While the average emperor penguin stands about 3½ feet tall and weighs about 75 lbs, the average little blue penguin, also known as the fairy penguin, stands about 1¼ feet tall and weighs about 2¼ lbs. The little blue penguin is found on the coastlines of southern Australia and New Zealand.
Fairy penguins can also be found on the inner-harbour beaches of Sydney Harbour.
In play: Fairy Meadow is a suburb of Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of NSW. It is home to one of the campuses of the University of Wollongong.
The name “Wollongong” is believed to mean “seas of the South” in the local Aboriginal language, referring to NSW’s Southern Coast. Other meanings have been suggested, such as “great feast of fish”, “hard ground near water”, “song of the sea”, “sound of the waves”, “many snakes” and “five islands.”
Titania and Oberon are the Queen and King of the fairies in A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Their dispute drives much of the play, including the quarrels between the four human lovers, and the rude mechanicals.
I think I ninja’d you.
Triton is the King of the Sea and father to Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid (combining both threads).
The nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton made the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe from Feb. 24-April 10, 1960.
After 18 successful test dives the USS Squalus (SSN-192) sank off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire during a test dive on 23 May 1939. Led by Lieutenant Commander Charles B. “Swede” Momsen a rescue operation saved all 33 surviving crew members from the sunken submarine. It was one of the earliest ever rescues of crew members from sunken submarines. Only one week later, on 01 June 1939, the HMS Thetis (N25) sunk during sea trials in Liverpool Bay. All 99 of the crew were lost.
The Treaty of Portsmouth, negotiated by President Theodore Roosevelt to end the Russo-Japanese War and for which he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, was signed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. The delegates were housed at what is now the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel & Spa in Portsmouth.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded by Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., father of Teddy the President.
Theodore Roosevelt hated the nickname “Teddy,” and was variously referred to by friends as “Theodore,” “T.R.” or “Colonel” (reflecting his Spanish-American War service with the Rough Riders), and by family members of his generation by his childhood nickname, “Teedie.”
A Daily Mail poll recently rated:
TOP 20 MOST HATED PET NAMES FOR WOMEN
- Babe
- Sweet cheeks
- Snookums
- Baby doll
- Baby girl
- Muffin
- Ducky
- Baby cakes
- Sexy pants
- Pudding
- Muffin
- Angel pie
- Pumpkin
- Puppy
- Sugar lips
- Treacle
- Baby
- Pickle
- Honeybun
- Sugar pie
I call my wife babe all the time. Hmm…
The movie *Babe *was filmed in the town of Robertson, NSW.
Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, Bt., GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO, was the first and so far only soldier in the British Army to rise from the rank of private to Field Marshal.
A *potter’s field *is a term for a place of burial for unknown or indigent people. The term is taken from St Matthew’s gospel.
Chapter 27 of Matthew describes Judas’ betrayal of Jesus and, overwrought with guilt, Judas returned the 30 pieces of silver bribe to the chief priests. Judas then hanged himself. The chief priests used the money to buy a potter’s field.
In his book Profiles in Courage (perhaps actually written by Theodore Sorensen), about acts of statecraft at great personal cost by American politicians, John F. Kennedy described Kansas Senator Edmund Ross’ No vote at the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. His predecessor, James Lane, had come under such intense vilification for supporting Johnson and the “let 'em up easy” policies he had inherited from Lincoln that he shot himself.
I mentioned the article and poll to my wife and she said that’s because those women weren’t your babes! :D, or that may be a random guy calling out to a woman walking down the street, or a boss saying that at work.
I think I’m okay here!
In play: Edmund Ross was one of seven Republicans to break from his party and vote against convicting Andrew Johnson. Ross proved to be the person whose decision would result in conviction or acquittal. When he chose the latter, the vote of 35–19 in favor of Johnson’s conviction failed to reach the required two-thirds vote. Ross lost his bid for re-election two years later.
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