Not in play: While capybaras are very much ROUS, rodents of unusual size, they’re not mutants. They’re giant guinea pigs (which are their closest relatives) evolved to thrive in the waters of the rainforests.
Carry on.
Upton Sinclair’s 1906 exposé novel The Jungle was extremely influential and helped Theodore Roosevelt pass the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. The novel’s message was summarized in a famous little ditty:
Mary had a little lamb
And when she saw it sicken
She shipped it off to Packingtown
And now it’s labeled chicken.
After the deaths of his wife and mother in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt built a ranch named Elk Horn, thirty-five miles (56 km) north of the boomtown of Medora, North Dakota. On the banks of the Little Missouri, Roosevelt learned to ride western style, rope and hunt. His time out west led to three books: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, and The Wilderness Hunter.
That river is the Little Missouri River that flows from Wyoming and into South Dakota and North Dakota. It is almost 600 miles long. There is also another Little Missouri River in Arkansas that is about 150 miles long.
“Shenandoah”, whose daughter the singing boatman loves “across the wide Missouri” in the folk song “Shenandoah”, is not the river in Virginia, but an Oneida Iroquois pine tree chief, Oskanondonha (1710–1816), called Shenandoah. His name means “deer antlers” (Oh-skan-ohn-doh in Oneida). Also called John Shenandoah or John Skanandoa, the chief lived in the central New York state town of Oneida Castle. He was a co-founder of the Oneida Academy, which became Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and is buried on the campus grounds.
When Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Virginia was created in 1935, some 500 households had to vacate their homes and find other places to live.
The Blue Ridge Rangers is the first solo studio album by John Fogerty, the former lead singer and lead guitarist of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Upon its initial release by Fantasy Records in 1973, the album was credited to “The Blue Ridge Rangers” with no mention of Fogerty on the cover. Fogerty chose to do this in order to distance himself from his Creedence legacy. Two singles from the album became hits: “Jambalaya” which peaked at #16, and “Hearts of Stone” which peaked at #37.
Fantasy Records was first formed as a jazz venture, with pianist Dave Brubeck among the original investors. Aside from a few jazz pressings, the only Fantasy records of note were a then-unknown Lenny Bruce’s now classic stand up routines, in 1956. Creedence Clearwater Revival was the only successful artist to release on Fantasy in later decades, essentially reviving a somewhat dormant label.
The band name Creedence Clearwater Revival means nothing as a phrase. The word ‘Creedence’ referred to someone called Credence Newball, who was a friend of Tom Fogerty. ‘Clearwater’ came from a TV commercial for Olympia Beer. And ‘Revival’ was a nod to the fact that the band returned in 1967 after a three year hiatus, due to military commitments by Doug Clifford and Stu Cook. They almost settled for the name Creedence Nuball And The Ruby at one stage.
Most people thought that Creedence Clearwater Revival was a southern rock band based in Louisiana. Their roots were actually in San Francisco.
In 1969, CCR’s Proud Mary peaked at number 2 on the charts. In 1969 anf 1970, CCR had five songs peak at number 2:
Proud Mary
Bad Moon Rising
Green River
Travellin’ Band, and *Who’ll Stop the Rain
Lookin’ Out My Back Door
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No other band has had as many songs reach number 2 and not number 1.
The Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theatre, founded 1969 in San Francisco, is one of the most famous striptease clubs in America. Its founders, Jim and Artie Mitchell, made history with several lawsuits, especially’s Jim’s trial for murdering Artie — this was the first trial to use a 3-D virtual-reality reenactment. (Jim was convicted on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, arguing that Artie was on drugs and dangerously psychotic.)
Journalist Hunter S. Thompson claimed to have worked as night manager at the Theatre in 1985.
The Backdoor Theatre, located in Nederland, Colorado, is the only theatre in the mountains west of the Foothills to provide first run movies week in and week out. It is run by volunteers and also presents live shows in it’s 260-seat theatre.
(note: used both septimus and bullit’s responses just to be sure)
Nederland, Colorado, on April 6, 2010, became the third community in Colorado (after Denver and Breckenridge) to legalize the sale, purchase, possession, consumption, and transportation, cultivation, manufacturing, dispensing of medical marijuana and its concentrates and related paraphernalia for persons 21 years of age and older.
The Colorado River has been called by many other names. In 1540 explorer Melchor Díaz named the Colorado River Rio del Tizon (“Firebrand River”) after seeing a practice used by the local natives for warming themselves. The name Tizon lasted for the next 200 years, while the name Rio Colorado (“Red River”) was first applied to a tributary of the Gila River. The first known map to label the main stem of the river as the Colorado was drawn by French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin in 1743.
Native American names for the Colorado River are
Maricopa: Xakxwet
Mohave: 'Aha Kwahwat
Havasupai: Ha Ŧay Gʼam / Sil Gsvgov
Yavapai: ʼHakhwata
Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River is a arch-gravity dam built into Black Canyon between Nevada and Arizona. The ‘arch’ in this type of dam describes where the dam gets its strength: water pressure from Lake Mead pushes the ends of the sideways, laying down arch into the rock walls of Black Canyon. And gravity contributes to its strength by the sheer weight and mass of its concrete. The dam’s official name was Boulder Dam from 1933 to 1947.
The earliest evidence of alcohol in what is now China are jars from Jiahu which date to about 7000 BC. This early rice mead was produced by fermenting rice, honey, and fruit.
Alfred G. “Skip” Nichols, the pilot of the July 30, 2016 tragic hot air balloon accident near Lockhart TX where 16 people died, twice went to prison for drug and alcohol related offenses. He spent 1½ years in his first stint, and 2 years in his second stint. Alcohol does not appear to be a factor in the recent tragedy, but investigations are still underway. From early investigation unofficial reports, it appears the balloon broke rules and flew above or into clouds, and the pilot may not have seen electrical wires as he tried to descend.
On October 15, 2003, at 3:21 p.m., the Staten Island Ferry vessel Andrew J. Barberi crashed full-speed into a concrete pier at the St. George ferry terminal. Eleven people were killed and 165 injured, some critically.
The ferry’s pilot, Richard Smith, attempted suicide by slitting his left wrist while still on the boat. He then slipped away so suddenly that he left his house keys. He was found shortly afterwards at home, having apparently broken in. Smith had again tried to kill himself, this time by shooting himself twice in the chest with a pellet gun, but also survived this second suicide attempt.
It was later determined that Smith had lost consciousness while at the ship’s controls. He had taken the painkillers tramadol and Tylenol PM, both of which can cause drowsiness as a side effect. The city rules required two pilots to be present during docking, but this rule had not been enforced by the management of the ferry service, and Smith had been alone in the pilot house. On August 4, 2004, Smith pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison on January 10, 2006. New York’s former city ferry director, Patrick Ryan, who had also pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to a year and a day on similar charges.
Andrew J. Barberi, the man, became legendary on Staten Island football fields, both as a lineman and as a coach of generations of young players and is considered one of the greatest football coaches in Staten Island history. After playing for N.Y.U. as a guard, he coached at Curtis High School for many years.