The Paramount Pictures mountain logo morphs into a distant South American jungle hill in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) movie.
The Patagonia Outdoor Clothing and Gear logo is a stylized version of the mountain Monte Fitz Roy (also known as Cerro Chaltén, Cerro Fitz Roy, or simply Mount Fitz Roy). It is located near El Chaltén village, in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile.
Monte Fitz Roy is named for Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s famous voyage, FitzRoy’s second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone.
As suggested by his surname, FitzRoy was descended from Charles II. His several great-grandfather, Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Grafton, was the illegitimate son of Charles and one of his mistresses, Barbara Palmer.
Grafton, Utah, is a ghost town, just south of Zion National Park in the state of Utah, United States. Said to be the most photographed ghost town in the West, it has been featured as a location in several films, including 1929’s In Old Arizona—the first talkie filmed outdoors—and the classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Arnold Palmer (1929-2016, R.I.P.) was the first golfer to be awarded the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom (2004) and the second golfer, after Byron Nelson, to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal (2009).
The machine used by the Professional Golfer’s Association to test and certify clubs and balls is nicknamed Iron Byron, because it simulates Byron Nelson’s swing.
According to the United States Golf Association, a golfer is allowed to have 14 clubs in his bag. This may include three woods (driver, 3-wood and 5-wood), eight irons, (3-9 iron and pitching wedge), and putter. These are the standard 12 clubs in many golf bags. The additional two clubs are generally a hybrid driver and a wedge, either a lob wedge or a sand wedge.
Before the numbering system was established in the 1940’s, golf clubs had Scottish names:
Babe Zaharias was the first female golfer to make the cut at a PGA TOUR event when she shot 76 and 81 during the first two rounds of the 1945 Los Angeles Open.
According to his biography, George Herman Ruth Jr. received the nickname ‘Babe’ when he signed with the Baltimore Orioles at the age of 19. Jack Dunn, the owner of the Orioles, was so impressed with Ruth’s skills that he offered him a contract after watching him for less than an hour. Upon seeing George Jr. for the first time, the Orioles players referred to him as ‘Jack’s newest babe’, and thus a famous nickname in American sports history was born.
Saint Herman of Alaska was a Russian Orthodox monk and missionary to Alaska from 1794-1836, which was then part of Russian America. On August 9, 1970, Metropolitan Ireney of the Orthodox Church in America, along with Archbishop Paul (Olmari) of Finland and other hierarchs and clergy presided over the canonization service, which was held at Holy Resurrection Cathedral on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
The Alutiiq natives have inhabited the Kodiak Archipelago for more than 7,000 years. A tsunami struck the city of Kodiak with 30-foot waves as a result of the massive Alaska Good Friday earthquake on March 27, 1964. The tsunami killed 15 people, , and permanently raised some areas near Kodiak by 30 feet. Kodiak bears, a subspecies of grizzly Bear, found only on Kodiak Island, are the world’s largest, with some adult males exceeding 1,000 pounds. They eat fish, grass, plants and berries.
Botanically, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower in which the outer layer of the ovary wall develops into an edible fleshy portion. Accordingly, strawberries are not berries, nor are raspberries or mulberries. But bananas, eggplants and cucumbers are…
Homonyms are two or more words having the same spelling but different meanings and origins; a homograph
Homophones are two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,
Barry, berry, and bury are homophones.
So are:
bye, by, buy
four, fore, for
flew, flu, flue
pedal, peddle, petal
heal, heel, he’ll
road, rode, rowed
knows, nose, noes
sew, so, sow
main, mane, Maine
Mary, marry, merry
vane, vain, vein
I’ll, aisle, isle
seas, sees, seize
road, rode, rowed
holey, holy, wholly
road, rode, rowed
ads, adds, adz
So are bullet and Bullitt! 
The Minié ball is a spin-stabilized rifle bullet named after its co-developer, Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the Minié rifle. The development of the Minié ball was significant because it was the first projectile which was small enough to be easily put down the barrel of a rifled long gun. Both the American Springfield and the British Enfield rifles – the most common rifles used during the American Civil War – used the Minié ball.
One of the more famous documented cases involving Minié ball injuries concerned a Confederate soldier wounded on July 12, 1864. The soldier was hit in the side of the head by a .58 caliber Minié ball, which shattered his skull and lodged in the right hemisphere of the brain. He eventually lost consciousness and died, having survived with his wound for 16 days. An autopsy of the soldier found that the right hemisphere of the brain was extensively damaged and large areas of it had necrosed. The brain was removed, preserved in formaldehyde and donated to the Army Museum in Washington.
The flag of the United States Army is a blue replica of the former War Office seal set on a white field. Although the Army is the oldest-established (in 1775 as the Continental Army) and thus senior military service of the republic, the flag was not adopted until President Dwight D. Eisenhower did so by executive order in 1956.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps is one of only two American uniformed services to consist entirely of commissioned officers; the other is the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
A homophone for NOAA is the biblical guy in Genesis who built the ark.