Hello, Larry was an American television sitcom, which ran on NBC in 1979 and 1980. It was a vehicle for former MASH star McLean Stevenson, who played the title character, a radio talk-show host.
The show was poorly received by critics, and did not do well in the ratings; it often appears on lists of the worst television shows of all time.
Adlai Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois, was the Democratic nominee for President in both 1952 and 1956, losing badly to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican of New York, both times. Stevenson again sought the nomination in 1960 but lost to John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who, once in the White House, named him US Ambassador to the United Nations.
Adlai Stevenson II was the the grandson of Adlai Stevenson, who served as vice-president in Grover Cleveland’s second term.
When Stevenson was twelve, he shot a 15-yr old girl in the face, killing her.
The incident occurred at a party thrown by his older sister. Young Adlai was handed a rifle that was insufficiently inspected, and unbeknownst to him contained a shell in the chamber. The gun went off, striking Ruth Merwin in the forehead, instantly killing her. The incident was declared accidental and Stevenson was not charged with a crime.
Actor McLean Stevenson and two-time Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson II were second cousins once removed.
McLean Island, Nunavut is in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the territory. The region lies between Baffin Bay and the Northwestern Passages. Baffin Bay was named for William Baffin who, in his attempt to find the Northwest Passage, was the first European to find the bay that now bears his name. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name for Baffin Island.
Nunavut’s area is 1,997,923.78 km2 (771,402.68 sq mi).
It sends one member of Parliament to Ottawa.
It is the largest single-member constituency in the world.
In Jamaica this year, if you were to make $1,997,923.78 and have nothing unusual with your tax situation, you would pay $109,472.51 in income tax - an effective tax rate of 5.48%
According to World Population Review, the countries with the highest income tax rates in the world are Ivory Coast (60%), Finland (56.95%), and Denmark (56.00%).
Before its colonization, Ivory Coast was home to several states, including Gyaaman, the Kong Empire, and Baoulé.
The French name for Ivory Coast is Côte d’Ivoire. The circumflex in Côte indicates the « s » which dropped out of the French version of the word.
The U.S. Coast Guard traces its heritage to the U.S. Revenue-Marine, later the Revenue Cutter Service, established by Alexander Hamilton when he was Secretary of the Treasury in the Washington Administration. It is now part of the Department of Homeland Security during peacetime, but may be transferred to the Department of the Navy in wartime or times of national emergency.
Despite historically being under the Department of the Treasury and then the Department of Transportation, the US Coast Guard was moved to the Department of Homeland Security on November 25, 2002 with the transition completed on March 1, 2003
United States Coast Guard Station at Cape Disappointment, situated near Cape Disappointment, Washington, at the mouth of the Columbia River, is the largest United States Coast Guard search and rescue station on the Northwest Coast, with 50 crew members assigned. Cape Disappointment Station is also the site of the oldest search and rescue station within the Thirteenth Coast Guard District. The station’s Area of Responsibility reaches from Ocean Park on the Washington Coast south to Tillamook Head on the Oregon Coast.
One of the best-known scenes in the 1987 film The Princess Bride is the sword duel between Inigo Montoya and a masked man in black (Westley, in his guise as the Dread Pirate Roberts).
The two actors – Mandy Patinkin and Cary Elwes – learned theatrical swordfighting for the scene, and performed the fight themselves, including both of them starting out the duel fighting left-handed, before they each switch to their natural (right) hand.
The fight concludes with the “man in black” besting Inigo; when Inigo asks the identity of the man who’s defeated him, Westley replies, “Get used to disappointment,” before knocking out his foe.
Bartholomew Roberts was one of the most successful pirates, capturing 470 ships between 1719 and 1722. “Black Bart” inspired numerous real and fictional characters. Though feared off the coasts of America and West Africa, he was scrupulously fair with his men (for a pirate), and unsuccessfully tried to convince a pastor to travel with them to preach to them; but was more successful in hiring musicians. A sharp dresser who demanded the sake of his crew. He was unusual for a pirate in having a moral code he used to govern his affairs, including curfews, no gambling, rest on Sundays, and limited alcohol, as follows (from Wikipedia) :
I. Every man has a vote in affairs of moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions, or strong liquors, at any time seized, and may use them at pleasure, unless a scarcity makes it necessary, for the good of all, to vote a retrenchment.
II. Every man to be called fairly in turn, by list, on board of prizes because, (over and above their proper share,) they were on these occasions allowed a shift of clothes: but if they defrauded the company to the value of a dollar in plate, jewels, or money, marooning was their punishment. If the robbery was only betwixt one another, they contented themselves with slitting the ears and nose of him that was guilty, and set him on shore, not in an uninhabited place, but somewhere, where he was sure to encounter hardships.
III. No person to game at cards or dice for money.
IV. The lights and candles to be put out at eight o’clock at night: if any of the crew, after that hour still remained inclined for drinking, they were to do it on the open deck;
V. To keep their piece, pistols, and cutlass clean and fit for service.
VI. No boy or woman to be allowed amongst them. If any man were to be found seducing any of the latter sex, and carried her to sea, disguised, he was to suffer death;
VII. To desert the ship or their quarters in battle, was punished with death or marooning.
VIII. No striking one another on board, but every man’s quarrels to be ended on shore, at sword and pistol.
IX. No man to talk of breaking up their way of living, till each had shared one thousand pounds. If in order to this, any man should lose a limb, or become a cripple in their service, he was to have eight hundred dollars, out of the public stock, and for lesser hurts, proportionately.
X. The Captain and Quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.
XI. The musicians to have rest on the Sabbath Day, but the other six days and nights, none without special favour.[48][49]
While a pirate plundered and pillaged for his own personal gain, a privateer did the same actions under commission from a government or sovereign. Privateers were private individuals commissioned by governments to carry out quasi-military activities. They would sail in privately owned armed ships, robbing merchant vessels and pillaging settlements belonging to a rival country.
The war powers clause of the US Constitution gives the Congress the power to grant letters of marque and reprisal, the formal legal term for privateering.
Even before the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, the Continental Congress issued letters of marque and reprisal during the American Revolution. American privateers were even more effective than the tiny fledgling Continental Navy in attacking and capturing British merchant shipping.
The Constitution vests Congress with explicit authority to enact criminal laws relating to counterfeiting, piracy, crimes on the high seas, offenses against the law of nations, and treason. Treason is specifically identified in the Constitution, the penalty being: Under U.S. Code Title 18, the penalty is death, or not less than five years’ imprisonment (with a minimum fine of $10,000, if not sentenced to death). Any person convicted of treason against the United States also forfeits the right to hold public office in the United States.