In Québécois French, many swear words are based on Roman Catholic liturgical terms. Two of the most powerful, in terms of offensiveness, are “tabernac et caliss!” ( from the Tabernacle for the reserved Host, and the Chalice.)
The word tabernacle is derived from tabernaculum, Latin for ‘tent’.
During the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt, the Tabernacle was a tent that served as the portable dwelling place of the Divine Presence. It was superseded by the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem was the name of the mean old pig after whom the Maine village of Jerusalem’s Lot was named in the Stephen King vampire novel 'Salem’s Lot.
Maine is the only US state that borders only one other US state (New Hampshire).
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Florida, South Carolina and Washington are the only states to border exactly two other states.
Besides the aforementioned Maine, and also Alaska and Hawaii which border zero states, all other states border at least three other states.
The state that borders the most other states is Tennessee. TN borders eight other states: clockwise from the north, these eight states are KY VA NC GA AL MS AR & MO.
Missouri too, I think.
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Various proposals for new Australian states have been put forward since federation: the New England area; far northern Queensland; the Riverina. None has come to fruition.
Because Missouri and Tennessee share a common border, the pair is surrounded by 14 bordering states. But Missouri and Tennessee were not connected by a bridge until 1964 – before that, there was only a ferry across the state line.
After leaving the White House in 1953, Harry Truman would still take a brisk daily walk around his hometown of Independence, Missouri. He would often pick up litter along the way.
South Carolina: Two.
Harry Truman’s DC-6 (the name Air Force One was not yet in use), the Independence, was painted in a livery that had been rejected by American Airlines, making the nose resemble a cartoon eagle’s head with windshields for eyes. Image. It is now in the Presidential aircraft hangar at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.
The bridge mentioned by jtur88 is the Caruthersville Bridge. It is a single tower cantilever bridge carrying Interstate 155 and U.S. Route 412 across the Mississippi River between Caruthersville, Missouri and Dyersburg, Tennessee. On Sunday October 12, 2014 it was struck by a barge and closed, and after inspection found no damage it was quickly reopened.
Read the post. It’s there. Also Florida and Washington, two each.
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The bridge mentioned by jtur88 above is the Caruthersville Bridge. It is a single tower cantilever bridge carrying Interstate 155 and U.S. Route 412 across the Mississippi River between Caruthersville, Missouri and Dyersburg, Tennessee and spans the Mississippi River. Major tributaries of the Mississippi River include the Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers.
On Sunday October 12, 2014 the Caruthersville Bridge was struck by a barge and closed, and after inspection found no damage it was quickly reopened.
81 former Major League baseball players are buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri – more than any other cemetery in the world. There are only 46 ex-ballplayers buried in all of Los Angeles, compared to 166 in St. Louis.
According to this site there are 13 BBHOFers buried in Missouri, but none are in the STL Calvary Cemetery. According to that site, there are four BBHOFers buried in STL: George Sisler, James “Cool Papa” Bell, Joe Medwick, and Stan Musial.
No ex-MLB players have ever been buried in Manhattan, New York. There is only one cemetery in Manhattan where a burial plot can still be purchased. The very, very short list of noted people buried in Manhattan includes John James Audubon, Robert Fulton, Peter Stuyvesant, and Clement Moore, the author of “The Night Before Christmas”.
Manhattan Transfer was a former Pennsylvania Railroad stop in Harrison, New Jersey. The PRR used it to switch trains from steam to electric for the trip through the Hudson River tunnels into Penn Station. The station gave its name to a John Dos Passos novel, which in turn provided the name for the famous *a cappella *jazz group.
William Henry Harrison was the oldest man elected President (till Ronald Reagan) and was the first President to die on office. He was President for only 32 days.