In March 1944, the Guess Where II transported Eleanor Roosevelt on a goodwill tour of several Latin American countries.

Flatbed trucks packed with seedlings were the second most common sight along area roads (outnumbered ten to one, it seemed, by trucks carrying coal from the mines).

Cloud computing has become the most important technology for operations coming from nowhere in 2008, to rank 16th in 2009, to 2nd in 2010, being 1st in 2011.