Not since 1932.
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The largest element on the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency is a red, sixteen-pointed star on a white shield.
The Central Intelligence Group (CIG) was a US governmental agency that existed from January of 1946 until September of 1947. It was the successor to the Office of Strategic Services and the predecessor of the CIA.
Sidney Souers was the first director of the CIG. When President Harry Truman swore him into office, Truman handed Souers a black hat, black cloak, and wooden dagger and declared him, “Director of Centralized Snooping.”
“If the Army and the Navy/Ever look on Heaven’s scenes/They will find the streets are guarded/By United States Marines.” Once a Marine, always a Marine.
Exactly.
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The Snoop Sisters was a short-lived comedy-mystery television series, which aired in rotation as part of the NBC Tuesday Mystery Movie anthology series in 1973-74.
It starred veteran actresses Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as Ernesta and Gwendolyn Snoop, two mystery-writing sisters who became amateur sleuths.
The NBC Mystery Movie was an anthology television series that aired on NBC from 1971 to 1977. It was a “wheel series” that rotated several programs within the same period throughout each of its seasons. Beginning with The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie (and later adding The Wednesday Mystery Movie), it rotated three detective dramas: Columbo, McCloud, and McMillan & Wife.
Ellery Queen was the pseudonym of a pair of authors, Fredrick Dannay and Manfred Lee, who was featured in a series of mysteries with Ellery Queen as the detective. The earlier books were always in the format “The [nationality] [word] Mystery”: The Roman Hat Mystery, the French Powder Mystery, The Dutch Shoe Mystery et al. They also included a “Challenge to the Reader,” where you were told you had all the evidence needed to solve the crime.
Halfway House in 1936 dropped the naming conceit and was the last one with the Challenge.
Of note, The Chinese Orange Mystery, it’s not likely a modern reader would solve the challenge, since it depended on social assumptions of its time.
Actor Jim Hutton starred as detective Ellery Queen in an eponymous television mystery series in the 1970s.
In the 2000s, Jim’s son Timothy Hutton starred as Nathan Ford in the television crime series Leverage; in the 2011 episode “The 10 Li’l Grifters Job,” Ford dressed as Ellery Queen, in an homage to Hutton’s father and his signature role.
Jim as Ellery Queen:
Timothy as Ellery Queen:
Filmmaker Queen Muhammad Ali attended school at Mt. San Jacinto community college in Riverside County, California. The school was formed in 1960 and has four campuses in California, in San Jacinto, Menifee, Banning, and Temecula.
San Junipero is the fourth episode in the third series of the British science fiction anthology television series Black Mirror. San Junipero is revealed to be a simulated reality where the deceased can live, and the elderly can visit, all inhabiting their younger selves’ bodies in a time of their choice. It has been favorably received by critics, and has been described as one of the “best hours” and one of the “most beautiful, cinematic episodes” of television in 2016.
Junipero Serra founded many of the missions in the California region and planted the first vineyard in California to make sacramental wine. Because of this, his is one of the two statues that represent California in the National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol
Really? I know that those who once served in that uniform don’t like to be called “ex-Marines,” preferring “former [or retired] Marines.” But I have never, ever heard a dead person referred to as still being a Marine, even by Marine friends of mine.
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Ronald Reagan, late President of the United States, is the other person whose statue was selected by California to be honored in National Statuary Hall. Each state may have two statues; by 1933 there were too many statues to all fit into the space (the former chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives), so some statues were placed elsewhere in the Capitol. 38 out of 100 statues are now in the Hall.
Yes some of us do it. Apparently it’s not universal, but we do it.
Once a Marine, always a Marine. Also, ‘Til Valhalla.
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The former meeting place of the US House of Representatives in the early 19th century was repurposed to be the National Statuary Hall in 1864, which is when the National Statuary Hall Collection was established.
The first statue in the National Statuary Hall was a marble one of Nathanael Greene made by Henry Kirke Brown and place there, by Rhode Island, in 1870.
Nathanael Greene was born near Warwick, Rhode Island. The main airport for Providence RI (PVD airport) is Green, but that’s for TF Green and is named for the former governor and senator.
Until 2020, the official name of Rhode Island was “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” Despite how the term plantations was used historically as a region of Rhode Island, it was felt that the word itself had connotations the state would rather distance itself from and so after a referendum that won 52.8% of the vote, the state became “The State of Rhode Island”.
Rhode Island has no county government. It is divided into 39 municipalities, with each having its own form of local government.
Ohio does have county governments, and has 88 of them. The most populous urbanized Ohio counties also tend to be Democratic in their politics: Franklin (greater Columbus), Cuyahoga (greater Cleveland), Hamilton (greater Cincinnati), Summit (greater Akron), Montgomery (greater Dayton) and Lucas (greater Toledo).
According to NRA-ILA, the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, Ohio does not regulate assault weapons or large capacity magazines, or bump stocks/forced reset triggers.
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