From before 1715? Color me skeptical. Cite?
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Chicago lawyer and novelist Scott Turow was appointed by the Governor of Illinois to a commission to review the state’s death penalty. Previously a self-described “death penalty agnostic,” he came to oppose capital punishment and support, instead, a maximum punishment of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Turow explains his reasoning in his nonfiction book Ultimate Punishment.
Six Illinois governors have been charged with crimes during or after their governorships; four were convicted, and of those, one (Rod Blagojevich) was the first to be impeached and removed from office. His predecessor, George Ryan, was convicted of corruption.
Ronald Reagan is the only US President who was born in Illinois - Tampico, IL.
Tampico is a city on the eastern coast of Mexico and is a major exporter of silver, copper, lumber, wool, hemp and other agricultural products.
Over 10 million illegal Mexican immigrants currently live in the USA.
The musical CATS was staged and recorded in Mexico, despite the fact that CATS in Spanish is El Gato. leading to translating nightmare for Marco de Villa
Writer TS Eliot (1888-1965), who lived and died in London and who wrote Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats upon which the musical CATS was based, was born in St. Louis, MO.
In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S Eliot wrote I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. In Seasons of Love from the musical Rent, Jonathan Larson wrote 525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
Kopi Luwak is type of coffee from Indonesia made from coffee beans collected from the feces of civets, who consume the coffee cherry and excrete the beans.
According to Dr. Mercola’s website:
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The lethal dose of caffeine is roughly 100 cups of coffee.
In the Futurama episode “Three Hundred Big Boys”, Fry drinks 100 cups of coffee and gains super speed for a brief period, enabling him to save lives.
Hawaii is the only state that commercially grows coffee.
Hawaii is the only state to honor a monarch, celebrating King Kamehameha Day on June 11th since 1872. Kamehameha is known for uniting the Hawaiian Islands in 1810.
The Hawaii state flag includes the Union Jack (or Union Flag) of Great Britain, the only foreign national flag to be part of a U.S. state flag.
However… with the tricolor vertical bands of blue, white and red, the state flag of Iowa has a close resemblance to the national flag of France.
The state of Iowa was called that because at the time of statehood, it had been a part of Iowa County, Wisconsin. The remnant of sprawling Iowa County still exists as a political subdivision in Wisconsin…
The Crookedest Street in the World was once recognized to be Snake Alley in Burlington, IA.
As does the (very boring) flag of Cleveland, Ohio: Flag of Cleveland - Wikipedia
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Burlington is the largest city in Vermont. Bernie Sanders was mayor of the city from 1981-1989.
Three cities named Burlington have teams in the professional organization of Minor League Baseball. The Burlington Bees (Iowa) in the Midwest League, The Burlington Royals (North Carolina) in the Piedmont League, and the Vermont Lake Monsters (Burlington Vermont) in the NY-Penn League.