According to State Symbols USA, Louisiana is the only state to recognize the brown pelican as its state bird. By contrast, the northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. Close behind is the western meadowlark, which is the state bird of six states: Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, and Wyoming.
Meadowlark Lemon was a pro basketball player who spent his career with the Harlem Globetrotters and was their featured performer of many years. He was dubbed the “Crown Prince of Basketball.”
The Harlem Globetrotters were originally based in Chicago, not Harlem. Team manager Abe Saperstein chose the Harlem name in 1928 as a way to highlight the fact that it was a team of African-American players, since the Harlem neighborhood of New York was considered to be a center of Black American culture. The team did not actually play a game in Harlem until 1968.
Clown Prince. Carry on.
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. The Harlem Renaissance is considered to have been a rebirth of the African-American arts. Many people would argue that the Harlem Renaissance never ended and has continued to be an important cultural force in the United States through the decades: from the age of stride piano jazz and blues to the ages of bebop, rock and roll, soul, disco and hip-hop.
Preservation Hall in New Orleans, originally an art gallery, was opened by manager Barbara Reid to the public in 1961 as a music venue.
Comedian and actor Tim Reid started his entertainment career as a standup comic, teaming up with Tom Dreesen as “Tim and Tom,” one of the first biracial comedy duos, during the 1960s and 1970s. Reid later starred in several television series, including as Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati, as “Downtown” Brown on Simon & Simon, as Frank Parrish on Frank’s Place, and as Ray Campbell on Sister, Sister.
Andy Reid has been head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs since 2013. Prior to that, he was head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1999-2012.
Reid made his first appearance on national TV in 1971, when, as a 13-year-old, he competed in the Punt, Pass, and Kick competition at halftime of a Monday Night Football game.
The 2010 autopsy of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy recovered from melting glacial ice near Hauslabjoch Pass in the Tyrolean Alps, revealed the presence of the DNA sequence of Borrelia burgdorferi, making him the earliest known human with Lyme disease.
Key plot points in Jane Austen’s Persuasion occur when Anne and the others visit the coastal town of Lyme Regis.
The Key Deer of the Florida Keys is a subspecies if the common White-tailed deer. The Key population stanfs about 2/3 the height of mainland deer. Key deer swim often from one key to another and have little fear of humans or road traffic.
Key lime pie is a dessert pie, the filling of which is made using egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk, and the juice from Key limes. During preparation, the lime juice causes the proteins in the egg yolks and the condensed milk to curdle, thus thickening the filling; it can thus be prepared and served without baking (though it is sometimes baked, to pasteurize the eggs and further thicken the filling).
The Key Lime is a fairly recent citrus hybrid, and is now by far the most comm variety in Latin America, where they are called limon… They are easy to handle at the table, and produce much more juice per ton of whole fruit.
Bananas are the most-purchased fruit in the United States, with apples a close second. Grapes, strawberries, and oranges round out the top five.
Because strawberries seeds are on the outside, they are not classified by botanists as a true berry. True berries, such as blueberries and cranberries, have their seeds inside. Each of the strawberry’s dry, yellow “seeds” on the outside are actually considered a separate fruit.
Former MLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry played for four teams during his career: the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, and New York Yankees. All four of those teams are (or once were) based in New York City, making Strawberry one of three men (along with Ricky Ledee and Jose Vizcaíno) to have played for all four of those teams.
Ole Edvart Rølvaag has the distinction of writing a great American novel that had to be later translated into English. " Giants in the Earth" was the first of a trilogy about a Norwegian family homesteading in Dakota Territory in the 1870s, 50 years before the book was written in Norwegian.
South Dakota and North Dakota rank 46th and 47th on the list of states ordered by population. Delaware is just above South Dakota on this list, while Alaska, Vermont, and Wyoming rank below North Dakota. Those are the six states that have a population of less than a million.
The world’s most densely populated islands with a population over a million are Manhattan island (59 square km, 1.6 million) and Salsette Island, on which the cities of Mumbai and Thane are located (620 sq km, 19 million).
In William Shakespeare’s 1606 play Macbeth, the Scottish lord who is the title character becomes Thane of Cawdor and Thane of Glamis, as predicted by the three witches - before, through bloody regicide, becoming King of Scotland.