President Theodore Roosevelt gave away his niece Eleanor Roosevelt as the bride in her March 17, 1905 wedding in New York City to their mutual cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt Roads Naval Station is a former United States Navy base in the town of Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The site is run today as José Aponte de la Torre Airport, a public use airport.
There has been just one ship named Puerto Rico to serve in the United States Navy, a high-speed transport that only served from 2012-2016. An earlier Alaska-class battlecruiser that was to have borne the name of the U.S. commonwealth was cancelled in 1943 before completion; a Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport that is expected to bear the name is now under construction in Mobile, Ala. with no date of completion announced.
The Hay–Herrán Treaty was signed by Colombia, which controlled Panama at the time, and the United States to give control of the Panamanian Canal Zone to the US. After the Colombian Senate failed to ratify the treaty, Roosevelt told Panamanian rebels that if they revolted, the United States Navy would assist their cause for independence. Panama proceeded to proclaim its independence on November 3, 1903. The victorious Panamanians allowed the United States control of the Panama Canal Zone on February 23, 1904. The naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was built in 1905 to protect the canal.
Only one person has ever swum the entire length of the Panama Canal, gentleman adventurer and world traveler Richard Halliburton in 1928, and he was billed for passage at the same rate as ships. He paid the Canal Authority 36 cents, just as required.
Richard Halliburton paid the smallest toll on the Panama Canal, his USD $0.36 to swim the canal (as Elendil’s Heir tells us). One of the highest tolls paid was by the Crown Princess, a passenger superliner. They had to pay USD $144,344.91.
Michael Brown rewrote the Chad Mitchell Trio’s 1960’s classic “The John Birch Society,” into “The George Bush Society.” The rewrite included the wonderful line: “Hallelujah’s what we shout but Halliburton’s what we mean.”
In 1907, American Messenger Company was founded in Seattle to deliver items such as messages, trays of food from restaurants, and baggage. The company issued its first official, fully-brown uniforms in 1925, six years after it had changed its name to UPS, United Parcel Service.
UPS Airlines is an American cargo airline owned by United Parcel Service Inc. The company is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. With over 250 aircraft, it is the world’s largest operator of the Airbus A300 and will become the largest operator of the Boeing 747 (following its 2018 purchase).
The 1916 Boeing Airplane Company delivered mail. In 1929 the company acquired America’s first scheduled passenger services carrier Stout Air Services of Dearborn MI, and in 1930 it acquired Varney Air Lines of Boise ID. The company became United Airlines in the 1930s.
United Airlines is the only airline to serve Boise ID continuously since 1933.
Boise, Idaho, is the capital of Idaho and the most populous city in the state. The population of Boise at the 2010 Census was 205,671, the 99th largest in the United States.
The name ‘Boise’ was first given to the Boise River. In the 1820s, French Canadian fur trappers set trap lines in the vicinity. Set in a high-desert area, the tree-lined valley of the Boise River became a distinct landmark, an oasis dominated by cottonwood trees. They called this “La rivière boisée”, which means “the wooded river.”
There have been two warships to bear the name USS Boise in the United States Navy. The first was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser commissioned in 1938 and later sold to Argentina; the second is a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine still on active service.
And here’s a cool picture of her taken from a Navy helicopter: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/USS_Boise_SSN-764.jpg
Boise City, Oklahoma, is pronounced /boyce/ with one syllable. It is the county seat of Cimarron County, the only US county from which you can step across the boundary line into four different states. And here’s a cool picture of the court house.
I had never heard this interesting bit of trivia.
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Oklahoma originally had seven counties when it was first organized as the Oklahoma Territory. For a time, as subsequent counties were added, new counties were designated by letters of the alphabet. When Oklahoma became a state in 1907, all counties were renamed to their current names. This includes Kay County, which was originally designated as County ‘K’.
In 1907, two years after the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta were organised out of the North-West Territories, the two provinces jointly abolished the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories which had continued in operation, and replaced it with the Supreme Court of Saskatchewan and the Supreme Court of Alberta.
The Supreme Court of Saskatchewan only lasted for 10 years. In 1917 it was split into a trial court, the Court of King’d Bench, and the Court of Appeal.
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In England and Wales, the Court of King’s Bench (or Court of Queen’s Bench) was the name of two courts. Each was a senior court of common law, with civil and criminal jurisdiction, and a specific jurisdiction to restrain unlawful actions by public authorities.
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Yes, interesting trivia! And I was oh, so close to it, too. I passed through Liberal KS because it had an interesting name. Liberal KS is 100 mi E of Boise City OK.
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If I’da known I woulda gone through Cimarron County!
Translation: ninja’d. 
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In play: To date, 17 players have completed a Grand Slam in tennis, though only six have done it in the most prestigious singles titles. Of these players, the multiple Grand Slam winners are Rod Laver, who accomplished the feat twice in men’s singles; and Margaret Court who accomplished the feat three times in two different disciplines – once in women’s singles and twice in mixed doubles.
The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) recognizes fishing Grand Slam Clubs to honor the outstanding accomplishment of catching a collection of different game fish species by one angler in a single day. For purposes of the IGFA Grand Slam Clubs, catching three species in one day equals a Grand Slam, four different species equals a Super Grand Slam, and five different species equals a Fantasy Slam. The IGFA lists 8 different Grand Slam Clubs: Billfish, Inshore, Offshore, Salmon, Tuna, Shark, Bass, and Trout.