Cowboy actor John Wayne was born in Iowa and grew up in Southern California. He had a football scholarship to USC but lost it when he injured himself while bodysurfing.
The land currently in Iowa was once a part of the Territory of Michigan. When the Territory of Wisconsin was formed, which included Iowa, the present state of Iowa was in Iowa County, still extant in Wisconsin, but much reduced. The state assumed the name of the trans-Mississippi portion of Iowa county.
The word “Iowa” is a corruption of the word “Kiowa” which was commonly used by the Sauk and Fox tribes in the 1800s, and is still used today by two remnants of those tribes, in Tama County, Iowa and in Oklahoma. The word signified “this is the place” and also used to signify “crossing, or going over.” When Black Hawk made his raid west of the Mississippi River he crossed near where Davenport IA is today, and he proclaimed, “Kiowa” - the place where the river was crossed.
The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-lift utility helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft. The UH-60A entered service with the U.S. Army in 1979, to replace the Bell UH-1 Iroquois as the Army’s tactical transport helicopter. This was followed by the fielding of electronic warfare and special operations variants of the Black Hawk. Improved UH-60L and UH-60M utility variants have also been developed. Modified versions have also been developed for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
Black Hawk Down (2002) is a movie based on the 1999 book by the same name by Mark Bowden about a 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia that was an attempt to capture Somali warlord General Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The son of the warlord was a US Marine named Corporal Farrah (in WKP, Hussein Farrah Aidid; Hussein Farrah Aidid - Wikipedia).
I retired from the Marine Corps in 1993. I served with Corporal Farrah as the Battery Ops Chief with B Battery, 1st Battalion 14th Marines during our service during Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm. I wonder where Corporal Farrah is now.
True story: I was standing at my cash register doing my job when a man in the next line leaned over and said “Is it okay if I grab these double A’s?”
He was talking batteries, but did I have to stifle my response! (Pointing to battery display: Those yes. (Pointing to myself): These, no.
The word “battery” to describe an electrical source of power is one of the legacies of Benjamin Franklin, who, in 1748, described multiple Leyden jars by analogy to a battery of cannon. An electrical battery, by definition, consists of two or more cells combined.
The country road on the cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence album is the same road Andy Taylor and Opie are walking down in the opening titles for The Andy Griffith Show, in Franklin Canyon Park near LA.
When Tom Hanks was told to audition for Splash, he baulked. “A movie about a mermaid? Directed by Opie Cunningham?”
That was Hank’s breakthrough movie, making him a star.
Tom Hanks was also in He Knows You’re Alone (1980) before Splash. Splash also helped launch the career of Daryl Hannah, who was also in Blade Runner (1982) and Reckless (1984).
Daryl Hannah was described by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as “looking like an unmade bed.” John F. Kennedy Jr. dated her for many years, until she moved on to Jackson Brown. When Brown beat her bad enough to put her into the hospital, Kennedy rushed to her side.
When New York’s Bellevue Hospital was established at its present location n 1736, it was located in the boondocks two miles north of the inhabited part of the city, so that it would be far enough away from the city to effectively quarantine contagious patients. At that time, there was no urban habitation north of Wall Street.
Darryl Hannah also appeared in Wall Street as Charlie Sheen’s interior-designer girlfriend.
In a 2008 episode of Two and a Half Men, Emilio Estevez appeared as Andy, an old friend of Charlie’s, who promptly died. Most memorable line: Charlie introducing Andy to Alan as “the brother I wished I had.”
Emilio Estevez’s first film was in Apocalypse Now (1979) as a messenger boy, but his scenes were deleted and he did not make the final cut. He appeared in minor roles in four films before 1985’s The Breakfast Club.
Nietzsche once said “I did my children the favor of not having them”
ETA for Ninja: That was in one of Nietzsche’s deleted scenes.
A traditional full English breakfast includes bacon (traditionally back bacon), fried, poached or scrambled eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast with butter, sausages, and baked beans.
Black pudding, bubble and squeak and hash browns are often also included. In the North Midlands, fried or grilled oatcakes sometimes replace fried bread. The food is traditionally served with a mug of tea; more recently coffee is an alternative. As nearly everything is fried in this meal, it is commonly called a “fry-up”.
(What about the Kippers?)
A kipper is a whole herring, a small, oily fish that has been split in butterfly fashion from tail to head along the dorsal ridge, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over smouldering woodchips (typically oak).
In the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Japan, and a minority of North American regions they are often eaten for breakfast. In Great Britain, kippers, along with other preserved smoked or salted fish such as the bloater and buckling, were also once commonly enjoyed as a high tea or supper treat, most popularly with inland and urban working-class populations before World War II.
The Emperor of Japan is described as “the symbol of the State and of the unity of the People, deriving his position from the will of the people with whom resides sovereign power” in the postwar Japanese constitution, but not as head of state. He nevertheless serves that function in practical terms.