The Great East Window of York Minster (finished in 1408) is the largest expanse of mediaeval stained glass in the world.
When a younger Bullitt turned 16 years old, he could get a part-time job so he quit his paper route for the Hartford Courant, America’s oldest continuously-published newspaper, and went to work at the York Steak House at WestFarms Mall.
The minimum wage at that time was $2.32.
The Mall in London has a red-coloured surface. This is intended to give the effect of a giant red carpet leading up to Buckingham Palace.
The Mall and Buckingham Palace appear in the dystopic-future sf movie Children of Men. London is an impoverished and run-down city thirty-some years from now, but the Mall, under heavy guard and behind a high fence, is much as we know it today.
The Queen’s London residence is Buckingham Palace; nevertheless it is St James’s Palace that is the senior palace of the sovereign. The royal court is officially at St James’s and it is the location to which foreign diplomats are accredited.
A virgin queen bee will often mate with 12-15 drones. Mating occurs in flight. The young queen stores up to 6 million sperm from multiple drones in a ‘spermatheca’.
During her lifetime of 2-7 years she will selectively release sperm from her spermatheca to fertilize her eggs.
In her Grammy-winning song “Royals”, New Zealander teen Ella Yelich-O’Connor, who uses the name Lorde on stage, offers to let her boyfriend call her Queen Bee. She was inspired to write the song by seeing a photo of baseball great George Brett in his Kansas City Royals uniform.
Lorde is working with the Electoral Commission to increase the voter turnout of young people at the 2014 New Zealand general election, despite the fact she is seven weeks too young to vote in the 20 September election herself.
Across the Tasman, there is no need to increase the turnout of Aussie youngsters, voting there is compulsory.
In the 1640s, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands. British explorer Captain James Cook later extensively navigated the Tasman Sea in the 1770s as part of his first voyage of exploration.
Following the Rebellions of 1837-38 in Upper and Lower Canada, approximately 300 Canadians (Anglos and Francos) and some Americans were exiled to Van Dieman’s Land, after being convicted in Canadian courts of treason and related offences. Most were eventually pardoned. None if those pardoned remained in Australia once it was safe to return to North America.
The suburb of Canada Bay in Sydney’s inner west is named in honour of the French Canadians exiled there after the 1837-1838 Rebellion. They were put to hard labour preparing materials for the nascent Parramatta Road.
The names of Upper Canada and Lower Canada reflect their positions relative to the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River, in much the same way that Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt reflect their positions relative to the headwaters of the Nile River.
The lead Geologist trainer for the Apollo missions was Egyptian born Farooq El-baz.
Michael Forest was cast as Apollo in the Star Trek episode Who Mourns For Adonais? when not yet famous and much younger original choice Jon Voight was unavailable. He reprised the role in a fan-fiction episode in 2011, his age (the actor is now in his mid 80s) being explained by Apollo aging fast after losing his immortality and godly powers.
In case you were wondering, yes Neil/Buzz slash fanfiction does in fact exist.*
Poor Michael Collins. Never gets any respect.
*I read about it in an article when Sally Ride came out/died. No, I have not read the actual story. Search for it. And weep.
When the representatives of the United Kingdom and the new Irish Free State signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, one of the British representatives, Lord Birkenhead, said, “I may have just signed my political death warrant.”
Michael Collins, the lead Irish representative, replied, “I may have signed my actual death warrant.”
Collins was killed in an ambush within a year.
There’s a monument to the Canadian exiles in Hobart. The official commentary has this to say on the exiles’ eventual fate:
And back to the game:
The 1st Earl of Birkenhead, generally known as FE Smith, was Winston Churchill’s greatest personal friend. In his early career he was a well known and highly paid barrister. One of his most famous cases was his successful defence of Ethel le Neve, mistress of Dr Crippen, against a charge of murder.
Who later had a Starfleet shuttlepod named after him: El-Baz | Memory Alpha | Fandom
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Winston Churchill’s occasional patron, mentor and political ally David Lloyd George, Prime Minister by the end of World War I, once said, “Winston would skin his own mother to make a drum with which to beat his own praises.”
For a period of just over two and a half years, from 24 January 1895 until 18 September 1897, Winston Churchill was the heir presumptive to his first cousin, the 9th Duke of Marlborough. Had Churchill succeeded to the dukedom during that period, his subsequent political career would most likely not have been possible.