John Riggins was born in Seneca, Kansas, and attended Centralia High School. Despite the small size of his high school, Riggins earned All-American recognition in football. He also was all-state in basketball and twice won the Class B 100-yard dash state title.
In 1984, at age 34, Riggins set an NFL record with 24 rushing touchdowns. The following year he again led the league in rushing touchdowns. Although he was named to only one Pro Bowl in his career, he was the MVP in Super Bowl XVII, when he rushed for one touchdown and 166 yards against the Miami Dolphins as the Redskins won the game 27-17.
The philosopher Seneca was an influential advisor to Nero in the early years of Nero’s reign, but became an apologist for political murders ordered by Nero. He eventually fell out of favour and committed suicide on Nero’s order, rather than be prosecuted.
Nero Wolfe is a fictional armchair detective, created by author Rex Stout. Wolfe, an apparently wealthy, obese man, is a brilliant detective, but is devoted to his daily routines (particularly tending his large collection of orchids), and rarely, if ever, leaves his New York brownstone home. Wolfe works with an assistant, Archie Goodwin, who does the investigative legwork, and who acts as the narrator of the stories.
Wolfe appears in a large number of books and stories, and has been adapted for radio, TV, film, and stage; among the actors who have portrayed Wolfe are Edward Arnold, Sydney Greenstreet, Francis X. Bushman, William Conrad, and Maury Chaykin.
Like the New York Brownstone, Milwaukee has a characteristic building material . High lime and sulfur content gives bricks a cream-colored appearance when fired, and they were widely used in early architecture giving Milwaukee a unique Cream City Brick appearance…
Many different fruits and trees are called limes; most of them are from the citrus family, but others are not. The “Spanish lime”, Melicoccus bijugatus, is part of the soapberry family. The tree species known in Britain and Ireland as “lime tree” is not a citrus, coming from the Tilia family. This lime tree is also called linden in English and in German, giving its name to the famous avenue Unter den Linden in Berlin.
There are scenes set in Berlin in Robert Harris’s alternative history Fatherland, in the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, in the Win Wenders-directed movie Wings of Desire, and in the Kate Atkinson novel Life After Life.
The Lime Treefrog is named neither from the fruit nor the tree, but from it’s vivid yellow-green color. Members of the Hylid genus, they are closely related to most North American Treefrogs, but range through eastern South America.
Several cities and towns in North America with German names changed their names during World War I, due to anti-German sentiments. Some examples include:
Berlin, Nebraska, was named for the precinct in which it was founded, which was named for an early pioneer and Civil War veteran, E.D. Berlin. The early settlers in the area, however, were indeed of German descent. After a number of suspicious fires broke out during 1918, the name was changed to Otoe, after a Native American tribe that once inhabited the area.
The town of Berlin, New Hampshire, did not change its name due to anti-German sentiment during World War I (when, among other silly linguistic changes, sauerkraut became known as “victory cabbage” for a time), but unlike the German capital, it is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable.
Cruciferous vegetables all belong to the family Brassicaceae, and include many leafy green vegetables. A number of widely-eaten cruciferous vegetables, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, and kohlrabi, are all cultivars of the same species, Brassica oleracea.
George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the US, made no secret of his dislike of broccoli. It is estimated that he made over 70 comments regarding his hatred of the vegetable. In response to one of his comments, the broccoli growers of America pledged to send a number of trucks of the vegetable to the White House.
The 41st Canadian Parliament was elected in the general election of May 2, 2011. The Conservative government of Stephen Harper was returned with its only majority, having had minority governments since first elected in 2006. The 41st Parliament was dissolved on August 2, 2015.
In the USA, the 41st parallel of north latitude defines the southern border of Wyoming and the northern border of Colorado. From west to east this line is the state border between:
Thi 41st parallel is not exactly the state line, and never will be. It was intended to be, but land surveys then were much less than ideal. We now know within inches where the line should have been, but all historical legal boundaries, regardless of any discovered errors later on. remain in force in perpetuity
Nevada was admitted to the Union on October 31, 1864, just days before the presidential election. Although Nevada was quickly granted 3 electoral votes, only 2 were actually cast, both for Abraham Lincoln.
Because a state constitution was needed before a state could be admitted, and time was short, the Nevada constitutional delegation sent the entire text of the state constitution to Washington via telegram. That telegram was the longest one on record at that time and cost a whopping $3,416.77.
The Quebec Conference was held from October 10 to 27, 1864. Thirty-three delegates from the British North American provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, along with two observers from Newfoundland, debated the terms for British North American union. They produced the 72 Resolutions, which became the basis for the British North America Act, 1867, now known as the Constitution Act, 1867, the foundational document for the Constitution of Canada.