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Due to redistricting, John Quincy Adams represented three different Massachusetts districts in the U.S. House of Representatives: the 8th, 11th and 12th.
ADAMS (acronym of Automated Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems) is a multibody dynamics simulation software equipped with Fortran and C++ numerical solvers. ADAMS was originally developed by Mechanical Dynamics Incorporation which then was acquired by MSC Software Corporation.
“Code Adam” is a missing child safety protocol used in many large chain stores. It was named for Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of John Walsh (the host of Fox’s America’s Most Wanted) who was abducted from the Sears store in Hollywood, Florida, in July 1981. His mother left him in the video games section for five or seven minutes while she went to a different part of the store to buy a lamp. There are some reports that Adam was ordered out of Sears by store security as he and some others were making a disturbance and that his abductor encountered him outside the store.
Alvah Roebuck was the co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company. After being bought out (at his request) by his partner Curtis Sears in 1895, Roebuck founded several other businesses and eventually returned to working for Sears Roebuck after the start of the Great Depression.
Hackensack, New Jersey maintains its original Sears Roebuck & Co building. With the original “Sears Roebuck & Co” still on it.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recently had the highest disapproval rating, 71%, ever reported for a chief executive of the state. His term will end in January 2018.
The stem christie or “wedge christie” is a technique used in skiing for turning. The name derives from the turning technique employed by Norwegian jumpers in Christiania, Norway (now Oslo), which was called the “stem Christiania” and became shortened to “stem christie”.
The Royal Norwegian Navy (Sjøforsvaret, “the naval defence (forces)”) consists of approximately 3,700 personnel (9,450 in mobilized state, 32,000 when fully mobilized) and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support vessels and 2 training vessels - or so sayeth Wiki c. 2008.
The German battleship Tirpitz, the second of the two members of the *Bismarck *class, was blown up and capsized in Tromsø, Norway after numerous bombing attacks by Royal Air Force Lancasters armed with Tallboy bombs. The attack that was finally successful was executed by the famous 617 Squadron, the Dambusters.
On September 20, 1066, the Battle of Fulford took place near York, England. The Northern Earls Edwin and Morcar were defeated by King Harald III of Norway and Tostig Godwinson, an English ally.
There have been three creations of the Duchy of Lancaster in British history. The current one is the third, in 1399, for the eldest son of King Henry IV, the young man who would become King Henry V, victor of Agincourt. The title merged into the Crown when Henry became king, and is still held by his successors, including Queen Elizabeth II (still toasted in some Lancastrian regiments as “The Queen, Duke of Lancaster”).
Sir John Falstaff was mentioned in five plays by William Shakespeare and appears on stage only in three of them. His significance as a fully developed character in Shakespeare is primarily formed in the plays Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, where he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. A notable eulogy for Falstaff is presented in Act II, Scene III of Henry V, where Falstaff does not appear as a character on stage, as enacted by Mistress Quickly in terms that some scholars have ascribed to Plato’s description of the death of Socrates after drinking hemlock. By comparison, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is presented by Shakespeare as the buffoonish suitor of two married women.
In 2013, Simon Russell Beale won the British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Falstaff in the BBC’s The Hollow Crown series of TV films about Shakespeare’s historical dramas, specifically Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2. He was described by The Independent (in 2008) as “the greatest stage actor of his generation.”
Frankie Michaels is the youngest performer to win a Tony Award. He won the Tony Award for Actor, Supporting or Featured (Musical) at the age of ten years old as Patrick Dennis in the musical **Mame **in 1966.
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry urged armed rebellion against Britain in his speech to the House of Burgesses of Virginia—he said “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Anthony Guy “Tony” Bennett is the head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men’s basketball team since March 31, 2009. He is the only Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) coach to win 16 conference games in consecutive seasons, and one of three in ACC history to enjoy back-to-back 30-win seasons overall.
The track listing on Tony Bennett’s 1970 album Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today!, complete with psychedelic bell-bottom cover art, and all of which he obviously hated doing, was
"MacArthur Park" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:22
"Something" (George Harrison) – 3:18
"The Look of Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:49
"Here, There and Everywhere" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:44
"Live for Life" (Norman Gimbel, Francis Lai) – 3:43
"Little Green Apples" (Bobby Russell) – 2:49
"Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:40
"My Chérie Amour" (Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder) – 3:50
"Is That All There Is?" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:25
"Here" (Gene Lees) – 3:36
"Sunrise, Sunset" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) – 3:37The battlecruiser MacArthur, commanded by Roderick, Lord Blaine, and the battleship Lenin, commanded by Adm. Lavrenti Kutuzov, comprise the Second Empire of Humanity’s expedition to Motie space in Larry Niven’s and Jerry Pournelle’s 1974 science fiction novel The Mote in God’s Eye.
Humanity, Humility and Humor, the three most important attributes of contented socialization, are derived from three different and unrelated etymological roots.
Roots Canada is a Toronto-based company that sells clothing, footwear, active athletic wear and small leather goods. Its founders Don Green and Michael Budman were inspired by their passion for Ontario’s Algonquin Park and everything it represented for them. Their goal was to translate their fondness for the Canadian wilderness and sports into a line of leather products and athletic wear.