Prisoners in the New Hampshire state prison in Concord, New Hampshire, stamp license plates with the state’s motto: “Live Free or Die.”
For some reason, the state motto of Maryland is in Italian. Fatti maschii, parole femine, which means “Manly deeds, womanly words”
I have no comment.
Of the 28 deeds in a Monopoly set, the only ones that stipulate a rent in an odd number of dollars is a singly-held Park Place, $35, and a singly-held railroad, $25.
Manly Wade Wellman was a horror/fantasy author best known for using legends and locations of the Appalachian mountains. He had a long career, starting in the 1920s and still publishing in the 1980s. He was a guest of World Fantasy Con in 1983.
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy claims that the Appalachian Trail is the longest hiking-only trail in the world. It is about 2,200 miles long.
Reality Chuck, just for my education, how does your post #35739 play off of jtur’s #35738? Probably my bad, I just don’t see it.
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Mark Trail is a newspaper comic strip created by the American cartoonist Ed Dodd. Introduced April 15, 1946, the strip centers on environmental and ecological themes. The character is loosely based on the life and career of Charles N. Elliott , at the time a U.S. forest ranger who edited Outdoor Life magazine from 1956 to 1974.
Looking at post 35737 I’m pretty sure he was ninja’d.
Didn’t see the timing. Think you’re right. Nevermind.
Never knew this before - that’s good trivia! As to the “for some reason”: Seal of Maryland - Wikipedia
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1946 was Harry S. Truman’s first full year as President of the United States. A Democrat of Missouri, he succeeded to office upon the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the spring of 1945.
Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest son, Quentin, was shot down in aerial combat behind German lines in 1918, aged 20. He left Harvard during World War I to join the United States Army Air Service where he became a pursuit pilot. Quentin was known for his daring and skill as a pilot and was awarded Croix De Guerre with palm. Theodore Roosevelt died 6 months after Quentin; he was said to have never recovered from the grief of Quentin’s death.
Alice Lee Roosevelt was the only child of Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt.
Two days after her birth, her mother died of undiagnosed kidney failure. Theodore was rendered so distraught by his wife’s death that he could not bear to think about her. He almost never spoke of her again, would not allow her to be mentioned in his presence, and even omitted her name from his autobiography. Therefore, his daughter Alice was called “Baby Lee” instead of her name She continued this practice late in life, often preferring to be called “Mrs. L” rather than “Alice.”
Eleven years after the World War II American Cemetery was established in France at Colleville-sur-Mer, Quentin Roosevelt’s body was exhumed and moved there. In 1955. Quentin’s remains were moved in order to be buried next to his eldest brother Ted, who had died of a heart attack in France in 1944, shortly after leading his troops in landings on Utah Beach on D-Day as Assistant 4th Infantry Division Commander (an act which would earn him the Medal of Honor).
Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and was the fourth-longest-continuously-serving senator in United States history, having served there for almost 47 years. Ted Kennedy was the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family for many years, and he was also the last surviving, longest-living, and youngest son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
Rose gold is an alloy of gold and copper.
On July 17, 1771, Dene men, acting as guides to Samuel Hearne on his exploration of the Coppermine River in present-day Nunavut, Canada, massacred a group of about 20 Copper Inuit. (The Dene people are Native Americans living in northern Canada.) The killings became known as the Massacre at Bloody Falls.
Bloody Falls, native name Kogluktok, meaning “it flows rapidly” or “spurts like a cut artery” in Inuktitut is a waterfall in the Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park. In addition to being the site of the Bloody Falls Massacre, it is also the site of the murder of two priests by Copper Inuit Uloqsaq and Sinnisiak in 1913.
Canadian actor Tahmoh Penikett has appeared as a regular star of the TV series Battlestar Galactica. Supernatural, Dollhouse, and Continuum. He is the son of Yukon premier Tony Penikett. The Peniketts are of Dene ancestry.
Behchokǫ̀, Northwest Territories is the largest Dene community in Canada. The closest major public airport is Yellowknife Airport via an hour drive east.
Here’s a map: Google Maps
Prior to 2012, overland access to Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, depended on a ferry over the Mackenzie River in the summer and and ice road in the winter. Depending on the spring break-up, Yellowknife could be cut off from the highway for some weeks in the spring.
The situation changed in late 2012, when a new bridge across the Mackenzie opened: the Deh Cho Bridge, a two-lane all-weather bridge just over a kilometre long.
The Dettah Ice Road connects Dettah with Yellowknife NWT in the winter months when the ice on Great Slave Lake gets to about 4 feet thick. spectacularNWT.com advertises its ice roads as an attraction.
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