Barbara and Jenna Bush gave a tour of the White House to the Obama daughters, Malia and Sasha, before Inauguration Day 2009.
Malia and Sasha both attended the Quaker-run Sidwell Friends School in Washington. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s grandchildren attended the school too, as did President Theodore Roosevelt’s son Archibald, Richard Nixon’s daughter Tricia, Bill Clinton’s daughter Chelsea Clinton, and Vice President Al Gore’s son, Albert Gore III.
In land surveying, a “gore” is a narrow sliver of land between two surveyed parcels which was somehow left off the survey and was not attributed to the survey chart.
Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry If I Want To)” was the first hit single for Mercury producer Quincy Jones.
Leslie Gore’s (and Quincy’s) follow up song was “Judy’s Turn To Cry”, which reached #5 on the Top 100.
Judy was a ship’s dog on board HMS Gnat and HMS Grasshopper stationed on the Yangtze before and during World War II. She proved able to hear incoming aircraft, providing the crew with an early warning. After her ship was sunk, she helped the survivors find water on the island, served as a officially registered prisoner of war, and lived to come to England, dying finally in Tanzania in 1950, age 13.
not in play: Just got this by browsing, but it really sounds like a hell of a story. Judy (dog) - Wikipedia
In some countries, grasshoppers are used as food. In southern Mexico, grasshoppers, known as chapulines, are eaten in a variety of dishes, such as in tortillas with chilli sauce. Grasshoppers are served on skewers in some Chinese food markets, like the Donghuamen Night Market. Fried grasshoppers (walang goreng) are eaten in the Gunung Kidul area of Yogyakarta, Java in Indonesia. In Native America, the Ohlone people burned grassland to herd grasshoppers into pits where they could be collected as food.
I’ve eaten grasshoppers. They taste a little like crunchy peanut butter.
Ohlone College is a community college with campuses in Fremont and Newark, California.
St. John’s College has campuses in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Maryland campus dates to the late 17th century.
One of the earliest known settlements in what today is downtown Santa Fe came sometime after 900 AD. A Native American group built a cluster of homes that centered around the site of today’s Plaza and spread for half a mile to the south and west; the village was called Ogapoge.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was one of the larger railroads in the United States. Despite the name, its main line never served Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the terrain was too difficult.
Settlements created by Europeans earlier than 1621 in Canada and the US were St. John’s, Harbour Grace, Port Royal, St. Augustine, Santa Fe, Jamestown, Tadoussac. Quebec City, and Plymouth.
Link fixed. Got to be careful with those close-parens on Wiki.
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Princess Grace of Monaco, the former American actress Grace Kelly, was from a wealthy and well-connected Philadelphia society family.
American dancer/actor/choreographer Gene Kelly once worked as a dance teacher in a studio owned by his family.
Grace Kelly’s father, Jack Kelly Senior, was a three-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing. Her brother, Jack Kelly Junior, was also a rower, and won the Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the United States in 1947. He represented the United States in three Olympics, winning a bronze medal, and went on to become the President of the United States Olympic Committee.
At a memorial service in Beverly Hills, following Princess Grace’s death, James Stewart delivered the following eulogy:
“You know, I just love Grace Kelly. Not because she was a princess, not because she was an actress, not because she was my friend, but because she was just about the nicest lady I ever met. Grace brought into my life as she brought into yours, a soft, warm light every time I saw her, and every time I saw her was a holiday of its own. No question, I’ll miss her, we’ll all miss her, God bless you, Princess Grace.”
When I visited her tomb, in the Grimaldi family vault, it was totally covered with flowers from visitors. Her husband’s adjacent tomb, had only a few flowers.
High Society, a 1956 film starring Grace Kelly, was a re-make, essentially, of The Philadelphia Story—both a Broadway play in 1939 and a 1940 film. The 1939 play was written as a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, and its success marked a reversal of fortunes for the actress. She was one of the film stars deemed “box office poison” in 1938. In 1940 the play was adapted into a film starring Cary Grant and James Stewart as well as Hepburn. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times described Grace Kelly’s 1956 film High Society as “flimsy as a gossip-columnist’s word,” missing “the snap and the crackle that its un-musical predecessor had.” The 1956 film and Grace Kelly were huge hits at the box office.
(With apologies for doubling up). Attesting to Grace Kelly’s kindness as a person is the story of how she befriended Josephine Baker when the latter had descended into a deep pit of financial, social, and professional woes. Essentially, Kelly stood up publicly in support of Baker when she was despised by media, public, and former associates, and restored her financially into a sustainable retirement.
Josephine Baker was born in St. Louis, Missouri as Freda Josephine McDonald, but renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a French national after her marriage to French industrialist Jean Lion in 1937. In 1968 she was offered unofficial leadership in the civil rights movement in the United States by Coretta Scott King, following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. After thinking it over, Baker declined the offer out of concern for the welfare of her children.
U.S. citizenship cannot be renounced while in U.S. territory, but only overseas, under oath before a consular official. Those who relinquish their U.S. citizenship are still liable for back taxes.