Annapolis Royal, NS was the capital of Acadia and later Nova Scotia for almost 150 years, until the founding of Halifax in 1749. It was attacked by the British six times before permanently changing hands after the Conquest of Acadia in 1710. Over the next fifty years, the French and their allies made six unsuccessful military attempts to regain the capital. Including a raid during the American Revolution, Annapolis Royal faced a total of thirteen attacks, more than any other place in North America
The United States Naval Academy (USNA) was established October 10, 1845 as an institution for the undergraduate education of officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and is located in Annapolis, Maryland. The Academy’s motto is ex scientia tridens, which is Latin for “from knowledge, seapower”. Among it’s notable alumni are President Carter, Senator John McCain, billionaire H. Ross Perot, astronaut Alan Shepard, and quarterback Roger Staubach.
The four universities to have produced both a US President and a Super Bowl winning quarterback are the US Naval Academy (Carter and Staubach), Michigan (Gerald Ford and Tom Brady), Stanford (Herbert Hoover, and John Elway and Jim Plunkett), and Miami University (Benjamin Harrison and Ben Roethlisberger).
When Benjamin Harrison graduated from Miami University, there was no confusion about its Ohio location. Miami, Florida, was then a sporadically used military outpost and a half a dozen houses, known at the time as Fort Dallas.
Benjamin Harrison was the earliest President to have his voice recorded but it was not recorded while he was President
William Henry Harrison was President for only 32 days. He was the first president to die in Office.
William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the US, decided to show folks worried about his age (69 at his inauguration) that he was still hale and hearty.
He took the oath of office on March 4, 1841, a cold and wet day. He wore neither an overcoat nor hat, rode on horseback to the ceremony rather than in the closed carriage that had been offered him, and delivered the longest inaugural address in American history. At 8,445 words, it took him nearly two hours to read. Harrison then rode through the streets in the inaugural parade, and that evening attended three inaugural balls.
The end result was that he caught pnuemonia and died after 32 days in office, the shortest Presidential tenure in history.
The Harrison family that stars on the popular History Channel series “Pawn Stars”, set in a Las Vegas pawnshop - grandfather “Old Man”, father Rick, son Corey - claim to be descended from the Presidents Harrison, but dubiously.
George Harrison’s son Dhani is the only Beatle child with no full or half-siblings. Dhani & Sean Lennon are the only Beatle children with no step-siblings.
Actor Sean Penn when his now ex-wife Robin Wright gave birth to their son Hopper Penn on August 6, 1993. His son is named after two family friends, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.
Illusionist Penn Jillette once played bass in a mariachi trio.
In D&D, the Illusionist sub-class of Magic-users was first introduced as an unofficial option in an article in the Dragon in the mid-70s. Illusionists were given official status in the first edition of AD&D.
The origin of the dragon in Chinese mythology is thought to be based upon the symbols various tribes used for their pennants. Most likely, one tribe that used a lizard allied with a tribe that used some sort of flying creature (e.g., a bat) and the two took some aspects of their symbolic animal and combined them.
A goanna is any of several Australian monitor lizards of the genus Varanus, as well as to certain species from Southeast Asia. Around 30 species of goanna are known, 25 of which are found in Australia. Being predatory lizards, goannas are often quite large, or at least bulky, with sharp teeth and claws. The largest is the perentie (V. giganteus), which can grow over 2.5 m (8.2 ft) in length. The diets of goannas vary greatly depending on the species and the habitat. Prey can include all manner of small animals: insects, smaller lizards, snakes, mammals, birds, and eggs.
The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar. It is the largest living species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of 3 m and weighing up to approximately 70 kg.
Former Oakland Raiders quarterback coach Tom Flores and former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka are the only two people in the National Football League history to win a league championship as a player, as an assistant coach, and as a head coach. Flores was also the first Hispanic starting quarterback and the first minority head coach in professional football history to win a Super Bowl.
An interesting but little known fact about the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark is that one member of the cast gets killed twice. Renowned British professional wrestler Pat Roach gets killed twice in this film - once as a giant Sherpa left in the burning Nepalese bar and once as the German mechanic chewed up by the plane’s propeller.
That airplane, in Raiders of the Lost Ark, was a twin propeller push-prop flying wing. It was the BV-38 Flying Wing, and is purely a fictional plane.
The LZ-138 is a zeppelin portrayed in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade of the Indiana Jones saga. It appears to be nearly visibly identical to the *Hindenburg *except it has a structure at the bottom for attaching and carrying a small airplane with it, similar to the American dirigibles Akron and Macon.
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