Lebanon County Pennsylvania and Switzerland County Indiana are the only counties that share their names with sovereign nations of the world. There is a Scotland County Missouri, but Scotland, although officially a country, is not presently sovereign. A few others come close, such as Canadian Oklahoma, Dane Wisconsin, and eight counties named Columbia.
Cedar Breaks National Monument near Cedar City UT in the southwestern part of the state is a natural amphitheater stretching across 3 miles with a depth of over 2,000 feet. The elevation of the rim of the amphitheater is over 10,000 feet above sea level, and its rock is similar to the formations at Bryce Canyon.
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There are 128 protected areas in the United States known as national monuments. National monuments are located in 31 states as well as in the District of Columbia and several American territories. Arizona and California have the most national monuments, each with 18, followed by New Mexico with 13.
Monument Valley is a region of large sandstone buttes along the Arizona/Utah border. The valley, which lies within the Navajo Nation Reservaton, has been used in many films and television shows, and its landscape has become an iconic symbol of the American West.
Konrad Adenauer, who was Chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963, when he reached age 87, was dubbed “Der Alte” (“the elder”). British politician and historian Roy Jenkins says he was “the oldest statesman ever to function in elected office.” He remains the oldest head of government for a major country. He presided over the process of denazification and the West German boom or “economic miracle” that began in 1950.
A poll of European journalists in early 1960s, asked for fun to write the most outlandish headline, came up with “ADENAUER DIES.”
Konrad Adenauer was the mayor of Cologne from 1917 to 1933. After the Nazi party came into power, he was dismissed as mayor on April 4, 1933. After the war ended, the American occupation forces once again installed him as Mayor of Cologne. He held the position for just a few months before being dismissed for incompetence.
In the 71 years since the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, only eight people have held the post of Chancellor (not counting Walter Scheel, who was acting chancellor for nine days in 1974).
The longest-tenured Chancellor has been Helmut Kohl, who held the office for just over 16 years, from 1982 to 1998. The current Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is the second-longest tenured, at over 14 years; she surpassed Konrad Adenauer’s tenure (14 years, 30 days) several months ago.
In Sweden the Chancellor of Justice or Justitiekanslern acts as the Solicitor General for the Swedish Government. The office was introduced by Charles XII of Sweden in 1713.
The Solicitor General of the United States is the third-highest-ranking official in the Justice Department, and the country’s top Federal appellate lawyer. Perhaps the best-known Solicitor General has been Robert Bork (served 1973-77), who followed President Nixon’s order and fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox after both Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Richardson’s top deputy, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, both refused and were fired in the “Saturday Night Massacre.” In his posthumously-published memoirs, per Wiki, Bork claimed that after he carried out the order, Nixon promised him the next seat on the Supreme Court. Nixon never had the chance to make good on the promise, however.
Nixon, Texas is a city, self-described as a “compact neighborhood,” in Gonzales and Wilson counties. Part of Nixon is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Antonio Banderas prepared for his role as the legendary masked swordsman Zorro in the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro by training with the Olympic national fencing team in Spain. He practiced his moves with real steel swords, and then he used lighter aluminum swords in the movie.
One of Edgar Allen Poe’s stories "The Masque of the Red Death centers on noblemen attempting to escape a plague. Poe describes it as causing “sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores” leading to death within half an hour.
In the Bible’s Old Testament book, Exodus, there were 10 Plagues of Egypt, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt to allow Moses to lead the Israelites to leave captivity. The 10 plagues were changing the Nile water into blood, frogs, gnats/lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, a thunderstorm of hail and fire, locusts, 3 days of darkness and, finally, death of firstborn male children.
Yeah, I guess God was pretty pissed off.
The overwhelming consensus among scholars is that the Exodus story is best understood as a myth and does not accurately describe historical events.
*Exodus *is a 1958 historical novel by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel. Following its publication, the Prime Minister of Israel at the time, David Ben-Gurion, remarked that “as a piece of propaganda, it’s the greatest thing ever written about Israel”.
Leon Uris’ novel Battle Cry contains incidents based on his experiences in the 6th Marine Regiment during WWII.
“The Battle Cry of Freedom” was a popular song during the American Civil War, with both pro-U.S. and pro-Confederate lyrics being written. The song is featured in the Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln: Lincoln (2012) 13th Amendment Celebration Scene - YouTube
Steven Spielberg’s first professional television directing job was for a segment of the pilot episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series, Night Gallery, in 1969. Spielberg, who was then 21 years old, was tapped to direct the “Eyes” segment, which starred Joan Crawford.
Crawford was initially “speechless, and then horrified” when she learned that she was going to be directed by a newcomer, but once production began, she was quickly won over by Spielberg’s talent and inspiration; she and Spielberg remained close friends until her death.
Although edible Crawfish occur all over the world, Louisiana now accounts for 90% of production and 75% of consumption. They are a “wild” product of aquaculture, and are commercially grown in rice fields during the flooded season. The crawfish itself is a freshwater crustacean similar to shrimp, and only the tails are eaten.