New Coke was the unofficial name of a reformulation of the soft drink Coca-Cola, introduced by The Coca-Cola Company in April 1985. It was renamed Coke II in 1990 and discontinued in July 2002.. By 1985, Coca-Cola had been losing market share to diet soft drinks and non-cola beverages for several years. Blind taste tests suggested that consumers preferred the sweeter …

Coke Robert Stevenson (March 20, 1888 – June 28, 1975) was an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947. He was the first Texan politician to hold its three highest offices (Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, lieutenant governor, and governor), as well as the only one to do so in the 20th Century. In 1966, Recorded Texas …

Colloquialism (/ k ə ˈ l oʊ k iː ə ˌ l ɪ z m, k oʊ-/), also called colloquial language, everyday language or general parlance, is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication.It is the most common functional style of speech, the idiom normally employed in conversation and other informal contexts. Colloquialism is characterized by wide usage of interjections and …

Coke usually refers to: Coca-Cola, a brand of soft drink The Coca-Cola Company; Slang term for cocaine, a psychoactive substance and illicit drug ... Coke R. Stevenson (1888–1975), Governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947; Other uses. Coke, 1975 album by Coke Escovedo;

Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge.Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective.With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her journalistic pen name 'Steve Trent', he solves whodunnit crimes through subtle, humorously articulated deduction. . Always the gentleman, …

Barack Hussein Obama II (/ b ə ˈ r ɑː k h uː ˈ s eɪ n oʊ ˈ b ɑː m ə / bə-RAHK hoo-SAYN oh-BAH-mə; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois …

Coke Stevenson, governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947, was a native of Junction. A meeting hall north of Interstate 10 is named in his honor. Stevenson lost to Lyndon B. Johnson the 1948 US Senate Democratic primary runoff election by 87 disputed votes, also known as the Box 13 scandal; Notable events

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula CO 2) is a chemical compound made up of molecules that each have one carbon atom covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms. It is found in the gas state at room temperature. In the air, carbon dioxide is transparent to visible light but absorbs infrared radiation, acting as a greenhouse gas.It is a trace gas in Earth's atmosphere at 417 …

Four Past Midnight is a collection of novellas written by Stephen King in 1988 and 1989 and published in August 1990. It is his second book of this type, the first one being Different Seasons.The collection won the Bram Stoker Award in 1990 for Best Collection and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1991. In the introduction, King says that, while a collection of …

Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain (October 23, 1838 – disappeared February 1, 1896) was an American attorney who served in the Texas Senate and the New Mexico House of Representatives.Following a purge of corruption among cattle rustlers that Fountain investigated and prosecuted, he and his eight-year-old son Henry disappeared near White Sands, New …