Elizabeth II can also trace her lineage to Edward III through the Yorkist line, which inherited the claims of the Mortimers through Lionel, Duke of Clarence, the second son of Edward III, and avoiding the taint of bastardy in the Beauforts.
Clearly, by tracing through the Beauforts, Saint Cad has revealed his Lancastrian sympathies!
*Psst - Saint Cad - you missed out two people: Henry VII, son of Margaret Beaufort and father of Margaret Tudor, and Frederick, Prince of Wales. *
From 2011 to 2014, two people were reported missing in Lancaster, New York.
In 2011, the San Francisco Giants were World Champions, having won the 2010 World Series. From 2011 to 2014 the San Francisco Giants won two more championships, winning the World Series in 2012 and 2014.
In 1911, the New York Giants added Charles “Victory” Faust to their lineup. Faust – who had no previous major league experience – showed up one day claiming the he would lead the Giants to a World Series. After the team won a couple of games with him present, manager John McGraw kept him with the team as a mascot, and even had him pitch a couple of innings in meaningless games at the end of the season. The Giants won the pennant that year, though they lost the world series. Faust was later institutionalized and died in 1915.
As a manager John McGraw’s total of 2,763 victories ranks second overall behind only Connie Mack. McGraw still holds the National League record with 2,669 wins in the senior circuit. He is widely held to be “the best player to become a great manager” in the history of baseball.
McGraw also held the MLB record for most ejections by a manager (132) until Bobby Cox broke the record in 2007.
Animated Western horse/sheriff Quick Draw McGraw, voiced by Daws Butler, was usually accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro named Baba Looie. Quick Draw sometimes assumed the identity of the masked vigilante El Kabong, pouncing on his foes by swooping down on a rope with the war cry “OLAYYYYEEEE!” and hitting them on the head with an acoustic guitar (after shouting “KABOOOOOONG!”).
U.S. Army Gen. Ben Butler was a Massachusetts lawyer before the Civil War. Faced with a claim for escaped slaves made by a Confederate officer under a white flag of truce near Ft. Monroe, Virginia, Gen. Butler (a) noted that those attempting to secede from the United States could hardly claim the protection and rights of Federal law, (b) argued that those considering slaves to be property must agree that property could be lawfully seized by the military in wartime so that it could not aid an enemy, © declared the escaped slaves to be contraband, (d) refused the Confederate officer’s claim, and (e) hired the escaped slaves to build a bakery for his own troops.
Congress later followed suit by passing a Contraband Act, liberating and employing slaves who made it to freedom within the Federal lines.
Private university Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana was founded in 1855 and named after founder Ovid Butler (1801-1881), a lawyer and newspaper publisher.
Beach was the butler to Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, at Blandings Castle in the Wodehouse universe.
San Francisco’s Beach Blanket Babylon is the world’s longest-running musical revue. It has run continually since 1974.
The Broadway revival of Kander & Ebb’s Chicago holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history, and is the second longest-running show in Broadway history, the first being The Phantom of the Opera. Third longest is CATS (now and forever, my arse!)
The London production of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” is the longest running play in history. It opened in 1952 and is still in its original run.
Christie assigned the royalties to the play to her godson as a christening present. He no doubt has done very well from his godmother’s generosity.
Although the Detroit Lions won an NFL championship in 1952 they are one of four teams never to have appeared in a Super Bowl.
The other teams that have never played in a Super Bowl (none look close this year, either) are the Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, and Jacksonville Jaguars. The Browns’ 1964 NFL title, pre-Super-Bowl, was the city’s last championship in any major league sport.
The Cleveland Indians’ last World Series Championship was in 1948, representing the second-longest drought of 66 seasons. The longest drought, 106 seasons, belongs to the Chicago Cubs who last won the Series in 1908.
Robert Baden-Powell formed the Wolf Cub movement in 1916, basing it on Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”. Cub Scouting in the US (then called “Cubbing”) started in 1930.
(- B.S.A. Scoutsource)
Robert Baden-Powell died in 1941 in Kenya, where he had been living during the last years of his life.
The red stripe on Kenya’s flag symbolizes their struggle for independence. Kenya’s flag and coat of arms was adopted in 1963, when it won independence. The flag’s black stripe symbolizes the Kenyan people and the green stripe symbolizes agriculture. The shield and two spears symbolize the defense of freedom. The coat of arms bears the Swahili word for “pulling together”.
Kenyan athlete Kip Keino (Kipchoge Hezekiah Keino) is chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee. Keino won a Gold and a Silver medal in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, in the 1500 meters and 5000 meters respectively, and also a Gold and a Silver medal in the 1972 Olympics in Munich in the 3000 meters steeplechase and the 1500 meters.
Mexico City is the oldest capital city in the Americas. It is a federal entity and does not belong to a state.
