Ed Asner played the flinty precinct commander and Paul Newman a clever but world-weary cop in the 1981 crime movie Fort Apache, The Bronx.
Apache County with its county seat at St Johns forms the northeast corner of Arizona.
Most males of the Apache tribe and most Mongolian males share the same C2-M217 Y-chromosome haplogroup.
Prince Harry of Wales is trained to fly the Apache attack helicopter, used by both the U.S. Army and the British Army.
Princess Marie of Edinburgh was the target of a Genealogical Crescent game played at SDMB and won November 18, 2010 by Mr. Tom Scud.
The small lightweight Princess telephone, introduced in 1959, was designed by Henry Dreyfuss, who also designed the first streamlined railroad locomotive, the Hudson, on the New York Central line, and also the Honeywell circular wall thermostat…
Captain Alfred Dreyfus was falsely convicted of espionage and spent five year’s imprisoned at Devil’s Island. The true traitor was found but acquitted, the French government and justice system preferring to keep the Jewish Dreyfus in prison. Among those pleading Dreyfus’ side and eventually gaining his release were Émile Zola and the great mathematician Jules Henri Poincaré.
The Dreyfus Affair was the subject of a recent major exhibition at the Maltz Museum of Jewish History in suburban Cleveland, Ohio.
During a scene near the end of the film Harold & Maude the title characters are sitting in a junk yard watching seagulls. As Harold first notices something that is a major revelation about Maude’s past, she references Dreyfus:
“Dreyfus once wrote from Devil’s Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany, he realized they had only been sea gulls… For me, they will always be… glorious birds.”
HMS Glorious, originally a battlecruiser, was rebuilt as an aircraft carrier during the late 1920s. While evacuating British aircraft from Norway in June 1940, the ship was sunk by the German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the North Sea with the loss of over 1,200 lives.
The Scharnhorst was sunk in the Battle of the North Cape in December, 1943, off of Norway’s northernmost point. 57 years later, in September 2000, the wreck of the Scharnhorst was discovered about 1,000 feet deep on the ocean bottom.
Among the most notable of all shipwrecks is one which lay 25 fathoms deep off the coast of Antikythera for almost 2000 years. It is supposed to contain treasures looted from Greece, perhaps for a triumphal parade of Julius Caesar. Among the treasures found in the wreck is an an elaborate clock, called the first analog computer and possibly designed by the great astronomer Hipparchus of Nicaea.
The Greek war of Independence was a bit of a misnomer, until 1830, the Greeks had never been a united political entity.
Independence, California began as the US Army Camp Independence (and then later as Fort Independence) established by Lieutenant Colonel George S. Evans on July 4, 1862. Col. Evans established the camp at the request of local settlers who feared Indian hostilities. Fort Independence was active from 1862 to 1877. Independence, California is now a small town on US Hwy 395 about 40 miles south of Bishop, California in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains.
The aircraft carrier USS Independence, commissioned in January 1959 and decommissioned in September 1998, is available for donation as an artificial reef, according to the U.S. Navy. Otherwise, she will be scrapped.
The following formerly-in-service aircraft carriers are open as museums in the USA:
► USS Hornet Museum; Alameda, CA – USS Hornet (CV-12)
► Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum; New York City – USS Intrepid (CV-11)
► USS Lexington Museum on the Bay; Corpus Christi, Texas – USS Lexington (CV-16)
► USS Midway Museum; San Diego, California – USS Midway (CV-41)
► Patriots Point; Charleston, South Carolina – USS Yorktown (CV-10)
In the pilot episode of the reboot of Battlestar Galactica, the Galactica has been decommissioned and made into a museum in a ceremony with the Secretary of Education; belief in the battlestar’s obsolescence is so great that one of its torpedo launch tubes has been converted into a gift shop.
Be careful accepting a gift from a German. The word “gift” means “poison” in German.
The Neuschwanstein Castle sits above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany.
After Heinrich II Pfalzgraf von der Rhein died childless in 1214, the Palatinate passed to his nephew, Ludwig II der Strenge, Duke of Bavaria. Although he split Bavaria and the Rhein Palatinate between his two sons, other German nobles wouldn’t permit two of the traditional four secular electorships to remain in the same Wittelsbach family. The electoral vote of Bavaria was given to the King of Bohemia who, being a neighboring Monarch rather than a Prince of the Empire, could only vote to elect an Emperor and had no right to sit at ordinary meetings.