Argo (Greek, meaning ‘swift’) was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcos to retrieve the Golden Fleece. She was then translated into the sky and turned into the constellation of Argo Navis. She was built by Argus, with the help of Athena, and her crew were specially protected by the goddess Hera.
103 Hera is a moderately large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Canadian-American astronomer James Craig Watson on September 7, 1868, and named after Hera, queen and fifth in power of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology.
Measurements made with the IRAS observatory give a diameter of 91.58 ± 4.14 km and a geometric albedo of 0.19 ± 0.02. By comparison, the MIPS photometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope gives a diameter of 88.30 ± 8.51 km and a geometric albedo of 0.20 ± 0.04. When the asteroid was observed occulting a star, the results showed a diameter of 89.1 ± 1.1 km.
The James Craig is a three-masted, iron-hulled ship restored and sailed by the Sydney Heritage Fleet, Sydney, Australia.
She was originally named Clan Macleod. You know who came from Clan Macleod, right?
At Ohio’s College of Wooster, a large donation from alumnus Birt Babcock funded the purchase of kilts for the marching band, in the yellow-and-black MacLeod tartan (MacLeod of Lewis), which had no particular significance, except that it matched the school colors. Its sports teams were soon renamed “Fighting Scots” (from “Presbyterian Steamroller”). Scottish culture eventually became an important part of the school’s heritage; today, the football games feature a Scottish pipe band with Highland dancers in addition to a traditional marching band, with all three groups clad in the MacLeod tartan. The College offers a “Scottish Arts Scholarship” for students who perform as pipers, drummers, or Scottish dancers.
Scotland is the only country in Europe where Coca Cola is not the best selling soft Drink. The best selling soft drink is “Irn Bru” made by the Barr Company.
Irn-Bru, first produced in 1901, is known for its bright orange colour. As of 1999 it contained 0.002% of ammonium ferric citrate, sugar, 32 flavouring agents including caffeine and quinine (but not in Australia), and two controversial colorings (Sunset Yellow FCF and Ponceau 4R). In 2010, bottler A.G. Barr agreed to a Food Standards Agency voluntary ban on these two colorings, although no date has been set for their replacement.
Urbnri is a rock band made up of ex-cons.
One of the nicknames for the island of Newfoundland is “The Rock.”
If you’ve ever been there, you’ll know why.
At 2014, on the opening night of Mexico Tiene Talento (Mexico Got Talent), Pablo Lopez, a homeless man that sings on the Mexico City subway system, debuted at the auditions with a rendition of the rock classic That Old Time Rock and Roll, in a nearly identical voice to that of Seger; causing a total amusement and a golden button for the next stage.
One of Bob Seger’s lesser known hit songs, Roll Me Away (1983, peaked at #27), was a song of escaping life’s troubles by riding away on a motorcycle to find a new town to start life anew. It was the closing song in the 1984 movie Reckless as the closing scene showed Aidan Quinn’s character escaping his hometown on his motorcycle looking for a new start with his girlfriend, played by Daryl Hannah, on the back of the bike.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s musical Whistle Down the Wind had a similar theme, with a young black woman Candy and a White Boy Amos singing Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts, about taking his motorcycle out of Louisiana and finding a place where they could live in peace.
And, oh yeah, it also has the song Annie Christmas 
The post offices in North Pole, Alaska; Santa Claus, Indiana; and Christmas, Florida are always extremely busy in the month of December.
The reprise to the song Camelot begins:
Each evening, from December to December,
Before you drift to sleep upon your cot,
Think back on all the tales that you remember
Of Camelot.
The castle of Camelot is mentioned for the first time in Chrétien de Troyes’ poem “Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart”, dating to the 1170s.
The Monty Python-inspired Musical, Spamalot, was highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend that was adapted from the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. In the play version, Lancelot is a very violent sounding character who later is revealed as being gay.
The musical previewed on Broadway, at New York’s Shubert Theatre, beginning 14 February 2005, and, after some changes, officially opened on 17 March 2005. Mike Nichols directed, and Casey Nicholaw choreographed. The production won the Tony Award for Best Musical and was nominated for 14 Tony Awards. The show played its final performance on 11 January 2009 after 35 previews and 1,575 performances; it was seen by more than two million people and grossed over $175 million, recouping its initial production costs in under six months.
Canadian-born MC Maurice Halparin, better know as Monty Halparin and best known as Monty Hall, was born in 1921. He is currently 94 years old. Hall used to be an NHL sportscaster for the New York Rangers.
The Governor of New York has often considered a potential candidate for President, given the size and political importance of the state. Ten governors have been major-party candidates for President, and four, Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, have won. Six New York governors have gone on to serve as Vice President, and two, John Jay and Charles Evans Hughes, have served as Chief Justice of the United States.
To date, Gerald Ford is the first and only person to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected to either office. Ford was the first person appointed as Vice President under the 25th Amendment. The second and only other person to do so was former NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller. At the time, Rockefeller was one of three main candidates for VP appointment. The other two were Donald Rumsfeld and George HW Bush.
Former New York governor George Clinton served as Vice-President under two presidents, Jefferson and Madison. The only other person to serve as Veep for two different presidents was John C. Calhoun, who served under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
The other NY Governors who served as Vice President who have not been mentioned in recent posts were Levi P. Morton, Theodore Roosevelt, Daniel D. Tompkins, and Martin Van Buren.