Elendil’s Hair, “Old Slow Trot” was (and is) my favorite general in my studies of the Civil War. His sisters, who stayed loyal to Virginia when it seceeded, never spoke to him again.
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Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. The character would go on to appear in other media, including radio, film, and comic books, with his adventures reprinted for modern-day audiences in a series of paperback books.
The Doc Savage Magazine was printed by Street & Smith from March 1933 to the summer of 1949. In all, 181 issues were published in various entry’s and alternative titles.
In 1908, major league baseball catcher Charles “Gabby” Street accepted the challenge of catching a ball dropped from 555-foot-high Washington Monument. It took him 13 tries to actuallly catch one. But when it reached him, it was only traveling as fast as a typical major league pitch, which he caught every day. The terminal velocity of a falling baseball is only 74 miles an hour. His difficulty catching the ball would be a result not of its falling speed, but following the unfamiliar trajectory, possibly affected by swirling winds. A near-vertical pop-up is a more difficult ball for a ballplayer to catch, than a hard throw or a line drive.
Aroldis Chapman of the Cincinnati Reds threw fastest recorded pitch speed in MLB history at 105.1 mph (169 km/h) on September 24, 2010, against the San Diego Padres.
29 year old Johnny Cueto from the Dominican Republic has pitched for 2 teams so far in his 8 years in the majors since breaking in in 2008. He pitched for 7+ years (213 games) for the Cincinnati Reds, and then 1 partial year (13 games) last year for the 2015 World Champion Kansas City Royals. He is best known for his 93mph four-seam fastball, an 88mph cutter, 93mph sinker, 84mph changeup, and 85mph slider. He rarely throws the curveball. Johnny Cueto and Aroldis Chapman were teammates on the Reds from 2010 to 2015.
The first Coast Guard cutter was the USS Bear, an 1874 dual steam-powered and sailing barkentine that was the first ship in the United States Revenue Cutter Service, the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard. Her first captain was Michael “Hell Roaring Mike” Healy, a mixed-race son of a slave, and the first captain of African American descent to command a ship in any of the services of the United States government.
The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is located in New London CT and is the smallest of the five federal service academies. It was founded in 1876, but not in Groton, but in New Bedford MA.
George Armstrong Custer was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, and some historians suspect he was hoping for a big win there to catapult him into the Presidency in the election that year.
Custer had two younger brothers, Thomas Custer and Boston Custer, who both died with him on the battlefield at Little Bighorn. Custer earlier became aid to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Pleasonton, and it is this man that the city in the San Francisco Bay Area is named after.
In 1858, John Bowen, San Antonio’s first Anglo-American postmaster, founded and named the town of Pleasanton, Texas, after his good friend and fellow early Texas Settler John Pleasants. That was 18 years before Custer’s battle.
The Bowen therapy is an alternative type of bodywork named after Australian Thomas Ambrose Bowen (1916–1982). During the therapy, recipients are generally fully clothed. Each session typically involves gentle rolling motions along the muscles, tendons, and fascia. The therapy’s distinctive features are the minimal nature of the physical intervention and pauses incorporated in the treatment. Proponents claim these pauses allow the body to “reset” itself.
There is no clear evidence that the technique is a useful medical intervention
The Right Rev. Alan Gates, Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, is former rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where he served for ten years.
The name Ambrose is of common derivation with the word Ambrosia, meaning the food or drink ***served ***to the gods in ancient Greece. The word means “immortality”, from the sense that gods were given immortality by their food.
The name Rhys, sometimes spelled Reese, is often a contraction of Emrys, which is a Welsh form of Ambrosius, a name that through Ambrosius Aurelianus figured heavily in Celtic Arthurian legends.
The Rev. Dr. Della Reese Lett became an ordained minister more than 50 years after reaching the top of the music charts with the hit song “Don’t You Know” 1959. In between, she appeared in many movies and had her own TV show.
Della Reese was born in the Black Bottom neighborhood of Detroit. The area was named Black Bottom by early French settlers for its dark, rich topsoil. Also from Black Bottom was the “Brown Bomber,” boxer Joe Louis, who spent some of his childhood there.
Joe Louis and Max Schmeling are remembered as boxing rivals, but actually became good friends outside the ring, which endured until Louis’s death in 1981. Down on his luck after his boxing career, Louis got a job as a greeter at the Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas, and Schmeling flew to visit him every year. Schmeling reportedly also sent Louis money in Louis’ later years and covered a part of the costs of Louis’ funeral, at which he was a pallbearer.
Joe Louis served in the U.S. Army during World War II but never saw combat. President Ronald Reagan waived the eligibility rules for his burial at Arlington National Cemetery, and Louis was buried there with full military honors on April 21, 1981.
“Jos. Louis” is a red velvet snack cake popular in Quebec, named for Joseph and Louis, two sons of the Vachon family which created it in 1932. Another snack cake from Vachon is called “May West”.