The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, better known as the United States Poet Laureate, serves as the official poet of the United States. Begun in 1937,the post was first known as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. The present title was authorized by an Act of Congress in 1985.
The current Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is Joy Harjo, who is the first Native American to hold the post.
The first official holder of the position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom was John Dryden, appointed in 1668 by Charles II. In 1689, when the Protestant King William III and Queen Mary II took over the throne after Catholic James II was deposed, Dryden, a Catholic convert, refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to the new monarchs. He was dismissed from the laureateship and to date is the only poet to have been removed from the position.
A poet shirt (also known as a poet blouse, or a “pirate shirt”) is a style of loose-fitting shirt or blouse, with “bishop sleeves” (larger at the bottom than the top, with a gather at the wrist), and with frills on the front and/or the wrists. Such shirts commonly have a v-necked, lace-up front.
Poet shirts were popular among boys and young men in the 19th Century, and have gone through waves of popularity in the 20th and 21st Century, particularly among musicians and entertainers. Singer Meat Loaf has often worn such a shirt on stage, and New Romantic bands such as Duran Duran often wore them during the 1980s; poet shirts are frequently worn as part of a pirate costume.
Jerry Seinfeld very reluctantly agreed to wear a pirate shirt (described as a “puffy shirt”) designed by one of Kramer’s friends for a TV interview by Bryant Gumbel in an episode of Seinfeld, and was teased about it by Gumbel. The episode included Jerry’s immortal line, “But I don’t wanna be a pirate!”
Pott’s puffy tumor, first described by Sir Percivall Pott in 1760, is a rare clinical entity characterized by subperiosteal abscess associated with osteomyelitis. It is characterized by an osteomyelitis of the frontal bone, either direct or through haematogenic spread. This results in a swelling on the forehead, hence the name.
Sir Percival (or Percivall, or several variant spellings) was a knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legends. Per Wiki, first made famous by the French author Chretien de Troyes in the tale Perceval, the Story of the Grail, he is most well known for being the original hero in the quest for the Holy Grail (the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper), before being replaced in later English and French literature by Sir Galahad.
Jean Chretien, who was Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 until 2003, suffered an attack of Bell’s palsy (a form of facial paralysis) as a youth. While most people who suffer from Bell’s palsy eventually recover completely, Chretien is among the minority who did not – one side of his face has remained partially paralyzed.
The Bell P-39 Airacobra was one of the principal American fighter aircraft in service when the United States entered World War II. The P-39 was used by the Soviet Air Force, and enabled individual Soviet pilots to collect the highest number of kills attributed to any U.S. fighter type flown by any air force in any conflict.
The Liberty Bell, located in Philadelphia, has this inscription: “Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof.” This quotation is from the Old Testament, Leviticus 25:10. The quote was chosen in 1751 by Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Isaac Norris.
The Liberty Bell is shown on the reverse of the US 1976 Bicentennial silver dollar along with the Moon.
The fast-food chain Taco Bell claimed, in a very successful 1996 April Fool’s ad campaign, to have bought and rebranded the iconic symbol of American freedom as the “Taco Liberty Bell.”
“Ring My Bell”, the 1979 disco song made popular by Anita Ward, was originally written for then eleven-year-old singer Stacy Lattisaw, as a teenybopper song about kids talking on the telephone. Ward’s single hit number one on the disco charts, and went to number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Soul Singles chart. When Ward was asked to sing it, the lyrics to “Ring My Bell” were revamped for an adult audience and despite Ward’s denying there were any sexual connotations in the song, the title was seen as a euphemism for sex.
Charactor actor Ward Bond and John Wayne were teammates on the 1925 national championship USC football team, where they became lifelong friends. It is also where they started their acting careers, whem the team was featured in John Ford=s football film a few years later. Bond appeared in over 200 fims, ans wound up his career as leaser of Tv’s “Wagon Train”.
Julian Bond (1940 - 2015) was a politician and civil rights leader. In 1960, he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1965, Bond was one of eleven African Americans elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. On January 10, 1966, Georgia state representatives voted 184–12 not to seat him, because he had publicly endorsed SNCC’s policy regarding opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Later that year, the US Supreme Court ruled in his favor and ordered the Georgia House to seat him.
Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, Navajo for valley of the rocks, is a region in northern Arizona and southern Utah (but not Georgia!) with majestic and beautiful sandstone buttes such as Merrick Butte (IMAGE LINK), the Mittens Buttes (IMAGE), the Totem Pole (it’s at left in this IMAGE), Elephant Butte (IMAGE), and several buttes from a specific vantage point (IMAGE).
Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii is also known as Monument Valley, and that ‘specific vantage point’ is called John Ford Point and is named for the director who shot several western films there.
Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii is sacred Navajo land.
and, boy oh boy do I want to go! 
Code talkers are individuals who use little-known languages to conduct secret communications, particularly during wartime.
During World War II, the U.S. used speakers of a number of Native American languages, including Navajo, as code talkers. The existence of the WWII code talker operations remained classified until the 1960s; over the past few decades, the stories of the code talkers’ contributions have gained more visibility.
Alan Turing, a noted British codebreaker, was given a posthumous pardon by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013 for his conviction on a charge of “gross indecency” for consensual homosexual acts while living.
Dr. Mason Gross was one of Amerca’s first TV personalities, appearing (along with stripper Gypsy Rose Lee) on the quiz show “Think Fast” in 1949. He later appeared on herb Shrinerrs Two for the Money" as a judge. Dr. Gross was later destined to become the president of Rutgers University.
The Navajo code remains the only oral military code that was never broken. In addition to the complexity of the Navajo language, which few outsiders spoke, the code talkers added a glossary of code words so that Navajo speakers who were not code talkers would be unable to understand. For “America,” for instance, they substituted “ne-he-mah” (“our mother”). “Lieutenant colonel” became che-chil-be-tah-besh-legai (“silver oak leaf”). “Battleship” was “lo-tso” (“whale”) and “grenade” was “ni-ma-si” (potatoes).
Chester Nez was the last of the 29 original code talkers to die, in 2014. He commented on the irony of having been punished as a child in school for speaking Navajo and then being asked to use the language as a code.
Only four men were promoted to the rank of Fleet Admiral in the United States Navy during World War II: William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, Chester Nimitz (all in Dec. 1944) and William D. Halsey (in Dec. 1945). No one has been appointed to the rank since then, although there have been occasional proposals that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when a Navy officer, be thus promoted.