Rideau Hall in Ottawa and the Citadel in Quebec City are the Queen’s official residences in Canada.
Ottawa is the second coldest capital in the world after Moscow.
In 1613, Champlain explained that the river was given the name “Rideau” (curtain, in French) because of the appearance of the Rideau Falls. The Anishinàbemowin name for the river is “Pasapkedjinawong”, meaning "the river that passes between the rocks
Some would rank Ottawa as third coldest national capital, since Ulan Bator in Mongolia is normally colder than Moscow and Ottawa. Some argue Ottawa is colder than Moscow,
Nur-Sultan (formerly Astsna, Kazakhstan)is the second-coldest national capital in the world after Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, a position formerly held by Canada’s capital, Ottawa, until Nur-Sultan attained capital city status in 1997. From Wiki
George Herman Ruth, better known by his nickname, Babe Ruth, had a while list of other nicknames bestowed on him. A few examples: The Sultan of Swat, The Colossus of Clout, The Behemoth of Bust, and The Mammoth of Maul.
The British rock band Dire Straits’ first single, “Sultans of Swing,” was released in 1978. The song, about an underappreciated band playing in a London pub, became a top 10 hit in the U.K., U.S., Canada, and Austria.
The first album to sell one million copies on CD format was Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms (1985).
In the 1980s, industrialist Armand Hammer purchased controlling interest in Church and Dwght, a maker of household products. He thus became the owner of a 130 year old product known as Arm & Hammer Baking Soda.
Actor Armie Hammer, who was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the 2017 film Call Me By Your Name, was born Armand Douglas Hammer. He is the great-grandson of industrialist Armand Hammer.
Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic horror films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Many of these involved classic horror characters such as Baron Frankenstein, Count Dracula, and the Mummy, which Hammer reintroduced to audiences by filming them in vivid color for the first time. The brand is still alive and has produced several films, including Let Me In (2010), The Resident (2011), The Woman in Black (2012) and The Quiet Ones (2014).
Gothic font is more properly called blackletter font and was used in some languages up until the 1940s.
Gothics is a mountain in the Adirondacks of Upstate New York, near Lake Placid and Lake Champlain (map, Google Maps). The mountain gets its name due to its large rock slides’ resemblance to Gothic architecture.
Although flying buttresses were first developed during the Late Antiquity period, they came to prominence as an architectural feature during the Gothic period. The landmark Notre Dame de Paris cathedral was among the first Gothic cathedrals to make use of flying buttresses.
There is at least one cathedral in every state in the USA. The United States is, according to some measures, home to the largest cathedral in the world; the Episcopalian
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York’
By Christian tradition, ‘St. John the Divine‘ is John the Evangelist, the John who authored the fourth Gospel of the New Testament, one of the original twelve disciples of Christ. He is known as “the disciple whom Jesus loved”, who “bore witness to and wrote” the Gospel’s message.
Just as the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church is a continuation in leadership from the disciple St. Peter, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church is a continuation in leadership from the disciple St. Mark.
Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk music trio, consisting of Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers. The trio’s heyday was during the folk music movement of the 1960s, when they were known for songs such as “Puff (The Magic Dragon),” “I Dig Rock and Roll Music,” and “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” as well as their covers of songs like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
After the trio spent most of the 1970s apart, they reunited in 1981, and continued to tour and record until Mary Travers’ death in 2009, after a lengthy battle with leukemia.
On April 18, 1981, the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the Triple-A International League, began play in what would become the longest game in professional baseball history. Tied at 1 after nine innings, the teams played 11 scoreless innings; each team then scored a run in the 21st and the game continued. At 4:07 am, after the 32nd inning had concluded, the game was stopped. It was resumed on June 23rd, when Pawtucket scored a run in the bottom of the 33rd to win the game 3-2. Total playing time was 8 hours and 25 minutes.
Dallas Williams, an outfielder for Rochester, had 15 plate appearances in the game and went 0 for 13.
Future major leaguer Wade Boggs had 4 hits in 12 at bats, including the game-tying RBI in the bottom of the 21st.
From 1927 to 1979 the Detroit Red wings ice hockey team played in The Detroit Olympia. In 1970 they moved to the newer Joe Louis Arena. The Olympia was demolished in 1987 and replaced by the Michigan National Guard’s Olympia Armory.