Thomas Cornell, Sr (1595 – 1655) was one of the earliest settlers of Boston, Rhode Island, and the Bronx. He is the ancestor of a number of Americans prominent in business, politics, and education. Included in the list of his ancestors are Ezra Cornell (founder of Cornell University), Bill Gates, Presidents Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon, John Kerry, Amelia Earhart, and Lizzie Borden.
New York State has its own Route 66: NY Route 66. Although it does not go to the Bronx, in New York City, it does go for 46 miles from Troy to Hudson.
The railway to the port of Churchill on Hudson Bay was damaged by flooding last year, cutting off the land link to Churchill from southern Manitoba. All supplies had to be flown in, increasing their costs, or shipped, increasing cost and delivery time.
Last month, the federal government announced that the US company which owened the railway had agreed to sell it to a consortium composed of the federal government, the CPR, and several First Nations communities which depend on the rail link. Repairs are expected to begin as soon as possible, weather permitting, to restore the railway connection to Churchill.
Four Corners Canada is the quadripoint where two provinces and two territories meet: Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The only way to get there is by boat or plane. Or on foot, I suppose, but it is some 700 miles (1,100 km) north-northeast of Saskatoon SK CAN, or some 1,700 miles (2,000 km) almost directly due north of Bismarck ND USA (gMap, Google Maps).
Four Corners Canada is marked by a one meter high aluminium obelisk (gImages, https://goo.gl/5nRdTY).
Saskatoon, Canada, was founded in 1882 as a Temperance colony. It is now the largest city in the province of Saskatchewan.
Saskatoon is named after mis-sask-quah-toomina, the Cree Indian name for the local Saskatoon berry – a sweet, violet coloured berry that grows wild. Saskatoon lies on the South Saskatchewan River. There are seven bridges in the city, and contributes to one of its nicknames, the Paris of the Prairees.
American actress Jeri Ryan played Seven of Nine, a former Borg, on Star Trek: Voyager. Her ex-husband Jack Ryan (no relation to the Tom Clancy character) dropped out of the U.S. Senate race in Illinois, eventually won by Barack Obama, when unsavory details of their divorce became public.
Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek Voyager, first came to fame playing Mary Ryan Fenelli. And her husband’s name was Jack Fenelli.
“Beam me up, Scotty,” was never said exactly in this way in the Star Trek series or film. In the ST:TOS episodes “The Gamesters of Triskelion” and “The Savage Curtain”, Kirk said, “Scotty, beam us up”; while in the episode “This Side of Paradise,” Kirk simply said, “Beam me up”. The original film series has the wording “Scotty, beam me up” in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and “Beam them out of there, Scotty” in Star Trek Generations.
Of the 59 crew members killed in Star Trek: TOS, 43 (73%) were wearing red shirts. And a meme was born.
The original Star Trek series was produced from September 1966 to December 1967. Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966, to June 3, 1969 and was actually seen first on September 6, 1966, on Canada’s CTV network. Star Trek’s Nielsen ratings on NBC were low, and the network canceled it after three seasons and 79 episodes.
In 2011, the decision to cancel Star Trek by NBC was ranked #4 on the TV Guide Network special, 25 Biggest TV Blunders 2.
The first episode of the regular series, STAR TREK: TOS, The Man Trap, appeared almost exactly 52 years ago today. It was on 08 September 1966, on NBC.
The original 1961 film The Parent Trap starred Hayley Mills in a dual role, as identical twins on a quest to reunite their divorced parents. The screenplay by the film’s director David Swift was based upon the 1949 book Lottie and Lisa (German: Das Doppelte Lottchen) by Erich Kästner.
1961 was the most recent strobogrammatic year number – a number which appears the same upside down. A strobogrammatic number has rotational symmetry. The last one before 1961 was 1881.
We won’t have another strobogrammatic year number for another 3,991 years. 6009 is the next strobogrammatic year number.
Launched on 1 March 1881, the SS Servia was the first large ocean liner to be built of steel instead of iron, and the first Cunard ship to have an electric lighting installation. For these and other reasons, maritime historians often consider Servia to be the first “modern” ocean liner. She could carry 480 first-class passengers and an additional 750 in steerage.
SS Servia was named after the historical English name for Serbia. The Autonomous Principality of Serbia became an internationally recognized independent country following the Russo-Turkish War in 1878.
Turkish Taffy was invented in 1912 by Austrian immigrant Herman Herer, who sold the rights to M. Schwarz & Sons of Newark, New Jersey, which were acquired in 1936 by Victor Bonomo, a Sephardic Jew whose father, Albert J. Bonomo, had emigrated from Izmir, Turkey and founded the Bonomo Company in Coney Island, New York in 1897 to produce saltwater taffy and hard candies. According to Tico Bonomo, son of Victor, Turkish Taffy “was not really a taffy, but what is technically known as a short nougat,” consisting of a batter of corn syrup and egg whites that was cooked and then baked. It was also not Turkish, but created after World War II in the Bonomo factory.
The USA has the most Facebook users in the world.
The UK has the second most.
Turkey has the third most, with 14 million users.
According to factRetriever.com, https://www.factretriever.com/turkey-facts.
Turkey is one of five transcontinental countries. The others are Egypt, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan.