In Scotland, the Clan Colquhoun’s lands ranged from the shores of Loch Lomond south to the River Clyde. Names of clan septs (family divisions) include Calhoun, Cahoon, Cahoone, Cohoon, Colhoun, Cowan, Cowen, Cowing and McCowan.
The 1920s André Debrie “Sept” camera, from Paris, like this (Debrie Sept, First Model, 1921 Debrie (Ets. André Debrie, Paris). Spring-motor camera for still,), is a 35mm format camera with a mechanical spring for film advance that takes either stills or motion pictures.
(I saw one today at my camera repair shop. Another customer brought it in when I was there, and the repairman, who has been working on cameras for over 65 years, had never seen one before.)
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, written in 1913. While it’s first performance in Paris caused a near riot, it is widely considered to be one of the most influential musical works of the 20th century.
New Paris is a Federation world referred to in passing just twice, but never shown, in all of the various Star Trek series: once on the original series, and once on The Next Generation.
In the STAR TREK: TOS episode, The Galileo Seven, delivering medical supplies to the New Paris colonies because of a plague there puts a time pressure on the Enterprise – the Enterprise might have to leave Spock, McCoy and Scotty, and two specialists behind, marooned on the planet Taurus II.
ETA: had to look that up, about New Paris. I’m otherwise familiar with that old episode. That’s impressive trivia knowledge there, EH.
The first USS Enterprise was a wooden sloop named George when it was captured by American raiders led by Benedict Arnold in May, 1775, who then gave it the iconic name. It was destroyed in 1777 to prevent its recapture by the British.
The Prince George effect, also known as the royal baby effect, is the trend that news about Prince George has in business and pop culture, similar to that of his mother, Kate Middleton/the Duchess of Cambridge. Clothing and products identified as used by George tend to sell better than before. He was ranked No. 49 on GQ’s “50 Best Dressed Men in Britain” list in 2015. The popularity of the name George has risen worldwide since his birth, in England and Wales from #12 to #4; from #166 in the U.S. to #125 and in Australia from #63 to #37.
George W. Bush was the only US President with an MBA, a Masters of Business Administration, from Harvard in his case. Donald J. Trump implies that he has one from Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) but his degree there is actually a Bachelor of Science degree in economics, earned after transferring in as a junior from Fordham University.
(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson remains the only President with a doctorate. His was from Johns Hopkins University in political science.
Some recent commentators have excused Woodrow Wilson’s racist policies (for example, his re-segregation of previously integrated Civil Service offices) by stating that these were standard for his time. However, in his own time both black and white leaders spoke out against Wilson’s racism.
The National Council of Congregational Churches of the United States, a mainstream Protestant group, adopted a resolution condemning Wilson’s policy at its 1914 convention. The editor of The Congregationalist and the Christian World wrote to Wilson that his segregation policy violated Christian principles and told his readers that protesting Wilson’s policy was the “Christian white man’s duty.”
Woodrow Wilson, as a child growing up in Stoughton, Va., saw the former Confederate President Jefferson Davis brought through town in irons, a captive of U.S. Cavalry troopers at the end of the Civil War. Although a Southerner by birth, Wilson later rose to political prominence as president of Princeton University and then governor of New Jersey.
Jeremy Irons was one of the narrators (from 1994 to 2007) at the Spaceship Earth ride at Epcot in Walt Disney World in Florida. Other narrators include Walter Cronkite (1986-1994) and Judi Dench (2008–present). The ride was designed with input from science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who also helped write the original storyline and script, which has since been updated to include contemporary technological trends.
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Dame Judi Dench played Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown in 1997 and Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998, winning BAFTA awards (among others) for both roles. Unlike Dame Helen Mirren, she has not yet played both Queen Elizabeths, nor has she played Queen Charlotte.
George Brown served as Co-Premier of the Province of Canada for 4 days in August, 1858.
On the evening of 14 January 1858, as Emperor Napoleon III and his wife were on their way to the theatre to see Rossini’s William Tell, Felice Orsini and his accomplices threw three bombs at the imperial carriage. A total of eight people were killed and 142 wounded, though the emperor and empress were unhurt. The purpose of the assassination was to throw France into confusion allow for a successful establishment of an Italian state. Orsini was caught and guillotined later that year.
The guillotine is usually associated with revolutionary France, but it possibly executed as many in Germany during the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler made the guillotine a state method of execution in the 1930s, and had 20 of them placed in cities across Germany. According to Nazi records, the guillotine was used to execute 16,500 people between 1933 and 1945, many of them resistance fighters and political dissidents.
The “Third Reich” was a term invented by Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda.
The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted from Charlemagne until the early 18th Century.
The Second Reich was the German Empire founded by Bismarck in 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War. It was dissolved in the establishment of the Weimar Republic in 1919.
Apparently Hitler was not particularly fond of the term.
Frank Reich played QB for the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, New York Jets, and Detroit Lions. In the AFC Wildcard playoff game after the 1992 season, the visiting Houston Oilers were soundly beating Reich’s Buffalo Bills, 35-3. Reich then led his Buffalo Bills on a 38-3 run ti win the game in overtime, 41-38. The rally from a 32-point deficit is the largest comeback in NFL history.
In what has become known as the “Iron Man Game”, Portsmouth Spartan Head Coach Potsy Clark refused to substitute for any of his players in a 1932 game versus the rival Green Bay Packers. Portsmouth, which would become the Detroit Lions in the following season, won the game 19-0 and used only 11 players total including offense, defense, and special teams.
Portsmouth Square in San Francisco is located on the site of the first public square established in the early 19th century in the Mexican community of Yerba Buena, whose name was changed to San Francisco in 1847. During the Mexican-American War, Captain John Berrien Montgomery of the USS Portsmouth was ordered to seize Yerba Buena. On July 9, 1846, the first American flag was raised near the Mexican adobe custom house in the plaza that would eventually be named Portsmouth Square in honor of the ship.