St John the Baptist is the patron saint of both Canada and Quebec. His feast day on June 24 is a major holiday in Quebec, while July 1, Canada Day, is notable for being moving day in Quebec, the day when annual leases on apartments end and tenants who have not renewed are moving to their new apartment.
How do the removalists cope with having everyone move on the one day?
In play: the long, end-of-year school holidays in Australian schools start about a week before Christmas and end after Australia Day (26 Jan).
Australia Day marks the anniversary of the 1788 raising of the flag of Great Britain at Port Jackson, NSW.
Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) was named for Sir George Jackson, a Lord Commissioner of the British Admiralty and Judge Advocate of the Fleet.
During WWII the United States held Nazi German soldiers as prisoners of war in Camp Shelby near Jackson, Mississippi.
The Mississippi is the fourth longest river in the world.
Although born in Kentucky, Jefferson Davis rose to political prominence in Mississippi, serving as a U.S. representative and senator from the state (as well as U.S. secretary of war) before becoming, with the onset of the Civil War, the sole president of the Confederate States.
The last two American Basketball Association teams to be folded before the final four were absorbed into the NBA were the Kentucky Colonels and the Spirits of St. Louis. The owners of the defunct St. Louis team still, astonishingly collect a full franchise share of the league’s TV rights as part of the merger agreement. The NBA has made no attempt to place a new franchise in St. Louis, or revive the Spirits.
Harland Sanders was the founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food chain. He was granted the title of honour of ‘Kentucky Colonel’ by successive state governors in recognition of his services to the community. It was not a military title.
Nebraska has a similar honor to “Kentucky Colonel”: Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska, or Nebraska Admiral.
NFL Hall of Famer Barry Sanders retired from the NFL with 4 years left on his contract, and had to repay 1.8 million of his signing bonus.
he left at the top of his game, and perfectly healthy. Eventually, he admitted that he would have kept playing if the Detroit Lions had agreed to trade him.
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Admiral Sir Charles Sa[del]u[/del]nders was in command of the fleet which brought the British Army, led by General James Wolfe, to Quebec. He consolidated the conquest after Wolfe died on the Plains of Abraham.
The First Fleet which sailed from the UK to New South Wales in 1787/88 comprised 11 ships:
- two Royal Navy escort ships, HMS *Sirius *and HMS Supply;
- six convict transports, the Alexander, Charlotte, Friendship, Lady Penrhyn, *Prince of Wales *and the Scarborough;
- three store ships, the Borrowdale, *Fishburn *and Golden Grove.
These names have been given to vessels of the current Sydney harbour ferry fleet.
The Government of Canada is constitutionally required to maintain a year round ferry service to Port aux Basques on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland.
The capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, was devastated by an earthquake on 12 January 2010. It caused a large number of casualties and destoyed most of the central historic area of the city, including the cathedral, the parliament building and the presidential palace.
Haiti occupies the western part of an island, and the Dominican Republic the eastern part. The island’s name is Hispaniola.
In 2005 the Royal Mail admitted that Ascension Island in the South Atlantic had not received any post for three months because it had all bent sent to Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, by mistake.
The 1977 airport disaster on Tenerife Island where two Boeing 747s collided on the runway - a Pan Am 747 taxiing and a KLM 747 taking off - killed 583 people. It remains the deadliest aviation accident to date. All 248 people aboard the KLM flight, and 335 of the 396 aboard Pan Am, died.
OOP - the agreement was bought out in 2014.
In play: In AD 747, the Umayyad Caliphate suffered two major setbacks, the destruction of their fleet by the Byzantines and the start of the Abbasid Revolution.
Fleet Admiral is the typical highest rank in the U.S. Navy, although there was one and only one “Admiral of the Navy,” George Dewey, hero of the Spanish-American War.