Canadian Army regiments have two sets of colours: the regimental colours, and the King’s colours, granted by the monarch.
The exception is the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery. Their guns are their colours.
It is believed that the monarch the monarch butterfly was named for was William III, who was also the Prince of Orange.
William I, King of Scots was instrumental in creating the alliance between Scotland and France.
Henry Morton Stanley, the famous explorer and discoverer of the Congo River (among other things) is often thought to be American. This is primarily because he passed himself off as such, even though he was actually Scottish by birth and upbringing. His birth name was John Rowlands and he came from a very poor background. In his efforts to shake the stigma of that, he went to America, changed his name told everyone that he was American, even to the point of enlisting in both the army and the navy during the Civil War.
The Stanley Motor Carriage Company was founded by twin brothers Francis and Freelan Stanley, and specialized in steam-powered motorcars, known colloquially as “Stanley Steamers.”
After selling their photographic dry plate business to Eastman Kodak, the Stanley twins produced their first car in 1897. They were the leading automobile producer in the US over the next two years, selling over 200 cars in that timespan. In 1906, a Stanley Steamer set the world record for the fastest mile in an automobile, covering the distance in 28.2 seconds, which is a speed of 127 mph.
Arizona Revised Statutes Title 36 Chapter 28.2 is titles “Responsible Adult Use of Marijuana”
“Mary Jane’s Last Dance” is a 1993 song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Though Petty never confirmed the meaning of the song’s title and lyrics, speculation by fans centers on it either being about marijuana (of which Petty was an aficionado), or Petty’s breakup with his first wife, Jane Benyo.
The song’s music video features Petty as a worker at a morgue, who steals the body of an attractive deceased woman (played by Kim Basinger).
The sister city of Athens, Georgia is Bucharest, Romania. Actor Jeff Daniels was born in Athens, as was NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton, and the band The B-52s was formed there. And Kim Basinger was born there too.
Rick Miller, founding member and lead guitar/vocalist of the band Southern Culture on the Skids, says he got the name for his band after listening to REM on an Athens, GA, radio station and hearing the dj remark that it was the sound of the New South. Miller said to his friends, “Gawd, if that’s the sound of the ‘New South’ I preferred it when it was on the skids.”
Mitch Miller was a choral director and record producer. During the 1950s and early 1960s, he was considered to be one of the most influential people in the U.S. music industry; he produced a series of popular “Sing Along with Mitch” albums, which featured arrangements of popular songs in a “middle of the road” chorale style. The albums led to a popular television series, also called “Sing Along with Mitch,” in which lyrics to songs were displayed on the screen, so that viewers could, indeed, sing along.
Mitch Miller was a studio innovator who helped pioneer the technique of overdubbing, where different tracks are laid over one another to produce a richer sound effect; he employed it memorably with Patti Page, whose close-harmony “duets” with herself became her signature.
“Mitch and Mickey” were a fictional folk duo in the 2003 movie A Mighty Wind. They were played by SCTV alumni Eugene Levy and Catharine O’Hara, who would go on to star in Schitts Creek.
The fictional town of Schitt’s Creek from the TV series is set in Goodwood, Ontario, a rural community about an hour’s drive east of Toronto.
Ajax, Ontario, around 40 minutes’ drive east of Toronto, is named for the cruiser HMS Ajax, which played a decisive role in the WWII Battle of the River Plate. Several roads in Ajax are named for other figures in the battle, including Exeter Rd and Achilles Rd, named for the other two British ships involved, and Harwood Ave., named for Admiral Harwood, who commanded the squadron.
The River Plate is in South America and forms part of the border between Uruguay to the north and Argentina to the south. It is quite wide and is the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River. It can be considered either a river, an estuary, or a gulf. If considered to be a river, with a maximum width of 140 miles it is the widest river in the world. The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic and was the first naval battle of the Second World War.
The US state of Iowa has the entirety of its eastern border defined by the Mississippi River. Its western border is defined by two rivers, the Big Sioux River and the Missouri River.
(I think that Iowa is the only state that has two of its borders completely defined by rivers, but that belief comes from looking at a map. Can anybody confirm or disprove?)
Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock group, originally founded by Siouxsie Sue (Susan Ballion) and Steven Severin in 1976. Initially inspired by the Sex Pistols, the band became known as a key influencer in the post-punk and new wave genres, and were an inspiration to a number of later bands, including The Smiths, The Cure, Joy Division, and Radiohead.
In 1988, Siouxsie and the Banshees made a breakthrough in North America with the multifaceted album Peepshow, which received critical praise. With substantial support from alternative rock radio stations, they achieved a mainstream hit in the US in 1991 with the single “Kiss Them for Me”.
The band Sixpence None The Richer formed in New Braunfels TX in the early 1990s. One of its most popular songs is titled Kiss Me.
The band’s name is inspired by a passage from the book Mere Christianity by CS Lewis: in it, a boy asks his father if he can get a sixpence to buy a gift for the father (a sixpence is a very small amount of English currency). The father gladly accepts the gift and is really happy with it, but he also realizes that he’s not any richer for the transaction. CS Lewis was comparing that to his belief that God has given us the gifts we possess, and to serve him the way we should, that we should do it humbly — realizing how we got the gifts in the first place.
Kiss Me, Sixpence None The Richer ➜
