Lancaster County in Pennsylvania is known for its large concentration of Amish people. Pennsylvania boasts the largest number of Amish in the country, followed closely by Ohio and then Indiana. These three states account for more than 60% of the Amish population in the United States.
In 2017, the Amish numbered about 318,000 residents in the US, which is about .098% of the total population.
The emblem of the noble House of Lancaster was the red rose of Lancaster, while the House of York had a white rose. These families’ rivalry erupted into a civil war over claims to the English throne, known the Wars of the Roses, between 1455 and 1487.
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, is the ancestor of all English/British monarchs since his son, Henry IV, except the three Yorkist Kings: Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III.
Maurice de Gaunt was the founder of Beverston Castle in Gloucestershire, England. He began the construction c. 1225 and completed the project in 1229 with the granting of a licence for the final crenellation. He also was the founder, together with his nephew Robert de Gournay, of St Mark’s Hospital in Bristol, otherwise known as Gaunt’s Hospital.
The Bristol Mountains of California are in the Mojave Desert. They cross Interstate 40 near Ludlow CA, some 125 miles southwest of Las Vegas NV. The Bristol Mountains Wilderness there is managed by BLM, the Bureau of Land Management. In 1994 the Bristol Mountains Wilderness became part of the now over 109 million acre National Wilderness Preservation System.
“Bristol Stomp” is a song written in 1961 by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, two executives with the Cameo-Parkway record label, for The Dovells, an a cappella singing group from Philadelphia,
The song was written about teenagers in 1961 who were dancing a new step called “The Stomp” at Good Will Hose Company dances in Bristol. It refers to Bristol, Pennsylvania, a blue collar suburb of Philadelphia.
Yeah, Ronan Farrow looks a lot like Frank Sinatra. Maybe Mia, er, comforted Frank after his heart attack?
Mind. Freakin’. Blown.
In play:
President John F. Kennedy and other gentlemen at his Jan. 20, 1961 Inauguration wore top hats, the first time they had been worn since Harry S. Truman’s 1949 Inauguration. Dwight D. Eisenhower wore homburgs at both his 1953 and 1957 ceremonies.
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The main theme of the Hat Museum, the Gotisches Haus (Gothic House) Hat Museum, in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany, is the historic Homburg Hat that Edward VII brought back to England and made world famous.
According to the 2007 book Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Fact and Fiction, 1714–1936, Edward VII had at least 55 mistresses, both before and after his marriage to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. One of the mistresses was Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill. This fact was corroborated in the 2010 book The Churchills: A Family Portrait.
Wikipedia lists several bridges named Alexandra. Some, if not all, are named after Queen Alexandra of Denmark:
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[li]Alexandra bridges, two bridges side-by-side, old and new, over the Clutha River in Alexandra, New Zealand[/li][li]Alexandra Bridge, spans the Ottawa River between Gatineau and Ottawa, Canada [/li][li]Alexandra Bridge (Trans-Canada), over the Fraser River near Spuzzum, British Columbia, Canada[/li][li]Alexandra Bridge (Singapore), a pedestrian bridge over Alexandra Road, Singapore [/li][li]Alexandra Railway Bridge, railway bridge over the Fitzroy River, Rockhampton, Australia[/li][li]Alexandra Bridge (Tain), a Category B Listed suspension footbridge in Tain, Scotland[/li][/ul]
There are multiple contenders for the invention of the now-common metaphor for a pet’s death, “crossing the Rainbow Bridge”, all of them poems written in the 1980s and 90s. Inspiration for it may have come from Bifröst, the rainbow bridge from Midgard (Earth) to Asgard, the home of the gods in Norse mythology.
The highest waterfall on the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River, in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains, is Rainbow Falls in Devils Postpile National Monument… The falls is (are?) 101’ high. The
falls (is?) are named for the rainbows that appear in their mist on sunny summer days.
The world’s highest waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela, was not named for heavenly beings, but for its (non-Indian) discoverer, American bush pilot Jimmy Angel.
Lyn Duddy and Lee Pockriss song “Johnny Angel” originally recorded by both Laurie Loman and Georgia Lee, but those two versions were not successful. The most successful version was the cover by Shelley Fabares, who took it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
Shelley Fabares’ aunt was TV actress Nanette Fabray, a regular star on the game show “Hollywood Squares”
One of Hollywood Squares most memorable moments. Even if you don’t like Gilbert Gottfield, this is hysterically funny. YOU FOOL
I’m taking that as a comment and not as a play, okay Annie?
In play: Shelley Fabares‘s hit single, Johnny Angel, hit #1 on the pop charts in Apr 1962, when she was 18 years old. Other singers had already recorded Johnny Angel before she did, but what pushed the song to #1 was the episode of The Donna Reed Show where Fabares sang it, as her character pined for a boy that she liked.
Glen Campbell, then a session musician, played guitar on the song. According to this, anyway: https://www.stereogum.com/1992080/the-number-ones-shelly-fabares-johnny-angel/franchises/the-number-ones/
Dammit, I missed.
The Campbell Soup Company was started in 1869 by Joseph A. Campbell, a fruit merchant from Bridgeton, New Jersey, and Abraham Anderson, an icebox manufacturer from South Jersey. They produced canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies, soups, condiments, and minced meats. In 1898, Herberton Williams, a Campbell’s executive, convinced the company to adopt a carnelian red and bright white color scheme for their products, because he was taken by the crisp carnelian red color of the Cornell University football team’s uniforms
The Silicon Valley city of Campbell CA, some 50 miles SE of San Francisco and 7 miles SW of San Jose, was founded by Benjamin Campbell, after whom the city was named. He came to California in 1846 with his father, William Campbell. William started a sawmill in Saratoga and surveyed the cities of San Jose and Santa Clara. In 1851, Benjamin bought 160 acres (0.65 km²) in southern Santa Clara Valley and cultivated hay and grain on it. This area later became Campbell’s historical downtown core.
The Campbell clan is hated by other Highland clans. One reason is its role in the 1692 Glencoe Massacre, when Campbell-led government troops massacred 38 MacDonalds, including women and children, who had just extended them hospitality. Another is the Battle of Culloden, in 1746, when the Jacobite Highland clans, supporting Bonnie Prince Charlie, were defeated (with heavy loss of lives) by English troops assisted by the Campbells.