There is a wine bar, District, in San Francisco.
Mexico City, the country’s capital, was declared a Federal District in 1824 (Spanish: Distrito Federal or D.F.); 2 centuries later, in January 2016, it ceased to be the Federal District, and is now officially known as “Ciudad de México” (or “CDMX”). Mexico City is now in transition to become the country’s 32nd federal entity, which gives it a level of autonomy comparable to that of a state.
According to worldatlas.com, Mexico City is the world’s 21st largest city, with a population of 8.8 million. Wikipedia claims that the population of the metropolitan area is over 21 million.
Both sites agree that Mexico City is the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world.
There is a very good restaurant named District in the Playhouse Square neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, not far from Public Square.
Cleveland has many nicknames, the oldest of which in contemporary use being The Forest City.
There have been several professional baseball players whose names included the word “Cleveland,” including Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, journeyman 1970s pitcher Reggie Cleveland, and 1890s third baseman Elmer Cleveland. However, despite their names, none of these men ever played for the Cleveland Indians.
Grover Cleveland Alexander had a hall of fame career despite having epilepsy. It manifested itself after he was gassed in World War I. He was a drinker, but that was connected with the epilepsy; many times what people thought was drunkenness was a seizure.
Cleveland has other nicknames, besides The Forest City: Mistake on the Lake
Holy crap there’s a Wikipedia page for that! Nicknames of Cleveland - Wikipedia
When the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was considering places to build their museum, several cities were considered, including Philadelphia, Memphis, Detroit, New York City, and Cincinnati. Cleveland lobbied for the museum; among their reasons were the facts that local disc jockey Alan Freed coined the phrase ‘rock and roll’, and Freed’s 1952 Moondog Coronation Ball is widely recognized as the world’s first major rock and roll concert. Cleveland was ultimately chosen as the site and the museum was dedicated in September of 1995.
Cincinnati chili is a Mediterranean-spiced meat sauce used as a topping for spaghetti or hot dogs, both dishes developed by Macedonian immigrant restaurateurs in the 1920s. While served in many local restaurants, it is most often associated with the over 250 “chili parlors” (restaurants specializing in Cincinnati chili), found throughout greater Cincinnati with franchise locations throughout Ohio and in Kentucky, Indiana, and Florida.
The city of Cincinnati was named for the Roman statesman and military hero Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, legendary for his selfless service to Rome; after he saved Rome from a crisis, he retired to farming because he didn’t want to remain in power. For generations, including America in the 1700s, Cincinnatus was often cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, humility, and modesty.
More specifically, the city was named for the Society of the Cincinnati, an association named for Cincinnatus and composed of Revolutionary War veterans, of whom founder Arthur St. Clair was a member. It was near the Virginia Military District, also comprising land in Ohio that was granted to veterans in lieu of back pay by the cash-strapped state and new US governments.
San Francisco Giants great Willie McCovey passed away today. He played from 1959 to 1980 for three teams — 19 seasons with the Giants, 2+ seasons with the San Diego Padres, and part of one season with the Oakland A’s. He started and ended his career with the Giants, where his first 15, and his final four, seasons were with the Giants. Along the way he hit 521 home runs in 22 different ballparks. He hit 236 home runs at Candlestick Park, more than any other player, and he hit 257 home runs on the road, including 26 at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field and 11 at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium.
Crosley Broadcasting Company, was the owner of WLW radio in Cincinnati, for some years in the 30s the most powerful station in the world at 500,000 Watts. Crosley also manufactured radios, all of which had WLW marked prominently on the tuner.
John Brinkley of Milford, Kansas, a medical doctor who made millions by his ‘rejuvenation’ procedure of injecting slivers of goat glands into people, was probably the first person to utilize mega-wattage AM radio. Dr. Brinkley obtained a permit from the Mexican government and, in 1932, built a 500,000 watt radio station on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, just across the river from Del Rio, Texas. It is said that broadcasts from this station reached as far east as Florida and as far north as the Canadian border.
Italian radio pioneer Gugliemo Marconi was born into the nobility as Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi in Bologna in 1874, son of Giuseppe Marconi (an Italian aristocratic landowner from Porretta Terme) and his Irish/Scot wife Annie Jameson (daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, Ireland and granddaughter of John Jameson, founder of whiskey distillers Jameson & Sons). He was baptised Catholic but was brought up as a member of the Anglican Church and for a few years as a child lived in England.
Marconi did not attend school and did not go on to formal higher education. Instead, he learned chemistry, math, and physics at home from a series of private tutors hired by his parents. His family hired additional tutors for Guglielmo in the winter when they would leave Bologna for the warmer climate of Tuscany or Florence.
Bologna sausage, also called baloney is a sausage derived from mortadella, a similar-looking, finely ground pork sausage containing cubes of pork fat, originally from the Italian city of Bologna. U.S. government regulations require American bologna to be finely ground and without visible pieces of fat.
Elmore Leonard’s 1993 crime novel *Pronto *includes several scenes set in the Italian town of Rapallo, where an American fugitive - a bookie on the run from the Mob in Miami, Florida - goes into hiding but is soon found.
Well-known visitors to Rapallo include philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote that the ideas for Zarathustra first came to him while walking on two roads surrounding Rapallo, and Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, who stayed with his family in Rapallo in 1901, where he conceived ideas for his Symphony No. 2.
The poet Ezra Pound lived in Rapallo between the years 1924 and 1945, where he wrote most of his ‘Cantos’. His father, Homer Pound, also settled there and is buried in the non-Catholic section of Cimitero Urbano.
Inspired by Nietzche’s book, composer Richard Strauss composed his Opus 30, also known as Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) in 1896. The initial fanfare from this work, known as “Sunrise,” is well-known in popular culture, in part due to its use in the opening of Stanley Kubrik’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey.