George Wallace, former governor of Alabama known for his segregationist policies and actions, ran for president in 1968, listing the American Independent Party as his political party. Wallace won 13.5% of the popular vote and 46 electoral votes. His electoral votes all came from the Deep South, as he won the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
Appointed by President George Washington, Samuel Chase was the only Supreme Court Justice ever to be impeached. Chase signed the Declaration of Independence and was affectionately known as “Old Bacon Face”.
Salmon P. Chase was a U.S. politician and jurist who served as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States. He also served as the 23rd Governor of Ohio, represented Ohio in the United States Senate, and served as the 25th United States Secretary of the Treasury. Chase was therefore one of a few U.S. politicians who served in all three branches of the federal government.
Salmon P. Chase was featured on the Series of 1934 $10,000 bill, the largest face-value banknote ever printed by the US that was meant for public circulation.
(a $100,000 Gold Certificate bill featuring the image of Woodrow Wilson was also printed as part of the Series of 1934, but this was meant only for transfers between Federal Reserve Banks themselves)
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Some species of fish migrate between fresh water and salt water over the course of their life cycles, typically in order to feed or to spawn.
Species which live most of their adult lives in salt water, but migrate to fresh water to spawn, such as many species of salmon, are referred to as “anadromous”, while those which live in fresh water as adults, but migrate to salt water to spawn, are referred to as “catadromous” (these include freshwater eels).
There are six types of salmon in North America. One is generally found in the Atlantic and is known simply as the Atlantic Salmon. The other five can be found in the Pacific. These are Chinook, Coho, Sockeye, Pink, and Chum Salmon. The Chinook is the largest of all the world’s salmon; individuals are known to grow over five feet in length and weigh over 100 pounds.
The Chinook Indian Nation, consisting of the five westernmost Tribes of Chinookan peoples, Lower Chinook, Clatsop, Willapa, Wahkiakum and Kathlamet is currently working to obtain federal recognition. The Chinook Nation gained Federal Recognition in 2001 from the Department of Interior under President Bill Clinton. After President George W. Bush was elected, his political appointees reviewed the case and, in a highly unusual action, revoked the recognition.
Abdul Karim, called “The Munshi” by Queen Victoria, became the first Indian personal clerk to the Queen in 1888, teaching her Hindustani and serving as secretary and confidant. He was resented by many at court.
According to Queen Victoria’s biographer Carolly Erickson, “the rapid advancement and personal arrogance of the Munshi would inevitably have led to his unpopularity, but the fact of his race made all emotions run hotter against him.”
Karim’s family kept his diary and some of his correspondence from the time hidden until 2010, when it was made public; his story was popularized in the 2017 film Victoria & Abdul starring Judi Dench; she also starred in the 1997 film Mrs Brown, about Queen Victoria’s unpopular relationship with her ghillie and confidant John Brown.
Judi Dench, while a young actress, played Puck in a provincial performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, suffering from morning sickness in the early weeks of a pregnancy. Several times, when her character was offstage, she would have to throw up in a bucket supplied by a helpful stagehand before going back out to continue her performance.
Wolfgang Puck is an Austrian-born chef and entrepreneur. Puck trained in French cuisine before moving to the United States in 1973. He gained fame for his Los Angeles restaurant Spago, which focuses on “California cuisine,” and he now operates a number of restaurants, as well as licensing his name for retail food products.
The word “Spago” is Italian for “string” or “twine.” The plural would be “spaghi,” which is the beginning of the word spaghetti.
Italian food is the third-most popular ethnic food in the USA, according to chefspencil. Unsurprisingly, with their large Italian populations, it is the most popular ethnic food in the states of New York and New Jersey. Chinese food is the most popular ethnic food in America, followed by Mexican.
New Jersey is the only American state with a flag with a tan (or “buff”) field.
A “Black and Tan” is a term for a beer-based drink, made by filling a glass half-full with a lighter-colored beer, such as an ale or lager, and then completing the pour with a darker-colored beer, such as a porter or stout. In the U.S., the drink is often made with Bass Ale and Guinness.
However, the term isn’t widely used in Ireland, and is still seen as derogatory or inflammatory in some areas, as the “Black and Tans” was a nickname for the British paramilitary force which was used in suppressing the Irish independence movement in the early 1920s. A less-fraught term for the drink is a “Half and Half” (and in Ireland, Harp is usually used instead of Bass).
Yes it is, and it’s quite tasty. At least, that’s what my travelling companions told me…
In play: The Guinness Book of World Records came into being when the managing director of the brewery commissioned twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter to compile the first such list of world records in 1954. A thousand copies were printed and given away. The current edition lists over 40,000 records, 15,000 of which are listed online and are updated weekly.
The Norris Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that produced nearly one thousand railroad engines between 1832 and 1866. It was the dominant American locomotive producer during most of that period, as well as the first major exporter of American locomotives, selling its popular engines to railways in Europe and building the first locomotive used in South America (The Copiapó , built in 1850 for Chilean Railroad).
British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of the most important figures in the Industrial Revolution. Among his achievements was designing the world’s first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship, serving as the chief engineer and designer of the Great Western Railway (one of Great Britain’s most important early railroads), designing and building numerous pioneering tunnels and bridges in England (including the Clifton Suspension Bridge), and development of one of the world’s first prefabricated modular hospitals.
In 2002, the BBC held a public poll to name the “100 Greatest Britons” in history; in that poll, Brunel finished second to Winston Churchill.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel is mentioned as the hero of Vannevar Morgan, a world-famous engineer noted for, among other things, building a bridge connecting Europe to Africa across the Straits of Gibraltar (just over eight miles), in Arthur C. Clarke’s 1979 sf novel The Fountains of Paradise. Morgan keeps a portrait of Brunel in his office.
Gibraltar International Airport is the civilian airport that serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Winston Churchill Avenue (which is the main road heading towards the land border with Spain) intersects the airport runway, and consequently has to be closed every time a plane lands or departs. The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranked the airport the fifth most extreme airport in the world.
Based on 2019 figures for passenger volume, four of the ten busiest airports in the world are located in the United States. Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta is number 1, Los Angeles International is number 3, O’Hare International in Chicago is number 6, and Dallas-Fort Worth International is number 10.