The Constitution of the United States does not require that the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives actually be a member of the House. As it happens, every Speaker to date, including the current one, Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, has been a member of Congress. The Speaker follows the Vice President in the line of succession to the Presidency.
In his 1988 senior class high school yearbook, Paul Ryan not only was voted to be the Prom King, but he was also voted as the senior class’s “Biggest Brown-Noser.”
In hospital parlance, a Code Brown is when a patient shits the bed.
Code Adam was initiated by Wal-Mart stores in 1994 to alert personnel of a missing child.
The Channel Tunnel, connecting England and France, opened in 1994.
Samphire Hoe Park, a 74-acre nature reserve in Southeast England, was created from the leftover seven million tons of chalk, rock, and debris that was dislodged to make the Chunnel.
Rock Chalk, Jayhawk is a chant used at University of Kansas Jayhawks sporting events. The chant is made up of the phrase “Rock chalk, Jayhawk, KU.” It is best known as being loudly chanted at basketball games at Allen Fieldhouse and football games at University of Kansas Memorial Stadium.
Rock Chalk is a transposition of chalk rock, a type of limestone, that exists in the Cretaceous-age bedrocks of central and western parts of the state as well as on Mount Oread, where the University is located, which is similar to the coccolith-bearing chalk of the white cliffs of Dover.
Legend has it that Kansas City considered names like Port Fonda, Rabbitville and Possum Trot before settling on its current name.
When David Copperfield is adopted by his aunt, Betsy Trotwood, she re-names him Trotwood, and calls him Trot for short.
The Copperhead artillery round is a 155 mm fin-stabilized, laser guided shell intended to engage hard point targets like tanks and self-propelled howitzers. It may be fired from different artillery pieces, such as the M114, M109, M198 and M777 howitzers. It has a min range of 2 miles and a max range of 10 miles.
Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) will give birth to live young - not eggs like most other snakes.
Fascinating! Hadn’t known that. So Great Britain is a little bigger now: Samphire Hoe - Wikipedia
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“Copperheads” were Northern Democrats who opposed the Lincoln Administration in its waging of the Civil War. Their opposition ranged from passive resistance, to open political disputation, to near-treason.
There are over a thousand species of Crane Flies in the world, including Tipula contortrix of North Africa. Crane flies are often commonly known locally as Daddy-longlegs, as ***opposed ***to spiders with the same vernacular nomenclature.
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Regarding birds, herons and cranes look similar. One easy way to tell the difference is that when flying, the necks of herons are pulled back to their bodies, while the necks of cranes are outstretched.
While it had originally been intended that Frasier Crane be an only child, David Hyde Pierce was hired after he sent the Frasier producers his headshot and they realize how much he looked like a young Kelsey Grammer.
Frasier’s father, Martin Crane, is the most well-known fictional character whose first and last names are both the names of families of birds.
My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O’Hara.
Ray Walston was famous in theater for playing the Devil in Damn Yankees and Billis in South Pacific. He reprised both roles in the film versions. He was very unhappy for what he believed was typecasting caused by MY FAVORITE MARTIAN.
Some people wanted the original Yankee Stadium (built in 1923) to be called “Ruth Stadium” after, of course, George Herman (Babe) Ruth. Yankees owner Jake Ruppert wanted it named Ruppert Stadium. They finally settled on Yankee Stadium, with the nickname “the House that Ruth Built.”
Aside from payers who later owned teams and stadium, only one one stadium named after a former player has hosted a MLB game. Hiram Bithorn stadium in Puerto Rico hosted the Montreal Expos for 22 games in 2003-04. The stadium was named for Puerto Rico-born Bithorn, who piched for the Chicago Cubs in the early 40s. No other major league game has ever been played in a stadium named in honor of a former player.