Each criminal offence is broken down into specific components, called “elements of the offence.” The Crown has to prove each element beyond a reasonable doubt to secure a conviction.
SEK is the abbreviation for the Swedish Krona, the currency of Sweden since 1873. Krona means crown, and before the krona the Swedish used the riksdaler.
SEK is the airport code for Srednekolymsk, Russia, which is located in eastern Siberia, about 1,000 miles weest of Nome, Alaska. Srednekolymsk has a population of 3,500, and most of the year is accessible only by air or over ice roads. The record low temperature there is 76 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, and the daytime high is rarely above freezing from September to May.
Tuktoyaktuk NT CAN is only accessible by car during the winter when the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, an ice road, is open from Inuvik NT. The Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road is part of the Dempster Highway, a 460-mile paved road connecting Dawson City YT in the south to Inuvik NT in the north. Construction of an all-weather highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk commenced in April 2013. The highway is estimated to be finished by fall of 2017, after which the ice road will be permanently closed.
The can-can dance became popular in the mid 19th century. Because the high-kicking could otherwise be too revealing, nightclubs like the Moulin Rouge asked their dancers to choose undergarments other than pantalettes.
Dancer and dance choreographer Martha Graham was the first dancer to perform at the White House. First Lady Betty Ford had danced with Graham as a youngster, and Graham was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
According to the Medal of Honor Historical Society of the United States, there have been 3,514 Medals of Honor awarded to the nation’s soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen since the decoration’s creation, with just less than half of them awarded for actions during the four years of the American Civil War.
Douglas Albert Munro is the only U.S. Coast Guardsman to have won the Medal of Honor. A Canadian by birth, he won it posthumously for heroism during the Guadalcanal Campaign in 1942.
“Bag a Munro” is a Britishism, referring to the practice of trying to climb all of the mountains in Britain which are over 3,000 feet in height. The term comes from Sir Hugh Munro, who first compiled a list of the 282 mountains which meet that height.
Hugh Jackman won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz. A four-time host of the Tony Awards themselves, he won the 2005 Emmy Award for his appearances. Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009.
The famous mountaineer Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet Munro of Lindertis, descends from the Munros of Culcraggie, who descend from the Munros of Foulis. President James Monroe is believed to also descend patrilineally from the Munros of Foulis, but the details are unknown.
James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States, was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States and the last president from the Virginian dynasty and the Republican Generation.
In the south, Monroe is accented on the first syllable. I don’t know if it was pronounced that way in Virgina in 1800. I can’t know everything.
Six First Ladies were born in Virginia: Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, Rachel Jackson, Letitia Tyler, Ellen Arthur, and Edith Wilson.
Rachel Jackson was the title character of a 1950 historical novel by Irving Stone, The President’s Lady, which told the story of her life and also Andrew Jackson’s life from their first meeting up until her death. In 1953, the novel was made into a film of the same name starring Susan Hayward and Charlton Heston
The Kentucky Oaks is a horse race for 3-year old fillies – female horses - held each year on the day before the Kentucky Derby. This feature race is a $1 Million Grade 1 stakes race and awards the winning filly a garland of lilies, appropriately named “lilies for the fillies.”
In 2009, the filly Rachel Alexandra won the Kentucky Oaks with jockey Calvin Borel aboard her. The next day, Calvin Borel won the Kentucky Derby riding Mine That Bird. Two weeks later in the Preakness Stakes, Calvin Borel decided to ride Rachel Alexandra instead of Mine That Bird. Rachel Alexandra and Calvin Borel won the Preakness. Rachel Alexandra was the first filly since 1924 to win. Calvin Borel won the first two legs of horse racing’s Triple Crown aboard two different horses.
In the Belmont Stakes, Mine That Bird and Calvin Borel finished 3rd.
Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady from 1963-69, was particularly interested in and promoted urban and highway beautification. She is the third-most-recent former First Lady to have died, in 2007.
Rosalynn Carter is the most senior, President number-wise, of living First Ladies. Nancy Reagan was the one to pass most recently, two months ago. Prior to that, Betty Ford passed in 2011.
Two grandsons of President John Tyler (1790-1862) are still alive today. Tyler has two living grandsons through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler; he is the earliest former president with living grandchildren. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. was born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928;
I’ve also heard it pronounced as if it were two separate words [i.e. the emphasis on both syllables].
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Tyler Perry, Sean Astin, Jack Nicholson, and Alan Cumming are four celebrities who learned as adults that the man who raised them was not their biological father.