonymous with English made footwear, the name and machinery used was in fact the invention of an American by the name of Charles Goodyear Jr, son of the great inventor Charles Goodyear, who invented vulcanised rubber.
What does AM and PM stand for? AMâalso spelled âamâ or âa.m.ââis the abbreviation for ante meridiem, a Latin phrase meaning âbefore noon.â PMâalso spelled âpmâ or âp.m.ââis the abbreviation for post meridiem, which simply means âafter noon.â Noon, of course, refers to the middle of the day.
In the past, GMT has been a term with two different meanings. On the one hand itâs used to number the hours from midnight or noon. The more specific and conventional meaning is to use midnight as the zero hour of each and count upwards from there. There are other time zones within UTC +0:00 as well.