Aqueduct Racetrack, a year-round thoroughbred horse racing track located in South Ozone Park, Queens, 8 miles from summer-only track Belmont Park, is the only racetrack located within New York City limits.
On June 4, 1913, Emily Davison was fatally injured when she was trampled by King George V’s horse at the Epsom Derby.
The oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse was back in 781 BC - on June 4.
Sir Edmund Halley is credited with making the first observations of Baily’s beads during the eclipse of 22 April 1715. They were also seen by Maclaurin from Edinburgh during the annular eclipse of 1 March 1737 and by Williams from Revolutionary War America on 27 October 1780 from just outside the path of totality. But it was Francis Baily’s widely–disseminated description of the phenomenon during the annular eclipse of 15 May 1836 that led to their bearing his name thereafter.
The name Edmund comes from the Old English elements ead “wealth, fortune” and mund “protection”. This was the name of two Anglo-Saxon kings of England. “Edmond” is a French form of the name. Astronomer Halley (as well as his father who bore the same name) is described in many references as “Edmond (also spelled Edmund)”
On May 26, 1865, General Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered his army, the last significant Confederate Army force remaining in the American Civil War.
Kirby is the fictional character and the titular protagonist of the Kirby series of video games owned by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory. Kirby’s round appearance and ability to copy his foes’ powers has made him a well known figure in video games, consistently ranked as one of the most iconic video game characters.
In the New Brunswick election of 1865, the anti-Confederates defeated the pro-Confederates. Since New Brunswick’s geographical location made it crucial to the Confederation project, the election put a halt to Confederation for a period of about a year.
The 8-mile long Confederation Bridge links Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island to Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick. Tolls only apply when leaving Prince Edward Island. It opened on May 31, 1997. The toll rates as of August 2015 are $46.00 for a two-axle automobile and $7.50 for each additional axle. Motorcycles are charged $18.50.
On June 7, 1494, Ferdinand II of Aragon and John II of Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the Americas and Africa between their two countries. This line of demarcation was about halfway between the Cape Verde Islands (already Portuguese) and the islands named in the treaty as Cipangu and Antilia (present-day Cuba and Hispaniola).
The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance of 1373, between His late Majesty King Edward III and His late Majesty King Ferdinand I, is the oldest active treaty in the world. The British government invoked it to obtain naval and air bases in Portuguese territory during World War II.
The border between Portugal and Spain is 754 miles long and is considered the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union.
The border between Portugal and Spain is the oldest international border in Europe that has remained essentially unchanged as an international border for the longest historical duration up until now. It has separated two sovereign countries for 878 years.
The flag of Portugal is a rectangular bicolor with an unevenly-divided red and green field. A version of the national coat of arms (i.e. armillary sphere and Portuguese shield) is centered over the color boundary. The flag was officially adopted in June 1911, after the fall of the Portuguese monarchy.
The flag for the Province of Antwerp, Belgium, is a set of 24 squares colored white, blue, yellow and red in a pattern. It was apparently chosen to be the flag of the province in 1997.
picture here: File:Flag of Antwerp.svg - Wikipedia
The aspect ratio of width to length of Portugal’s flag is 2:3 - its length is 1.5 times its width. That is a very common aspect ratio of national flags. Over 100 nations’ flags have a 2:3 aspect ratio. Another common aspect ratio is 1:2, and over 100 nations’ flags have a 1:2 aspect ratio.
Only four nations have a flag whose aspect ratio is 10:19:
- LBR, Liberia
- MHL, the Marshall Islands
- FSM, Micronesia
- USA, the United States
The 3-letter country abbreviations used come from the ISO 3166 standard.
ETA - ninja’d but my play still works. BTW, Belgium’s flag’s official aspect ratio is 13:15, and BEL is the only country to use that ratio. However, the 2:3 version (also the civil ensign) is used more commonly on land than the 13:15 official flag.
The distinctive diamond-star-patterned Ft. Sumter flag was lowered in defeat with the fall of the United States fort in Charleston, S.C. harbor on April 14, 1861, and raised again there in triumph by the same officer four years later to the day.
And later that night, April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot.
About two dozen species of Lapwings occur in the world, but none in North America. They are among the very few birds that can also frequently be heard calling at night, although they are not nocturnal in their usual habits.
Although indefinite in nature, a few is usually more than two (two often being referred to as “a couple of”), and less than “several”. If the sample population is say between 5 and 20, a few would mean three or four, but no more than this. However, if the population sample size were in the millions, “a few” could refer to several hundred items. In other words, few in this context means a very very small percentage but far more than the 3 or 4 usually ascribed to it in its use with much much smaller numbers.