In 1919, professional hockey had co-champions. The Stanley Cup finals between the Seattle Metropolitans and the Montreal Canadiens were called off because of the Spanish Flu after 5 games with the series tied at 2 wins each with 1 tie.
German orchestra leader and composer Bert Kaempfert’s instrumental “Moon Over Naples”, when given words by songwriter Eddie Snyder, became “Spanish Eyes”, originally a hit for Al Martino and also recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck, Elvis Presley, and many others. Recently, it appeared in The Irishman, with Steven Van Zandt, of “The Sopranos” and Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, singing “Spanish Eyes” as nightclub crooner Jerry Vale at a Teamster’s banquet.
Van Zandt County, Texas is commonly known as the Free State of Van Zandt, and the origin of the name is not clearly known. One story stems from before the Civil War. The majority of Van Zandt wanted to stay with the Union, and reasoned that if Texas could secede from the United States, they could secede from Texas, and began organizing a government until they were threatened with military intervention. Although the secession was unsuccessful, the title of “Free State” stuck.
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Towns Van Zandt, third great grandson of the family that founded Van Zandt County, collaborated with Willie Nelsun on a number of hits, and recorded albums of his own. He was the composer of “Pancho and Lefty” and did some guitar wort on the studio release. Towns was born of still-wealthy parents in Fort Worth.
In play: Van Zandt, Washington was named by J. M. Van Zandt, an early postmaster. A post office called Van Zandt was established in 1892, and it remained in operation until 1955.
It is about 100 miles north of Seattle, and 20 miles south of the Canadian border.
The ‘Enabling Act of 1889’ was a statute passed by the US Congress that permitted the entrance of Washington, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota into the United States. On November 2, 1889, North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the Union; on November 8, Montana was admitted; and on November 11, 1889, Washington became the 42nd state admitted into the Union.
The Electric Company was a educational television series for elementary-school-age children, produced by Children’s Televison Workshop, and airing on PBS. The series’ original production run was from 1971 until 1977.
The series used sketch comedy to teach children about spelling and grammar. One of the recurring sketches featured a character named Fargo North, Decoder (played by actor Skip Hinnant), a detective who decoded scrambled word messages and phrases for his clients. His name was, of course, a pun based on the city of Fargo, North Dakota.
Fargo, North Dakota was named for William George Fargo (May 20, 1818 – August 3, 1881), who helped found the modern day financial firms of American Express Company and Wells Fargo with his business partner, Henry Wells.
The Fargo family was originally named Fargeau; they were descended from Jacent Fargeau of Lyons, France, who moved to Wales in the 1600s.
Moorhead, MN is the sister city to Fargo, ND. The city was named for William Garroway Moorhead (1811–1895), an official of the Northern Pacific railroad. It is separated from Fargo by the Red River of the North, which also forms part of the border between the states. The two cities are often jokingly referred to as “Margo’s Forehead”.
Actress Agnes Moorhead is likely now best-remembered for playing Endora, the arch and meddlesome mother of Samantha Stephens in the 1960s TV comedy series Bewitched.
However, Moorhead had a long and illustrious career on stage, in film, and on the radio – she was a member of Orson Welles’ Mercury Players group, and appeared in many of Welles’ projects, including Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons (for which she received one of her three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress).
Morehead City, North Carolina is on the Atlantic Coast and 50 miles east of Camp Lejeune, also on the coast, and the largest US Marine Corps base on the east coast. Camp Lejeune lies between two deep-water ports, Wilmington NC and Morehead City NC, which allows for the fast deployment of troops and equipment.
Camp Lejeune is popularly pronounced “le-JOON”, but the correct pronunciation of the family name is “le-JERN”.
Since the company was formed in 1933, the product most closely associated with Stokely-Van Camp hs been their ubiquitous pork and beans. Commercially canned pork and beans were introduced in the United States sometime around 1880. According to the 1975 Better Homes and Garden Heritage Cookbook, canned pork and beans was the first convenience food.
Campbell Soup Company sells more than 100 million cans of pork and beans a year. Commercially canned pork and beans were first sold in the 1880’s (as jtur88 posted), but did not become very popular until H.J. Heinz came out with their version in 1895.
Lucky Charms cereal contains pork.
Pork and beans do not. Well, maybe a trace of pork-belly.
Huddie Ledbetter, who performed under the stage name Lead Belly, was an influential folk and blues musician in the first half of the 20th Century.
Though he died from ALS in 1949, Lead Belly was an important influence to many folk and rock musicians, including Bob Dylan (who credits Lead Belly for getting him into folk music), Van Morrison, and Kurt Cobain.
The term amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was coined by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in 1874. In 1945, American naval doctors reported that ALS was 100 times more prevalent among the Chamorro people of Guam than in the rest of the world.
After four centuries of being part of the Kingdom of Spain, Guam was occupied by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. During World War II, Japan attacked and invaded the island on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The US drove out the Japanese forces in August of 1944.
Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi, who surrendered in January 1972, appears to have been the last confirmed Japanese holdout, having held out for 28 years in the forested back country on Guam.