Sebring is a city in Highlands County, Florida that is nicknamed “The City on the Circle”, in reference to Circle Drive and the general city layout, which was the brainchild of the city’s founder, George Sebring, a pottery manufacturer from Ohio.
not part of answer: you can see the ‘circle’ city layout in this picture: https://www.mysebring.com/ImageRepository/Path?filePath=%2Fdocuments\Intranet%2FPicture_5_201503191032004565.jpg
Sebring, Ohio, is a village in Mahoning County, also named after the pottery-making Sebring family. Rose Mary Woods, personal secretary to President Richard M. Nixon, notorious for an 18 1/2-minute gap on one of her boss’s White House audiotapes, was from Sebring.
Before being elected President, Richard Nixon served as a Representative, Senator, and Vice-President, one of the few people to hold all four positions. John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Millard Fillmore, and Lyndon Johnson are also on this list.
Two U.S. presidents were members of the Religious Society of Friends, a.k.a. the Quakers: Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon.
Both men were raised as Quakers, and Nixon attended Whittier College (a Quaker-influenced liberal arts college), but it appears that neither man was strongly involved in the Quakers as adults.
Shakers are known for their devotion to values including Celibacy, Pacifism, Spiritualism, and Equality of men and women. Their belief in celibacy is one of the key features which distinguishes them from Quakers. Since they believed in celibacy, they sometimes depended on orphans as means to gain new members.
Quakers are members of a group with Christian roots that began in England in the 1650s. The formal title of the movement is the Society of Friends or the Religious Society of Friends. There are about 210,000 Quakers across the world. In Britain there are 17,000 Quakers, and 400 Quaker meetings for worship each week.
Shaker Heights is a city in Ohio. In July 1911, a petition by property owners was successful in detaching a long strip of land from the south of Cleveland Heights, to be named Shaker Village. In November 1911, the voters of Shaker Village formed Shaker Heights Village, which was incorporated in January 1912. Shaker Heights was a planned community developed by the Van Sweringen brothers, railroad moguls who envisioned the community as a suburban retreat from the industrial inner city of Cleveland.
If I stayed in my hometown in Upstate New York, the town of Latham NY, I would have gone to Shaker High School. Their team mascot is the Blue Bison. And for any NBA fans out there, Sam Perkins was an alum. He played with the Dallas Mavs, LA Lakers, Seattle, and Indiana Pacers over a 17 year career.
The Toronto Argonauts of the CFL, which date back to Victorian days, chose the colours of Oxford and Cambridge as their uniform colours: dark Oxford blue, and light Cambridge blue, leading to one of their nicknames, the “double blue”.
The “Mathematical Bridge” in Cambridge, England, appears to be an arch, but it is made entirely of straight timbers built to a sophisticated engineering design. A popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts. However, it does use bolts, and it was built 27 years after Newton’s death, following a design by William Etheridge.
Thomas Newton was the Congressman for Arkansas’ Second District, and must have been a good shot. The member for that district 20 years before (Henry Conway) and 20 years later (James Hids) were both shot and killed in office. Only ten US Congressmen suffered such a fate.
The Conway Cabal was a group of senior Continental Army officers in late 1777 and early 1778 who aimed to have George Washington replaced as commander-in-chief of the Army during the American Revolutionary War. It was named after Brigadier General Thomas Conway, whose letters criticizing Washington were forwarded to the Second Continental Congress. No formal requests were ever made asking for Washington’s removal as commander in chief. There was no sign of any formal conspiracy among the various malcontents, although Washington was concerned that there might be one. It was the only major political threat to Washington’s command during the war.
George Washington was elected to four different offices over the course of his career: the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Continental Congress, president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and President of the United States.
According to Bestlife, there are 676 locales in the United States that have “Washington” in their name.
Fascinating! Thank you. I’ve marked my map with this as a Want To Go place. Very cool.
In play: The number of US Presidents who were only children is… zero. Every single president has had at least a half-sibling. There were only four who had only half-siblings: Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. The POTUS with the most siblings was James Buchanan, #15, who had six sisters and four brothers.
Gerald Ford’s full legal name was Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.; however, his birth name was Leslie Lynch King Jr.
Ford’s parents separated when he was days old, and divorced in late 1913, before his first birthday. His mother, Dorothy Gardner, remarried in 1917, to a man named Gerald Rudolff Ford. Leslie’s mother and stepfather renamed him Gerald Rudolff Ford Jr., though he was never formally adopted by his stepfather. Ford did not legally change his name until 1935, when he was 22 years old; when he did so, he used a different spelling of his middle name than his stepfather’s.
Gerald Ford’s mother left his biological father due to his alcoholism and violent tempers. Within days of the future President’s birth, a drunken Leslie Lynch King Sr. threatened his wife, the baby and a nurse with a knife. His wife left him within days. Gerald Ford had only sporadic contact with his biological father over the rest of his life.
Gerald Ford is a Michigan grad, and of course MI is one of our 50 states. Of all the 50 states, and their counties, parishes, or burroughs, only 12 of those counties/parishes/burroughs have 3 words in their names:
If Quebec is included then there are a few more. Here is the entire list (by my quick inspection):
Counties, 3+ words, USA
alphabetical by state
AL: none
Fairbanks North Star AK
Lake and Peninsula AK
AZ: none
AR: none
San Luis Obispo CA
CO: none
CT: none
DE: none
FL: none
GA: none
HI: none
ID: none
IL: none
IN: none
IA: none
KS: none
KY: none
East Baton Rouge LA
St. John the Baptist LA
West Baton Rouge LA
ME: none
MD: none
MA: none
MI: none
Lac qui Parle MN
Lake of the Woods MN
MS: none
MO: none
Lewis and Clark MT
NE: none
NV: none
NH: none
NJ: none
NM: none
NY: none
NC: none
ND: none
OH: none
OK: none
OR: none
PA: none
RI: none
SC: none
SD: none
TN: none
TX: none
UT: none
VT: none
Isle of Wight VA
King and Queen VA
WA: none
WV: none
Fond du Lac WI
WY: none
13 Provinces + 3 Territories
The list:
AB
BC
MB
NB has counties
NL
NS has counties
NT
NU
ON has counties
PE has counties
QC has counties
SK
YT
NB: none
NS: none
ON: none
PE: none
Ile-de-Montréal QC
Iles-de-la-Madeleine QC
Lac-Saint-Jean-Est QC
Lac-Saint-Jean-Ouest QC
Rivière-du-Loup QC
That last one seems like quite a stretch to link to the previous trivium. However since every state is listed, this should play:
Leslie Lynch King Sr. was able to escape a Nebraskan court order to pay child support since he lived out of state in Wyoming. That was until he moved to Nebraska in 1939 and was arrested for failure to pay child support.
Seven states, plus the District of Columbia, are tied for having the fewest electors in the U.S. Electoral College, with three electors each. As the number of electors a state has is a function of its number of seats in Congress (and, thus, of its population), these are also the states which had the smallest populations in the 2010 Census. Although the District of Columbia has no representation in Congress, the Twenty-third Amendment gives the District the same number of electors as the least-populous state.
The states with three electoral votes are:
The eight states with the lowest population are, from highest to lowest:
Montana
Rhode Island
Delaware
South Dakota
North Dakota
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
Rhode Island has a lower population than Montana does. And yet, Rhode Island has two seats in the House while Montana only has one. The other six states on that list also only have one. Why?
The distribution of seats in the House is based on the census taken every 10 years. In the 2010 census, Rhode Island had a higher population than Montana did.
