The US Post Office issued a se-tenant pair of stamps (Scott catalog 1331 and 1332) in 1967 to commemorate the Apollo IV mission. #1331 showing White floating in space on the end of the tether, and #1332 showed the Apollo capsule itself with the blackness of space and the curvature of the Earth as the background.
(se-tenant, from the French for connected. In philately the term usually refers to a sheet or pane of stamps that contains one or more separate designs but are still connected to each other within that single sheet.)
While the US Post Office had issued se-tenant stamps in the past, this was the first US example in which the two stamps, when connected, formed a single coherent image.
HMS King George V was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets, often serving as a flagship. Aside from participating in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 and the inconclusive Action of 19 August, her service during the First World War generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. After the war, King George V became flagship of the Home Fleet and then of the Reserve Fleet before she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet in late 1920. King George V was later reduced to reserve and used as a training ship until late 1926 and was then sold for scrap later in the year in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
PS–Bicycle Bill, on post 3541, it was Gemini IV, not Apollo IV.
Nope. “Governor” is the noun, for both the Governor General and the Lieutenant Governors, so that’s what takes the plural. For example, you can refer to “former Governors General” and “former Lieutenant Governors”.
“General” is the adjective indicating that the GG is the chief representatvie of Her Majesty. “Lieutenant Governors” dates back to the governments of the various British North American colonies, where there was one Governor General, and Lieutenant Governors in the various other colonies. The GG had some oversight functions.
The King George V-class dreadnoughts were named after the current king, George V, who had been a navy man. As he was third in line to the throne he was destined for a naval career, but his older brother, Prince Albert Edward, died unexpectedly from pneumonia in 1892. As the spare in “heir and a spare,” he took on his brother’s duties and it effectively ended his naval career.
His second son, Prince Albert, also took took the throne as a “spare,” after his older brother, Edward VIII, abdicated. He chose George as his regnal name in honor of his father.
After ruling for less than a year, Edward VII became the first British monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne, which he did so on December 11, 1936. On June 3, 1937, then known as the Duke of Windsor, he married Wallis Warfield, a twice-divorced American woman. They remained married until his death in 1972; she died in 1986.
Edward died childless, so even if he had not abdicated, Elizabeth II would still have been the heir apparent when Edward died.
That was King Edward VIII. His grandfather was Edward VII.
Edward VII is mentioned in the Australian court-martial drama Breaker Morant, set during the Boer War. At the end of the day, standing in the middle of a tented encampment of Scottish troops, a sergeant shouts “Lights out!” and then leads the soldiers in three cheers for His Majesty King Edward VII, concluding hoarsely, “Long may he reign!”
Edward was the first heir to the throne to do a royal tour of British North America, in the 1860s, as Prince of Wales. His grandfather, Edward Duke of Kent, and his uncle, William Duke of Clarence, had both served in British North America.
Not in play: Elizabeth was never heir apparent, only heir presumptive, and could not have been heir apparent to Edward VIII if he had not abdicated. A male child born late to either a non-abdicated Edward, or to her father George, would have displaced her in the succession.
In the 1989 time-travel comedy film Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the Three Most Important People in the World are a trio of world leaders in the year 2688, where Bill and Ted’s music has become the philosophical foundation of a utopian society. The three leaders are played by three musicians: Fee Waybill of The Tubes, Martha Davis of The Motels, and Clarence Clemons of The E Street Band.
There were rumours that HM would award Prince Harry the title of Duke of Clarence on his marriage, ultimately she chose to give him the title of Duke of Sussex. The previous holder had been one of George III’s younger sons, with progressive views for his time. There was speculation that Harry identified with that background.
The Olsen twins, former actresses Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, were born in 1986 and are of Norwegian ancestry. They have an elder brother, Trent, and a younger sister, actress Elizabeth, as well as a half-sister, Courtney Taylor, and a half-brother, Jake. The Elizabeth & James fashion line is designed by the Olsen twins and is named after their siblings, Elizabeth and James Trent Olsen.
A compression release engine brake, compression brake, or decompression brake, frequently called a Jacobs brake or Jake Brake, is an engine braking mechanism installed on some diesel engines. When activated, it opens exhaust valves to the cylinders, right before the compression stroke ends, releasing the compressed gas trapped in the cylinders, and slowing the vehicle.
Again, my bad. I now cannot find the site that stated that she was heir apparent, but clearly she never was, even as her father was dying.
In play: Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the engine that bears his name, designed and built the prototype over a period of 13 years in the late 1800s. The first successful test was completed in 1897. But it would be several years before a design became commercially viable, during which time Diesel became increasingly nervous and depressed. He disappeared in 1913 from a ship on a voyage to England, presumably committing suicide.
Dr. Rudolf Diesel was aboard the steamship SS Dresden, sailing in the English Channel, at the time of his disappearance just a year before World War I broke out. His body was later found floating in the water. Suicide (possibly due to financial troubles) or murder (perhaps by German agents concerned that he was going to provide details of his engine to the British Royal Navy) are two of the theories about his still-unsolved disappearance and death.
When the American Kawasaki Motorcycle Corporation opened their first headquarters in March of 1966 in Chicago, they set up shop in what was once an old meat warehouse. This was deliberately done to keep costs and overhead intentionally low. The production team wanted to start with the lowest possible overhead so they could instead allocate funds into motorcycle production.
The largest mass lynching in American history occurred on March 14, 1891, when 11 Italian immigrants were pulled from a prison in New Orleans, shot and mutilated before a cheering crowd.
