While the term Lord normally designates a male with certain powers and responsibilities, there are Lords that are women: the Lord of Mann, a title held by Elizabeth II of England, and female Lords Mayor are examples of women who are styled as “Lord”.
Judges in some Canadian courts are addressed as “My Lord” or “My Lady”.
The Old Testament Book of Judges is the story of the Israelites after the death of Joshua. During this time, they had no kings; instead, their leaders were 12 judges. These judges were Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon and Samson.
Lyle Lovett’s fourth album, Joshua Judges Ruth, was released in 1992. The title is a pun based on three ordered books in the Old Testament. “You’ve Been So Good Up To Now” was a minor hit on rock radio, peaking at #36, and the song “She’s Leaving Me Because She Really Wants To” gaining some airplay.
Colorado and Wyoming cannot be perfect rectangles, for at least three reasons.
–Baeause a rectangle cannot be drawn on a sphere
–Because their east and west borders are defined as meridians, which can never be parallel
–Because their legal boundaries are now settled law based on faulty surveys.
The East-West Shrine Bowl (formerly known as the East-West Shrine Game) is a postseason college football all-star game, which has been played annually since 1925. The players in the game are all collegiate seniors, who play for either the East or West team, depending on the location of their school. The game is sponsored by the fraternal organization Shriners International.
Calvin Coolidge was elected vice-president in the election of 1920. When President Harding died of a heart attack in August of 1923, Coolidge assumed the office of the presidency. The office of the vice-president remained vacant until after the next election. Coolidge won re-election in November of 1924 and his running mate, Charles Dawes, was elected vice-president. Both men were inaugurated to their respective offices in March of 1925.
Three of the four men on the ballot in the 1920 election were eventually elected president: Harding, his vice-presidential candidate Coolidge, and the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Franklin Roosevelt. Only the Democratic candidate for president, James Cox, didn’t make it to the White House.
Irving Stone, in his book They Also Ran, made the case that the 1920 election was the clearest case in US history where the better candidate lost. Stone argued that Cox would have been a superior president in every way, compared to Harding. (Although, that’s not saying much, I suppose.)
Both Warren G. Harding, the Republican nominee in 1920, and James M. Cox, the Democrat, had been Ohio newspaper editors before entering politics - Harding in Marion and Cox in Dayton.
Had Cox won the 1920 election, there would now be a Cox County, New Mexico. A new county was provisionally to be formed on inauguration day, and was named for the Winner, Harding County.
English physicist and television/radio presenter Brian Cox was a professional musician in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before completing his doctorate. Cox played keyboards for two English rock bands: Dare and D:Ream.
After his loss in the 1920 election, James Cox set out to expand his media holdings. His first radio station went on the air in Dayton in 1935. He eventually purchased The Atlanta Journal in 1939, and, with that purchase, also acquired the first radio station in the South, WSB. WSB-TV, the first television station in Atlanta, went on-air in 1948. These holdings and others were the foundation of the company that is today known as Cox Enterprises, which is the parent company of Cox Communications.
On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California. Although this transoceanic flight had been attempted by many others, notably by the unfortunate participants in the 1927 Dole Air Race that had reversed the route, her trailblazing flight was mainly routine, with no mechanical breakdowns. In her final hours, she even relaxed and listened to “the broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera from New York.”
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall on record in terms of pressure, and it tied with Hurricane Dorian in 2019 for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane by maximum sustained winds, with winds of 185 mph.
The Hawker Hurricane, a monoplane derivative of the Hawker Fury biplane, first flew in 1935 and entered production in 1936. It was the main fighter plane of the RAF in the early part of WWII. While it was overshadowed by its more glamorous counterpart the Spitfire, it shot down more German planes in the Battle of Britain.
Over 20,000 Spitfires were made during WWII, at a production cost, in today’s dollars of about a million dollars a plane. That was 12,000 pounds then.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had one king (George VI) and three prime ministers (Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee) during the course of World War II.
The Triumph Spitfire was a British two-seat sports car, designed by Italian automotive stylist Giovanni Michelotti, and manufactured by Standard-Triumph from 1962 until 1980. The car was named after the famous British WWII fighter plane, the Supermarine Spitfire.
Edit: ninjaed, but the post still works as a play off of @Elendil_s_Heir’s last post.
The Triumph Motor Company got its start as the Triumph Cycle Company, which began producing motorcycles in 1902. During World War I the company was a major supplier of motorcycles for the British Army, and by 1918 Triumph had become Britain’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles.
The Roman triumph (Latin triumphus) was a celebration for a victorious military commander in ancient Rome. On the day of his triumph, the general wore a crown of laurel and the all-purple, gold-embroidered triumphal toga picta “painted” toga, regalia that identified him as near-divine or near-kingly, and even was known to paint his face red. He rode in a four-horse chariot through the streets of Rome in unarmed procession with his army, captives, and the spoils of his war. At Jupiter’s temple on the Capitoline Hill, he offered sacrifice and the tokens of his victory to the god Jupiter.