I do like Dr. Selby’s 3x Concentrated Shave Cream, but I have no idea where you can now obtain it. Despite its name, it seems to me to be a shaving soap with a wonderful lavender fragrance and a bountiful lather, which my Rooney Victorian easily evoked this morning.
Three passes later, the Gillette 1940’s Aristocrat doing a very comfortable and very efficient job, a splash of Prospect Co.’s Peary & Henson aftershave sent me into the weekend, feeling good and smelling pleasant.
The name is explained at the link:
Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson … were the first explorers to reach the North Pole. Peary and Henson were the most determined and steadfast explorers having made several record-breaking attempts. In April of 1909, along with 4 [Inuit], they reached the highest point on earth.
In point of fact, the North Pole, far from the highest point on earth, is barely above sea level (and even that only when ice is present). The highest point on earth is generally regarded as the peak of Mt. Everest, but that is subject to debate/definition. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration notes:
Mount Everest, located in Nepal and Tibet, is usually said to be the highest mountain on Earth. Reaching 29,029 feet at its summit, Everest is indeed the highest point above global mean sea level—the average level for the ocean surface from which elevations are measured. But the summit of Mt. Everest is not the farthest point from Earth’s center.
Earth is not a perfect sphere, but is a bit thicker at the Equator due to the centrifugal force created by the planet’s constant rotation. Because of this, the highest point above Earth’s center is the peak of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo, located just one degree south of the Equator where Earth’s bulge is greatest. The summit of Chimborazo is 20,564 feet above sea level. However, due to the Earth’s bulge, the summit of Chimborazo is over 6,800 feet farther from the center of the Earth than Everest’s peak. That makes Chimborazo the closest point on Earth to the stars.
You may be surprised to learn that Everest is not the tallest mountain on Earth, either. That honor belongs to Mauna Kea, a volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. Mauna Kea originates deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, and rises more than 33,500 feet from base to peak.
They provide this illustration:
The highest point above Earth’s center is the peak of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo, located just one degree south of the Equator where Earth’s bulge is greatest