There have been three Justice Tascherau’s on the Supreme Court of Canada. The Taschereau family is an old laine pur Quebec family dating back to the early days of New France. In addition to the three on on the Supreme Court ( two of whom became Chief Justice of Canada), another member of the family became Premier of Quebec.
US Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan, when she posed for her high school yearbook, wore a judge’s robe and held a gavel.
Hurricane Elena was an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast in late August and early September 1985. Threatening popular tourist destinations during Labor Day weekend, Elena repeatedly deviated from its forecast path, triggering evacuations of an unprecedented extent. The hurricane wrought havoc to property and the environment between southwestern Florida and eastern Louisiana, though lesser effects were felt well beyond those areas.
The strongest and most intense hurricane of record to make landfall in the USA was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. It was the first of three Category 5 hurricanes in the 20th century. The other two were Camille in 1969 and Andrew in 1992. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane moved closely north along the west coast of Florida, almost exactly paralleling the coast after crossing the Keys just south of Key Largo. The town of Islamorada, on Upper Matacumbe Key, was completely obliterated. It finally made landfall at Cedar Key, about 100 miles north of Tampa.
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New York lawyer Arthur Goldberg served as U.S. Secretary of Labor, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He is the last member of the Cabinet to have served on the Supreme Court; a young Alan Dershowitz and Stephen Breyer (who now holds his seat on the Court) were both law clerks of his.
The longest toll road in the USA is the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway in New York. It runs from the Bronx north to Albany, then west to Buffalo and onward to its end at I-90 in Northe East, Pennsylvania.
The Dewey Decimal System, a classification system in use in many libraries, was invented by Melville Dewey, who advocated for spelling reform and simplified his name spelling as"Melvil". His son Godfrey was responsible for the 1932 Winter Olympics being held in Lake Placid, NY.
In the 1944 presidential election, Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Thomas Dewey in the closest of his four presidential elections. In the 1948 presidential election, the Chicago Tribune erroneously posted the famous large headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. Dewey came close, twice.
The “longest confirmed kill” record for a sniper was done twice, on two consecutive shots. Using an Accuracy International L115A3, British Corporal Craig Harrison killed two Taliban with consecutive shots at a distance of 2.47 kilometres in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2009…
President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts had a “do over” of the inaugural oath at the White House after fumbling it on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2009, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol.
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Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are relatives. Distant relatives, they are ninth cousins, once removed. Their common ancestor is Mareen Duvall, a French Huguenot who settled in Maryland in the mid-1600s.
Herbert Hoover held only two political offices: Secretary of Commerce and President of the United States.
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, of the NARA Presidential Libraries (Hoover and later), is located in West Branch, Iowa. There are currently 13 of them, for: Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush.
No US county has ever been named after a president who has a Presidential Library. The last president to have a county named for him was Warren G. Harding. Harding County, New Mexico, was formed on the day of the 1921 inauguration of president Harding. So it also probably holds the record for the quickest naming of a public feature after a president. But for 7-million votes, it might have been Cox County.
Warren Harding died at the New Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1923. The New Palace Hotel has been open since 1909. It replaced the 1875 Palace Hotel that burned in the 1906 fire after the big earthquake.
The 6.9 earthquake that hit the San Francisco Bay Area in October 1989, killing 67 people. is known as both as the San Francisco-Oakland earthquake and the Loma Prieta earthquake because it was centered near Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Agua Prieta, Mexico (adjacent to Douglas, Arizona) is one of the first cities in the world to generate its electrical power through an integrated-cycle power plant that has been extended with a solar field and parabolic trough collectors. In this type of power plant, the steam generated by the solar field is fed into the water-steam cycle to increase steam turbine output and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The term “Associate Justice” is not used on the Supreme Court of Canada. Instead, the term “puisne” (pronounced "puny) is used. It’s an old law-French contraction of “puis né” meaning “born later”, and signifies the seniority in appointment.
George Washington and Rutherford B. Hayes also have presidential libraries, but they are not part of the National Archives and Records Administration system:
http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/library/
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The Supreme Court of Ohio has seven justices, and has been majority-female (four women and three men) since January 2011.
The California Supreme Court is headquartered in San Francisco. It holds regular sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento, and it currently is also majority-female, like Ohio’s, 4 women and 3 men.