“Rosebud” was the name of Citizen Kane’s childhood sled.
Natasha Obama, known as Sasha Obama, was born in 2001. The Secret Service’s codename for her was Rosebud. Malia Obama’s codename was Radiance. Michelle was Renaissance, and Barack was Renegade.
The Secret Service was created in July of 1865 as a bureau in the Treasury Department to suppress widespread counterfeiting. President Lincoln had signed the legislation on April 14 of that year, before his ill-fated visit to the theater that evening.
After the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, the Secret Service was tasked with the full-time protection of the President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to be protected by the Secret Service.
Besides being one of the foremost scientists in history, Issac Newton was also Warden (and later, Master of the Royal Mint in the last two decades of his life. He was instrumental in curbing counterfeiting coins. William Chaloner, who was hanged for his counterfeiting activities in 1699, was convicted mainly on evidence collected by Newton, who often visited the seedier side of London in disguise.
Chanoler as a surname originally meant a blanket-maker.
In the 1960s, singer-actors Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon made a series of “beach party movies” for American International Pictures. The two of them starred together in “Beach Party” (1963), “Muscle Beach Party” (1964), “Bikini Beach” (1964), and “Beach Blanket Bingo” (1965), while both Funicello and Avalon separately starred in several other beach party films for AIP.
Annette Funicello did not wear bikinis in any of the American International movies (until the final one), and any two-piece swimsuits she wore were designed and cut so that they covered her navel. This is because she still had a contract with Disney and was considered to be a ‘Disney property’, and he wanted to maintain her image as a modest, chaste teen.
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Disneyland opened in July of 1955. Before the end of the year, over 1 million people had visited the park. That number jumped to 4 million the next year. In 2019, the announced attendance was over 18 million people.
On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, President Dwight Eisenhower had a serious heart attack. Dr. Howard Snyder, his personal physician, misdiagnosed the symptoms as indigestion, and failed to call in the help that was urgently needed. The heart attack required six weeks’ hospitalization, during which time Richard Nixon, Allen Foster Dulles, and Sherman Adams assumed administrative duties and provided communication with the President. He was treated by Dr. Paul Dudley White, a cardiologist with a national reputation, who regularly informed the press of the President’s progress. As a consequence of his heart attack, Eisenhower developed a left ventricular aneurysm, which was in turn was the cause of a mild stroke on November 25, 1957. This incident occurred during a cabinet meeting when Eisenhower suddenly found himself unable to speak or move his right hand. The stroke had caused aphasia.
Robert Dudley was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth. It was widely rumoured that he was the only man she was truly interested in marrying.
English comedians Dudley Moore and Peter Cook first worked together in the comedy stage revue Beyond the Fringe in 1960. The two of them became a comedy team, and worked together on stage, on television (the BBC sketch series Not Only…But Also), in film (The Wrong Box, Bedazzled, The Hound of the Baskervilles), and on comedy albums featuring their characters Derek and Clive. The duo broke up in the late 1970s, as Moore pursued a film career in the U.S., while Cook struggled with alcohol abuse.
English actor Roger Moore became interested in UNICEF because of his friendship with Audrey Hepburn, whose experiences growing up in Holland during World War II led her to work with the organization for several years; when she was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, she said she was grateful for receiving international aid after going hungry during the German occupation as a child, and wanted to show her gratitude to the organisation. On mission trips, Hepburn visited many countries including Bangladesh, Turkey, Guatemala, Ecuador, Sudan, and a few months before her death, Somalia.
In 2003, when Moore was knighted for his humanitarian work, he said that the citation “meant far more to me than if I had got it for acting… I was proud because I received it on behalf of UNICEF as a whole and for all it has achieved over the years”.
Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston, the daughter of Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra (a Dutch noblewoman).
At some point, her father changed his surname to the double-barreled Hepburn-Ruston, under the mistaken belief that he was a descendant of James Hepburn, the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.
In late July 1944, the captured surviving 56 officers and crew of the German submarine U-505 were sent to POW Camp Ruston in Louisiana and kept in isolation in a restricted area in the NE corner of the camp in order to prevent them from communicating to the enemy that secret German naval codes had fallen into Allied hands. The U-505 was captured intact by a US Navy Task Force and today is a display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology.
During World War II it is estimated that 425,000 German prisoners were held in 700 POW camps located in the United States. These camps were found in 46 different states. Many POWs worked for local factories or farmers, earning wages of about 80 cents per day.
When Canada was created in 1867, the federal government was constitutionally required to pay subsidies to the provinces, including an annual subsidy of 80 cents per head based on each province’s population.
While Canada ranks second in size among the countries of the world, it ranks only 39th in terms of population. It ranks near the bottom of the list in population density, and most of Canada’s population live within 100 miles of the US border.
The city with the highest population density in the world is Manila, Philippines, at approximately 107,000 people per square mile. No United States major cities make the top 50 in the world, although Guttenberg, a town in New Jersey with about 11,000 people, is in the top 20 (the city is approximately 0.2 square miles in size).
Java has a population larger than all but seven countries in the world.
The first to be regularly protected by the Secret Service, yes, but not the first ever; that was Grover Cleveland. For more: Is the Secret Service responsible for keeping the president from getting drunk? - The Straight Dope
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