The world’s first purpose built gas station was constructed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1905 at 420 S. Theresa Avenue. The USA had 114,474 filling stations in 2012.
Close friends and musicians called Louis Armstrong “Pops” because that’s what he’d call others whose name he had forgotten.
Boston Red Sox DH David Ortiz, probably the most popular and admired man in Boston, acquired his nickname “Papi (Daddy)” from his own habit of addressing people that way rather than learn their names. He spends half of his winters in his native Dominican Republic, and half in Green Bay, Wisconsin, near his wife’s home (they met when he played for Appleton in the minors), and can often be seen attending Packers games.
Seattle Seahawks punter Jon Ryan is from Regina, Saskatchewan. After a college career with the University of Regina Rams, he played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the CFL in 2004 and 2005. He was picked up the by Packers in 2006 and played for them for two years, before going to the Seahawks.
In 1976, the year of the USA’s bicentennial celebration, the NFL expanded by adding two new teams, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks. Both teams began their season winless, until Week 6 when they played each other in a game played at Tampa. The Seahawks won that game, 13-10, to win their first ever franchise game. The Seahawks won one other game that season, 30-13 at home against the woeful Atlanta Falcons, to finish with a 2-12 record (the Falcons were 4-10). The Buccaneers finished 0-14 and then started the 1977 season 0-12 before winning the final 2 games to finish at 2-12. The Buccaneers won 33-14 at the woeful New Orleans Saints (3-11) and then won 17-7 at home against the St. Louis Cardinals (7-7).
Each of the three major sport legues has a team called, by some, the Bucs. The NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for short; MLB’s Pittsburgh Pirates, as an alternative nickname, and the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks. Not to mention the Chicago Cubs, who spell it backwards. Speaking of the Pirates, Pittsburgh is the only city with all three major league franchises having the same team colors – black and yellow. (Two trivias for the price of one).
What about Bucs in hockey? The Des Moines Buccaneers are a Tier 1 junior ice hockey team of the United States Hockey League (USHL). The Buccaneers began USHL play during the 1980-81 and have played all their home games at Buccaneer Arena in Urbandale, Iowa.
The term buccaneer, now used as a synonym for pirate, comes from the Caribbean Arawak word buccan, a wooden frame on which meat (preferably manatee*) was slow roasted or smoked. From this derived the French word boucane and hence the name boucanier for French hunters who used these frames to smoke meat from feral cattle and pigs on Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). English colonists anglicised the word boucanier to buccaneer.
*From manatee hides, Native Americans made war shields, canoes, and shoes, though manatees were predominantly hunted for their abundant meat.
(I wonder what manatee meat tastes like? Probably more like pork than chicken)
In anatomy, a peduncle is an elongated stalk of tissue. According to manatee recipes on monkeyspit.net, manatee meat can be used in recipes for beef. The choice cuts of manatee meat include the tail and peduncle.
http://www.monkeyspit.net/sites/manatee/recipes.html
Added: I’ve never had it.
It is now illegal to hunt manatees in the U.S., but they are still hunted in all other parts of their range. Most of the time it is opportunistic hunting, such as when the manatee accidentally wanders into a fisherman’s net and is used for food. Poaching of manatees is the U.S. is extremely rare, but it still occurs. There is a manatee farming operation under a license from the Federal Department of Fish and Wildlife as part of a controlled harvesting program in association with breeding efforts.
The Federal Department of Fish and Wildlife began in 1871 as the US Commission on Fish and Fisheries. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt established the country’s first wildlife refuge at Pelican Island National Bird Reservation on Florida’s Atlantic coast between Melbourne and Fort Pierce.
I find it to be something like panda, with a hint of spotted owl.
Franklin Pierce was the only US President from New Hampshire, and the only elected one to be denied renomination by his party for a second term. In his case, his disastrous support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, one of several events which made the Civil War inevitable, was the main reason.
(I’ve eaten whale and sealmeat. I would expect manatee to taste similar. Whale meat has no marbling, because ll whale fat is stores in the layer of blubber.)
In play:
From 1922 to 1931, US postage stamps for use in Kansas and Nebraska were overprinted with the abbreviations “Kans.” and “Nebr.” for use in those states, This was done because there were so many train robberies in those states, the use of the overprinted stamps were not valid for postage outside those states.
All of Franklin Pierce’s children predeceased him by the time e took office. His three sons died in childhood. He is also the only president that didn’t use a Bible at his inauguration. He placed his hand on a law book instead.
Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minneapolis Democrat, is the first Muslim to serve in the House of Representatives. For his swearing-in ceremony, he placed his left hand on a copy of the Koran that had been owned by Thomas Jefferson.
What about John Quincy Adams?
Megan Ellison, the daughter of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, started Annapurna Pictures and produces movies.
I found that on the internet so it must be true. 
Proper handling of the Koran include keeping it on the highest shelf in the house to represent its place above other books. Also, you shouldn’t leave a Koran open when you put it down, and never wet your fingers with spit to turn the pages. Do not read with the Koran on your lap. Also, many Muslims believe you should forego reading the Koran while menstruating because that is not a “clean time.” Yawning when reciting scripture is also frowned upon.
My play was ninja’d so Saint Cad’s is in play:
USA-17, Oracle Team USA’s winning trimaran in the 33rd America’s Cup, is displayed in front of Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA, about 25 miles south of San Francisco.
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Sorry sorry sorry blame the outage.
The last sentence is wrong in that it makes it seem as if the “urban police” was individual, local police forces and as if you won’t find Civiles in locations where there are other cops. This is not accurate; the body that’s now officially called Cuerpo Nacional de Policía was created in 1824 by merging the investigative police forces which at the time existed in several cities, and the Guardia Civil was created in part to supplement it. Nowadays local police forces can only work at the “peacekeeper” level; if anything more serious than two neighbors yelling at each other is involved, they call the Nacionales, Civiles or the regional police force (those are new), as appropriate to the location.
There are some subjects for which the default force is the Civiles, others for which it is the Nacionales; there’s four regions which have their own regional force which may be supposed to replace the Nacionales (Ertzaintza in Euskadi, Mossos de Esquadra in Catalonia) and two others whose forces are supposed to assist them (Policía Canaria in the Canary Islands, Forales in Navarre). Subjects such as border control, internet crime (because of its international dimension) or environmental issues are owned by the Civiles (if any of you has ever gone through customs in a Spanish airport, those guys in green were Civiles). Others, such as providing ID, by the Nacionales (currently in dark blue; at other times they wore brown, leading to nicknames such as maderos, lit. a thick piece of wood).
Now in game, the 32nd America Cup started in Valencia, Spain; the surrounding area is famous for its rice and its oranges and was the setting for many “costumbrist” novels by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
The Valencia orange is an American creation, based on a fruit from India… It was first hybridized by pioneer American agronomist William Wolfskill in the mid-19th century in Santa Ana, Californias. They are named for Valencia, Spain, which had a reputation for its sweet orange trees. But that was a misnomer, since oranges in Spain had originally been imported from India.