According to Encyclopedia Britannica, New York City had become the country’s largest city by the year 1800. With an estimated 2019 population of 8.3 million, it is still the largest city in the country. (According to Wikipedia…)
New Jersey is known as The Garden State. This is credited by some to Abraham Browning, New Jersey’s Attorney General from 1845 to 1850, who called New Jersey the Garden State while he was speaking at the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition on New Jersey Day, August 24, 1876. The name stuck ever since.
However, Benjamin Franklin is credited with a similar comparison of New Jersey. Some have used that to discredit Browning with naming the Garden State.
In 1954, the state legislature passed a bill to have “The Garden State” added to license plates. Before signing the bill into law, Governor Robert Meyner investigated the origins of the nickname and found “no official recognition of the slogan Garden State as an identification of the state of New Jersey.”
Added: New Jersey is right next to New York City.
Richard Green, my maternal grandfather, ran for Congress in the district that included Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1936, at a time when the New Jersey Democratic Party was so broken and factionalized that his party label on the ballot was shown as “Pro-FDR Democrat.”
The city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was founded in 1664, and was originally named Elizabethtown. The city was named for the wife of Sir George Carteret, one of the two original Proprietors of the colony of New Jersey.
Singer/actor Chris Jackson, who played George Washington in the original production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster musical Hamilton, traveled to Mount Vernon to research the first President. He became such an admirer that he later appeared in a video promoting Washington’s historic estate on the Potomac.
John Washington, great-grandfather of George Washington, arrived in Virginia from London in 1657. After his marriage to Anne Pope in 1658, he and his new bride settled in Westmoreland County in an area known as the Northern Neck. In 1674, John Washington and Nicholas Spencer were awarded a 5,000-acre land grant from Lord Thomas Culpeper, the proprietor of the Northern Neck. The land was divided between Washington and Spencer, but the entirety of the grant would one day become George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
Spencer Gifts is an American retailer with over 600 stores in the United States and Canada. Their stores specialize in novelty and gag gifts, and also sell clothing, band merchandise, room decor, collectible figures, fashion and body jewelry, fantasy and horror items. Spencer Gifts was founded in 1947 in Easton, Pennsylvania by Max Spencer Adler as a mail-order catalog. n 1963, Spencer Gifts opened its first retail store in the Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where it operates to this day.
The name “Cherry Hill Park” for Billy Joe Royal’s 1969 hit of the same name was inspired by Cherry Hill, New Jersey. In an interview given in 2008, Royal confirmed that he had come up with the title after a reference to Cherry Hill by a friend who had visited nearby Philadelphia. Royal went “Cherry Hill – Mary Hill,” and the result was a catchy, slightly suggestive song that reached #15 on the Billboard “Hot 100”.
(notice how I worked my way back to that, too?) 
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Don Cherry was a longtime minor-league hockey player in the 1950s and 1960s (with one game played in the NHL), who then became an NHL coach during the 1970s.
After ending his coaching career, Cherry became a hockey commentator, and hosted the Coach’s Corner segment on the CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada television broadcast for decades. He was known for both his flamboyant suits, and his controversial statements; he was fired by the CBC in November 2019, due to making discriminatory comments about Canadian immigrants on the program.
Singer Don Cherry, after 3o years as a big band singer, made the charts at #4 in 1955 with “Band of Gold”. He was also on the pro golf tour, an early leader in the 1960 US Open, and made the cut seven times in the Masters.
Jack Nicklaus, with six championships, has won the most Masters golf tournaments. His sixth victory, in 1986, came at the age of 46, and made him the oldest man to win at Augusta. Tiger Woods has five Masters victories, followed by Arnold Palmer with four. Jimmy Demaret, Gary Player, Sam Snead, Nick Faldo, and Phil Mickelson each have won three titles.
Former President Jimmy Carter is one of only two living persons to have a United States Navy submarine now on active duty named after him; the other is former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.).
