George Eden, 1st and last Earl of Auckland, was Governor-General of India from 1836 to 1842. The city of Auckland in New Zealand and the town of Eden in New South Wales were named for him.
Fellow New Zealander’s living elsewhere often refer to someone resident in Auckland jokingly as “a Jafa”, an acronym of Just Another F*&$ing Aucklander.
With a population of just over 1.4 million Auckland makes up 38% of the country’s population.
King Louis XIII of France was known as Louis ‘the Just’.
Present-day Louisiana is the smallest state that lies within the vast Louisiana Purchase territory, which makes up about one third of the land area of the Unites States, named after King Louis XIV of France.
New Orleans was named in honor of Philippe, Duke of Orleans, Louis XIV’s notoriously debauched bisexual younger brother.
Baton Rouge, the present-day capital of Louisiana is not within the Louisiana Purchase territory, but in the so-called “Florida Parishes”, acquired from Spain almost a decade after the Louisiana Purchase.
The “red stick” for which Baton Rouge is named was a red cypress pole covered in animal blood and hides that marked the agreed upon boundary of the hunting grounds between the Houma and the Bayuk, different branches of the Choctaw who lived in the area; the name Bayuk was Franco-cized (is that a word?) as bayou.
The Duke of Wellington was granted the rank of field marshal in eight nations’ armies: UK, Austria, Hanover, Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia, Russia and Spain. Each nation provided him with a baton as a symbol of his rank.
After his death, at his lying in state, his batons of military rank were placed alongside the coffin on eight velvet cushions each on a pedestal on gold lion supporters.
One of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll was a 1962 number one hit for Gene Chandler. It is the best-known of Chandler’s songs and was so popular that Chandler started referring to himself as: “The Duke of Earl.”
Joel Chandler Harris was a 19th Century Atlanta newspaperman who listened to the dialects and stories of the Blacks in his area after the Civil War. From these, he wrote the Br’er Rabbit tales. Though the dialect is now looked upon as being demeaning and racist, Harris would run it by the Blacks he heard the stories from to see if he was getting the sounds correct.
The Book of Joel is the second of the twelve minor prophets’ books in the Old Testament.
The longest time Canada went without any internal boundary changes was exactly fifty years, from the addition of Newfoundland in 1949 to the division of the Northwest Territories into the NWT and Nunavut in 1999. During that 50 year period, Canada had twelve provinces and territories.
The capital of Nunavut is Iqualit, which was founded during WW2 as a small refueling stop for planes and ships. At slightly under 7000 people, it is by far the largest city in the territory.
The Anglican cathedral in Iqaluit, St Jude’s, is built in the shape of an igloo.
The cathedral is the seat of the Diocese of the Arctic. It has the greatest area of any Anglican diocese in the world.
The Right Rev. Alan M. Gates was consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts on Sept. 13, 2014. More people wanted to attend the ceremony than could fit in the cathedral, so the ceremony was held in Agannis Arena on the campus of Boston University.
The word ‘cathedral’ is derived from the Latin word cathedra, itself coming from the Greek καθέδρα, meaning a seat or chair. The cathedra is the symbol of a bishop’s authority over his see.
The southernmost cathedral in the word is El Sagrado Corazón, in the Catholic diocese of Punta Arenas in Chile.
In the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, in the basement, is a chair where Pope Paul VI sat when he visited.
I’ve touched the seat of the chair. Does that mean that, by extension, I’ve patted him on the butt?
No.
Henry VI succeeded to the throne of England on the death of his father Henry V. He was only nine months old when he became King, the youngest age at which anyone has succeeded to the English throne.
Henry VI was overthrown by Edward IV. Edward kept him in the Tower of London – Henry prefered being a scholar to being a king, and also suffered from what now might be called schizophrenia – but after his partisans overthrew Edward briefly, Edward had Henry killed. The night of the murder, the future Richard III visited the Tower; contemporaneous accounts indicated people thought he was involved.
John G. Tower, who died in a commercial airline crash, was the first Republican senator elected in Texas in nearly a century.