The Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is based in Stratford, Connecticut. It was established by Igor Sikorsky in 1923 and was among the first companies to manufacture helicopters for civilian and military use.
In 2015 Sikorsky was sold to Lockheed Martin.
Igor Sikorsky died at his home in Easton CT in 1972, and he is buried in Saint John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cemetery in Stratford CT, the same city as Sikorsky Aircraft headquarters.
There were only four “public enemies” ever given the title of “Public Enemy #1” by the FBI. John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson, were all killed before being captured. Alvin “Creepy” Karpis was the only one to be taken alive.
“Floyd” is a variant of the Welsh name “Lloyd”, resulting from English speakers attempting to pronounce it.
The initial double consonant “ll” in Welsh is difficult for English speakers. It’s pronounced roughly like the “thl” in “athlete”.
(And don’t get me started on “Llewelyn”!)
The ancient battle standard of the Welsh is The Red Dragon (Y Ddraig Goch) and consists of a red dragon, passant (standing with one foot raised), on a green and white background. It appears on the national flag of Wales and dates back to the medieval era.
Red Dragon, first published in 1981, is a novel by American author Thomas Harris. This book marked the introduction of the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Although the book received generally favorable reviews, it was not a huge success until the 1988 release of its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs.
The first novel by Thomas Harris was Black Sunday, and achieved only moderate success[1] until it was sold to Hollywood. The 1977 film adaptation was a moderate critical and financial success, and sparked interest in the novel, a thriller about a plot by terrorists to commit mass murder during the Super Bowl in New Orleans, and law enforcement efforts to stop them. Harris wrote the novel after watching the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis where Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage and murdered them.
Harris–Stowe State University is a historically black public university in St. Louis, Missouri. It began as separate teacher colleges, Harris for white and Stowe for blacks, but mergered soon after the 1954 Brown vs Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court.
In St. Louis MO, in 1904, introduced was the soda drink Dr. Pepper, at the World’s Fair. It was created in Waco TX.
In St. Louis MO, in 1929, introduced was the soda drink 7 Up, just two weeks before the stock market crashed. It was originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda, and it was manufactured there.
The soft drink brands Dr Pepper and 7 Up are both now owned by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, based in Plano, Texas. In addition to those two soda brands (and Snapple), the company also makes a number of other well-known soft drinks, including Canada Dry, RC Cola, Diet Rite, A&W, Schweppes, Vernors, Hawaiian Punch, and others.
The company was purchased earlier this year by Keurig Green Mountain, the maker of Keurig coffee machines and K-Cup pods. The merged parent company is now known as Keurig Dr Pepper.
The middle name of Dr. Leonard H. McCoy, Chief Medical Officer of the USS Enterprise under the leadership of Capt. James Tiberius Kirk, has never been revealed as Star Trek canon. McCoy was played by DeForest Kelley on the original series and in the movies, and by Karl Urban in the reboot movies.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is the most senior advisor on health matters in the British Government. There are four CMOs in the United Kingdom who are appointed to advise their respective governments: Her Majesty’s Government, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government, and the Welsh Government. The equivalent US term is the Surgeon General.
The current Surgeon General of the United States is Jerome M. Adams. He is the 20th person to hold this position. Adams has undergraduate degrees from UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore Count), a master’s degree from Cal-Berkeley, and a medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine.
St Jerome was an abbot in Bethlehem when word came in August 410 that Rome had fallen and been sacked by an invading Gothic army led by Alaric. Jerome is said to have been silent for three days after hearing the news.
The Gothic Line, crossing northern Italy, was Germany’s last major line of defense in the Italian campaign. The Allied Armies in Italy that breached it included the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, the only ground troops of the war sent by a Latin American ally.
Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark’s U.S. Fifth Army comprised three corps: U.S. IV Corps, under Major General Willis D. Crittenberger, on the left formed by the U.S. 1st Armored Division, the 6th South African Armoured Division and two regimental combat teams (“RCT”), one of the U.S. 92nd Infantry Division (the “Buffalo Soldiers”) the other the Brazilian 6th RCT (the first land forces contingent of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force); in the centre was U.S. II Corps, under Major General Geoffrey Keyes, (with the U.S. 34th, 85th, 88th and 91st Infantry Divisions supported by three tank battalions under command); and on the right British XIII Corps, under Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman, (composed of the British 1st Infantry and 6th Armoured Divisions, the 8th Indian Infantry Division and the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade).
A Region or Theater has 4+ army groups and approximately 2,000,000 troops.
An Army Group or Front has 2+ field armies and approximately 500,000 troops.
[Indent]A Field Army has approximately 250,000 troops.[/Indent]
[Indent][Indent]A Corps has approximately 50,000 troops.[/Indent][/Indent]
[Indent][Indent][Indent]A Division has approximately 25,000 troops.[/Indent][/Indent][/Indent]
[Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent]A Regiment or Brigade has approximately 5,000 troops.[/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent]
[Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent]A Battalion has approximately 800 troops.[/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent]
[Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent]A Company has approximately 125 troops.[/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent]
[Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent][Indent]A Platoon has approximately 60 troops.[/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent][/Indent]
A squad has from 8-14 troops.
A fireteam has four or fewer troops.
The TV series The Mod Squad ran from 1968 to 1973 and was one of Hollywood’s earliest attempts to deal with the counterculture.
Among the series’ many guest stars were Carolyn Jones, Leslie Nielsen, William Windom, Ed Asner, Vincent Price, Sammy Davis Jr., Andy Griffith, Joe Don Baker, David Cassidy, Richard Pryor, Lee Grant, Richard Dreyfuss, Jo Van Fleet, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Danny Thomas, Tyne Daly, Anthony Geary. Sam Elliott, Martin Sheen, Desi Arnaz Jr., René Auberjonois, Stefanie Powers, Robert Reed, Cesar Romero, Meg Foster, Jack Cassidy, Tony Dow, Vic Taybeck, Fritz Weaver, Clint Howard, Louis Gossett, Jr., Sugar Ray Robinson, Bobby Sherman, Billy Dee Williams, Victor Buono, Jim Backus, Fernando Lamas, Cleavon Little, Daniel J. Travanti, Barbara McNair and Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr.
Leslie Nielsen (1926 - 2010) was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. His mother was born in Wales and his father, a constable in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was born in Denmark. Before studying acting, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and later worked as a disc jockey.
Nielsen’s older brother, Erik Nielsen, served in the Canadian Parliament and was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1986.
Brian Mulroney announced that he would appoint Erik Nielsen as House Leader of the PC caucus within minutes of Mulroney defeating Joe Clark for the leadership of the PC party. It was an attempt to heal the party’s wounds after a bruising leadership process. Nielsen had supported Clark.
Mulroney said “Erik, I may not have been your first choice for leader, but you are my first choice for House Leader.” Since Mulroney did not have a seat in the Commons, it was a substantial gesture.