Costa Rica considers its independence to have been secured by a militia victory against the mercenary forces of American filibuster William Walker at the Second Battle of Rivas, on the Pacific shore at the end of a freight route downhill from Lake Nicaragua. Costa Rica’s national hero, Juan Santamaria, after whom the San Jose airport is named, was a drummer boy who volunteered to burn the house in which Walker was hiding, and died in the successful effort. Walker, who had set himself up as President of Nicaragua, and his staff escaped but never tried to invade Costa Rica again.
General Walker was the senior US officer killed in Korea.
Captain Walker didn’t come home / His unborn child will never know him.
That child being Tommy.
Hiram **Walker **was an American entrepreneur who established a distillery in Canada that now makes Canadian Club and other whiskeys, in a town now named Walkerville, Ontario.
gigmasters.com has a listing of 15 Joan Rivers impersonators in or near Walkerville, Montana:
Early in her career, after a brief marriage (“Our marriage license turned out to be a learner’s permit”), Joan Rivers worked New York comedy clubs under the name Pepper January (“Comedy with Spice”), ending her sets with “I’m Pepper January, and I put out”. She also acted off-Broadway opposite the unknown Barbra Streisand, as a lesbian couple in Driftwood.
January is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).
The climate in the Southern Hemisphere is generally milder than that in the Northern Hemisphere at similar latitudes except in the Antarctic which is colder than the Arctic. This is due to the fact that the Southern Hemisphere has significantly more ocean and much less land. Water heats up and cools down more slowly than land.
There is also less pollution in the Southern Hemisphere due to its smaller population densities and lower levels of industrialisation. Only about 10% of the world’s population live in the Southern Hemisphere.
The word “arctic” is derived from the Greek word for “bear”, because the Great Bear constellation (Ursa Major, in Latin) is to the north. The word “arctic” is not capitalized in English, unless a part of the name of a geographical place or named feature, such as Arctic Ocean.
Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, has a name similarly derived from the Greek for ‘bear’. In its case it means ‘bear watcher/follower’, from the closeness of Boötes to the two Ursae constellations.
Arcturus is the fourth brightest star in the sky, and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere. The three brighter stars - Rigel, Canopus and Alpha Centauri - are all found in the southern celestial hemisphere.
Arcturus was a member world of the United Federation of Planets in Star Trek; its people looked like their skin had melted: Arcturian | Memory Alpha | Fandom
On 1 January 1901 the six colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia came together in federation to form the Commonwealth of Australia.
The US states of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky officially refer to themselves as **Commonwealths, **not as States, but legally, there is no difference.
Virginia Woolf, the English author, was one of the participants in the Dreadnought hoax, in which a group of pranksters impersonated members of the Abyssinian royal family and persuaded government officials and Royal Navy officers to escort them over the battleship HMS Dreadnought.
The recently discovered dreadnoughtus dinosaur is the largest dinosaur known. It weighed more than a Boeing 737, and is named after the late 19th century “dreadnought” battleships.
HMS Dreadnaught was the only Battleship to have sunk a submarine underway, accomplished by ramming it.
The letters HMS stand for His/Her Majesty’s Ship in the Royal Navy. Variations on the theme include HMAS for Australia, HMCS for Canada, HMNZS for New Zealand etc.
The Brooklyn Department of Motor Vehicles has announced it will revoke the HAMMAS vanity license plate they let slip by.
According to online directories, 12 American households have the surname HAMMAS and would be prohibited from having their name on an an “offensive” vanity plate.
According to this news TV site, of the following pairs of Indiana license plate applications one was approved while the other was disapproved:
http://wishtv.com/2014/05/08/plate-puzzle-approved-or-denied/
ONE GOD: disapproved
DEMONS - was approved
GO TPLSS - was approved
GO KART: disapproved
OH ST BUX - was approved
OHIO ST8: disapproved
SF 49ERS - was approved
BRONCOS: disapproved
1NDY 500: disapproved
NASCR 48 - was approved
H00SIER: disapproved
HOOSIER - was approved