A NATO wristwatch strap is a single-piece strap that loops through a watch’s two spring bars and under the watch case. The strap is designed to keep the watch secure on the wrist, even if one of the spring bars fails. The concept was introduced in 1973 by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD). The original strap was made of nylon and was 20 mm wide.
I own two wristwatches and both have an olive drab (military green) NATO watch strap. I like their comfort as well as their security. My every day wear watch is a 22 year old Breitling Aerospace Titanium which was a wedding gift from my wife. The other watch is a simple and basic field watch, and it is solar powered. I wear the Aerospace every day, unless it is being serviced or I’m doing dirty work. At night when I sleep I typically wear the backup.
Swatch is a brand of inexpensive battery-powered quartz wristwatches, launched by a Swiss company of the same name in 1983, in response to the threat that quartz watches posed to traditional European watch brands, which had focused on mechanical watch designs.
The Swatch name is a contraction of “second watch,” as well as a contraction of “Swiss watch.”
“Someday We’ll Be Together” by Diana Ross & the Supremes was the final #1 song of the Sixties. It was also the last #1 hit by the group, which had a total of 12 #1 songs. Their first #1 song was “Where Did Our Love Go”, which reached the top of the charts in August of 1964.
Richard M. Nixon, Republican of California, was sworn into office as President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1969 at the U.S. Capitol, along with his Vice President, Spiro Agnew, Republican of Maryland. Both would be reelected in Nov. 1972; both would resign in disgrace by mid-Aug. 1974.
Nixon was the first US President to resign before the end of his term. Agnew was the last Vice President to leave office before the end of his term. Both would be replaced by Gerald Ford, the only President and Vice President not to be elected by voters.
Two US Vice Presidents have ever resigned their position. Spiro Agnew resigned in October 1973 for tax fraud and corruption, and kickbacks received for construction contracts awarded when he was Governor of Maryland in the late 1960s (and also before then), and in 1832 John C. Calhoun, vice president to both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, resigned over a constitutional nullification crisis between South Carolina and the federal government. Calhoun resigned his vice presidency to become South Carolina’s Senator from which he could more effectively champion the state’s case against the federal government.
As vice president, Calhoun cast a then-record 31 tie-breaking votes in the Senate, the most of any vice president in their capacity as Senate president until vice president Kamala Harris surpassed it in 2023.
The 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was ratified in 1804, revised how the Electoral College functions, in particular how the Vice-President is chosen.
Prior to the 12th Amendment, the Vice-President was selected by virtue of having received the second-highest number of votes for President in the Electoral College, making it possible for the President and Vice-President to be from opposing political parties – which, in fact, happened in the 1796 and 1800 elections.
April 1796 saw the only night of the supposed Shakespeare tragedy Vortigern and Rowena, which was actually written by forger William Henry Ireland. The play, ridiculed by the audience, was revived in 2008 as a comedy.
William Henry (Bill) Cosby Jr. is now 87 years old. He was released from prison in 2021 after a court overturned his 2018 conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman. In 2023 he was sued by an anonymous accuser who had been a stand-in actress on The Cosby Show and who claims he sexually assaulted and drugged her at his home. Earlier this year he was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a teenager in 1986 in a new civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.
Cosby has been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by more than 60 women. He has denied all allegations.
The Las Vegas area did not have a sports team in any of the major North American professional sports leagues until 2017, when the Vegas Golden Knights – an expansion team in the National Hockey League – began play.
Since then, the city has gained two additional teams via relocation: the Las Vegas Aces (formerly the San Antonio Stars, of the Women’s National Basketball Association) moved to the city in 2018, and the Las Vegas Raiders (National Football League) moved from Oakland in 2020. The Oakland A’s (Major League Baseball) have also announced their intention to relocate to Las Vegas, though this will occur no sooner than 2028, as ground has not yet been broken on a new baseball stadium in the area.
Au contraire, the CFL had an expansion team in Las Vegas for the 1994 season: the Las Vegas Posse. It has been noted as the least successful team in CFL history. However, it did give a little known quarterback, Anthony Cavillo, his start in professional history. Cavillo ended his career as one of the best quarterbacks in the CFL, playing with the Montreal Alouettes.
The mascot for the Montreal Alouettes is Touché, a bird of unknown species but resembles a hawk. Touché was inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame on March 11, 2023. The team introduced a second mascot in 1999 named Blitz, but Blitz was discontinued at the start of the 2013 season.
The Canadian National Railway Company (frequently referred to as simply “Canadian National” or “CN”), headquartered in Montreal, is Canada’s largest railway system, and is one of six “Class I” freight rail systems in North America. In addition to operating coast-to-coast rail lines across Canada, CN also operates in the U.S., particularly in the Midwest.
Canadian National was first incorporated by the Canadian government in 1919, bringing together several bankrupt private railways which had passed into government ownership. CN became a privatized company in 1995, and expanded its footprint in the U.S. in the years after privatization.
In Downton Abbey, the Earl of Grantham makes an unwise investment in the Grand Trunk Railway in Canada, one of the railway companies which went bankrupt and was merged into the Canadian National Railway.
