John Bell Hood’s army’s charge at the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. in November 1864 was larger than the much more famous Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. the previous July. Both were unsuccessful and resulted in massive Confederate casualties.
Robert A. McCormick disputed charges totalling $241,000 for an evening at Manhattan’s Scores topless club; however the club claims that it contacted American Express every $10,000 and fingerprints its customers who pay by credit card. The lawsuit was eventually settled for an undisclosed sum.
News articles do not say whether, for nearly a quarter-million dollars, Mr. McCormick and his guests were rewarded with “happy endings.”
2014 ended strong in the job market with private businesses adding 241,000 jobs in December according to ADP.
‘Sophia’ and ‘Jackson’ were the most popular baby names in 2014.
In his hit song “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars (who played Little Elvis in Honeymoon in Vegas) tells of living the high life in an unexpected place:
Julio! Get the stretch!
Ride to Harlem, Hollywood, Jackson, Mississippi
If we show up, we gon’ show out
Smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy
Skippy was comic strip of the 1920s featuring the adventures of Skippy Skinner, a young boy. It was made into a movie in 1931, earning Jackie Cooper an Academy Award nomination at the age of nine.
Jackie Mason was banned from the Ed Sullivan Show for allegedly giving Sullivan the finger on-air. Mason maintained it was an error, because it was a live broadcast, and he and Sullivan were signalling to each other how much more time Mason had before they would cut away to a live speech by President Johnson.
After his playing days, baseball player Jackie Robinson became the first African-American Vice President of a major American corporation: Chock Full O’Nuts Coffee.
The top five coffee-producing countries are Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia and Ethiopia.
Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras are among the top ten coffee exporting countries of last year.
Sir George Arthur was the Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Land (later Tasmania) from 1823 until 1837. Prior to this appointment he had been Lieutenant-Governor of British Honduras.
It was during Arthur’s time as Lieutenant-Governor that Van Diemen’s Land gained much of its notorious reputation as a harsh penal colony. He selected Port Arthur as the ideal location for a prison settlement, on a peninsula connected by a narrow, easily guarded isthmus, surrounded by shark-infested seas.
David Lloyd George is so far the only British Prime Minister to have been Welsh and to have spoken English as a second language
The Mandan Indians of North Dakota speak a Siouan language. Nevertheless, in the 1830s, amateur linguist Prince Maximilian of Wied, interested by their light skin tone, prepared a comparison list of Mandan and Welsh words, thinking that the Mandan may somehow have been displaced Welshmen. The theory was also supported by painter George Catlin.
David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister at the victorious close of World War I and nicknamed “the Welsh Wizard” for his considerable political skills, was for awhile a close ally of and mentor to Winston Churchill. Lloyd George had no illusions as to Churchill’s ambitions, however, and once said, “Winston would skin his mother to make a drum to beat his own praises.”
James Agee’s Life Magazine article “Comedy’s Greatest Era” is credited with creating the “big four” of silent comedy: Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Harry Langdon.
Benny Goodman’s famous 1937 Carnegie Hall jazz concert, when his band included Gene Krupa, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, and others who went on to form their own famous bands, included the lively tune “Life Goes to a Party”, which Goodman wrote as thanks to Life Magazine for a photo spread on the band. Trumpeter Harry James recorded it later as a solo act, with members of Count Basie’s band backing him.
Harry Truman, Democrat of Missouri, is the most recent President of the United States who was also a Mason.
The Freemasons can frequently be mistaken as the Illuminati, who are two different entities. Both have very mysterious motives nevertheless.
Such as?
In play: Ockham’s razor (often referred to as *lex parsimoniae *or the ‘law of parsimony’) is a problem-solving principle said to have been devised by William of Ockham, who was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian. The precise words attributed to Ockham are generally quoted as entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (“entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity”). However these words are not found in any of Ockham’s extant works. Ockham does note in his Summa Totius Logicae the principle of economy, Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora ( “It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer”).
The principle had certainly been stated prior to Ockham by many philosophers, including Aristotle, Ptolemy and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
General George H. Thomas of the United States Army is thought by some historians to have not done as well in his post-Civil War reputation because, unlike Grant and Sherman, he never wrote his memoirs.