Alexander Mackenzie was the second Prime Minister of Canada, from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878. The Mackenzie Mountain Range in the Yukon and Northwest Territories is named after him. However, the Mackenzie River, the second longest river in North America after the Mississippi River, is not. The river is named after another Alexander Mackenzie, a Scottish explorer who died in 1820.
Mackenize Phillips’s full name is Laura Mackenize Phillips. Her father was Papa John Phillips snd her mother Susan Adams was a direct descendant of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, is mispronounced by nearly everybody. His middle name, and the Massachusetts city of his birth, is/was pronounced as if spelled Quinzy. However, the city of Quincy, Illinois, is pronounced with the voiceless C. Quincy, Illinois, became well known as a part of the CB&Q railroad, the Chicago Burlington and Quincy, now through a series of mergers a component of BN, Burlington Northern.
When asked about his background, officer Anthony “Mac” McCann of 21 Jump Street stated “I grew up in mun-AUCH-ee, New Jersey.”
If he had grown up there (or if someone from the show had taken two minutes to call the burough hall), he would have known it’s pronounced MOON-auk-ee.
I work in the San Francisco Bay Area with someone who was born and raised right in Moonachie. Yes, she pronounces it properly, MOON-auk-ee, as Annie mentions. This co-worker grew up with friends riding their bicycles in and around the construction site for the Meadowlands Sports Complex and the NY Giants Stadium. Ground was broken there in 1972, and the stadium opened in 1976. As they rode their bicycles as kids they kept their eyes peeled for evidence of Jimmy Hoffa’s body among the concrete and the mounds of dirt, but alas, his body was never spotted and independently corroborated. She also had fond memories of lunches and dinners at Bazzarelli’s Italian Restaurant in Moonachie. When last we visited our son the professional dancer with an NYC company, we enjoyed a nice dinner at Bazzarelli Ristorante.
The November 19, 1978 “Miracle at the Meadowlands” was a game-ending play where the NY Giants, at home and holding the lead and with possession of the ball at the end of the game, needed only to run out the clock to defeat their rival Philadelphia Eagles, 17-12 in what would have been an upset win over the favored (by 2pts) Eagles. NY Giants QB Joe Pisarcik tried to hand the ball off to RB Larry Csonka but the ball fell to the turf. Eagles DB Herman Edwards picked it up and ran for a TD to win the game for the Eagles, 19-17. The stunned NY Giants hom field crowd fell silent.
Partly because of this play, the NFL later allowed the ‘QB Kneel Down’ to be a legitimate play beginning in 1987.
Larry Csonka’s name is pronounced as if it started with the C in John Quincy Adams
Quincy MA is also pronounced the same way, Qwin-zee.
“Ma” means “mother” in the native language of more than half the people in the world.
Mother is a Japanese role-playing game released in 1989 on the Famicom, Japan’s version of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Initially, the game was not released outside of Japan. The sequel Mother 2, released in 1994, was renamed Earthbound when it was translated for release in North America. Earthbound did not sell well, though it eventually gained a massive cult following. The second sequel, Mother 3, was released on the Game Boy Advance in 2006; like the original game, it was released only in Japan. The original game Mother received its English language debut in June 2015 as EarthBound Beginnings for the Wii U Virtual Console.
Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the Province of Alberta is not required to enact its laws bilingually, in the English and French languages. The Court rejected arguments that the 1867 Address from the Parliament of Canada to the Queen concerning the annexation of Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory provided an implicit guarantee of institutional bilingualism on the Prairies. Instead, Alberta can enact all of its laws in the English language only.
Guess what Ma Fu means to all the people in the world? 
All of those were spelled “Mackenzie.”
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The Supreme Court of the United States had its own building 11 years before the Supreme Court of Canada. Their respective structures opened in 1935 and 1946.
On Sunday, January 13, 2002, a wild fox wandered into the United States Supreme Court building. Although spotted by a police officer and observed on video cameras, the fox eluded capture for more than a day.
On January 13, 1957, the Wham-O company began making the Pluto Platter. Sales were poor, until they renamed it “Frisbee” six months later.
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is an excellent account of how Pluto got demoted to “dwarf planet”, by the astronomer who began discovering other dwarf planets which cumulatively put in doubt Pluto’s planetary status.
One of the big questions about Disney was why Pluto acted like a dog, while Goofy – who is clearly designed as a dog – acts human.
The Disney “Sensational Six” — the biggest stars in the Disney universe — are Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Goofy, Donald Duck, and Daisy Duck.
They were created in:
1928: Mickey Mouse
1928: Minnie Mouse
1930: Pluto
1932: Goofy
1934: Donald Duck
1940: Daisy Duck
Cindy Moriarty, a blonde office worker in Inglewood CA, was famous for creating the online password “mickeyminniegoofyplutohueydeweylouiesacramento”, when she was told it had to be at leat 8 characters and a capital.
The capital city of California, Sacramento, was named after the Sacramento River which was named by Spanish cavalry officer Gabriel Moraga for the Santísimo Sacramento (Blessed Sacrament), referring to the Catholic Eucharist.
Of the 25 largest Metro Areas in the USA, only six of them contain the capital of their state: Boston, Atlanta, Phoenix, St. Paul, Denver and Sacramento. None of those six had a team in the National football League prior to the AFL merger, and only one in Major League Baseball. So, in the '50’s, only one MLB or NFL team played in a state capital.