A few major airports still have IATA designator codes that refer back to their former names. Such as Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, which is coded MSY, based on is previous name of Moisant Field.
In 1942, Orchard Place was selected as the site of a new air base and aircraft manufacturing facility, Orchard Place Airport/Douglas Field. After the Second World War, the city of Chicago bought the airport from the United States government and converted it into a commercial airport, Chicago Orchard Field which opened in 1946. The legacy of its original name persists in O’Hare’s airport code (ORD). The city issued revenue bonds to finance the acquisition and construction of new terminals, with rents from airlines using terminal space being allocated to pay off the bonds. A federal law required retention of uranium mining rights in the sale of federally owned realty, and it took years to get that law to have an exception for O’Hare Airport—bondholders would not like a default caused by the absence of rents after the city failed to preserve the tenants’ rights to use the terminals on account of mining activity.
Orchard Road, a 1.5 mile long boulevard, is the retail and entertainment hub of Singapore. It got its’ name from the nutmeg, pepper and fruit orchards or the plantations that the road once led to.
According to Wikipedia, there is no documented evidince of why Connecticut was nicknames “The Nutmeg State”
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" It may have come from its sailors returning from voyages with nutmeg, which was a very valuable spice in the 18th and 19th centuries. It may have originated in the early machined sheet tin nutmeg grinders sold by early Connecticut peddlers. It is also facetiously said to come from Yankee peddlers from Connecticut who would sell small carved nobs of wood shaped to look like nutmeg to unsuspecting customers."*
According to the Ngram Viewer, the first published exprssion "the nutmeg state’ occurred in 1848. It peaked in frequency in 1857.
The origin of Michigan’s nickname, the Wolverine State, is obscure, since it is doubtful that animal ever lived there. Some people believe that Ohioans gave Michigan the nickname “The Wolverine State” around 1835 during a dispute over the Toledo strip, a piece of land along the border between Ohio and Michigan. Rumors in Ohio at the time described Michiganians as being as vicious and bloodthirsty as wolverines. This dispute became known as the Toledo War.
Another reason given for the nickname is a story that has Native Americans, during the 1830s, comparing Michigan settlers to wolverines. Some native people, according to this story, disliked the way settlers were taking the land because it made them think of how the gluttonous wolverine went after its food.
On October 8, 1871, fires broke out on the shores of Lake Michigan. Peshtigo, Wisconsin, suffered a firestorm that caused the most deaths by fire in US history, with estimated deaths of up to 2,500 people. Occurring on the same day as the more famous Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire has been largely forgotten. The Great Chicago Fire killed up to 300 people, destroyed property over roughly 3.3 square miles (9 square kilometers), and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.
Following the Great Chicago Fire, The city of Singapore, Michigan, provided a large portion of the lumber to rebuild Chicago. As a result, the area was so heavily deforested that the land deteriorated into barren sand dunes and the town had to be abandoned.
Singapore was a major producer and exporter of nutmeg, which was brokered by a number of firms on Orchard Road.
The Morris Major was an automobile produced by Morris Motors in the United Kingdom from late 1930 to 1933. A total of 4,025 examples of the 1931 model were produced followed by 14,469 of the 1932-33 model.
Three different cats have played Morris the Cat. The original Morris was discovered in 1968, at the Hinsdale Humane Society, a Chicago-area animal shelter, by professional animal handler Bob Martwick. That Morris died in 1978. All cats to play Morris have been rescues, either from an animal shelter or a cat rescue.
Hinsdale County, Colorado, was for many years the least populated county in the USA. But in the 1980s, a road was completed that went all the way through the county which led to a spike in growth. Originally a mining boom town, Lake City dwindled to near ghost-town status before being rediscovered as a mountain resort, and the county population is now over 800, and it is possible for tavelers to pass through, and not just drive up to the dead end…
Lake City is known for the alleged cannibalism by a guide named Alferd Packer who was accused of killing and robbing a party of five prospectors he was escorting through the San Juan Mountains near Lake City in 1875; see:
Cannibalism was an accepted “custom of the sea” for a long time. Survivors would draw lots to see who would be killed and eaten to enable the others to survive. No real stigma was attached to this practice, as people of the time understood the horrors of being shipwrecked.
George H. W. Bush, then a 20-year-old pilot, was among nine airmen who escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on Chichi Jima, a tiny island 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Tokyo, in September 1944. Bush was the only one to evade capture by the Japanese. After the war it was discovered that the captured airmen had been beaten and tortured before being executed. The airmen were beheaded on the orders of Lt Gen. Yoshio Tachibana (立花芳夫, Tachibana Yoshio). American authorities claimed that Japanese officers then ate parts of the bodies of four of the men.
Japanese railways are among the most punctual in the world. The average delay on the Tokaido Shinkansen in 2012 was only 0.6 minutes. When trains are delayed for as little as five minutes, the conductor makes an announcement apologizing for the delay and the railway company may provide a “delay certificate”, as employers, etc., would not expect a train to be this late.
For about a decade, back in the 80’s, the most popular Christmas song in Japan was the Japan Railways Christmas commercial, reworked into a new version each year, but always with the same music, sung by Yamashita Tatsuro…
By national industry standard, a commuter train in the USA is considered on time if it arrives within 5 minutes and 59 seconds of its scheduled arrival time. Large commuter train organizations (for example, the Metropolitan Transit Authority based in New York City) will provide “late letters” for its commuters. The Long Island Railroad’s records show many trains late by 6 minutes or more every day; during a typical weekday numbers ranged from 64 to 129 late trains.
The Marquis de Sade was imprisoned for several years under the authority of a royal lettre de cachet. He spent ten years in the Bastille, being removed from it only a few days before it was stormed.
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, usually shortened to Marat/Sade , is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss. The work was first published in German.
Incorporating dramatic elements characteristic of both Artaud and Brecht, it is a bloody and unrelenting depiction of class struggle and human suffering that asks whether true revolution comes from changing society or changing oneself
In the film version of Marat/Sade, Glenda Jackson has her first credited big screen role as Charlotte Corday.