British police constables are nicknamed “Bobbies”, or sometimes “Peelers”, after Sir Robert Peel, the Conservative Prime Minister who established the Metropolitan Police Force for London, based at Scotland Yard.
John Peel was an English huntsman, best know as the subject of the nineteenth century song D’ye ken John Peel - “ken” meaning ‘to be aware of’ or ‘to know’ in some dialects of the North of England and Scotland. The words were written by Peel’s friend John Woodcock Graves, in Cumbrian dialect. He tinkered with the words over the years and several different versions are known. The words were set to the tune of a traditional Scottish rant, Bonnie Annie.
D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so gay*?
D’ye ken John Peel at the break o’ day?
D’ye ken John Peel when he’s far, far a-way.
With his hounds and his horn in the morning?
Shortly before he died, John F. Kennedy showed Prof. Richard E. Neustadt’s report on the brief 1962 rift with the United Kingdom, caused by the Pentagon’s abrupt cancellation of the Skybolt missile project, to his wife, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. The President said, “If you want to know what my life is like, read this.”
Okra, when cut into cross sections, is pentagonal.
The carambola, when cut into cross-sections, has the shape of a five-pointed star, and is often called “starfruit”. The entire fruit is edible and is a common component of tropical dishes.
The encircled five pointed star pentagram (referred to as a pentacle by the plaintiffs) was added to the list of 38 approved religious symbols to be placed on the tombstones of fallen service members at Arlington National Cemetery in 2007. The decision was made following ten applications from families of fallen soldiers who practiced Wicca. The government paid the families $225,000 to settle their pending lawsuits.
The oldest accurately dated star chart resulted from Egyptian astronomers from 1534 BC.
Babylonian astronomers compiled the earliest known star catalogs, from 1500 to 1100 BC.
The first star catalog from Greek astronomers comes from approximately 300 BC.
The Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts were sponsored from 1940 to 2003, the longest sponsorship in broadcast history, as 1931-1975 host Milton Cross stated in his rich, plummy voice, “By Texaco, Star of the American Road, and in Canada by Texaco Canada, Star of the Canadian Road”.
Franklin D. Roosevelt became, in November 1940, the first President of the United States elected to a third term. The Vice President for his first two terms, John Nance Garner, opposed FDR’s third-term bid and ran against him, but lost badly at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and FDR was nominated on the first ballot.
The list of approved emblems of belief that may be used at veterans’ cemeteries now numbers 67. These emblems include the Pomegranate, the Sandhill Crane, and the Hammer of Thor.
Oops, badly Ninja’ed!
FDR’s opponent in the 1936 presidential election, Alf Landon, carried just two states, neither of which was his native state of Kansas. Roosevelt received 98.49% of the total electoral vote.
In the 2012 presidential election, Mitt Romney lost Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan, and California, setting the American record for most home states lost, with 4. He did win Utah to avoid the sweep.
The Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology (also known as MITT) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) scientific research institute founded on May 13, 1946. It previously was primarily focused on developing ballistic missiles and rockets to increase the Soviet’s strategic deterrent capability. Today it is also involved in civilian projects and has modified some of its intercontinental ballistic missiles into launch vehicles to be used for satellites.
A satellite city, in urban planning, refers to a small metropolitan area located near to, but mostly independent of a major metropolitan area. Some cities which historically have long had their own identity are now considered satellites, for example, Providence, Rhode Island (satellite of Boston) and Olympia, Washington (satellite of Seattle). On the other hand, Ciudad Satélite, literally Satellite City, was originally planned as a satellite of Mexico City in the 1950s, but has now been absorbed by it.
Ciudad Constitución in BCS (Baja California Sur) lies on Mexican Federal Highway 1 (the “Carretera Transpeninsular”). It is the fifth largest city in the state behind the capital La Paz, San José del Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, and Colonia del Sol. Every year on 05 February Ciudad Constitución becomes the BCS state capital for one day.
The French monetary unit “solidus” gradually became known as a “sol” and then eventually as a “sou”.
Although a sol originally was the equivalent of a shilling, it gradually lost value until in Canadian French a “sou” was used colloquially to mean a penny.
The quarter (25 cents) was referred to as a “trente-sous” for complicated history-of-currency reasons. A penny (when we still had them) was a “sou noir” and a dime was a “sou blanche” (“black sou” and "white sou " respectively.)
Before decimalization changed the value of the British pound to 100 pennies in 1971, the £sd system was used.
The abbreviation originates from the Latin currency denominations librae, solidi, and denarii. In the UK, librae became pounds, solidi were shillings and denarii were pence. There were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings, or 240 pence, in a pound.
How confusing! :smack:
MLB pitcher Curt Schilling won 3 World Series with 2 teams:
2001 Arizona Diamondbacks
2004 Boston Red Sox
2007 Boston Red Sox
The Schilling tendon procedure is named for Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling, who required anjle surgery to be able to pitch for the Boston Red Sox in Game 6 of the 2004 American League Championship Series and Game 2 of the 2004 World Series — the latter is known as the “bloody sock game.”
A tendon is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue made of collagen. It usually connects muscle to bone and is capable of withstanding tension. Tendon is used as a food in some Asian cuisines (often served at yum cha or dim sum restaurants). One popular dish is suan bao niu jin, in which the tendon is marinated in garlic.
According to Healthline, garlic has a number of beneficial health effects. These include lowering blood pressure, warding off the common cold, reducing the level of cholesterol, and helping prevent dementia.