The Rio Grande, historically, did not run “through” Texas anywhere – it’s never Texas on both sides. However, due to channeling and diversion, the 20-mile section north of El Paso no longer “runs” through the original natural watercourse which defines the state line, and the river runs through either Texas or New Mexico.
Fort Bliss is the Army’s second-largest installation behind White Sands Missile Range. It has the second largest maneuver area behind the Nationsl Training Center. The headquarters of Fort Bliss is in El Paso. Fort Bliss provides the largest contiguous tract (1,500 square miles) of restricted airspace in the continental United States.
The poet Thomas Gray is most famous for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard but is also remembered for a short phrase near the end of a poem recalling his college days with nostalgia:
[QUOTE=Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, last stanza]
To each his sufferings: all are men,
Condemned alike to groan;
The tender for another’s pain,
The unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
[/QUOTE]
Fort Bliss is named for Mexican-American War soldier William Wallace Smith Bliss. Bliss was gifted at languages and was fluent in at least 13 of them.
Not so. The mood was frosty once the cameras went away, by all accounts, but they did share a ride when Ike was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 1953: http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/67/6728/ZPPA100Z/posters/pres-truman-and-pres-elect-eisenhower-ride-to-capitol-together-for-inauguration-jan-20-1952.jpg
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Fort Granger, just across the Harpeth River from Franklin, Tenn. and the headquarters of U.S. forces during the November 30, 1864 battle, recently had a handicapped-access ramp built.
That battle on 30 November 1864 was the Battle of Franklin. The Union forces were commanded by Major General John M. Schofield, for whom Schofield Barracks in Hawaii (Oahu) is named.
Schofield is also remembered for a lengthy quotation that all cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, and the United States Air Force Academy are required to memorize. It is an excerpt from his graduation address to the class of 1879 at West Point:
In 911 with his Kingdom under attack from Rollo the Norseman (gt-gt-gt grandfather of William the Conqueror), Charles III, King of West Frankia, offered to give Rollo much of the Normandy coast along with his daughter, if he would convert to Christianity and acknowledge Charles as his overlord. The King met with Rollo at St. Clair on the River Epte, but Rollo refused to kiss the King’s foot. Instead he asked one of his warriors to do so. That warrior promptly seized the King’s foot, carried it to his mouth and kissed it standing, thus throwing the king on to his back. At that there was a roar of laughter and a great disturbance amongst the spectators. However, King Charles and Robert, Duke of the Franks, with the counts and magnates, bishops and abbots, swore an oath of the Catholic faith to the patrician Rollo, on their lives and members and the honour of the whole kingdom, that he should hold and possess the aforesaid territory and transmit it to his heirs.
[West Point? … West Frankia!]
The name for the Porsche 911 Targa, or “targa top,” designates a semi-convertible opening for the car achieved with a removeable hard top to leave an opening between the front windshield and a roll bar-like protective bar above and behind the front seat passengers’ heads. In Italian, Targa means “plate.” Porsche first used the targa top in 1966 with the 911, and the term remains a registered trademark for Porsche AG. Porsche got the name “Targa” from the Targa Florio, the famous road race in Sicily where Porsche was very successful.
The 2014 Porsche 911 Targa returns the car to its original look with the wide targa bar first introduced in 1966. Before 2014, for almost 20 years the 911 Targa used a sliding glass roof top.
Although the 1966 double-album Blonde on Blonde may be his best album, Bob Dylan’s most popular and most famous song, “Like a Rolling Stone” was released the year before. You can watch various TV personalities “cover” that sing on 16 channels here.
Bob Dylan’s first wife, Sara Lownds, worked as a Playboy bunny.
Sara Lownds (née Shirley Marlin Noznisky) was the inspiration for several of Dylan’s songs including “Sara” and the song it references:
[QUOTE=Sara, by Bob Dylan (né Robert Allen Zimmerman)]
I can still hear the sound of the Methodist bells
I had taken the cure and had just gotten through
staying up for days in the Chelsea Hotel
writing “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” for you.
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The Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom host, Richard Marlin Perkins, was the son of Joseph Dudley Perkins, who is no relation to the motorcyclist and owner of San Francisco’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership, Dudley Perkins.
Warren Buffett, `the Sage of Omaha,’ is shown at 26th and last place on a list of the wealthiest persons ever. First place on that list is held by the 14th-century Kango Moussa, Emperor of Mali, whose gifts of gold (as much as 30 tons) during his Hajj to Mecca destabilized the economies of Arabia and Egypt.
Earl Warren was appointed Chief Justice of the United States by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike’s VP, Richard M. Nixon, when President, appointed Warren’s successor, Warren Burger.
There were several Earls surnamed de Warenne who played prominent roles in the history of England. Among these was John, 3rd Earl of Surrey, whose career had a variety of interesting highs and zigzags, but may be especially noted for his defeat at the hands of William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. John de Warenne led a force hugely superior to Wallace’s but suffered a major defeat, largely due to his error of relying on a narrow bridge. The second-in-command of the English forces that day, Hugh de Cressingham, was killed and flayed; William Wallace thereafter wore a baldric made from Cressingham’s skin.
Surrey, British Columbia, is 20 miles northeast of Tsawwassen. When Englishman H.J. Brewer saw a land reminiscent of his native County of Surrey in England, the settlement of Surrey was placed on the map. Tsawwassen and the surrounding lands are the traditional lands of the Tsawwassen First Nation peoples.
Little is known about Daniel Brewer and his wife Joanna who arrived in Boston Harbor in 1632 aboard Lyon, along with their family and that of Isaac Morill, presumed to be Joanna’s brother. Daniel settled as a farmer in Roxbury and died in 1646 with an estate valued at £166 4s, his will signed with an X. But Daniel is ancestral to several famous Americans including 4 Presidents, 2 Vice Presidents, Louisa May Alcott, and Mary Baker Eddy.
Danial is the Arabic/Persian version of Daniel. However, the name Danish, also popular in the sub continent is not despite popular belief derived from it. Rather its from the Farsi, meaning “wise”
The Arabic and Persian languages are compleely unrelated languages.but use the same alphabet. Persian, in modern times, us usually referred to now as Farsi, but they are the same, just as the land of Persia is now called Iran.
Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) and also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire by his defeating the Kingdoms of Media and Lydia and the Babylonian Empire in the 6th century BC to form Persia.