James Buckley, brother of conservative commentator William Buckley (best known for hiding shallow and facile ideas under a coating of polysyllabilism and condescension), served in the US Senate as the candidate of the New York Conservative Party, not as a Republican although he was on very good terms with them.
Of the twelve governments in Canada which have party affiliations, none are formally Conservative. Eight are Liberal (including the federal government and eight provinces); two are New Democratic Party (two provinces); and two are liberal-conservative alliances (one province and one territory).
“Dammit Jim, I’m a lawyer, not a mathemrithmetician!”
Currently in the Iowa Caucuses, for the Democratic Party it is:
49.8%, 19 delegates - Hillary Clinton
49.6%, 21 delegates - Bernie Sanders
0.5%, 0 delegates - Martin O’Malley
For the Republicans it is:
27.7% - Ted Cruz (winner)
24.4% - Donald Trump
23% - Marco Rubio
All others are less than 10%.
Martin O’Malley, former Mayor of Baltimore (honored by Time magazine as one of the country’s five best mayors) and Governor of Maryland, is thought to be suspending his presidential campaign tonight after doing poorly in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. He is just 53 and may run again in four or eight years.
Mike Huckabee, former AR governor who won the Iowa caucuses in 2008, ended his 2016 race for president. Huckabee is 60, and he’s probably done running in future races.
Although further west, Iowa became a state two years before Wisconsin did. Before 1846, Iowa and Wisconsin were part of Michigan Territory. At the time, Dubuque was the most important settled area in Iowa.
Iowa was part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase contained land from 15 current US states: the land that forms Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; a large portion of North Dakota; a large portion of South Dakota; the northeastern section of New Mexico; the northern portion of Texas; the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; and Louisiana west of the Mississippi River (plus New Orleans).
Manon Lescaut was a famously controversial novel of 1731. Its title character, Manon, an amoral beauty, is deported from France to New Orleans as a prostitute and dies wandering in the wilds of Louisiana with her lover, the aristocrat Chevalier Des Grieux. It was adapted into 3 operas (including one by Puccini) and a ballet.
The Alaska Purchase of 1867 added 586,000 square miles of land to the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added 828,000 square miles of land to the United States.
Reactions to the purchase of Alaska from Russia were mixed, with some opponents calling it “Seward’s Folly” (after Secretary of State William H. Seward), while many others praised the move for weakening both Britain and Russia as rivals to American commercial expansion in the Pacific region. The purchase threatened British control of its Pacific coast colony, giving added impetus to the Canadian Confederation, which was realized just three months later, in July 1867. The Dominion of Canada would welcome British Columbia into the confederation in 1871, ending US hopes of annexation and an uninterrupted connection of Alaska to the United States
Actually, not all of the Louisiana Purchase’s 828,000 square miles ended up in the USA. A small part of it became Canada’s Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Still in play:
William Seward, regarded as the leading contender for the Republican party’s presidential nomination in 1860, was defeated by Abraham Lincoln.
William Seward, a lifelong abolitionist, provided a home for Harriet Tubman and the family she led to freedom by selling them a farm he owned in Auburn, New York, on easy payments. Tubman later secured the funds to expand the property into a home for indigent aged former slaves; she herself died as a resident there and the home continued long after her death.
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was a long-running sitcom staring real-life husband and wife Ozzie and Harriet Nelson (nee Hilliard) and their sons David and Rick. Rick became a rock star after his performances on the show (Ozzie had been a bandleader and Harriet his singer).
Ozzie’s job was never made clear in the series. It was supposed to be in advertising, but was never mentioned, and Ozzie was never shown working.
Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson and Field Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, the two greatest British military leaders of their day, met just once. Nelson did not initially know who the Duke was and was rude and dismissive; when he was told exactly to whom he was speaking, he became much friendlier and engaging. The Duke later remembered the conversation as being quite interesting.
With yesterday’s AP polls, the Duke University men’s & women’s basketball teams are both unranked for the first time since Dec. 29, 1986.
The title Duke is from the Latin word “dux”, meaning military leader. King Arthur was referred to as a Dux Bellorum in some of the earliest tellings of the legend, a title that meant “Lord of War” and was a bit like “high king” or military dictator but with noble implications.
*The War Wagon *is a 1967 Western film starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. The picture received generally positive reviews. The supporting cast includes Howard Keel, Robert Walker, Jr., Keenan Wynn, Joanna Barnes, and Bruce Dern. Wayne and Douglas had co-starred in the movies *In Harm’s Way *and Cast a Giant Shadow.
Kirk Douglas’s first wife, Diana, acted alongside Kirk several times after their divorce, most recently playing his wife in the flop It Runs in the Family which also starred their son Michael and grandson Cameron a their son and grandson in the film. Diana passed away last year, Kirk will be 100 if he lives to December, and Cameron is now in prison for drug related charges.