It is rumored that the Washington Senators had the home to first base line graded as a downhill in Griffith Stadium to help out their notoriously slow runners.
George Washington’s best-known bust, by the French sculptor Houdon, captured Washington’s expression when, Houdon said, he was quoted a price for a horse that he considered too high: http://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/online/houdon-bust.jpg
Kate Upton’s bust size and measurements are 39DD-28-36!
Christina Hendricks’s bust size and measurements are 38DDD-28-37 !
The bust of Nefertiti (pics) was found in 1912. Nefertiti was the royal wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. She lived in the 14th century, B.C.
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. who recorded Lil Red Riding Hood in the 60’s, traveled on he road in a 1952 Packard hearse with maroon velvet curtains.
The first flight of the Douglas B-26 Invader light bomber was in 1942. It served for almost 40 years and was retired in 1980 (WP). The scale model company Monogram’s kit is of a B-26 named “Lil Nell.” (Link)
The B-26 Invader was originally named A-26, before a massive renaming scheme coinciding with the founding of the US Air Force as a separate branch of the service. The confusion has continued between it and the Martin B-26 Marauder, a classic WW2 medium bomber with a reputation for being difficult to fly due to its high wing loading and stall speed - at MacDill Field, the saying was “One a day into Tampa Bay”.
ETA: The late Doper **David Simmons **was a B-26 combat pilot in Europe who had no bad feelings about the airplane.
Cool. The B-26 Invader, or Marauder?
Shortly before the Vietnam War, the then-B-26 Invader was redesignated back to the A-26 Invader. This was done for political reasons, for deployment to Thailand. In May 1966, the B-26K was re-designated A-26A because Thailand did not allow the U.S. to have bombers stationed in country at the time, so the Invaders were redesignated with an “A”, for attack aircraft and deployed in Thailand to help disrupt supplies moving along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
The Sigma Chi fraternity, made famous by the big-band era song Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, included members David Letterman, Barry Goldwater, and Bill Buckner,m whose famous error cost the Red Sox a World Series victory.
The Red Onion was the classiest saloon in Skagway, Alaska during the gold rush era. Ten dolls downstairs were used as reservation signals for the ten young ladies working in the brothel upstairs.
One old timer writing his memoirs of the gold rush, wrote that “There wasn’t an ugly woman in Skagway – but some were just barely pretty.”
The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) narrow gauge railroad connects Skagway with Whitehorse, YT. So does the Klondike Highway. The WP&YR is an isolated railroad that does not connect to any other rail system. The summit of White Pass is 2,864’. So many horses died during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s that the White Pass Trail became known as the “Dead Horse Trail”.
Slave labor was partly responsible for the construction of both the White House and the United States Capitol.
Yingluck Shinawatra, once Prime Minister of Thailand and Dame Grand Cordon (Special Class) of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant, is especially famous for her attempt to corner the world rice market. The scheme caused government losses of up to $25 billion (U.S.), not even counting losses to rice growers (many of whom were forced to get funds from loansharks due to delinquent government payments for their rice), and the higher prices paid by consumers. Many millions of tonnes of government-owned rice continue to deteriorate in warehouses.
Among the career records set by San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice, the ones considered “untouchable” are his 208 total touchdowns scored, 197 receiving touchdown, 1,549 receptions, and 22,895 receiving yards.
On 15 January 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 left LaGuardia Airport in New York City en route to the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in Washington. It was scheduled to first touchdown at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in North Carolina but instead landed in the Hudson River near midtown Manhattan.
The US Airways code name in ATC transmissions is “Cactus”, inherited from Phoenix-based America West Airlines, which kept the better-known name of the target company after acquiring it in a merger. The company soon will again switch its name, to American Airlines, which it is purchasing out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. US Airways itself was previously USAir, previously Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Airlines, originally All-American Airlines, and had previously acquired Piedmont and Pacific Southwest.
The Allegheny River is a principal tributary of the Ohio River. It begins in Allegany Township in north-central Pennsylvania, winds into New York state a little, and ends 325 miles later in Pittsburgh when it joins the Monongahela River to form the Ohio River. These are Pittsburgh’s ‘Three Rivers.’ The Allegheny River provides the northeasternmost drainage in the watershed of the Mississippi River.