Cincinnati is the county seat and largest city in Hamilton County, Ohio. Its airport is actually across the Ohio River in northern Kentucky.
During the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War (and American paranoia about communism), the Cincinnati Reds officially changed the team name to the “Redlegs”. The “Reds” name did not resurface until 1961.
During the Spanish-American War, the US sent a battleship to Guam, a Spanish possession. They fired a shot at the Spanish fort in the harbor. After a few minutes, a boat came out of the fort with the Spanish commander and other officers. They boarded the US ship and apologized that they couldn’t reply to the US salute, since they had no ammunition.
The US captain informed them the two countries were at war.
The Spanish commander surrendered.
During Japan’s occupation of the island in World War II, Guam was renamed Ō-miya Jima, which means Great Shrine Island.
Prior to World War 2, the island of Iwo Jima had a small but stable civilian population. Civilians were evacuated in 1944, and the island has had no permanent inhabitants since then.
Witchiepoo trapped young Jimmy and his pal Freddy Flute on Living Island, the home of H.R. Pufnstuf,
The Marine Corps War Memorial (also called the Iwo Jima Memorial) is a statue outside the walls of the Arlington National Cemetery. It is dedicated to all personnel of the Corps who have died in the defense of their country since 1775. The design of the massive sculpture by Felix de Weldon was based on the iconic photo “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” taken during the hard-fought island battle by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.
Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the flag-raisers on Iwo Jima, appeared as himself in the John Wayne film Sands of Iwo Jima. Following his descent in alcoholism and eventual death from it, he was played by Tony Curtis in The Outsider, by Lee Marvin in The American, and by Adam Beach in Flags of Our Fathers. His life was described in “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” by Peter LaFarge, with the best-known recording of many done by Johnny Cash.
Bob Hayes of the Dallas Cowboys is the only person to win an Olympic Gold Medal and a Super Bowl ring.
President Kennedy was shot to death on Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Lyndon Johnson was sworn into office as President by U.S. District Judge Sarah Hughes on Air Force One later that day.
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In Dr. Strangelove, Slim Pickens’ line “a fella could have himself a pretty good time in Vegas with all that stuff” had to be re-dubbed when President Kennedy was shot a few weeks before the film opened. The line originally said “in Dallas”.
The first assassination by firearm took place in 1584. The victim was William I, Prince of Orange, aka William the Silent.
The word “assassin” comes from Hashshashin, another name for the Nizrai branch of Shia Muslim; the name may come either from the sect’s leader Hassan-i Sabbah. or from the Arabic plural for “hashish user.”
The most famous leader of the Assassins or Hashshashin was called Rashid ad-Din Sinan, or “The old man of the mountain”. Per a medieval legend of dubious truth value when he demanded tribute of an emissary of Richard the Lionheart the emissary asked the “old man” to choose two of his knights, at which the English knights gave an impressive display of swordsmanship; Rashid responded by asking the English man to choose any two of the Assassins, and when he did the old man told them “Jump”, at which they both leaped to their deaths. The English paid the tribute.
The legend is replicated in the first* Assassin’s Creed *videogame, in which you’re one of those Hashishins to take the fanatical jump from the citadel’s walls. There’s a convenient haystack underneath - which completely undermines the Old Man’s point…
Richard the Lionhearted was the third son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor ruled England as Regent while Richard was off on the Third Crusade. She was buried between her husband and her son Richard after she died in 1204.
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Rejoining: Richard the Lionheart’s territories in the Crusades- when his mother Eleanor was regent of England- are used in the video game Assassin’s Creed.
Richard the Lionhearted was killed when he was walking around a castle he was besieging and spotted an an enemy archer on the wall. He saw the man aiming at him and applauded. Turned out he had better aim than Richard thought he did.
(combining the two).