The most definite statement by a potential candidate denying his candidacy was William T. Sherman’s “If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.” At the time, though, no one was considering Sherman as a candidate.
New England Patriots fans, or anyone else for that matter, can now purchase T-shirts depicting the face of Seattle Seahawks defensive back Richard Sherman turning from exaltation to desolation, as he watched Malcolm Butler’s game-sealing interception in the recent Super Bowl.
Awesome.
In the 2001 AFC divisional playoff game at Foxboro Stadium, known as the “Tuck Rule Game”, the Patriots benefited from an obscurely-applied rule meant to benefit the QB when in the act of passing the ball and his arm moving forward. Patriots QB Tom Brady’s arm was, barely, if at all (and that is arguable from the footage, moving forward as he was tucking the ball away. The letter of the rule was applied, but not the spirit of the rule. The Patriots ended up tying the game because of that call, and they went on to win in overtime. The Raiders got hosed.
In George Brett’s “Pine Tar Incident” Major League Baseball applied the ‘spirit of the rule’ appropriately and reversed the initial call made on the field.
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MLB was correct in the Pint Tar Incident, while the NFL was not correct in the Tuck Rule incident. I’m not a Raider fan by any stretch, far be it for me to defend them, but that’s the way I see it.
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Many Patriots fans considered the tuck-rule call to be karmic payback for the phantom roughing-the-passer call by referee Ben Dreith on Pats lineman Ray “Sugar Bear” Hamilton for a *legal *hit on Raiders QB Ken Stabler late in a 1976 playoff game, costing New England a chance for its first Super Bowl. The tuck-rule game was the last game ever played in the old Foxboro Stadium (previously Schaefer and Sullivan Stadiums), and the first ever Patriots playoff win there. The site is now occupied by Patriot Place Mall.
Actually, he was pretty prominently being discussed by GOP kingmakers in 1884 when he made the statement: Shermanesque statement - Wikipedia
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Alexander Hamilton served on George Washington’s personal staff during the American Revolution, and was later his first Secretary of the Treasury.
The Prime Minister of the UK is also First Lord of the Treasury.
Helen Mirren is now appearing on Broadway in The Audience, about Queen Elizabeth II’s regular weekly meetings with her Prime Ministers over the years.
One of Helen Mirren’s earlier film roles that gained exposure in the USA was in the 1981 film, Excalibur, where she played Morgana Pendragon.
A milliHelen is the amount of beauty in a woman’s face sufficient to launch one ship.
Methinks Cuncator is mixing up his trivia threads. But anyways…
“Beauty and the Beast” (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and published in 1756.
The Battle of the Somme opened on July 1, 1916.
The Newfoundland Regiment, with an active strength of 780 officers and men, advanced against the German line at Beaumont-Hamel.
Within 15 to 20 minutes of beginning their advance, the Newfoundlanders were all but wiped out.
The next day, only 68 Newfoundlanders answered the roll call.
God rest their souls.
Operation Yellow Ribbon was commenced by Canada to handle the diversion of civilian airline flights in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, ensuring that potentially destructive air traffic be removed from United States airspace as quickly as possible, and away from potential U.S. targets, and placing these aircraft on the ground in Canada, mostly at military and civilian airports in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and British Columbia (and also several in New Brunswick, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec) where their destructive potential could be better contained and neutralized. As none of the aircraft proved to be a threat, Canada and Canadians subsequently undertook to play host to the many people aboard the aircraft during the ensuing delay in reaching their destinations.
March is National Women’s History Month. In 1947, Gerti Cori was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Science. She was the third woman to win the prize, after Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie. Cori was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Cori, born in Czechoslovakia, emigrated with her husband to the United States in 1922. Craters on the Moon and on Venus are named after her, and she and her husband Carl are honored on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
George Washington wrote in 1796, “Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”
Prime Minister John Turner was the most recent Canadian Prime Minister born abroad, in England, although he was a Canadian citizen.
The constitutional requirements to be eligible to be President of the United States have remained the same since George Washington accepted his presidency. All presidential candidates must be a natural born citizen of the United States, a resident for 14 years, and 35 years or older. A person may be born abroad, but only if both parents were United States citizens. As for the age limit, the youngest president was Theodore Roosevelt when, as Vice President at 42 years old, President William McKinley was assassinated. Roosevelt was 42 years and 322 days old.
There are no legal citizenship requirements, age requirements, or residency requirements to become Prime Minister of Canada.
Benjamin Netanyahu is the first Prime Minister of Israel born in the state of Israel since Israel was established as a state in 1948
Netanyahu’s brother Yonatan was the only Israeli military member killed in the hostage rescue raid at the Entebbe, Uganda airport. The brothers both attended Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, along with baseball player Reggie Jackson.
Future Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and future U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice knew each other in their youth in Colorado, at the University of Denver, where Netanyahu briefly studied and Rice’s father was on the faculty.