The Canadian Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers do not have individual seals or flags.
Prime Minister Mulroney tried the experiment of a portable lectern with the Canadian coat of arms which he used for speeches in the early part of his term, but it met with mockery, not respect. One of the contemporary comments was “Who does he think he is, a President?”
At a state dinner in Ottawa in 1972, when Justin Trudeau was four months old, then-U.S. president Richard Nixon toasted the baby’s arrival, saying "I’d like to toast the future prime minister of Canada—to Justin Pierre Trudeau.”
To this, Pierre Trudeau replied, saying should his son become prime minister one day, “I hope he has the grace and skill of the president.”
However, Nixon and Trudeau had not always been so friendly. When it was reported to him that President Richard Nixon had called him an “asshole” (in 1971), Pierre Trudeau’s reply, recorded in his 1993 memoirs, was “I have been called worse things by better people.”
Richard Milhous Nixon is the only person to have been elected President of the United States after having been Vice President eight years earlier.
“Milhous” was Nixon’s mother’s maiden name.
On October 10, 1974, Vice President of the US Spiro Agnew resigned. Agnew became the second Vice President to resign the office. Unlike John C. Calhoun, who resigned to take a seat in the Senate, Agnew resigned and then pleaded no contest to criminal charges of tax evasion, part of a negotiated resolution to a scheme wherein he was accused of accepting more than $100,000 in bribes during his tenure as governor of Maryland. Agnew was fined $10,000 and received three years’ probation. The $10,000 fine covered only the taxes and interest due on what was “unreported income” for 1967. Agnew finally wrote a check for $268,482 that was turned over to Maryland State Treasurer William S. James in early 1983. Had Agnew remained as Vice President until President Richard Nixon resigned just 10 months later, he would have become the 38th President instead of Gerald Ford.
No Governor of Maryland, including Spiro T. Agnew, has ever been US President.
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No Governor of Maryland, including Spiro T. Agnew, has ever been US President.
ETA – no Governor of the following states has ever been President: AL AK AZ CO CT DE HI ID IL IA KS KY ME (MD, again) MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NM NC ND OK OR PA RI SC SD UT VT WA WV WI and WY.
The states (and territories) that have given us Presidents so far are: AR CA FL GA IN LA MA NJ NY OH TN TX and VA.
Martin O’Malley, mayor of Baltimore before he was governor of Maryland, was named by Time magazine as one of the country’s five best mayors. His campaign for President went nowhere in 2016 but he is already making the rounds of the early-primary states for 2020, and is expected by many political observers to run again.
dammit, back after 5 days vacation and get ninja’ed first time out…
The Martin-Marietta Corporation was an American company founded in 1961 through the merger of Glenn L. Martin Company and American Marietta Corporation. In 1995, it merged with Lockheed Corporation to form Lockheed Martin. The combined company is a leader in chemicals, aerospace, and electronics
Over four years ago we learned how Lockheed Martin had developed a graphene filter that could desalinate ocean water, and had received a patent for the filter; see:
Salina Turda is a salt mine located near Turda, Romania. It is a major tourist attraction, due to its beautiful underground caverns, and is also a salt therapy center.
The city of Salzburg, Austria was named for the barges carrying salt on the Salzach River. The name literally means “salt castle”, and was named such by St. Rupert in the 8th century.
Fucking Austria is about 25 miles NW of Salzburg Austria. The town reports that its town signs are frequently stolen.
Map: Google Maps
And I may possibly be visiting Fucking this June.
Fucking Hell is a German Pilsner or pale lager with an alcohol content of 4.9%. It is named after the village of Fucking in Austria; hell is the German word for ‘pale’ and a typical description of this kind of beer. The beer’s name was initially controversial. Both the local authorities in Fucking and the European Union’s Trade Marks and Designs Registration Office initially objected to the name. It was eventually accepted and the lager is now sold internationally. Fucking Hell is not brewed in Fucking, but was originally brewed in the Brauerei Waldhaus, a brewery in the Black Forest town of Waldhaus, Weilheim in Germany. From 2013, production moved to the Brauerei Hartmannsdorf in Hartmannsdorf, near Chemnitz.
The headquarters of the auto manufacturer Auto Union were based in** Chemnitz,** Germany since 1932 and its buildings were also badly damaged during bombings in World War II. At the end of the war, the company’s executives fled and relocated the company in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, where it evolved into Audi, now a brand within the Volkswagen group.
Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany, had the nicknames of “Audi Man” and “Herr Audi” from his four marriages. Another nickname was “Lord of the Rings”.
In 1921, Audi became the first German car manufacturer to present a production car, the Audi Type K, with left-handed drive. Prior to that, right-hand drive dominated. Left-hand drive spread and established dominance during the 1920s because it provided a better view of oncoming traffic, making overtaking safer.
Will Smith, playing a Chicago Police detective, drives a sleek Audi concept car in the near-future science fiction action-adventure movie I, Robot: http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/product-placement-rsq2.jpg.
Earl and Otto Binder wrote the first story entitled “I, Robot” in 1939. When Issac Asimov collected nine of his robot stories into a book in 1950, the book publisher named the collection “I, Robot” over Asimov’s objections.
