Clark Gable was a native of Cadiz, Ohio.
The Ohio River as a whole is ranked as the most polluted river in the US based on 2009 and 2010 data , having been polluted with hundreds of thousands of pounds of PFOA by DuPont chemical company, from an outflow pipe, for several decades beginning in the 1950s.
Ohio was the 17th state to join the Union, and has 17 stars on its distinctive swallowtail state flag - the only state flag that is not rectangular.
The Union Flag has symbols for three of the four countries of the United Kingdom, but nothing for Wales.
The term “flag of convenience” describes the business practice of registering a merchant ship in a sovereign state different from that of the ship’s owners, and flying that state’s civil ensign on the ship. Panama is currently the world’s largest flag state, with almost a quarter of the world’s ocean-going tonnage registered there.
Maritime historians have noted that Confederate commerce raiders were so successful in driving up insurance rates during the Civil War that the size of the U.S.-flagged merchant fleet dwindled dramatically, never fully recovering to this day.
The Canadian Maritime Provinces are New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. The term “Maritimes” is decreasingly used, since Newfoundland entered Canada, with the term “Atlantic Provinces” becoming preferred usage.
Canadian, Texas, is a town in the northeast corner of the Texas panhandle, close to Oklahoma. It was named after the Canadian River, which is a tributary to the Arkansas River. A portion of the Tom Hanks movie, Cast Away, was filmed in Canadian.
There is a distinction in the Canadian Constitution between the three Maritime provinces and Newfoundland. The Maritime provinces make up one of the four divisions of the Canadian Senate, having 24 senators. Newfoundland is not in any of the four divisions and has six senators.
The Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers baseball clubs each used to be called the Washington Senators, both playing home games at Griffith Stadium.
The World Series was won by the Washington Senators in 1924.
The World Series was won by the Minnesota Twins in 1987 and 1991.
The World Series was won by the Texas Rangers in… never, not yet.
Clayton Moore, who played the Lone ranger, entered show business as a circus acrobat at age 8. His autobiography is titled I Was That Masked Man.
The Claymore land mine, US designation M18A1, is a rectangular antipersonnel mine about 9" X 5", and 1.5" thick. Instead of being a flat mine, the rectangle is curved such that the convex face is to be faced towards the enemy. When detonated remotely, about 700 steel balls of 1/8" diameter are shot like buckshot in the facing direction. It first entered service around 1960 and its inventor, Norman MacLeod, named the mine after a large Scottish medieval sword.
While actor Gavin MacLeod appear as a guest star in 21 1950’s and1960’s TV shows, he first major role was Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
The Slaughter of the Innocents is commemorated in western churches on December 28.
Other than the Bible, there is no historical record of the Slaughter of the Innocents. Absolutely none.
Slaughter of the Innocents was a 1993 movie starring Scott Glenn. Aaron Eckhart was also in the movie.
Glenn Close’s first three film roles (The World According to Garp, The Bill Chill and the Natural) all earned her Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
The phrase “According to Hoyle” entered the English language when Edmond Hoyle published books detailing the rules if card games. The books gained a great deal of popularity in the mid-1700s, but the personal details of Hoyle’s life remain a mystery. Hoyle has been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, even though he died 60 years before poker was invented.
English astronomer Edmund Halley was also a geophysicist, a mathematician, a meteorologist, and a physicist. Halley was the son of a soap maker.