(Emphasis mine) Comment: well, he was by far not the only one. It was the way many (most?) were, back in the less-enlightened then.
In play: Fort Monroe VA sits at a key strategic point at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and the mouth of the James River. Across the James River sit Norfolk, Newport News, and Virginia Beach VA. Fort Monroe is on Old Point Comfort. In 1960, Fort Monroe was designated a National Historic Landmark. In 1966, Fort Monroe was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2011, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating the Fort Monroe National Monument.
Point Comfort, Texas, was established in 1950, to accommodate workers in an aluminum and chemical plant on the gulf coast. It reached its population peak of nearly 1500 in the 1960s, and has since declined to about half of that.
Jeff Davis County, Texas is in western Texas, between El Paso and Big Bend National Park. Valentine, Texas is the only incorporated municipality in Jeff Davis County. It is 160 miles southeast of El Paso. In the 2000 census its population was 187. Valentine is on US-90 highway. The highway is 2-lane and the speed limit there, on the wide open plains of west Texas, is 80 MPH. (God Bless Texas!)
There are many wild rabbits in and around Valentine. On US-90 there are several rabbit crossing caution signs. Be careful driving at night, when they are out in droves. 2 weeks ago I was driving at night, doing 90 in the 80 zone on the flat, straight-as-an-arrow open road. In a stretch of about 10 miles in and near Valentine, Texas I sent three of the little critters to the Big Easter Basket in the Sky.
OH NO!!!
(and no, in the town of Valentine, I wasn’t doing 90, I was doing the posted limit!)
I once drove before daylight from Marathon down to Big Bend, and there were literally swarms of jackrabbits crossing the road, many of them young bunnies. I must have hit several per mile, even at moderate speed, nothing I could do about it. It was like driving in a swarm of grasshoppers.
You rabbit killer, you. Like me too. I represent that remark.
In play: the longest stretch of interstate highway in a single U.S. state is I-10 in Texas, which covers a record 878 miles as it runs across southern Texas, from the New Mexico border to the Louisiana state line.
The longest cross-country Interstate (I-road) is I-90. It is 3,020.54 miles long, running from Boston, Massachusetts, to Seattle, Washington. The shortest “2-digit” Interstate is 17.62 miles on I-97 from Baltimore to Annapolis, Maryland.
Seattle: Hempfest! Seattle hosts the largest pot rally in the world. Hempfest, an homage to all things ganja green, began in 1991 and now draws more than 300,000 reefer fans a year.
Fans of pot or marijuana legalization often like to point out that George Washington grew hemp at Mount Vernon, but it was a different kind of hemp than is commonly smoked today.
Scientific tests undertaken on 400 year-old tobacco pipes excavated from the garden of William Shakespeare revealed they’d been used to smoke cannabis (link).
Para-para-y, a relative of rosemary, grows wild and abundant in Paraguay, is widely brewed into a tea-like beverage, and is held to be the reason why nobody in Paraguay ever suffers from kidney stones.
The Ford Motor company emblem, a Blue oval with white lettering, first made it’s appearance in 1928. Before that, it had been a white oval with black lettering. While the oval has changed shape in the decades since, the basic emblem has remained the same.
In 1914, Henry Ford increased the daily pay for his workers to five dollars a day. He also reduced the work day from nine hours a day to eight hours a day. In 1914, the normal average day’s wage was about $2.34.
“Dollar” is one of the few words in English that traces is etymology back to the Czech language. A unit of currency minted in Joachimsthal, in the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1520, was commonly called the “thaler”, and silver equivalents to that European coin in different kingdoms led to variations on the spelling and pronunciations of the word “thaler”.
Budweiser Budvar Brewery is a brewery in the city of České, Czech Republic, that is best known for brewing a beer known as Budweiser Budvar. In the United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Brazil and Peru, the beer is marketed as Czechvar.
In the European Union, excluding the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland and Spain, the American beer Budweiser is marketed as Bud, because the Budweiser trademark name is owned solely by Budweiser Budvar.
SAB Miller and AB Inbev now control over 80% of the US beer market, nearly all in Canada and Mexico, and one third of all the beer production in the world. And they are negotiating a possible merger. SAB Miller originated in South Africa, and Inbev is the result of a merger by brewers in Brazil, Belgium and the USA.
The most consumed beverages in the world are, in order, water, tea, then beer. Many sites cite coffee as being more consumed than tea, but those are coffee sites that cite that. Coffee is quite popular, yes. The most consumed carbonated soft drinks are produced by three major global brands: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group. Coconut water is a highly nutritious and refreshing juice.
Tea and Coffee were not widely consumed until the 19th century, and even then, expensive luxuries except for tea in China. Before then, fermented beverages accounted for most of what people drank, since water was recognized as a carrier of pathogens. Beer might have once been the most consumed beverage in the world, before the wide popularity of tea and coffee in the last century.