The Centurion Tree, in southern Tasmania, is the tallest eucalyptus tree in the world, at first believed to be 100 meters tall, hence the “century” etymology. But forestry workers climbed the tree and determined that it is still only 99.6 meters in height. The only taller trees in the world are Redwoods and Doublas Firs in California. It begs the question of exactly how is the point on earth determined, for the purpose of declaring the height of the tree.
A centurion, ,in Roman military, was the commander of a unit of 100 troops, but in reality, a centurion’s charge would consist of 200 to 1,000 men. The first Centurion was appointed in 107 BC, but that could not account for the title, because the Romans did not know that it was 107 BC.
Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans, all east of the Mississippi River, have minor league baseball teams playing in the Pacific Coast League. Only four of the eight teams in the Texas League are in Texas, and as recently as 1999, there were only three.
The Nashville Sounds of the Pacific Coast League are the AAA club for the Oakland A’s, which means they are about 2,200 miles away from their parent club. But the Las Vegas 51s are even farther away, 2,500 miles, from their parent club, the New York Mets.
The New York Mets primary colors were taken from the blue of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the orange of the New York Giants as a symbolic return of National League baseball to New York after the Dodgers and Giants both relocated to California in 1958. Blue and Orange are also the New York City flag colors.
Before moving to San Francisco for 1958, the New York Giants’ team logo colors were blue in 1904, black in 1909, and red in 1910. They first included orange with black in 1933.
Early team logo colors were not considered very important before 1950, when color photography was relatively rare (non-existent in the pages of publications) and except for spectators at the ballpark. fans would never even know a team’s colors. Only a tiny number of color photos are known to exist of Ty Cobb, and the few of Babe Ruth were near the end of his career. Early baseball cads were paintings, often with little regard to making the colors accurate. Even corporate logos were usually black and white, which is how they appeared in magazine ads. The pronunciation of prominent ball players names were not even known for sure, as there were no radio broadcasts, and when there were, the announcers would just guess the names of viisiting players.
The figure of Ruth in the Bible is celebrated by Jews as a convert to Judaism; she was originally from the land of Moab, across the Jordan from Israel.
The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB, commonly known as the Mother of All Bombs) is a large-yield conventional (non-nuclear) bomb, developed for the United States military. The bomb was designed to be delivered by a C-130 Hercules, primarily the MC-130E Combat Talon I or MC-130H Combat Talon II variants.
Since then, Russia has tested its “Father of All Bombs”, which is claimed to be four times as powerful as the MOAB.
The largest national park site is Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, AK, at 13.2 million acres. The smallest is Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, PA, at 0.02 acres.
Polish engineer Thaddeus Kościuszko designed and constructed the fortifications at West Point NY in the late 1770s. In the US, places named after Kościuszko include Kosciusko Island in Alaska, Kosciusko County in Indiana, the city of Kosciusko in central Mississippi, and numerous streets and parks.
Mount Kościuszko is the highest peak in Australia. And the misspelled Mount Kosciusko is the fifth highest peak in Antarctica. The latter has its own Wikipedia article, but is not listed among Wikipedia’s highest peaks in Antarctica.
The highest mountain in the Australian mainland is Mount Kosciuszko, 7,310 ft. However, the highest mountain in the Australian continent which includes Australia and New Guinea is Puncak Jaya, 16,024 ft, in Indonesia.
Another Polish American hero was Casimir Pulaski, who came to America to apply his military expertise to aid Wasington in the American Revolution. There are geographical places in ten states names after Pulaski, the most significant being a city of 10,000 in a county of the same name in the mountains of western Virginia.
High Point, in Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey, in the Skylands Region, is the highest elevation in the state and the highest peak of the Kittatinny Mountains, at 1,803 feet. Three states – New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania – can be seen from the top. At the peak is the High Point Monument, a 220-foot obelisk, built in 1930 as a war memorial.
The highest point in the state of Florida is only 345 feet high and is a hill shared with Alabama: Britton Hill, in the Florida panhandle. Of all the highest points of each state, Florida’s is the lowest. The next highest are:
447’: Delaware, near the Ebright Azimuth
535’: Louisiana, Driskill Mountain
807’: Mississippi, Woodall Mountain
811’: Rhode Island, Jerimoth Hill
Even DC’s highest point, 409’ Fort Reno, is higher than Florida’s. Florida is really a very flat state.
The highest point in Louisiana is below sea level. You don’t believe it? One Shell Plaza in New Orleans is built on ground that is below sea level. But the roof of the building is the highest point in Louisiana, 162 feet higher than any natural ground in the state.
A few other states have man-made highest points. Delaware’s hightest point is a populated neighborhood. And the highest natural point in Kansas is below below the top of a nearby grain elevator. That does not count many states that have enhanced thir highest point elevation by a few feet with a monument.
The ‘Sea Level’ sign at Badwater Basin, which is 282’ below sea level in Death Valley, is a marker up on a cliff that is visible from the Basin’s walkways.