“The Fort Knox of Silver”, The West Point Mint Facility is a US Mint production and depository facility erected in 1937 near the US Military Academy in West Point, New York. It is primarily used for minting commemorative coins, and is the sole facility which mints the US ‘Silver Eagle’ bullion dollars, which are easily identified by the ‘W’ (for West Point) mint mark.
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The Royal Canadian Mint makes the world’s largest gold coin, with a face value of $1,000,000. It weighs 100 kg (3,215 troy ounces) and is “five nines pure” (99.999%). The gold has a market value of several million dollars. Five of the coins have been purchased by investors in Canada and abroad. One of the coins, in a numismatic museum in Germany, was stolen in 2017 and has never been recovered.
Seagram’s Crown Royal is a blended Canadian whisky brand created by Seagram. Production of Crown Royal is done at Gimli, Manitoba, while the blending and bottling of the whisky is done in a facility in Amherstburg, Ontario. The whisky was introduced in 1939 by Samuel Bronfman for the British Royal tour of Canada. The whisky was sold only in Canada until the 1960s, when it was first introduced to international markets. It is the top-selling brand of Canadian whisky in the United States
According to USA Spirits, the top ten whiskey-producing countries are, in no particular order, Germany, Taiwan, Finland, Australia, India, Canada, Japan, Ireland, USA, and Scotland.
The Whisky Bible has been published by Jim Murray since 2003. In 2016, he awarded the title of the world’s best whiskey to Crown Royal’s Northern Harvest Rye. This year, he awarded the 2021 World Whisky of the Year to Alberta Premium Cask Strength Rye - the second time a Canadian Rye has won.
Murray is considered controversial. Both eyes are tasty and good value. Purists might prefer Scottish single malts, American bourbon or some decent Japanese efforts. All three of these countries are in the top ten Whisky producers. India is not, though Whisky is very popular there.
In the 1980s and 1990s, there were successful players in both Major League Baseball and the National Football League named Eddie Murray.
The baseball-playing Murray was a power-hitting first baseman, who played from 1977 to 1997, primarily for the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers. He was an eight-time All Star, and is in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The football-playing Murray was a placekicker, who played from 1980 to 2000, primarily for the Detroit Lions. He was a two-time Pro Bowler, and was named to the NFL’s All Decade team for the 1980s.
The baseball player Murray wore uniform number 33; the football player Murray wore uniform number 3.
The Detroit Lions began in 1930 as the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans and only moved to Detroit in 1934, taking the name Lions to play off of the established Major League Baseball team, the Detroit Tigers.
Well, we didn’t consider it a royalist song. It was just fun, and got you up on your feet - hell, if anything, it mocks royalty! 
I think advocating cannibalism may be a violation of Board rules.
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Admiral Lord Nelson’s flagship during the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, HMS Victory, 104 guns, is preserved in a drydock at the Royal Navy base in Portsmouth, England. She is the oldest (1778) commissioned warship in the world and remains flagship of the First Sea Lord.
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There is a whiskey in India called “Nothing”, in Hindi. The idea, I guess, is that you could ask someone what they want to drink and give them that. The ethics and incitement to drunk driving seem extremely tenuous.
Rye was the first drink that made me vomit and I prefer other drinks. Eyes are probably very nutritious, and would certainly prompt conversation if switched for the olive or onion in your martini. But I don’t recommend it.
Playing off Elendil_s_Heir:
The Constitution of Canada contains a commitment by the federal government to help pay for a drydock in British Columbia.
The Russian Navy has only one aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, which also serves as that navy’s flagship.
In October 2018, while undergoing a refit, the Kuznetsov was damaged when PD-50, the floating drydock in which the refit was being conducted, sank. After the Kuznetsov was towed to another location, the refit (and repairs) began again in 2019, but in November of that year, a fire broke out on board the ship, further damaging it. At this point, the Kuznetsov is not expected to return to service until 2022 or 2023.
The Milwaukee Admirals are a minor league hockey team that took their name because one of the early owners owned a department store that sold Admiral appliances.
The word “admiral” is ultimately derived from the Arabic word “amīr”, meaning a commander or leader.
George Dewey, who graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1858, served in the Civil War and took part in the Battle of New Orleans. He later rose through the ranks and was commander of the force that sank the Spanish fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898. In 1903, he was promoted to the special rank of Admiral of the Navy by an act of Congress. Dewey is the only naval officer in American history to be given the rank of Admiral of the Navy.
Topsy was a female Asian elephant who was killed by electrocution at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903. Topsy gained a reputation as a “bad” elephant and, after killing a spectator in 1902, was sold to Coney Island’s Sea Lion Park. When Sea Lion was leased out at the end of the 1902 season and replaced by Luna Park, Topsy was involved in several well-publicized incidents, attributed to the actions of either her drunken handler or the park’s new publicity-hungry owners, Frederic Thompson and Elmer “Skip” Dundy.
Their end-of-the-year plans to hang Topsy at the park in a public spectacle and charge admission were prevented by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The event was instead limited to invited guests and press only and Thompson and Dundy agreed to use a surer method of strangling the elephant with large ropes tied to a steam-powered winch with both poison and electrocution planned for good measure. On January 4, 1903, in front of a small crowd of invited reporters and guests, Topsy was fed carrots laced with 460 grams of potassium cyanide, electrocuted and strangled, the electrocution being what killed Topsy in the end.
Film of the execution still exists. It is not pleasant, but if you wish to see it: Electrocuting an Elephant - YouTube
“Topsy” was the title of a hit recording in 1958 by jazz drummer Cozy Cole. The two-sided hit featured the two halves of the same session. Topsy Part One reached #28 on the charts, and Topsy Part Two made it to #3, made more popular by Cozy’s own voice announcing the title.
Rock drummer Cozy Powell, whose birth name was Colin Flooks, borrowed his stage name of Cozy from jazz drummer Cozy Cole. Powell played with a number of groups in the 1970s through the 1990s, including the Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Whitesnake. In 1986, Powell recorded an album with Keith Emerson and Greg Lake of the prog-rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer, at a time when their drummer Carl Palmer was unavailable; that album was credited to “Emerson, Lake and Powell.”
The Caspian Sea, which is classified as a lake by some measures and a sea by others, is the world’s largest inland body of water. Like other endorheic basins, it has no outflow. Its salinity is about 1.2%, which is a third of the salinity of seawater. The surface is about 89 feet below sea level.
The Caspian Sea is about 750 miles long north-to-south, and has an average east-to-west width of 200 miles.
The Washington Post reported in an investigation that, as of 2010, an estimated 854,000 people hold Top Secret security clearances and have access to the most sensitive classified information in the United States.
Val Kilmer is not thought to be one of them.
Not sure how the last 3 posts relate to each other (probably too late at night for my elderly brain), so this ties them all together:
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John Wesley Powell was a geologist, U.S. Soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. As a young man he undertook a series of adventures through the Mississippi River valley, including rowing down the Mississippi from St. Anthony, Minnesota, to the sea . Later in his career, Powell held a post as lecturer on the History of Culture in the Political Science department at the Columbian University in Washington , D.C. from 1894–1899.