The San Diego Padres and the California Angels (yeah I know their real name) are the only MLB franchises to originate in California. The San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers were originally from New York. The Giants’ history includes a team from Troy, NY - the Troy Trojans. Troy is close to Latham, my home town, and Schenectady, where other Dopers have lived.
ETA: ninja’d!
Foghorn Leghorn - I love it!
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Today, 10 November 2015, is the 240th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Happy Birthday to all Marines out there.
Semper Fidelis,
Bullitt
As the sayings go,
***Once a Marine, Always a Marine
Not as Lean, Not as Mean, but Still a Marine
There’s no such thing as an Ex-Marine***
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Here is the Commandant’s birthday greeting: http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/PORTALS/61/DOCS/240thBirthdayMessage.pdf
Honorary Marines
Fewer than 100 people have been given the title “Honorary Marine.” They include: Chuck Norris, Bob Hope, Jim Nabors, Gary Sinise and Bugs Bunny.
But wait, there is more! 
Be it known that while the US Marine Corps was born on 10 November 1775, the US Army is older and was founded on 14 June 1775. Here is more about the Marine Corps.
Today, November 10, 2015, is the fortieth anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, with the loss of all hands (29).
Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
God rest their souls.
*The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald. *
In play: The Iron carrier William G Mather is docked at the Great Lakes Science Center on the Cleveland, Ohio lakefront and can be toured in season. It is 618 feet long and weighs 8,662 gross tons and carried up to 14,000 tons of cargo. She transported cargo such as ore, coal, stone, and grain to ports throughout the Great Lakes from 1925 to 1980.
Bruce Campbell is playing Ronald Reagan, campaigning in Minnesota a year before the presidential election of 1980, in the current season of FX’s crime drama Fargo.
About the Marines, Ronald Reagan said,
“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.”
Stevie Wonder suffered from Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a disease of the eye affecting prematurely-born babies generally having received intensive neonatal care, in which oxygen therapy is used on them due to the premature development of their lungs
Actor Steve McQueen, who acted in Bullitt, is a Marine.
Steve McQueen was a delinquent in youth and well into his Marine career until a stint in the brig at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard calmed him down. His first film role was as the boyfriend in The Blob, the inspiration for the annual “Blobfest” in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Activities include a re-enactment of the scene in which moviegoers run screaming from the town’s Colonial Theatre.
Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Steven W. Taylor is a United States Marine.
Diana Ross & the Supremes were originally founded as The Primettes.
Former boxer and world champion in three weight divisions, and boxing hall of farmer, Barney Ross is a United States Marine.
Sam Kustuniak of Menominee Falls, Wisconsin, is a US Marine.
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Sam Peckinpah, Hollywood director of The Wild Bunch, is a United States Marine.
Ralph Bunche was the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
What’s the connection here?
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Actor Ralph Waite of The Waltons (John Walton) is a United States Marine.
Ralph Goodale, Liberal MP from Regina, was recently sworn in as the Minister of Public Safety in Prime Minister Trudeau’s Cabinet. Goodale has previously served in the Cabinets of Prime Ministers Martin and Chrétien, including a well-respected stint as Minister of Finance.