There are Cheyenne counties in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. There is only one Apache County, however, and it is in Arizona.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell was born in 1933 to a Portuguese immigrant mother and a Northern Cheyenne father. He was a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1993 until 2005. He was the first U.S. Senator of Portuguese descent, but that fact was usually forgotten against the backdrop of his “more American” (and more Coloradoan) story of Indian ancestry. According to his biographer he did not even know he was part Native American during his early childhood.
Cherokee County occurs in eight states, the most of any name of an Indian tribe. Cherokee County Oklahoma was mentioned in he song “You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma”.
The musical “Oklahoma!” was based on the Off-Broadway play “Green Grow the Lilacs” by Lynn Riggs, a part-Cherokee playwright born in Oklahoma. The musical’s original Broadway production opened at the St. James Theater in New York City in May 1943 and ran for 2,212 performances, setting a record for a musical.
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and injuring over 800 others. Timothy McVeigh, a Persian Gulf War veteran, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death for assembling and detonating the bomb. McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2000.
The First Epistle to Timothy, traditionally attributed to Paul, advises Timothy “to take a little wine for thy stomach’s sake.”
The firsst settlers to Buffalo, New York, named the city after the American Bison, commonly referred to as the Buffalo, which might have actually been seen in what is now Buffalo… The natural range of the animal at that time was south of the Great Lakes as far east as central New York State and the Florida panhandle. Houston Texas grew from the founding village of Buffalo Bayou.
Bison-tennial Herd Field, the World’s Largest Bison Field, is at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. You can vote for the sculpture you think is painted best.
San Diego International Airport, which was formerly known as Lindbergh Field, is the busiest single-runway commercial airport in the United States, with more than 500 scheduled operations carrying about 50,000 passengers each day.
On October 31, 2015, the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Editorial Board published this opinion:
“Someday, hopefully not too many years from now, sensible San Diegans will come to realize that the tiny, one-runway “international” airport at Lindbergh Field is wholly inadequate and a significant obstacle to this region’s economic growth.”
This was a restatement of earlier opinions to the same effect published many, many times in the 19 years I lived in San Diego, from 1990 to 2009. The non-mainstream paper in the town suggested that the motivation behind these repetitions had to do with the acquisition of realty proximate to the most likely new airport site, the Miramar Marine Air Force Base, by the Copley family (owners of the* Union-Tribune* in those days).
Roosevelt Field was an airport on Long Island, NY. Originally called the Hempstead Plains Aerodrome, or the Garden City Aerodrome, it was also a training field (Hazelhurst Field) for the Air Service, United States Army during World War I. In 1919, it was renamed in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt’s son, Quentin, who was killed in air combat during World War I, when he was 20 years old.
Roosevelt Field was the takeoff point for many historic flights, including Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 solo transatlantic flight. It was also used by other pioneering aviators, including Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post.
The airfield was closed in 1951 and since 1956 has been the site of Roosevelt Field Mall, currently the 10th largest shopping mall in the US.
After the grave of Quentin Roosevelt came under Allied control, thousands of American soldiers visited it to pay their respects. His resting place became a shrine and an inspiration to his comrades in arms. Quentin’s death was a great personal loss to his father, who understood quite well that he had encouraged his son’s entry into the War. It is said that he never fully recovered from Quentin’s death. Within six months, Theodore himself would be dead.
Rudyard Kipling, another noted imperialist, also encouraged his son to sign up for service in WWI.
Jack Kipling was initially turned down by the Royal Navy and the Army because of his poor eyesight. His father pulled strings to get him a commission in the Irish Guards.
On average, junior officers in the British trenches were wounded or killed within six weeks of arrival, a much higher casualty rate than NCO’s or enlisted men.
Jack Kipling had his face blown off by a shell and died in September 1915.
He was just 18.
Daniel Radcliffe, probably best known for his leading role in the Harry Potter movies, played Lt. John Kipling in the 2007 TV movie* My Boy Jack*. The title comes from Rudyard Kipling’s poem of the same name.
In 2013, the cast of Soul Doctor, recorded Adam Sandler’s The Hanukkah song for that year’s edition of Carols for a Cure CD However, the lyrics covered Jewish Broadway personalities, including Mandy Patinkin, Andrew Lippa, Harvey Fierstein, Harold Prince and others. These lyrics were written by the show’s Shlomo actor Eric Anderson, who himself has been pointed out in the song as “not a Jew.”
The ending lyric was So many Jews on the Great White Way/Even Daniel Radcliffe was heard chanting Oy veh. Radcliffe had just made his Broadway debut in Equs.
Carole King was one of the most prolific figures in popular music, having written 118 songs that made the top 100 charts, and recording a number-1 single herself. In 1972, three different songs she wrote won Gammys, including her hit recording of “Its Too Late”. She dated Neil Sedaka when they were still in high school,
Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton, Leonard Nimoy, and Anthony Perkins all played Dr. Dysart, the psychiatrist, in various early stage productions of Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play Equus. Richard Griffiths, who played Harry Potter’s uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter movies, played Dysart in the show’s 2007 West End revival with Daniel Radcliffe.
ETA: Neil Sedaka did not appear in the 2007 revival.
West End Village is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s west city area. It was originally named Temperanceville as it was founded as a ‘dry’ town.
Pittsburgh is one of only two US cities that offer free bus fares to seniors, but only within the city center fare zone. The other is Houston, where persons over 70 ride free on all urban transit for the rest of their lives.
Houston Street in New York City (pronounced How-ston, with the first syllable rhyming with “now”) has no connection with the Texas city or with Sam Houston. It is named for William Houstoun of Georgia, husband of Mary Bayard, a member of a family with large landholdings in Manhattan.