Arlington National Cemetery is located on the confiscated estate of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee had bought the house built by Custis. On May 13, 1864, 21-year-old Private William Christman of Pennsylvania, who had died of peritonitis, became the first military man buried at Arlington.
The north-south streets in Boston’s Back Bay are in alphabetical order, starting with the Public Garden and working west: Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fairfield, Gloucester, and Hereford.
The east-west Streets of San Francisco’s Sunset and Richmond districts are in alphabetical order, with few exceptions which are skipped in this list. From north to south the east-west running streets are Anza, Balboa, Cabrillo, (there’s no D or E), then the east-west rectangle of Golden Gate Park and yet to its east there are Fulton, Grove, and Hayes, and then it continues south of Golden Gate Park with with Irving, Judah, Kirkham, Lawton, Moraga, Noriega, Ortega, Pacheco, Quintara, Rivera, Santiago, Taraval, Ulloa, Vicente, Wawona, (there’s no X), and then Yorba. There is no Z.
Therefore there are no east-west streets in that area alphabetically ordered from north to south and beginning with D, E, X or Z.
Little Cat Z is so tiny he cannot be seen. He has a VOOM in his hat which can be used to clean up pink snow.
The Nissan S30 was sold from 1969 tp 1978. In 2004 it was selected as one of the Top Sports Cars of the 1970s by Sports Car International magazine. In the United States the car was priced within $200 of the British MGB-GT, which had been introduced five years earlier. Dealers soon had long waiting lists for the car. Its modern design, relatively low price, and growing dealer network compared to other imported sports cars of the time (Jaguar, BMW, Porsche, etc.), made it a major success for Nissan. As a “halo” car, it broadened the image of Japanese car-makers beyond their econobox success. In the United States the S30 was known as the 240Z, then later as the larger 260Z and 280Z. The later Nissan 240SX which debuted around 1989 tried to draw from the heritage of the 240Z, but the cars were totally unrelated.
The Jaguar (Panthera onca) is the largest of South America’s big cats. They once roamed from the southern tip of that continent north to the region surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border. Today significant numbers of jaguars are found only in remote regions of South and Central America—particularly in the Amazon Basin.
Unlike many other cats, jaguars do not avoid water; in fact, they are quite good swimmers. Rivers provide prey in the form of fish, turtles, or caimans—small, alligatorlike animals
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The crews of U.S. ironclads on Western waters such as the Mississippi and Cumberland rivers during the Civil War were initially drawn from the Army, but serving under Navy officers. The Navy did not assume full command of the warships and their crews until October 1862.
The Battle of Madagascar was the British campaign to capture Vichy French-controlled Madagascar during World War II. It began with Operation Ironclad, the seizure of the port of Diego Suarez near the northern tip of the island, on 5 May 1942. A subsequent campaign to secure the entire island, Operation Streamline Jane, was opened on 10 September. Fighting ceased and an armistice was granted on 6 November.
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Besides the ironclads, the US Navy at the start of the Civil War used ‘Timberclads’, which were usually side-wheel steamboads refitted with 5" thick wood and heavy oak planking covering the wheels. They were armed with six 8" guns and often with a 32-lb. cannon. Four ships were built, one of which (USS Essex) was later converted to an ironclad design.
Despite being slow and ungainly, some of the ships, such as the USS Tyler, served thoughout the war.
here’s a picture: Timberclad warship - Wikipedia
The Union captured the Confederate stronghold at Island Number 10, at Kentucky Bend on the Mississippi River, by sending the ironclad gunboats *Carondelet *and Pittsburg, along mortar rafts, past it and into firing range. The site was adjacent to New Madrid, Missouri, epicenter of the strongest earthquake in recorded North American history.
The Ojibwe name for “Lake Itasca,” the start of the Mississippi River, was Omashkoozo-zaaga’igan (Elk Lake); this was changed by Henry Schoolcraft to “Itasca”, coined from a combination of the Latin words veritas (“truth”) and caput (“head”)] though it is sometimes misinterpreted as “true head.” It is one of several examples of pseudo-Indian place names created by Schoolcraft.
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In Itasca State Park in Minnesota one can walk across the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
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In French there are two different words for “river”. A river that flows into another river or a lake is a “rivière.” A river that flows into the sea is a “fleuve.”
Thus, the “rivière Missouri” flows into the “fleuve Mississippi.”
Water that moves linearly as a conduit can go by different names in English: bayou, beck, branch, brook, burn, creek, crick, ghyll or gill, kill, lick, mill race, rill, river, rivulet, run, runnel, stream, streamage, syke, or wash.
The Wash is the square-mouthed bay and estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia on the east coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire. It is a large bay with three roughly straight sides meeting at right angles, each about 15 miles in length.
Per legend, King John lost his treasure in the Wash ( 
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The ill fortune caused John even more stress, and the King was getting sicker and sicker with each passing day. Historians believe he was taken to the monastery in Lincolnshire, a place he spent his last days and died on October 18 at Newark.
Newark, Ohio is the seat of Licking County. It matches the description of and is thought to have loosely inspired Belvedere, the fictional town in which “Buffalo Bill,” a serial killer in Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs, lives.
Newark, Ohio (home of Longaberger’s iconicBasket Building) is locally pronounced “Nerk”. Newark, Delaware (home of the University of Delaware Blue Hens) is locally pronounced “New Ark”. Newark, New Jersey (home of, um, an airport) is locally pronounced “NEW-erk”.
Newark International Airport was renamed New York Liberty Airport after the events of 9-11. United Airlines Flight 93 departed from Newark en route to San Francisco before being hijacked and it’s subsequent crash in Pennsylvania.
Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac at the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., was born in Cadiz, Spain to expatriate American parents but raised in Pennsylvania.