US Sen. and former governor Huey Long was shot and killed at the Louisiana State Capitol.
Huey Long cowrote the song Every Man a King.
The San Francisco band Huey Lewis & the News were originally Huey Lewis & The American Express. They changed their name so as to not get sued. Huey Lewis originally was not a singer in the band. Originally he was a harmonica player.
I’m sure he was bad to the bone. B-b-b-b-b-b-baaad.
In the companion music video to George Throrogood’s “Bad to the Bone” Bo Diddly appears as George’s opponent, and pool legend Willie Mosconi appears as a connected man who wages (and loses) on Bo.
Oh yes of course. George Thorogood. Not Huey Lewis.
B-b-b-b-b-b-baaad.
The “Bo Diddley beat” is a syncopated rhythm, popularized by rhythm & blues guitarist Bo Diddley, beginning with his debut single, “Bo Diddley,” in 1955. The beat is a variation of the 3-2 clave rhythm.
The rhythm has remained popular in rock and pop music, and has been used by many other artists, on songs such as Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive,” The Who’s “Magic Bus,” Neil Sedaka’s “Bad Blood,” Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “American Girl,” George Michael’s “Faith,” and U2’s “Desire.”
In a 1989 Nike commercial, Bo Diddley played the music and Bo Jackson was in the midst of his “Bo knows” Nike ads. At the end, Bo Diddley says to Bo Jackson, “Bo, you don’t know Diddley.”
I thought you were playing off of “Bad Is Bad.” 
After Bo Jackson was voted into the 1989 MLB All-Star Game in July, Nike decided the telecast would be the ideal place to debut their Bo Knows campaign. They handed out Bo Knows pennants for fans and even flew Bo Knows signs overhead. Bo Knows appeared in a full-page spot for USA Today. Even by Nike standards, this was big.
Nike was staggered by the results of Bo Knows, which helped them leap over Reebok to become the top athletic shoe company. They eventually secured 80 percent of the cross-training shoe market, going from $40 million in sales to $400 million, a feat that executives attributed in large part to Jackson.
Nike’s promotion of Bo Jackson before the 1989 MLB All-Star game was indeed fortuitous. After the National League scored two runs in the top of the first, Jackson led off the bottom of the first with a monster home run to deep center field. Wade Boggs followed with another solo home run to tie the game at 2-2. In the bottom of the second, Jackson beat out a potential double-play ground ball, which drove in the American League’s third run. Jackson then stole second base, making him the first (and thus far the only) player to have a home run and a stolen base in the same all-star game. The AL won the game 5-3, and Jackson was named the Most Valuable Player.
Bo Jackson suffered a severe hip injury while being tackled in an NFL playoff game in January, 1991. The injury dislocated and fractured his left hip, and led to avascular necrosis. It ended his football career, and after playing baseball for the Chicago White Sox late in the 1991 season on the injured hip, he had hip-replacement surgery. Jackson then played two seasons in MLB (1993 with the White Sox, and 1994 with the California Angels) on an artificial hip, before retiring.
Joseph Crane was the appointed mayor of Jackson, MS and in 1869 was stabbed to death on the capitol steps. Surprisingly it had nothing to do with Reconstruction or race relations but rather that Crane had had Edward Yerger’s family piano taken for back taxes and Yerger stabbed Crane in revenge.
The largest state-owned training site in the nation is Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg MS. I’ve shot there, from their artillery firing points, with Bravo Battery 1/14 out of Jackson MS.
Elizabeth Dennehy, daughter of Brian Dennehy, played Starfleet Lt. Cmdr. Shelby in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her character was not given a first name in the episode, although a later novel suggested it was Elizabeth. The character has appeared once in the animated comedy Star Trek: Lower Decks, but with no lines, so Dennehy did not return to the role.
A Lieutenant Commander in the Navy and Coast Guard is equivalent to a Major in the Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, and Space Force. It is the first of the three ranks in the rank group of field grade officers of Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and Colonel. In the Navy and Coast Guard the rank group is called the mid-grade officers of Lieutenant Commander, Commander, and Captain.
To make things even more confusing, the enlisted ranks for each service are called different things. The only ones that are even close are those of the Marine Corps and the Army.
The Army-Navy Game is an annual football game, played between the teams of the United States Military Academy (the Army Black Knights) and the United States Naval Academy (the Navy Midshipmen). It is traditionally the final regular-season game played in Division I college football, and represents a strong rivalry between the two military academies (and their respective military branches).
The game was first played in 1890, and has been played every year since 1930. Currently, Navy leads the series, with a record of 62-54-7.
The military academies are the only NCAA Division 1 schools without “University” or “College” in their names.
Dec. 28, 1905, in New York, 62 colleges and universities became charter members of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, the precursor to the NCAA.
West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the US. Located on the west side of the Hudson River in New York, West Point was identified by General George Washington as the most important strategic position in America during the American Revolution. It has been occupied by the Army since 27 January 1778. West Point comprises about 16,000 acres including the campus of the United States Military Academy, which is commonly called “West Point”.
When you talk about the US Mint facilities, most people will name Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco. However, the US Mint has historically operated several other lesser-known minting facilities, one of which is located in West Point (NY). Since 2021 all the ‘American Eagle’ bullion silver dollars as well as some of the circulating US quarters have been produced at this facility, and these coins can be recognized by a letter ‘W’ appearing on the coin.
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