The Weavers took their name from a play by Gerhart Hauptmann, Die Weber (The Weavers 1892), a powerful play depicting the uprising of the Silesia weavers in 1844, containing the lines, “I’ll stand it no more, come what may”.
Weavers from the Four Corners area of the United States weave beautiful rugs and blankets. These are Navajo weavers.
Pete Seeger of The Weavers, accompanied by his grandson, Bruce Springsteen, and the Inaugural Celebration Chorus sang This Land is Your Land to a crowd of 400,000 at the Lincoln Memorial the day before the Inauguration of Barack Obama. The 90-year old man no longer trusted his singing voice, so he spoke the words, encouraging the crowd and President-Elect to sing along.
The first state to join the union was New Jersey, not Delaware. On December 7, 1787, Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution. The day before, there was no union to join. Five days later Pennsylvania joined Delaware, thus creating a union of two. Then, the first state to join that union was New Jersey, 6 days later.
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(question, not in play, does anyone remember hearing that the Ford Apache and / or Jeep Comanche were not popular in the Southwest because Apache and Comanche were feared enemies of the Navajo, Hopi, Ute who would not buy a vehicle named for their enemies? I can’t find anything about it by googling)
Philadelphia (or Philly) soul, sometimes called the Philadelphia sound or Sweet Philly, is a genre of soul music characterized by funk influences and lush instrumental arrangements, often featuring sweeping strings and piercing horns. The subtle sound of a vibraphone can often be heard in the background of Philly soul songs. The genre laid the groundwork for disco and what are now considered quiet storm and smooth jazz by fusing the R&B rhythm sections of the 1960s with the pop vocal tradition, and featuring a slightly more pronounced jazz influence in its melodic structures and arrangements.
When Pete Seeger, icon of the folk music genre, sang “the forbidden verse” at the Inaugural celebration he changed the verse’s ending to one of optimism:
In the squares of the city by the shadow of the steeple, at the Relief Office I saw my people. As they stood hungry, I stood there whistling. This Land was Made for You and Me
Don McLean’s first album Tapestry featured the song Orphans of Wealth about the starving poor in America, ending with the image of a cold and hungry crying child.
A unique version of the song “Passing Through” sung by Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Buffy Sainte Marie and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is available on YouTube. One refrain is “I’m an orphan now, and I’m only passing through.”
In a conversation with his secretary Evelyn Lincoln just a few weeks before he was assassinated, President John F. “Jack” Kennedy speculated about dumping Vice President Lyndon Johnson from the ticket for the 1964 campaign in favor of North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford, a Southern progressive who had impressed him.
Sanford Koufax, better known as Sandy, is (according to people-search websites) the only person in the world named Koufax. When Harry Caray first encountered Koufax as a young pitcher, his dyslexia took over, and he pronounced it as if it were “Kafoux” or “Kofaux”, and said “ka-FOE”
Al Campanis, as 2nd baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, was the first Greek to play Major League Baseball. He went on to become a scout, then a general manager, and was eventually fired after making a racist remark on TV. He is famous for discovering one of the greatest pitchers; about this he said
“There are two times in my life the hair on my arms has stood up: The first time I saw the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the second time, I saw Sandy Koufax throw a fastball.”
Ernie Afaganis, a Greek-Canadian sportscaster, said he had always wanted to be a quarterback in school. But none of his teammates would play center with a Greek taking the snap behind them.
The Poncelet–Steiner theorem asserts that any distance that can be constructed by straightedge and compass can be constructed by straightedge alone, provided that a single circle and its center are given. In 1904, Francesco Severi proved that the entire circle is not needed: any small arc together with the center will suffice
Wikipedia lists 35 different songs entitled “Alone”. Along with 15 films and TV shows.
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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001. Sanger coined its name, a portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia. The English Wikipedia is now one of 292 Wikipedia editions and holds the largest amount of articles, with more than 5,170,027, having surpassed 5,000,000 articles in November 2015.
The legendary warrior Arthur was generally assumed to have lived in Wales or Cornwall — if he existed at all — since this was the home of Brythonic speakers when the legends came into focus. However both Gaelic and Brythonic were spoken in the southern part of today’s Scotland in the 6th-century — the time of Arthur — and much circumstantial evidence has accumulated that he lived and fought there. He may have been the historic Prince Artur MacAedan. The Round Table may have been the King’s Knot at Stirling Castle, which archaeologists are now investigating.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur was the son of Gen. Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and had a brother, Arthur MacArthur, III.