The kilometer is the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world. The notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used. In the US, the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 prohibits the use of federal-aid highway funds to convert existing signs or purchase new signs with metric units.
Highway 1 in Australia is a series of roads that circle the continent, linking all of the mainland state capitals. Its total length is approximately 14,500 km. It is longer than the Trans-Siberian Highway (over 11,000 km) and the Trans-Canada Highway (8,030 km).
Mexican Federal Highway 1 follows the length of the Baja California Peninsula from Cabo San Lucas (BCS) at the southern end to Tijuana (BC) in the north. The road turns into Interstate 5 at the international border with the United States south of San Ysidro, California.
Highway 1 is often called the Transpeninsular Highway and runs a length of 1,711 km (1,063 mi) from Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas. Most of its length is two lanes. Construction was completed in 1973. Its official name is “Carretera Transpeninsular Benito Juarez”, or translated, Benito Juarez Transpeninsular Highway. It is named after one of Mexico’s most revered heroes.
Saint Isidore of Seville (Ysidro in Spanish), Bishop, Confessor and Doctor, was Archbishop of Seville for over thirty years. He is considered the last of the great Latin Church Fathers.
He is particularly remembered for his work the Etymologiae, an encyclopaedia summarising classical learning, which preserved many fragments of ancient texts that would otherwise have been lost.
Saint Isidore was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1722, and in 1997 Pope John Paul II named him patron saint of the Internet.
His feast is celebrated on 4 April.
The village of San Ysidro, New Mexico, has been a farming community since 1699 when Juan Trujillo established a settlement named for San Ysidro, or Saint Isidore the Farmer. The Village was incorporated in 1967. An annual San Ysidro Fiesta Day is held each year in mid-May.
New Mexico was originally set out as having 15 miles of its Texas border defined by the Rio Grande River. But diversion of the Rio Grande has left only about one mile of the boundary still formed by a waterway. The rest of New Mexico’s border is on dry land, as are the entire borders of four other states: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.
SCOTUS’ decision in the lawsuit over the border mentioned in the last post (New Mexico v. Texas, 275 U.S. 279 (1927) )contained this quote.
Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico, covering more than 137,000 acres, is a national high-adventure base of the Boy Scouts of America.
(I was there in the summer of 1983 - great place!).
Thoroughbred racehorse Mine That Bird, owned by Dr. Leonard Blach and Mark Allen and the New Mexico partnership of Double Eagle Ranch and Buena Suerte Equine, is best known for pulling off a 50-to-1 upset by winning the Kentucky Derby in 2009.
In 1778, the Earl of Derby and the Sir Charles Bunbury decided to arrange a new stakes race for colts. A coin was flipped for the honor of naming the race. The Earl won, and the race was named the Derby Stakes. The race became renowned enough that Kentucky added its own version in 1872. If the coin toss had gone the other way, the race would have been the Kentucky Bunbury.
Earl Campbell, Paul Hornung, and O. J. Simpson are the only Heisman Trophy winners to have also been first overall National Football League draft picks and members of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame.
Andy Warhol’s famous painting of Campbell’s Soup Cans is actually a collection of 32 separate prints and paintings, each measuring 16 x 20 inches and depicting a different flavor of Campbell’s Soup and displayed in 4 rows and 8 columns. It is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
The Cleveland Museum of Art has a giant Andy Warhol print of multiple Marilyn Monroes, unveiled with great hoopla when acquired in 1997: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1997.246
Both Andy Warhol and his older brother Paul Warhola painted ads for Absolut Vodka.
Andy Panda was the second of three movie cartoon characters created by Walter Lantz in the 1930s, between Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Woody Woodpecker.
Andy Pandy was a BBC children’s television show. It was renowned for the length of time that the same programs were screened: 26 episodes of 15 minutes duration were filmed in 1952 and then continuously screened until 1970.
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The San Francisco Giants’ Pablo “Kung Fu Panda” Sandoval batted .429 with a .467 OBP and a .536 slugging percentage and was not the 2014 World Series MVP. Neither was Hunter Pence and his .444 / .500 / .667.
The 2014 World Series MVP was San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner who in five career World Series appearances has a microscopic 0.25 ERA which is the lowest of any pitcher in history with at least 25 World Series innings pitched.
Pablo Picasso was an extremely prolific artist. It is estimated that he produced around 50,000 artworks.
Artist Chris DeRubeis wove his experience painting custom motorcycles and doing auto body shop type of work into his unique methods used in his art of painting images and abstracts onto aluminum panels.