Lord and Lady Grantham, their family and staff listen to a radio broadcast of King George V opening a 1924 exhibition in London in the latest episode of the hit PBS series Downton Abbey.
Linebacker Larry Grantham is one of seven players who were part of the American Football League for its entire existence, playing for only one team.
Linebacker II, conducted in North Vietnam during December 1972 and aka “The Christmas Bombings”, was the most firepower unleashed by the U.S. and its allies since World War II.
Blandfordia is a genus of flowering plants native to eastern Australia. They are commonly referred to as “Christmas Bells” due to the shape of their flowers and the fact that they bloom in early summer, close to Christmas.
April Flowers is the name of an American pornographic actress. She was born in 1978.
Daisy Duck’s nieces are named April, May and June.
The Oregon Ducks teams were originally known as Webfoots, possibly as early as the 1890s. The Webfoots name originally applied to a group of fishermen from the coast of Massachusetts who had been heroes during the American Revolutionary War; their descendants had settled in Oregon’s Willamette Valley in the 19th century and the name stayed with them.
The 1890s were the height of the period known in France as *La Belle Époque *(“the beautiful era”). This era is usually considered to have begun with the Third Republic in 1870 and to have ended with the start of WWI in 1914. *La Belle Époque *was a period of peace, optimism, technological and scientific discoveries and a flourishing of the arts.
The Watervliet Arsenal (pronounced, “water-va-LEET”) is an arsenal of the United States Army located in Watervliet, New York, on the west bank of the Hudson River near Troy and Latham. It is the oldest continuously active arsenal in the United States, and today produces much of the artillery for the army, as well as gun tubes for cannons, mortars, and tanks. It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1966.
The US WWI Museum in Kansas City has artillery pieces made at, and prominently stamped at the end of the tube with the name of, Watervliet Arsenal.
The oldest continually active pub in Australia is the Surveyor-General Inn at Berrima in NSW. It was established in 1834 and licensed in 1835.
Established in 1829, D. G. Yuengling & Son is the oldest operating brewing company in the United States.
The Swan River colony was founded in 1829. It went on to become the colony, and later state, of Western Australia.
The first three significant gold rushes in the United States were North Carolina in 1799 (Cabarrus County), Georgia in 1829 (Lumpkin County), and California in 1849 (El Dorado County). By 1899, the Klondike Gold Rush was nearing its end.
Australia despite having more coast line than any other country isactually a net importer of seafood, by a long shot.
Beer is the world’s most widely consumed alcoholic beverage; it is the third-most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is thought by some to be the oldest fermented beverage.
According to this, Australia is not even among the top 20 countries exporting beer. Even Serbia is there, at #20. So much for your Fosters, mate.
Mexico is the #1 exporter of beer, and somewhat surprisingly the tiny Netherlands is #2. Germany is 3, the UK is 5, … aw heck, I’ll just paste the list - pardon the formatting.
G’day, mate.
Of course, not all was sweetness and light: Dreyfus affair - Wikipedia
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Ben Franklin is often quoted as saying, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” but he was actually talking about wine.
Franklin Pierce is often listed as among America’s worst presidents. It was probably due to his suffering severe depression after seeing his son decapitated in a train accident a few months before taking the oath of office.
The USS *Franklin *was the only Essex-class aircraft carrier damaged so badly by kamikaze attack during World War II that it could not be repaired and return to action. It was eventually scrapped.
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, was a cousin and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1601 he led an abortive coup d’état against the government. He was convicted of treason and was executed on Tower Green on 25 February 1601. He was the last person to be beheaded in the Tower of London.
The first person to be executed on the Tower Green was William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings. He was beheaded on 13 June 1483. He was executed for conspiracy to kill Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. His execution was suddenly and immediately performed on the very same day that Neville accused Hastings of the conspiracy. Other conspirators were identified and imprisoned, but Hastings was immediately beheaded.