Naming conventions for US Navy submarines have changed since their introduction to the fleet in 1900. The first submarine was given the name “Holland”, in honor of its designer/builder; succeeding vessels were either named after fish or stinging land animals such as “Salmon”, “Porpoise” (not a fish, but still a sea creature), or “Viper”; later on they were given an alpha-numeric designator such as “A-1” and “L-7”. It wasn’t until 1931 that the custom of naming submarines after fish and ocean creatures resumed, and it continued through the early years of nuclear submarines – examples, “Nautilus”, “Thresher” (a species of shark), and “Skipjack”.
Even as early as 1958, a problem with this pattern was starting to develop, however. Captain William F. Calkins had reports published describing the difficulties in choosing the names for new ships. They could not use names that were already in use, and of course the names also had to be appropriate. He further said that “Spelling and pronunciation both had to be reasonably simple. The average enlisted man (and his girlfriend) must be able to say the name comfortably. If his best girl couldn’t spell it, he might not get her letters.” To further complicate matters, the use of fish names proved problematic for the Navy since ichthyologists used Latin names; and since the fleet was growing so fast, popular, common, easy-to-pronounce fish names would go quickly, leaving the Navy secretary to have to become creative with names. Many times, a name easier to pronounce was assigned to a fish so the Navy could use it for a submarine.
It wasn’t until the introduction of the ballistic-missile carrying submarines that the custom of naming changed, with these later boats being deemed such a turning point from the traditional submarine that a name more in keeping with their new role was desired. The first of these “boomers” were named for famous Americans and have progressed from there to also bearing the names of states of the union – a naming format originally reserved for battleships.
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The current US Navy submarine classes are the Virginia-class and the Columbia-class subs. The Virginia-class subs replaced the Los Angeles-class subs, and the USS Virginia (SSN-774) launched in 2003. The Columbia-class subs replaced the Ohio-class subs, and the USS Columbia (SSN-771) launched in 1994.
The Hoagy-class sub originated in Philadelphia, as a response to New England’s sub, which were replaced in New York by the Hero-class. The Grinder-class sub was usually served hot. About the same time, Italians introduced the Po-boy-class sob in New Orleans, usually filled with exotic seafood.
A common term in New England is “grinder”, as the name for for a hot submarine sandwich, but its origin has several possibilities. One theory has the name coming from Italian-American slang for a dock worker, among whom the sandwich was popular. Others say that it was called a grinder because the bread’s hard crust required much chewing.
Not quite. There are still about thirty Los Angeles-class submarines on active duty; the USS Columbia is one of them. The new Columbia-class SSBNs are still in development and are not expected to enter service until 2031. Eighteen Ohio-class subs are still in commission. There are also three Seawolf-class submarines in commission; one of them is the USS Jimmy Carter.
Any of these subs would take a lot of chewing to get down.
There are four living former first ladies: Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama. Ms. Carter, who will turn 93 next month, currently has the fifth-longest lifespan of all the first ladies of the United States. Bess Truman, Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, and Nancy Reagan all lived to be at least 93 years old; Ms. Truman, who tops this list, was 97 when she died in 1982.
President Harry S Truman, picking up on a project begun by Franklin D. Roosevelt before his death, approved a revised design for the presidential seal which has remained in use ever since. The only changes after Truman left office were the addition of stars to represent Alaska and Hawaii joining the Union, which happened on the watch of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Seal of the President of the United States - Wikipedia
Harry R. Truman lived near Mount St. Helens in Washington, and was the owner of the Mount St. Helens Lodge near the foot of the mountain.
Truman became a folk hero in 1980, when geologists began to predict that the mountain (which is an active volcano) would erupt. The elderly Truman refused to evacuate himself, or his numerous cats, from the lodge, and was interviewed by many journalists in early 1980. Despite repeated attempts by authorities to get Truman to evacuate from the area, he remained at the lodge, and is presumed to have died in the mountain’s eruption on May 18th of that year.