The briefcase holding all the drug money in the Coen brothers’ movie, No Country for Old Men (2007; set in Texas and Mexico), is the exact same briefcase that the Coen brothers used to hold money in the movie, Fargo (1996; in the United States).
This is as per ➜ https://youtu.be/NK-R-x478zw
Fargo, with a population of just over 125K, is the largest city in North Dakota. Bismark, the capitol, is the second largest with a population of 73k. The combined inhabitants of the two cities represent 25% of the state’s total population. North Dakota is the 4th least populous state.
With 576,851 people, Wyoming is the least populous state in the nation. With 733,391 people, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state in the nation, right behind North Dakota. But when considering population density, Wyoming has 5.9 people per square mile while Alaska has 1.1 people per square mile.
The “Bucking Horse and Rider” has appeared on standard-issued license plates of Wyoming since 1936.
The flag of Wyoming prominently appears behind David Keith’s character, Senior Cadet Will McLean, in a chapel scene in the 1983 military-academy drama The Lords of Discipline. The movie was based on the (much better IMHO) novel of the same title by the late South Carolina writer Pat Conroy.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are apportioned by population size of each state; as a result, currently, the seven states with the smallest populations, each have only one Representative. Those states are Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.
On March 4, 1791, Vermont was accepted into the United States of America, as the fourteenth state.
On June 10, 1791, the British Parliament passed the Constitutional Act, which split the Province of Quebec into two new provinces, Lower Canada and Upper Canada.
Quebec is Canada’s largest province by area, and the second-largest by population behind only Ontario. In east-central Quebec the Réservoir Manicouagan is an annular lake, which is a ring-shaped lake caused by the impact of a meteor.
Réservoir Manicouagan is one of the largest impact crater lakes. With a diameter of 60 miles, it is Earth’s sixth-largest confirmed impact crater according to rim-to-rim diameter.
Réservoir Manicouagan is also known as “The Eye of Quebec“
The largest confirmed impact crater on Earth is the Vredefort impact structure in South Africa. Vredefort’s estimated diameter is 110–190 miles.
Québécois are people associated with Quebec. Roughly pronounced as “KOO-beh-kwah.”
Quebec comes from the word “Kebec”, an Algonquin word meaning where the river narrows.
The Algonquin Round Table (also variously known as The Vicious Circle, The Board, and Luigi Board) was a group of writers, newspaper columnists, and actors, who met daily for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan, from 1919 until roughly 1929.
Members of the group were known for their witticisms and practical jokes, which were frequently shared with the public in the newspaper columns of some of the members; group members regularly collaborated with one another on creative projects. Charter members of the group included actor Robert Benchley and critic Dorothy Parker; later members of the group included actors Tallulah Bankhead, Harpo Marx, and Noel Coward.
The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, ended the state of war between Germany and the Allies. Although it is the best known of the WWI treaties, it was with Germany alone. There were four other treaties which ended hostilities with the other Central Powers:
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), between the new Republic of Austria and the Allies;
Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine (1919), between the Tsardom of Bulgaria and the Allies;
Treaty of Trianon (1920), between the new Kingdom of Hungary and the Allies;
Treaty of Sèvres (1920), between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies.
The treaties did not contribute to a lasting peace. The Treaty of Versailles is best known for the reparations issue, and the Allied occupation of the Rhineland, which many feel contributed to the Nazi party’s accession to power. The other four treaties involved land cessions by the defeated powers, which contributed to post-war tensions.
Many in the defeated countries felt that the treaties were not true treaties, but had been imposed by the victorious countries. For example:
Charles IV was the last King of Hungary, reigning from just 1916-1918. He was better-known as Emperor Charles I of Austria. The Hungarian monarchy was abolished at the end of World War I, and he died in exile on the island of Madeira, Portugal, on April 1, 1922.
The British North America Act, 1916, extended the term of the 12th Parliament of Canada by one year, to October, 1917. The Parliament normally would have expired in October 1916, on the 5th anniversary of the return of the writs from the 1911 general elections. The government and the opposition agreed to extend it for one year, due to the state of war. At the request of the Senate and House of Commons, the British Parliament passed the Act.
The President pro tempore (or pro tem) of the U.S. Senate is typically the senior-most senator of the majority party, currently Sen. Patty Murray of Washington State, who was first elected to the Senate in 1992. She is third in line to the Presidency of the United States itself, behind Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrat of California, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana. No Speaker or President pro tem has yet become President due to the death, resignation or removal from office of the President and Vice President.
For Canada’s first three decades, it was unclear if there was constitutional authority to appoint a Deputy Speaker in the Senate.
The issue was finally resolved when the British Parliament passed the Canadian Speaker (Appointment of a Deputy) Act in 1895, at the request of the Government of Canada.
IIRC the U.S. House of Representatives has never had a Deputy Speaker. It does have relatively often, whenever the Speaker is unavailable to preside, a Speaker pro tem, who is typically of the same party as the Speaker and can be trusted to lead the House as the majority party would wish.
The Latin term pro tempore means “for the time” or “for the time being.”
Latin is considered a dead language. It cannot be altered, and new words cannot be added to the Latin vocabulary.