And Poland and Indonesia, whose flags are the same, except upside down. Also Denmaark and Switzerland come to mind as red and white…
Alabama’s state flag is red and white — a red X on a white field.
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The song “Birmingham Sunday” is directly inspired by the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963. Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church.The song was ritten in 1964 by Richard Fariña and recorded by Fariña’s sister-in-law, Joan Baez.
Birmingham AL is the only Deep South city on the North American Indy Car circuit.
The first running of the Indianapolis 500 was held on Tuesday, May 30, 1911. Ray Harroun, an engineer with the Marmon Motor Car Company, came out of retirement to drive, and won the inaugural event before re-retiring for good in the winner’s circle.
Georg Ludwig Rittera von Trapp was born on April 4, 1880 and died on May 30, 1947; von Trapp) was an Austro-Hungarian Navy officer and the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical play and movie The Sound of Music.
Wolf Trap (formally, “Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts”) is a performing arts center in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, DC.
The land that Wolf Trap stands on was originally farmland; it was purchased by philanthropist Catherine Filene Shouse in stages, from 1930 to 1956; Shouse and her husband, Jouett Shouse, used the land as a weekend retreat from their home in Georgetown.
In 1966, Mrs. Shouse donated the land of Wolf Trap Farm to the U.S. Government, to be preserved for recreational use. She also donated $2 million for the construction of the Filene Center, the primary performance venue of the park.
In January 1995, U.S. and Canadian wildlife officials captured 14 wolves from multiple packs east of Jasper National Park, near Hinton AB CAN and re-introduced them to Yellowstone National Park. This table shows how wolves have thrived in Yellowstone, even with “intraspecific strife” – wolves will sometimes kill their own.
Alberta, Canada, is the largest rat-free populated area in the world. Rat invasions of Alberta were stopped and rats were eliminated by very aggressive government rat control measures, starting during the 1950s.
The province of Alberta in Canada is named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and wife of John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, Governor General of Canada (1878–83). Although the name “Louise” was originally planned, the princess wished to honor her dead father, so the last of her given names was chosen. Lake Louise in Alberta is also named after her, as is Mount Alberta.
Queen Victoria once complained that Prime Minister William Gladstone, a liberal with whom she did not often see eye to eye politically, “addresses me as if I were a public meeting.”
Victoria is the only city name that occurs in US, Canada and Mexico. The capital of British Columbia is the only one named for the queen. Ciudad Victoria is the capital of Tamaulips, named after Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of Mexico. So was Victoria Texas, a city of 70,000, which was in Mexico at the time of its first settlement.
Gladstone OR US is a city located in Clackamas County. Actor Clifton James, who had roles in several James Bond films, as well as Cool Hand Luke, grew up in Gladstone, and he also died there as well.
Philip Morris, the founder of the tobacco company, had a boutique on Bond Street in London. In 1902 one of the greatest admirers of the company, King Albert of Belgium, presented the boutique with the title of the Royal Tobacconist. Morris tnen started marketing cigarettes under the name Old Bond Street.
The history of Gold Bond dates to 1882, when it was first developed by physicians of the Rhode Island State Medical Association. The formula was purchased by Arthur W. Guilford in 1908, who established the Gold Bond name and began making the product in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. The formula and rights were sold in 1912 to John M. Chapman of New Bedford, Massachusetts, who achieved greater brand recognition and distribution. Timothy F. Shea, who in 1930 joined what was then “The Gold Bond Sterilizing Powder Company”, eventually rose to general manager and treasurer, and later took over as sole owner. His son, Robert J. Shea, took over as president of the company in 1965.
Gold Bond products are now made by Chattem of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a subsidiary of the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi.
According to this list, Sanofi is the world’s 8th largest pharmaceutical company in terms of market cap. The top three are Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, and Merck.
There’s a whole list of the “strange coincidences” between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, including the fact that Lincoln was succeeded by Andrew Johnson and Kennedy by Lyndon Johnson.
Abraham Lincoln’s only surviving son, Robert Todd Lincoln, attended the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1922. It was R.T. Lincoln’s last major public appearance; he died in 1926 at the age of 82.
Despite the line in the Brothers Four 1960 song “Blue Water Line” (then when old Abe Lincoln road with Todd upon his knee), this railroad at that time was a pure fabrication for the song. An actual Blue Water Line was established in Michigan in 1973.