Nebraska is the only triply landlocked U.S. state, since Iowa has an egress via Minnesota - Ontario - Hudson Bay.
There have been three U.S. Navy warships named USS Nebraska, the most recent of which is an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine still on active duty. She was the subject of the 2002 life-aboard-a-sub nonfiction book Big Red by Douglas C. Waller.
2002 was the last palindrome year in our lifetimes; the next one will be in 2112.
Normally palindrome years occur every 110 years, but because of the turn of the millenium, there were only 9 years between 1991 and 2002.
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Nebraska is the only triply landlocked U.S. state, since Iowa has an egress via Minnesota - Ontario - Hudson Bay.
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Do you need to mention Ontario? Duluth Minnesota is on Lake Superior.
Not to mention, Ontario isn’t a state. 
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After the commercial failure of Rush’s third album Caress of Steel, their record label demanded that the band record an album of shorter, more mainstream songs in order to gain chart success, or risk losing their contract. The band chose to ignore that advice and recorded 2112, a concept album with a 20-minute title track. The record label freaked out, but chose to release the album anyway – which, thankfully for all involved, was a major success.
A basis point (often denoted as bp, often pronounced as “bip”) is a unit equal to one hundredth of a percentage point.
“Old one Hundredth” is the name of a tune used to accompany Psalm 100 in the Christian choral tradition. The tune is also used for the doxology which begins “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow”.
In the weekly round of psalms in the Catholic liturgy, Psalm 100 is sung/recited at the morning office of Lauds on Wednesdays.
The Book of Psalms is divided into five sections, perhaps to mimick the five books of the Torah:
Book 1 (Psalms 1–41)
Book 2 (Psalms 42–72)
Book 3 (Psalms 73–89)
Book 4 (Psalms 90–106)
Book 5 (Psalms 107–150)
Each section closes with a doxology, or benediction.
The Sibylline Books were a collection of oracular pronouncements that were consulted in Ancient Rome for guidance in dealing with various calamities such as war or pestilence.
The story of the acquisition of the Sibylline Books by Tarquinius is one of the famous legendary elements of Roman history. The Cumaean Sibyl offered to Tarquinius nine books of these prophecies; and as the king declined to purchase them, owing to the exorbitant price she demanded, she burned three and offered the remaining six to Tarquinius at the same stiff price, which he again refused, whereupon she burned three more and repeated her offer. Tarquinius then relented and purchased the last three at the full original price and had them preserved in a vault beneath the Capitoline temple of Jupiter.
Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar system. Only the Sun, Moon and Venus are brighter to the naked eye from Earth.
In Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two, and the movie it inspired, the aliens who placed the TMA-1 artifact on the Moon trigger Jupiter into becoming a second star in our Solar Sytem. It is named (highly unlikely in this day and age, IMHO) Lucifer.
Lucifer, from the Latin ‘bearer of light’, was an early brand of matches. The term ‘lucifer’ persisted as slang for matches into the 20th century and ‘lucifer’ is still the word for a match in Dutch.
Two Williams lived in the White House at the beginning and ending of the 20th century: William McKinley, Republican of Ohio (served 1897-1901), and William Clinton, Democrat of Arkansas (1993-2001).
The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini wrote 39 operas. Of these the best known are probably the Italian comedies *Il barbiere di Siviglia *(The Barber of Seville) and *La Cenerentola *(Cinderella), and the French-language epics *Moïse et Pharaon *(Moses and Pharaoh) and *Guillaume Tell *(William Tell).
NFL Hall of Famers Hugh McElhenny and Larry Csonka wore the jersey number 39. Both are still living. Hugh McElhenny is 86, and Larry Csonka is 68.
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research is Australia’s oldest medical research institute. It is located in Parkville, Melbourne, and is closely associated with The University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
It was established in 1911 using funds donated by Eliza Rowdon Hall, widow of Walter Russell Hall.
The process by which software for medical devices is developed and manufactured is regulated by many standards, including a relatively new standard, IEC 62304. The software can be part of hardware where the system is the medical device, or the software itself can be the medical device.
The prop used as the medical tricorder on ST:TOS was a common salt shaker that Dr. McCoy would slowly wave over the patient’s body. The ST:TNG series had a high enough budget to make something custom, but it had the same operating principle.
Lake Grassmere, 40 km south of Blenheim in the South Island of New Zealand is a shallow lagoon protected from the open sea by a single barrier beach covered by sand dunes. It covers an area of 17 km², it has no natural inflow and is prone to strong warm winds. It is thus ideal for natural salt extraction.
Lake Grassmere provides about half of New Zealand’s annual domestic salt needs.
The Battle of Blenheim in the War of the Spanish Succession ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army, thus preventing the collapse of the Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg), consisting (at various times) of Austria, Bavaria, Brandenburg, the Dutch Republic, England, the Holy Roman Empire, Ireland, the Palatinate of the Rhine, Portugal, Savoy, Saxony, Scotland, Spain and Sweden.