According to Wikipedia’s list, three US Presidents stood 6’1" tall: Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama.
Prince Andrew, the second son of Elizabeth II, holds the rank of commander and the honorary rank of vice admiral in the Royal Navy, in which he served as an active duty helicopter pilot and instructor and as the captain of a warship. He did not go to university but instead entered the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. He saw active service during the Falklands War in 1982, flying on multiple missions including anti-surface warfare, Exocet missile decoy, and casualty evacuation.
On 17 May 1987, the USS Stark (FFG-31), a US Navy frigate, was hit by two Exocet missiles fired by an Iraqi jet fighter. 37 of her crew died from the attack. Iraq apologized for the incident, and Saddam Hussein said that the pilot mistook the Stark for an Iranian tanker.
Wealthy American business magnate, playboy, and engineer Tony Stark suffers a severe chest injury during a kidnapping, and creates a powered suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity. This origin story of Iron Man is portrayed both in comics and the very popular movie series starting Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Louis Stevenson lived in Samoa for the last 4 years of his life and died there at age 44. He is buried on Mount Vaea in Samoa, in a tomb that bears the “Requiem” poem that he wrote for himself; the last two lines are the best known:
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
The engraver mistakenly recorded the next-to-last line as “home from the sea” and the poem is often misquoted with the extra “the”.
Stevenson himself chose the top of 473 meter Mount Vaea, where he had often climbed, for his burial place, but at the time he died, there was no roadway up to the mountaintop through which his coffin could be carried. The local chiefs, who held him in great respect (he had written and acted on their behalf against the German colonial occupation) had a track cut up the mountainside and a clearing made for his gravesite.
NM – ninja
Requiem, Robert Louis Stevenson
***Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me;
"Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
Robert Louis Stevenson lived from 1850 to 1894. Living his final years in Samoa, he took the native Samoan name of Tusitala, which is Samoan for “Teller of Tales”. He suddenly collapsed at the age of 44. He likely died of an intracerebral hemorrhage.
German warplanes of the contemporary Luftwaffe bear the same Iron Cross insignia as their propeller-driven antecedents did during World War I.
Ninja’d! Stevenson never served in the Luftwaffe.
Flying overhead these last few days, as Memorial Day approaches, are these beautiful warbirds: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, a North American B-25 Mitchell, and a North American P-51 Mustang.
(Played last week, before it flew overhead) At nearly 19,000 units, the B-24 holds the distinction of being the most produced heavy bomber in history and the most produced multi-engine aircraft in history, and also the most-produced American military aircraft.
There are only two known airworthy examples of the B-24: Diamond Lil of the Commemorative Air Force (B-24/B-29 Squadron) in Addison TX, and Witchcraft, of the Collings Foundation in Stow MA.
I’m not sure which of those two have been flying overhead, but I’d sure love to find out!
That would be the Collings Foundation planes, so it was Witchcraft. Diamond Lil is operated by the Commemorative (formerly Confederate) Air Force. We’re a B-24 family. 
The largest number of B-24’s were built by Ford at their Willow Run, Michigan plant, which at its peak turned one out every hour.
Willow Run Airport was built as part of the B-24 bomber plant. The airfield passed into civilian hands after the war, and it is now controlled by Wayne County Airport Authority. The airport remains active as a cargo and general aviation airfield; since 1992 it has been home to the Yankee Air Museum.
Anthony (Mad Anthony) Wayne was an American general during the Revolutionary War, noted for various important battles in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Following Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown, he led American troops southwards, where he attained treaties with the Creeks and Cherokees in Georgia. He later served in the US House of Representatives.
The Fort Wayne Mad Ants are a team of the NBA Development League, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They serve as the minor league franchise of the Indiana Pacers.
Wayne County, Ohio, home of Wooster College, was named after Revolutionary and Indian wars hero Gen. “Mad” Anthony Wayne.
Wooster College (another family tradition), whose teams are named he Fighting Scots and who wear the McLeod tartan, dresses its marching band in full Scottish piper regalia.
There is a longstanding on-campus urban legend that Andrew Carnegie’s endowment of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh includes a stipulation that the university must always offer (even if no one takes them up on it) a bagpipe-performance major.
Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, and Richard Mellon founded the schools that merged to become CMU. Carnegie built his empir in the steel industry, while the Mellon brothers came mainly from banking.
In 2016, CMU mistakenly sent acceptance letters to 800 rejected students for their Computer Science program.
The musical Godspell originated in 1970 as John-Michael Tebelak’s master’s thesis project at Carnegie Mellon University, originally performed by several of the cast members from the CMU Music Department. Tebelak then directed the show, with much of the student cast, for a two-week, ten performance run at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (also known as Cafe la Mama), New York City, opening February 24, 1971. It was brought to the attention of producers Edgar Lansbury (brother of Angela Lansbury), Joseph Beruh, and Stuart Duncan by Carnegie alumnus Charles Haid (associate producer). Eventually a revised version of the show would open Off-Broadway at the Promenade theatre, and become part of musical theatre history.
The music for Godspell was written by Stephen Schwartz, who, like John-Michael Tebelak, attended Carnegie Mellon University. Unlike Tebelak, who was born in 1949 and unfortunately died in 1985, aged 35, of a heart attack, Schwartz, born in 1948, is still active in the music world. In 2007, Schwartz joined Jerry Herman as being one of only two composer/lyricists to have three shows run longer than 1,500 performances on Broadway.
Godspell started as a college project performed by students at Carnegie Mellon University. It originated as John-Michael Tebelak’s masters thesis project. It is a two act show, and the intermission is announced by Jesus, who also thanks the audience for coming.