Unlike Queen Victoria, she is also Lord (not Lady) of Mann: Lord of Mann - Wikipedia
In play:
The church around which the May 25, 1864 Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia was fought, between the armies of Gens. William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston, no longer stands, although a later structure does. John Wadsworth Vodrey, son of noted American potter Jabez Vodrey, was killed in the battle while serving with the 46th Pennsylvania Infantry regiment.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was the most widely known and best-loved American poet of his lifetime. Generations of school children were required to memorize verses of his poems, including “Evangeline”, “Hiawatha”, “A Psalm of Life” and “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha’s first four lines:
By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest, rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them; bright before it beat the water,
Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s last four lines:
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call ‘Gitche Gumee’
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early
Gichigami or Gitche Gumee means ’ big water’.
A gitch is men’s or women’s underwear. Hockey players call all of their underwear Gitch. No matter if its an under shirt, compression pants, shorts, basically everything related to on and off ice training.
There are currently six Under Secretaries of State in the U.S. State Department. They are:
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Under Secretary of State for Management
Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights
Unless the person is otherwise ineligible for the Presidency, the Secretary of State is the first Cabinet official in the order of precedence in the presidential line of succession behind the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the president pro tem of the Senate.
Maria Theresia Henriette Dorothée of Modena (1849-1919), wife of the last King of Bavaria, is called Queen Mary III and IV by Jacobites. The incestuous marriage of her paternal grandparents (uncle and niece) would make her ineligible in British law, but was legal under Sardinian law. Her descent via cognative primogeniture from the last King of England with legitimate descendants is as follows:
The Neuschwanstein Castle in Hohenschwangau, Bavaria, Germany, was commissioned by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and completed as an unfinished palace in 1892 as a retreat and an homage to Richard Wagner. Immediately after Ludwig’s death in 1886 the castle was opened to the paying public. Neuschwanstein was the inspiration for Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Wagner is an impact crater in the south polar region of the planet Mercury. It was named after the German composer Richard Wagner in 1976. It is located in the Bach quadrangle, between craters Bach and Chopin.
In July 2015, NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured the Moon passing across the face of the planet Earth: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/from-a-million-miles-away-nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth
July was renamed for Julius Caesar in 44 BC, who was born in what was formerly called Quintilis, Latin for fifth month. August, formerly Sextilis (sixth month)was renamed in 8 BC for Augustus Caesar, making July and August the only months named for real historical people.
August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, also often referred to as his Century Cycle, consists of ten plays— nine of which are set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District (the other being set in Chicago), an African-American neighborhood that takes on a mythic literary significance like Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, or Irish playwright Brian Friel’s Ballybeg. The plays are each set in a different decade and aim to sketch the Black experience in the 20th century and "raise consciousness through theater” and echo “the poetry in the everyday language of black America”.
Thomas Hardy’s Wessex was recreated in Roman Polanski’s Tess, a film adaptation of Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The Wessex scenes (including a Stonehenge reconstruction) were shot across the English Channel in Normandy and Brittany.
Polanski was living in Europe as he was wanted as a fugitive after conviction for sex with an underage girl in the United States. He had fled before sentencing and could have been extradited to the US from the United Kingdom.
There has never been a Duke of Wessex in the British nobility, although a fictional one was featured in The Tangled Skein, Baroness Orczy’s second novel. It was originally published under the title In Mary’s Reign in 1901.
*With a Tangled Skein *is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony. It is the third of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. The main protaginist, Niobe, agrees to become one of the three aspects of the incarnation of Fate, in an attempt to thwart the plans of Satan.
Shakespeare, in Hamlet, refers to the ancient Greek legend of Niobe. As a punishment for her hubris in daring to boast that her children were more beautiful than Apollo and Artemis, her children were slain by arrows. Artemis killed Niobe’s daughters and Apollo killed Niobe’s sons.
Towards the end of the play, Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude, says that Hamlet is fat and short of breath.
An anti-Lincoln cartoon during the Civil War showed his 1864 Democratic challenger, former Maj. Gen. George McClellan, in the role of Hamlet, holding the President’s head as if it were that of Yorick.
After the Battle of Antietam, the Northern Army of the Potomac under General McClellan did not move or take up offensive action against a badly wounded Confederate Army, being led very timidly, in the opinion of President Lincoln. He famously sent a telegram to McClellan stating: “If you don’t want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, A. Lincoln.” When McClellan still refused to engage the Confederate Army, he relieved McClellan and appointed General Ambrose Burnside as the new Commander of the Army of the Potomac.
I always heard of that as having been a quip of Lincoln’s, not a telegram actually sent to the famously thin-skinned McClellan.
McClellan lost the 1864 presidential race to Lincoln, including a large majority of the votes of the soldiers he once led. Absentee balloting was first introduced in the U.S. during the Civil War, to allow soldiers in the field to vote. In states in which in-person voting was still required, the Lincoln Administration granted leave to entire regiments to allow them to go home and vote.