A member of the U.S. military charged in a court-martial may have either military or civilian counsel, or represent himself or herself. Appeals of such cases go ultimately to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and, relatively rarely, to the Supreme Court.
In Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein mentions the court martial of William Sitgreaves Cox. During the War of 1812, as a third lieutenant on the USS Chesapeake, he carried the wounded captain below deck. Unbeknownst to him, all the other officers were dead or incapacitated and while below the ship was boarded and captured so since he was the commanding officer at the time he was convicted of dereliction of duty and abandoning his post, lost his rank and was discharged. This was reversed by President Harry S Truman.
The USS Chesapeake was one of the “original six frigates of the US Navy” requested by President George Washington and authorized by the Naval Act of 1794. The Act included pay and sustenance for naval officers, sailors and marines.
The frigates were built in different locations so that they could be built in parallel and could stimulate the local economies.
- Launched 10 May 1797 — USS United States, built in Philadelphia PA.
- Launched 07 Sep 1797 — USS Constellation, built in Baltimore MD.
- Launched 21 Oct 1797 — USS Constitution, built in Boston MA.
- Launched 02 Dec 1799 — USS Chesapeake, built in Gosport VA.
- Launched 15 Aug 1799 — USS Congress, built in Kittery ME.
- Launched 10 Apr 1800 — USS President, built in New York NY.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge has been called ‘the scariest bridge in America.’ The bridge is nearly 200 feet high and stretches 4.3 miles over the Chesapeake Bay. Because of the number of drivers who are fearful of the bridge, a company was formed that will drive your car over the bridge for a 25 dollar fee.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is almost 18 miles long. It opened in 1964 and remains one of only 12 bridge–tunnel systems in the world.
Two others are:
Storebæltsforbindelsen — the Great Belt Fixed Link Bridge between Zealand and Funen islands, DNK.
and
Öresundsbron (SWE), or Øresundsbroen (DNK) — the Öresund (SWE) or Øresund (DNK) Bridge between Malmö SWE and Copenhagen DNK.
And I’ve driven these three.
An earlier thread that may be of interest: Why did Heinlein report incorrectly about Cox in Starship Troopers? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democrat of Texas, was elected President of the United States in 1964, having succeeded to office as John F. Kennedy’s Vice President the year before when Kennedy was slain in Dallas. Supporters of Barry Goldwater, Republican of Arizona, LBJ’s very conservative opponent, touted the slogan, “In your heart, you know he’s right.” Democrats countered with, “In your guts, you know he’s nuts.”
Arizona’s National Parks are these:
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Chiricahua National Monument
Coronado National Memorial
Fort Bowie National Historic Site
Glen Canyon National Recreational Area
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
Lake Mead National Recreational Area
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Navajo National Monument
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Petrified Forest National Park
Pipe Spring National Monument
Saguaro National Park
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Tonto National Monument
Tumacácori National Historic Park
Tuzigoot National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Wupatki National Monument
Carl Hubbell was a pitcher for the New York Giants of the National League from 1928 to 1943. Hubbell was one of the most successful pitchers of his era, won two National League MVP awards, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1947.
Hubbell was known for his signature pitch – the screwball – and for striking out five future Hall of Famers in succession during the 1934 All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin.
Actor Jackie Coogan, who played Uncle Fester in the 1960’s TV show, “The Addams Family”, was a glider pilot in World War II.
Coogan enlisted in the U.S. Army in March 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor that December, he requested a transfer to Army Air Forces as a glider pilot because of his civilian flying experience. Graduating the Advanced Glider School with the Glider Pilot aeronautical rating and the rank of Flight Officer, he volunteered for hazardous duty with the 1st Air Commando Group.
In December 1943, the unit was sent to India. He flew British troops, the Chindits, under General Orde Wingate on March 5, 1944, landing them at night in a small jungle clearing 100 miles (160 km) behind Japanese lines in the Burma Campaign.
Coogan’s Bluff was a heights overlooking the Polo Grounds in NY. It was sometimes used to reference the Polo Grounds itself.
Not in play: a cool photo of fans on Coogan’s Bluff, watching a Giants game in the Polo Grounds in 1908.
Coogan’s Bluff was a 1968 Clint Eastwood movie in which he played Walt Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff sent to New York City to escort an extradited accused murderer back to Arizona.
Actors Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke were in a romantic relationship from 1975 until 1989, despite the fact that both of them were married to other people. During their relationship, Eastwood and Locke also worked together on numerous films, including The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet, Every Which Way But Loose, Bronco Billy, and Sudden Impact.
Wheel of Fortune debuted in January of 1975 - 46 years and 8 months ago 
Wow!
More: on Wheel of Fortune, according to worldstrides.com, Vanna White has never worn the same dress twice.
Currently, Pat Sajak is 74 years old. He’ll turn 75 next month. Vanna White is 64.
And then also, there has been a million dollar winner on the show — Autumn Erhard won $1,030,340 on Wheel of Fortune in May of 2013
Pat Sajak once allegedly joked in an interview, “Sometimes, if you listen very carefully on the set [of Wheel of Fortune], you can actually hear my brain cells dying.”
On Wheel of Fortune, you can only be a contestant once in your life. It is the longest-running syndicated game show in U.S. television history.
The first television game show was Spelling Bee. It was broadcast in 1938.
The Match Game first aired in 1962, and Jeopardy! began in 1964.
Gene Rayburn (real name: Eugen Peter Jeljenic), the long-time host of TV’s “Match Game” in the 1970s, designed and patented the long, slender telescoping microphone which he used on the show.
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The TV game show Match Game originally ran from 1962 to 1969, though it is the show’s 1970s revival, with its risque questions and stable of celebrity panelists, including Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, and Richard Dawson, which is now better-remembered.
The show has gone through a number of revivals since then; its current version is a prime-time show, hosted by Alec Baldwin.
In 1979 and 1980, Richard Dawson was a frequent guest host fill-in for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. Of the few episodes during Carson’s time as host that did not air on the night they were intended, Dawson was a guest host of two. During one, actress Della Reese suffered a near-fatal aneurysm mid-interview during taping, and the remainder of the episode was cancelled. Reese later recovered. The other featured an untimely monologue regarding the danger of flying on airplanes; it was replaced with a rerun because it would have aired the same night as the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 in Chicago, which killed all 273 people aboard. The episode aired several weeks later.