Samuel Osgood, first Postmaster General of the United States, was also the first President of the City Bank of New York. That bank has changed names a few times and is now Citgroup Inc., one of the four largest American commercial banks.
John Henninger Reagan, Democrat of Texas, was the only department head to serve the entire Civil War in the Confederate Cabinet. He was Postmaster General of the Confederacy.
Anthony A. Henninger High School is a high school in the Syracuse City School District, New York. It is named for Anthony Aloysius Henninger, the Mayor of Syracuse from 1958-1961
Aloysius Gonzaga was born in 1568, eldest son and heir of the Marquis of Castiglione. When as a teen he decided to become a Jesuit priest, his father threatened to have him horsewhipped. He died in Rome at the age of 23, after five years as a Jesuit, having caught the plague while caring for plague victims. Invoked for generations as a patron saint of youth, in recent years he has also become something of a patron of those with HIV/AIDS and those who care for them.
ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was formed in March 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York. Larry Kramer was asked to speak as part of a rotating speaker series, and his well-attended speech focused on action to fight AIDS. Kramer posed a question to the audience: “Do we want to start a new organization devoted to political action?” The answer was “a resounding yes.” Approximately 300 people met two days later to form ACT UP.
I was one of those 300 people.
The virus which causes AIDS is a retrovirus, which means that once inside the host cell cytoplasm, the virus uses its own reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome, the reverse of the usual pattern. Using another of the virus’s enzymes, that DNA is then incorporated into the host’s own genome.
Because of this capability, customized retroviruses are used by researchers to inject new genes into a genome, possibly into stem or progenitor cells to correct genetic defects.
Rica Dawnstar uses reverse psychology to get a foe to go just where she wants him to, leading him directly into a fatal trap aboard the gigantic seedship Ark, in George R.R. Martin’s 1986 environmentalism sf satire Tuf Voyaging.
The given name George comes from the Greek name Γεωργιος (Georgios) which was derived from the Greek word γεωργος (georgos) meaning “farmer, earthworker”, itself derived from the elements γη (ge) “earth” and εργον (ergon) “work”.
In the US, George was one of the top 10 names given to boys, from the 1880s to the 1930s, but it gradually dropped in popularity and reached a low point, #166, in 2012. It rebounded to #134 in 2014, probably because of the 2013 birth of Prince George, the eldest child of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Yuri is the Russian name equivalent of George, and the name Yuri Zhivago translates into “farmer life.”
On July 31, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution allowing French nobleman Marquis de Lafayette to enter the American revolutionary forces as a Major General at age 20. Lafayette was born into a very rich family, was orphaned at age 12, and at age 16 married Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, a relative of the French king and from one of the wealthiest families in France. He became a close confidant of General George Washington and spent part of his fortune to aid the Revolution. Congress eventually paid him for “services rendered” during the war, giving him two checks totaling $200,000. He was also given lands in 1803 in Louisiana.
A recent book by pop historian Sarah Vowell is Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, about the young, glory-seeking marquis’s service during the American Revolution, when he became something of a surrogate son to George Washington, as well his return visit, many years later, to the United States, at which time he was treated like a rock star wherever he went.
When at age 19, the Marquis de Lafayette asked the King of France to finance his journey to assist in America’s fight for freedom, the king refused. Lafayette secretly purchased his own ship, adding the words Cur Non? (“Why Not?”) to his family crest to serve as his motto. Lafayette College, in Easton, PA, named for the Marquis, states that it embraces the “Cur non” spirit in learning.
Honi soit qui mal y pense is an Anglo-Norman maxim that means, “May he be shamed who thinks badly of it”. Its translation from Old French is “Shame be to him who thinks evil of it.” The saying’s most famous use is as the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter.
Four Knights of the Garter died on 21 July 1403, including two on each side of the Battle of Shrewsbury.
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[li]Walter le Blount, Lord Mountjoy (King Henry IV’s side)[/li][li]Edmund de Stafford, Earl of Stafford (King Henry IV’s side)[/li][li]Thomas de Percy, Earl of Worcester (Hotspur’s side)[/li][li]Henry de Percy (Hotspur himself)[/ul][/li]
Of these four, only Henry Percy lacked a noble title; this is because his father, the Earl of Northumberland, was still alive.
Hotspur’s father, also a Knight of the Garter, also died in battle, at Branham Moor five years later. His severed head was then put on display at London Bridge.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English football club located in North London, that competes in the Premier League. The club’s home stadium is called White Hart Lane. The club has a long-standing rivalry with nearby neighbours Arsenal, with head-to-head matches known as the North London derby.
Variations is a classical and rock fusion albu, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber when his younger brother, classical cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, beat him in a bet on a Leyton Orient football match. As his subject, Andrew chose the theme of Paganini’s 24th caprice and added 23 variations for cello and rock band. The 1978 recording reached Number 2 on the UK album charts.
The Welsh name “Llwyd” combines two sounds in Welsh which are difficult to English ears and tongues: the “ll”, which is sometimes approximated by the sound “thl” as in “athlete”, and the diphthong “wy”, which sounds sort of like the vowels in “gooey”.
The English just gave up and came up with “Lloyd”.
Off game:
Well done, sir! 
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera reached 30 years on the West End on October 9, 2016, and will reach 30 years on Broadway on January 9, 2018. It has made more money than any other creative work ever!
The film Apocalypse Now begins with The Door’s song The End.
Francis Ford Coppola borrowed Huey helicopters from Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos during the filming of Apocalypse Now, and filming occasionally had to stop while the helicopters, still bearing U.S. Army Vietnam War-era markings, flew off to fight nearby Communist guerillas.