The Scott River in California is 60 miles long and it empties into the Klamath River in far northern California, in Siskiyou County. That location’s lat/long is 41.778537, -123.036730, and on the map it is at the end of Scott River Road, here: https://goo.gl/maps/ZyGxiSprHSn23FuV8.
The river is not long, and it is not labeled clearly in many parts. Google Maps has the river labeled here: https://goo.gl/maps/QdTkJT6khdqDTrL39
Its source is at lat/long 41.312536, -122.801708, where the East Fork and the South Fork of the Scott River join to form the Scott River, here: https://goo.gl/maps/qNTDMdmFhnNo4apw6.
Historically, fur trappers called the river the Beaver River, before the Hudson’s Bay Company nearly extirpated beaver from the area in the early 19th century. The 1850 discovery of gold during the California Gold Rush by pioneer John W. Scott at Scott Bar, downriver from Scott Valley, brought many prospectors into the area; Scott’s discovery led to the naming of the valley and the river in his honor.
The California Gold Rush started on January 24, 1848. It was on that day that James Marshall discovered gold flakes in John Sutter’s sawmill’s tailrace that was being constructed in Colima, California.
After the Gold Rush was a 1970 studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. Young was inspired to write some of the album’s songs after reading a screenplay, also titled “After the Gold Rush,” which had been written by Dean Stockwell and Herb Bermann.
Young proposed that his songs would be used for the film’s soundtrack, though the film was never produced, and the screenplay itself appears to now be lost.
In 1966, Neil Young joined an R&B band called the Mynah Birds, which was fronted by Rick James. While the group was recording their first album with the Motown label, James was arrested for being AWOL from the Navy. After the subsequent breakup of the group, Young and bass player Bruce Palmer pawned the band’s musical equipment, purchased a Pontiac hearse, and relocated to Los Angeles. Shortly thereafter, Young and Palmer, along with Richard Furay, Dewey Martin, and Stephen Stills formed the group Buffalo Springfield.
The last name of Rick (Humphrey Bogart) in the movie Casablanca was Blaine.
Casablanca Records was a music label, originally founded in 1973 by recording executive Neil Bogart, who named the label in homage to the film of the same name. The label was a prominent player in the music industry in the 1970s, releasing albums by artists such as Kiss, Donna Summer, the Village People, and Parliament.
Humphrey the humpback whale twice visited San Francisco Bay, in 1985 and in 1990. On his first visit he was followed daily by the local news agencies. He was first spotted in the bay on October 10, 1985 and he spent several days in the bay and the Sacramento River Delta. Attempts to lure him back to the ocean failed. He was finally led out by sounds of whales feeding and socializing — darn near beautiful music for a whale. Humphrey finally left the bay on November 4th.
And… when I heard Humphrey was in the waters next to the old Candlestick Park stadium, near where I lived then, I hopped on my motorcycle and rode down there and saw him. It was pretty cool.
ETA, modified to fit being ninja’d.
The protection of two humpback whales in the San Francisco Bay area is a major plot point of the 1986 science fiction film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, directed by and costarring Leonard Nimoy.
Adam Nimoy, the son of the late Star Trek actor and director Leonard Nimoy (and who is, himself, a TV director), is married to actress Terry Farrell, who portrayed Jadzia Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Nimoy and Farrell married on March 26th, 2018, on what would have been Leonard Nimoy’s 87th birthday.
Leonard Nimoy served in the US Army from 1953 to 1955, when he was in his early 20s. He got out as a Staff Sergeant.
Which is pretty amazing, I might add.
Only two years, and he picked up SSgt / E-6. That’s quite fast.
Leonard Nimoy, while a struggling actor and cabbie in Los Angeles, once gave a ride to then-Sen. John F. Kennedy, who encouraged him to pursue his dream of acting, saying, “There’s always room at the top for the best.”
The half dollar coin has been part of U.S. currency since 1794. Up until 1947, the obverse of the coin always featured a depiction of “Liberty” as a woman. From 1948 until 1963, the half dollar featured Benjamin Franklin; after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, the coin’s design was redone, to memorialize Kennedy.
Half dollars are still legal tender, but they are now infrequently used by consumers and businesses, and the U.S. Mint has not minted new half dollars for general circulation since 2001 (though small quantities are still minted for collectors).
The half-dime worth five cents was minted until 1873 and contained silver. The nickel (technically the five-cent piece) was created during the Civil War as a substitute because of the silver shortage.
In the Civil War, an estimated 300 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the ranks.
There were over 2,000 boys who were 14 years old or younger in the Union ranks. Three hundred were 13 years or less, while there were 200,000 no older than 16 years.
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States during the Civil War, and Jefferson Davis, who led the Confederacy, were both born in Kentucky but went on to political prominence elsewhere - Illinois for Lincoln, and Mississippi for Davis.
Ironically, the other American president who hailed from Kentucky, Zachary Taylor, was not born in the state. But he lived in Kentucky longer than either Lincoln or Davis. Taylor was born in Virginia in 1784; his parents and family moved to Kentucky when he was just eight months old.
Taylor served as US President for just 16 months before dying of an intestinal ailment at age 65. He was the last President to be born before the adoption of the Constitution.
The Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is located primarily in western Kentucky, extending slightly into western Tennessee. The area is a ridge of wilderness land which exists between two manmade lakes, formed by dams which were built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Tennessee Valley Authority: Lake Barkley (on the Cumberland River) and Kentucky Lake (on the Tennessee River).
The Land Between the Lakes was administered by the TVA until 1998, when its management was transitioned to the U.S. Forest Service.
Land O’Lakes, Inc is based in the twin cities area of Minesota. The company was founded 101 years ago, in 1921, in Saint Paul MN. The Land O’Lakes butter product has an indigenous woman on the box, and she has a name. She is Mia and her likeness was painted in 1928. The style of her clothes has changed over the years to match specific Ojibwe styles, and the background became a specific location in the Ojibwe territory, the Red Lake in Minnesota.
And, here she is one picture of her.
